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…
Category: <span>Davis, Jefferson</span>
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…
October 10, 1862 A note from Wm. H. Johnson, New Bedford, tells of a speech in Fairhaven, at which Wm. A. Jackson, former coachman ( now escaped fugitive), of Jefferson…