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Quintessence of long speeches arranged as a political catechism ... (1830) / Maria Henrietta Pinckney -- Position and course of the South (1850) / William Henry Trescot -- Perils and duty of the South, ... speech delivered in Talladega, Alabama, November 26, 1860 / Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry -- Sermon, delivered in St. John's Church, Savannah, on Fast day, Nov. 28, 1860 / Rev. George H. Clark -- South : her peril and her duty (November 29, 1860) / Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer -- Interest in slavery of the southern non-slaveholder (December 1860) / James D.B. De Bow -- Letter ... to the people of Georgia (December 1860) / Howell Cobb -- Right of secession (December 31, 1860) / Judah P. Benjamin -- Remarks on the special message on affairs in South Carolina. Jan. 10, 1861 / Jefferson Davis -- State of the Union speech ... delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1861 / John H. Reagan -- State of the Country (January 1861) / Rev. James Henley Thornwell -- Letter to John S. Littell (February 12, 1861) / Richard Keith Call -- 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 / Robert H. Smith -- Border states : their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the country (December 17, 1860) / John Pendleton Kennedy -- Discourse delivered on the Day of National Humiliation, January 4, 1861, at Lexington, Kentucky / Dr. R.J. Breckinridge -- Speech ... on the resolution proposing to retrocede the forts ... delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 11, 1861 / Robert M.T. Hunter -- Speech on the state of the Union, delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 4, 1861 / Thomas L. Clingman -- Speech ... on the state of the Union, delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 5 & 6, 1861 / Andrew Johnson -- State or province? Bond or free? (March 4, 1861) / Albert Pike -- Speech on the proceedings of the peace conference and the state of the Union, delivered in Richmond, Virginia, March 8, 1861 / William C. Rives -- Appendix B : "Cornerstone Address" (March 21, 1861) / Alexander H. Stephens. |
