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Showing posts with label States Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label States Rights. Show all posts
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Speech Of Congressman Albert G. Brown in the Unites States House of Representatives on the Southern Movement and Mississippi Politics, March 14, 1852

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It is not my purpose, Mr. Chairman, to address the House at all in reference to the bill now before it. I propose, in the opening of my rema...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

George W. Thompson* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, May 24, 1856

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[WHEELING, VA.?],  May  24th, 1856. DEAR SIR: I have had a somewhat desultory correspondence with my old friend Linn Boyd. 1 He thinks it...
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...