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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 1: (search)
cept two from Indiana—being 20— and 14 Southern. The nays consisted of 2 from the North, and 8 from the South. In the House of Representatives, the vote was 134 yeas to 42 nays. Of the yeas, 95 were Northern, 39 Southern; of the nays, 5 Northern, and 37 Southern. Among the nays in the Senate were Messrs. James Barbour and James Pleasants of Virginia, Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, John Gaillard and William Smith of South Carolina. In the House Philip P. Barbour, John Randolph, John Tyler, and William S. Archer of Virginia, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina (one of the authors of the Constitution), Thomas W. Cobb of Georgia, and others of more or less note. (See speech of the Hon. D. L. Yulee of Florida in the United States Senate, on the admission of California, August 6, 1850, for a careful and correct account of the compromise. That given in the second chapter of Benton's Thirty Years View is singularly inaccurate; that of Horace Greeley, in his American Conflict, s
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 8: (search)
on which was driving the Southern states into secession. This effort was set on foot by Virginia, the General Assembly of which state, on January 19, 1861, adopted a preamble and resolutions, deprecating disunion and inviting all such states as were willing to unite in an earnest endeavor to avert it by an adjustment of the then existing controversies to appoint commissioners to meet in Washington on February 4 to consider, and, if practicable, agree upon some suitable adjustment. Ex-President John Tyler, along with William C. Rives, John W. Brockenbrugh, George W. Summers, and James A. Seddon—five of the most distinguished citizens of the state—were appointed to represent Virginia in the proposed conference. If they could agree with the commissioners of other states upon any plan of settlement requiring amendments to the federal Constitution, they were instructed to communicate them to Congress, with a view to their submission to the several states for ratification. The border
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
nston, 348-52. Gov. Harris' reply to U. S. call for troops, 354. Territorial government, 34-35. Texas, 12, 28, 214. Annexation, 64. Thayer, James S. Extracts from speech concerning with-drawal of states, 220. Thirteen, committee of, 171. Thomas, Col. L., 243. Thompson, —, 29. Tillinghast, Capt., 329. Toombs, Robert, 37, 58, 59, 175, 204, 206. Selected secretary of state (Confederacy), 207. Townsend, Col., Frederick, 297. Trent (ship), 402. Tyler, John, pres. U. S., 9. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214, 216. U Union (Bangor, Me.). Remarks on coercion, 221. Union bank of Mississippi, 426-27. United colonies of New England, 99-100. States of America, 131. Origin, 98, 102, 109. V Van Dorn, General, 384. Varnum, —, 62. Vattel, — Remarks on sovereignty, 123. Vaughn, Col. John C., 298-99. Vermont, 63. Virginia, 42, 259, 379-80. Slavery question, 1, 2, 27. Northwestern territory, 4, 28, 41. John Br<