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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 8 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 8 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 2 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 2 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 1: (search)
scarcely necessary to remind the well-informed reader that the terms, Constitution of the Federal Government, employed above, and Federal Constitution, as used in other proceedings of that period, do not mean the instrument to which we now apply them, and which was not then in existence. They were applied to the system of government formulated in the Articles of Confederation. This is in strict accord with the definition of the word constitution, given by an eminent lexicographer: Dr. Worcester. The body of fundamental laws, as contained in written documents or prescriptive usage, which constitute the form of government for a nation, state, community, association, or society. This definition is very good as far as it goes, but the form of government is a phrase which falls short of expressing all that should be comprehended. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say, which constitute the form, define the powers, and prescribe the functions of government, etc. The words in i
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
. Walworth, Chancellor. Extract from speech concerning Southern states, 220-21. War Between the States. Causes, 70, 250. Beginning, 257-58. Concentration of troops in Virginia, 293. Responsible party (?), 378-79. Washington, George, pres. U. S., 60, 62, 89, 95, 106, 117-18, 139, 193, 380, 428. Note to Congress, 96-97. Col. John A., 375. Webster, Daniel, 13, 108, 112, 114, 121, 125, 153, 156, Extracts from debates, 110, 115, 116-17. New vocabulary, 116-119. Remarks on sovereignty, 128-29, 140-41, 152. Welles, Gideon. Account of cabinet meeting regarding Fort Sumter, 238. Whig party, 29, 32. Explanation, 31. Convention, 43-44. Whiting, General, 384. Wigfall, Louis T., 253. Wilkes, Captain, 402. Williams, Commander, 402. Wilson, James, 135, 136. Remarks on sovereignty, 122. Wisconsin, 26, 214. Wise, Gen. Henry A., 372-74, 376. Worcester, Dr., 76. Y Yulee, D. L., 189. Z Zollicoffer, Gen. Felix K., 348, 352.