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    Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.
    Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.
    Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.
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    Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.
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    Jefferson Davis was an American soldier and politician, but is best known for being the only president of the Confederate States of America. Educated as a soldier at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Davis served two tours of military service, first during the Black Hawk War in 1832 and later during the Mexican-American War from 1846-48. Following the Mexican-American War, Davis was appointed to the United States Senate, and later served as secretary of war to President Pierce. Although Davis, as a senator, had argued against secession, he resigned his role in the federal government and returned to his home state of Mississippi following that state’s successful succession vote, and was acclaimed president of the Confederate States of America in 1861. At the end of the American Civil War in 1865, Davis was captured and accused of treason, and his citizenship was revoked. Davis’s 1881 memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government did much to restore his reputation, as did his efforts to encourage reconciliation, however, his citizenship was not restored until 1978. Jefferson Davis died in 1889.

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      Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi,

      Delivered During the Summer of 1858:

      On Fourth of July, 1858, at Sea.

      At Serenade, at Portland, Maine.

      At Portland Convention, Maine.

      At Belfast Encampment, Maine.

      At Belfast Banquet, Maine.

      At Portland Meeting, Maine.

      At Fair at Augusta, Maine.

      At Faneuil Hall, Boston.

      At New York Meeting.

      Before Mississippi Legislature.

      etc. etc.

      Baltimore... Printed By John Murphy & Co.

      Marble Building,

      182 Baltimore Street. 1859.

      To the People of Mississippi.

      I have been induced by the persistent misrepresentation of popular Addresses made by me at the North and the South during the year 1858, to collect them, and with extracts from speeches made by me in the Senate in 1850, to present the whole in this connected form; to the end that the case may be fairly before those by whose judgment I am willing to stand or fall.

      Jefferson Davis.

      Extracts From Speeches in U.S. Senate.

      In the Senate of the United States, May 8, 1850, in presenting the Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi:

      It is my opinion that justice will not be done to the South, unless from other promptings than are about us here--that we shall have no substantial consideration offered to us for the surrender of an equal claim to California. No security against future harassment by Congress will probably be given. The rain-bow which some have seen, I fear was set before the termination of the storm. If this be so, those

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