Southern pamphlets on secession, November 1860-April 1861 / edited by Jon L. Wakelyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wakelyn, Jon L., editor.

Series:

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secession--Southern States--Sources.

Secession.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pamphlets.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (714 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860-April 1861

Contents:

Cover Page; Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860-April 1861; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chronology of Events, November 1860-April 1861; Introduction; Part I. Prelude to Secession; The Quintessence of Long Speeches Arranged as A Political Catechism ...; The Position and Course of the South; Part II. The Lower South; The Perils and Duty of the South, ... Speech Delivered in Talladega, Alabama, November 26, 1860; A Sermon, Delivered in St. John's Church, Savannah, On Fast Day, Nov. 28, 1860; The South: Her Peril and Her Duty

The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-SlaveholderLetter ... to the People of Georgia; The Right of Secession; Remarks on the Special Message on Affairs in South Carolina. Jan. 10, 1861; State of the Union. Speech ... Delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1861; The State of the Country; Letter to John S. Littell; An Address to the Citizens of Alabama, on the Constitution and Laws of the Confederate States of America, ... at Temperance Hall, on the 30th of March, 1861; Part III. The Upper South

The Border States: Their Power and Duty in the Present Disordered Condition of the CountryDiscourse Delivered on the Day of National Humiliation, January 4, 1861, at Lexington, Kentucky; Speech ... on the Resolution Proposing to Retrocede the Forts ... Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 11, 1861; Speech on the State of the Union, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 4, 1861; Speech ... On the State of the Union, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 5 & 6, 1861; State or Province? Bond or Free?

Speech on the Proceedings of the Peace Conference and the State of the Union, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, March 8, 1861Part IV. Appendixes; Appendix A Other Pamphlets on Secession; Appendix B Alexander H. Stephens, "Cornerstone Address"; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890867193

9780807866146

0807866148

OCLC:

817923144