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Showing posts with label States Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label States Rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

James A. Seddon to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, December 3, 1855

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ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA, December 3rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter only reached me in this outside world a few days since. Its confidence ...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, May 7, 1864

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At 1 o'clock last night we were aroused by guards shouting "Get out o'har, you'uns, in five minutes to take ca's for Ri...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Senator Robert M. T. Hunter to Herschel V. Johnson, December 2, 1852

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LLOYDS, ESSEX Co. [VA.], December 2nd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I received your letter after it had performed its circumnavigation through vario...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann, August 7, 1850

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AUG. 7, 1850. The President's message, yesterday, on the subject of the Texan boundary, gives general satisfaction. The extreme Southe...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Herschel V. Johnson* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 8, 1852

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(Private.) ELIZABETH CITY Co., NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.], November 5th, 1852. MY DEAR HUNTER: I wrote you in June a short note from Baltimore im...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

W. R. Nicholls to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, January 18, 1852

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MOUNT HOPE, Baltimore, [Md.], January 18th, 1852 . MY DEAR SIR: I avail myself of this occasion, to address you, a few words, from this ag...

James A. Seddon to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, February 7, 1852

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RICHMOND, [Va.], February 7, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: For some days past, I have been suffering serious inconvenience and confinement from my ve...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Henry A. Wise to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, February 13, 1851

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RICHMOND, [VA.], February 13th, 1851. MY DEAR HUNTER: There was a meeting of the Democracy here last night. To describe its tone and tempe...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Jefferson Davis to George W. Jones, February 9, 1839

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West Warrenton Mi 9th Feby 1839 My dear Jones, If I were a "whig" I should begin this letter by a Phillipic against Amos Kendall, ...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress, May 2, 1864

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RICHMOND, May 2 , 1864 . THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: You are assembled under cir...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

John A. Quitman to John F. H. Claiborne, August 6, 1831

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Continued from: John A. Quitman to John F. H. Claiborne, July 31, 1831 Aug. 6th.   Since writing the above I have been in motion about...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 15, 1861

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I need not speak much of the events of last night, which were not unimportant, perhaps to some of the insects which played a leading part i...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Diary of Julia Ward Howe: September 10, 1865

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. . . Read Kant on state rights. According to him, wars of conquest are allowable only in a state of nature, not in a state of peace (which...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: August 19, 1862

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Tuscumbia, Ala., August 19, 1862. ’Tis the old, old, story, burning railroad bridges, skirmishing between our scouts and theirs, etc. T...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 19, 1861

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It is probable the landlord of the Gayoso House was a strong Secessionist, and resolved, therefore, to make the most out of a neutral custo...