Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850 — John Shaqi
Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850Foster, Herbert Darling
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Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850
Foster, Herbert Darling
Secession; Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Seventh of March speech
[Footnote 19: July 1, 1849. Corr., p. 170 (Amer. Hist. Assoc., Annual
Report, 1911, vol. II.).]
[Footnote 20: Johnston, Stephens, pp. 238-239, 244; Smith, Political
History of Slavery, 1. 121.]
[Footnote 21: Laws (Ga.), 1850, pp. 122, 405-410.]
[Footnote 22: Johnston, Stephens, p. 247.]
[Footnote 23: Corr., pp. 184,193-195, 206-208, July 21. Newspapers, see
Brooks, in Miss. Valley Hist. Review, IX. 289.]
[Footnote 24: Phillips, Georgia and State Rights, pp. 163-166.]
[Footnote 25: Ames, Documents, pp. 271-272; Hearon, p. 190.]
[Footnote 26: 1854, Amer. Hist. Review, VIII. 92-97; 1857, Johnston,
Stephens, pp. 321-322; infra, pp. 267, 268.]
[Footnote 27: Hammond MSS., Jan. 27, Feb. 8; Virginia Resolves, Feb. 12;
Ambler, Sectionalism in Virginia, p. 246; N. Y. Tribune, June 14; M. R.
H. Garnett, Union Past and Future, published between Jan. 24 and Mar. 7.
Alabama: Hodgson, Cradle of the Confederacy, p. 281; Dubose, Yancey, pp.
247-249, 481; Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, p. 13;
Cobb, Corr., pp. 193-195, 207. President Tyler of the College of William
and Mary kindly furnished evidence of Garnett's authorship; see J. M.
Garnett, in Southern Literary Messenger, I. 255.]
[Footnote 28: Resolutions, Feb. 12, 1850; Acts, 1850, pp. 223-224; 1851,
p. 201.]
[Footnote 29: Stephens, Corr., p. 192; Globe, XXII. II. 1208.]
[Footnote 30: Boston Daily Advertiser, Feb. 23.]
[Footnote 31: South Carolina, Acts, 1849, p, 240, and the following Laws
or Acts, all 1850: Georgia, pp. 418, 405-410, 122; Texas, pp. 93-94,
171; Tennessee, p. 572 (Globe, XXI. I. 417. Cole, Whig Party in the
South, p. 161); Mississippi, pp. 526-528; Virginia, p. 233; Alabama,
Weekly Tribune, Feb. 23, Daily, Feb. 25.]
[Footnote 32: White, Miss. Valley Hist. Assoc., III. 283.]
[Footnote 33: Senate Miscellaneous, 1849-1850, no. 24.]
[Footnote 34: Hamer, p. 40; cf. Cole, Whig Party in the South, p. 162;
Cong. Globe, Mar. 5.]
[Footnote 35: Coleman, Crittenden, I. 333, 350.]
[Footnote 36: Clayton MSS., Apr. 6; cf. Coleman, Crittenden, I. 369.]
[Footnote 37: Smith, History of Slavery, 1. 121; Clay, Oct., 1851,
letter, in Curtis, Webster, II, 584-585.]
[Footnote 38: Clingman, and Wilmington Resolutions, Globe, XXI. I.
200-205, 311; National Intelligencer, Feb. 25; Cobb, Corr., pp. 217-218;
Boyd, "North Carolina on the Eve of Secession," in Amer. Hist. Assoc.,
Annual Report (1910), pp. 167-177.]
[Footnote 39: Hearndon, Nashville Convention, p. 283.]
[Footnote 40: Johnston, Stephens, p. 247; Corr., pp. 186, 193, 194,
206-207; Hammond MSS., Jan. 27, Feb. 8.]
[Footnote 41: Ames, Calhoun, p. 26.]
[Footnote 42: Webster, Writings and Speeches, X. 161-162.]
[Footnote 43: Cyclopedia Miss. Hist., art. "Sharkey."]
[Footnote 44: Hearon, pp. 124, 171-174. Davis to Clayton (Clayton MSS.),
Nov. 22, 1851.]
[Footnote 45: Globe, XXI. I. 418, 124, 712; infra, p. 268.]
[Footnote 46: MSS., Mar. 10. AM. HIST. REV., voL. xxvii.--18.]
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