Category: <span>Davis, Jefferson</span>

September 9, 1859 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, here are extracts of a speech by Davis, before the Democratic State Convention, in Mississippi, July 1859.  The speech is statement…

1859 Anti-Abolition Cuba Davis, Jefferson Pro-Slavery

February 15, 1861 “The Union formed in 1789 is at last dissolved through the secession, without cause, of six of the slave States, the complicity of the remainder, and the…

1861 Buchanan, James Davis, Jefferson Secession

1862 Davis, Jefferson Emancipation Proclamation