Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858

Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858
Author: Jefferson Davis
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This work is a remarkable collection of speeches made by Jefferson Davis, an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. Davis' strong allegiance to the constitution, states' rights & the union can be witnessed in these speeches. His dedication belonged to saving the south from a way of life different from his beliefs, and he had a stronger devotion to his state than the whole. His extraordinary intellect & proficiency in the language and his knowledge of constitutional government are evident in this work. One can get an idea of his performance as president of the Confederacy through his speeches.

Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi

Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi
Author: Jefferson Davis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2023-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382319780

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi

Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi
Author: Jefferson 1808-1889 Davis
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781022454316

Originally delivered in 1850, this speech by future Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends the institution of slavery and calls for its expansion into the western territories. Davis argues that slavery is a constitutional right and accuses anti-slavery politicians of seeking to destroy the Union. This speech provides insight into the deep divisions that would eventually lead to the Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Arguing until Doomsday

Arguing until Doomsday
Author: Michael E. Woods
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 146965640X

As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture more apparent than in the raging debates between Illinois's Stephen Douglas and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. As leaders of the Democrats' northern and southern factions before the Civil War, their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln. But here, weaving together biography and political history, Michael E. Woods restores Davis and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the center of the Civil War era. Operating on personal, partisan, and national levels, Woods traces the deep roots of Democrats' internal strife, with fault lines drawn around fundamental questions of property rights and majority rule. Neither belief in white supremacy nor expansionist zeal could reconcile Douglas and Davis's factions as their constituents formed their own lines in the proverbial soil of westward expansion. The first major reinterpretation of the Democratic Party's internal schism in more than a generation, Arguing until Doomsday shows how two leading antebellum politicians ultimately shattered their party and hastened the coming of the Civil War.