Beschreibung:

Lot of 8. Stephens, Alexander W. Sketch of Alexander H. Stephens: Statesman, lawyer and patriot, Vice President of the Confederate State of America, Governor of Georgia, Congressman. From Stephens Family Genealogies by Dan V. Stephens. Sept. 23, 1939. 8vo, printed heavy paper wraps, 16pp. Copy photo of Stephens tipped into front (inside cover). With publisher's ad for "The Official History of the War, Its Causes, Character, Conduct, and Results. By Hon. Alexander H. Stephens." 2pp, with a call for agents to sell this book and directs interested parties to offices of National Publishing Co. in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta. This book is probably "A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; Its Causes, Character, Conduct, and Results, presented as a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall [the Stephens homestead]" because of the subtitle. It was published in two volumes, 1868 and 1870. The publishers note that of the many histories springing up about the war, "...[we] have felt the want of a reliable history of the same from a Southern standpoint, by some representative man of the South." Lot of 3. Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889). Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered in the United States Senate, on the 10th day of January, 1861, upon the Message of the President of the United States on the Condition of Things in South Carolina. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1861. 8vo, self-wraps, 16pp. South Carolina had seceded just three weeks before (December 20). In this speech, Davis asks why there are Federal troops at the Charleston Harbor forts. He notes that there has been no direct threat to government properties, yet "...[The Government] is now furtively sending troops to occupy positions lest 'the mob' should seize them....Fort Washington is garrisoned by marines sent secretly away from the navy-yard at Washington. -Fort McHenry, too, has been garrisoned by a detachment of marines, sent from this place in an extra train, and sent under cover of the night, so that even the mob should not know it....Then what is our policy? Are we to drift into war! Are we to stand idly by and allow war to be precipitated upon the country? ...On the verge of war, distrust and passion increase the danger. To-day it is in the power of two bad men, at the opposite ends of the telegraphic line between Washington and Charleston, to precipitate the State of South Carolina and the United States into a conflict of arms without other cause to have produced it... And still will you hesitate; still will you do nothing. Will you sit with sublime indifference and allow events to shape themselves? No longer can you say the responsibility is upon the Executive. He has thrown it upon you. He has told you the responsibility now rests with Congress' and I close as I began, by invoking you to meet that responsibility, bravely to act the patriot's part. If you will, the angel of peace may spread her wings, though it be over divided states; and the sons of the sires of the Revolution may still go on in friendly intercourse with each other, ever renewing the memories of a common origin;...Thus may it be; and thus it is in you power to make it." Reportedly Senators on all sides of the political spectrum were moved by Davis' speech. Davis, Jefferson. Relations of States. Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7th, 1860. On the Resolutions submitted by him on 1st of March, 1860. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., Printers, 1860. 8vo, self-wraps, stitched spine, 15pp. Davis had laid out seven resolutions on the first of March. These focused on States' rights and the importance of slavery which "composes an important portion of their domestic institutions, inherited from their ancestors." He also took up the issue of Territories, arguing that they belonged to ALL the states, not the Federal Government, but the government should protect constitutional rights in a