 Through many years of controversy with our late associates of the Northern States, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy...  History of Mississippi, the Heart of the South - Page 790by Dunbar Rowland - 1925Full view - About this book
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...vainly endeavored to secure tranqnillity and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to...energies must be directed to the conduct of our own aifairs, and the perpetnity of the Confederacy which we have formed. If a just perception of mutual... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...oath of offli e, and before receiving from you the communication of this resolution, I had said, ' as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to...separation, and henceforth our energies must be directed tn the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetnity of the Confederacy which we have formed. If a... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...vainly endeavored to secure tranquility and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to...pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desirfl will have been fulfilled. But 13 if this be denied us, and the integrity of our territory and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...vainly endeavoured to secure tranquillity and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to...a just perception of mutual interest shall permit [Q] us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled.... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...vainly endeavored to secure tranqnillity and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to...and henceforth our energies must be directed to the condnct of our own affairs, and th'e perpetnity of the Confederacy which we have formed. If a just... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 220 pages
...vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity and obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to...affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which w r e have formed. If a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - Battles - 1867 - 428 pages
...vain endeavored to secure tranquillity, and obtain respect) for the rights to which we are entitled. As a necessity,, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation. We have never asked for concessions ; what we wanted was justice." It was very evident, however, soon... | |
 | John William Draper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 568 pages
...buy, that there should be the fewest practicable restrictions upon the interchange of commodities. As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation. It is advisable, in the present condition of affairs, that there should be a well-instructed, disciplined... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...of separation, and henceforth our energie" BIB be directed to the conduct of our own affairs aril ' perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed....just perception of mutual interest shall permit us j-^aceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have heen fulfilled.... | |
 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...resolution, I had said that, as a necessity, not as a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separating, and henceforth our energies must be directed to the...just perception of mutual interest shall permit us to peaceably pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will then have been fulfilled.... | |
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