A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct, and Results ; Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty HalHardcover, 2 volumes, [viii], 654; xii, 827 pp. Illustrated. Originally published: Philadelphia; National Publishing Co., [1868-1870]. A sophisticated and well-argued defense of the doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of states to secede. The book "was a sensation in its day, evoking attacks by Northern and Southern champions of causes upon which it impinged." Dictionary of American Biography IX:574. A Georgian, Alexander Hamilton Stephens [1812-1883] was Vice President of the Confederate States of America. He was a U.S. congressman from Georgia before the war and its governor from 1882 until his death in 1883. |
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