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Documents Section 2: 1840-1910
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1840
A Discourse on the importance of the study of political
science
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
PDF (15 MB)
Introductory lecture in the University of Virginia at the opening of
the law school
The Professor of Law [Henry St. George Tucker]
PDF
(17 MB)
Life of
Nathaniel Macon
Edward R. Cotten
PDF
1 (40 MB)
PDF
2 (67 MB)
1843
Discourse delivered before the Massachusetts Historical
Society
John Quincy Adams
PDF (24 MB)
Lectures
on Constitutional law
Henry St. George Tucker
PDF
1 (49 MB)
PDF
2 (46 MB)
(Missing Pages 138-139)
PDF
3 (65 MB)
Letter replying to William Smith of Warrenton, Va.
John C. Calhoun
PDF (14 MB)
1844
A few lectures on natural law
Henry St. George Tucker
PDF
1: Numbers 1-3 (44 MB)
PDF
2: Numbers 4-7 (42 MB)
Series of
lectures on the science of government
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
PDF
1: Numbers 1-2 (58 MB)
PDF
2: Numbers 3-7 (86 MB)
PDF
3: Numbers 8-12 (88 MB)
PDF
4: Numbers 13-15 (62 MB)
PDF
5: Numbers 16-18 (86 MB)
PDF
6: Numbers 19-20 (44 MB)
PDF
7: Numbers 21-22 (47 MB)
Southern
State Rights Free Trade and Anti-Abolition Tract No.
1
PDF
(57 MB)
1846
Protest to the House on the constitutionality of slavery
[Signed by Abraham Lincoln]
PDF
(1 MB)
1849
Mr. Upham's speech on the extension of slavery together with
the Ordinance of 1787
Charles W. Upham
PDF (13 MB)
1850
Address to the freemen of Chesterfield District
J.C. Coit
PDF (25 MB)
Discourse
delivered in St. Peter's Church on the Day of Fasting, Humiliation,
and Prayer
William Barnwell
PDF (11 MB)
The Disunionist or Secession the Rightful Remedy...
"Hamilcar"
PDF 1:
Chapters 1-7 (16 MB)
PDF 2:
Chapters 8-12 (40 MB)
PDF 3: Chapters 13-17 (31 MB)
Letter to
Whitemarsh Seabrook on the dissolution of the Union
William J. Grayson
PDF (15 MB)
Observations on State Sovereignty Federal Usurptions and State
Interposition (Part1) - Robert Turnbull - 1850
PDF: Part 1 (46 MB)
PDF: Part 2 (50 MB)
Position
and course of the South
William H. Trescot
PDF (17 MB)
Reasons
for the dissolution of the Union being a reply to the Hon. [William]
J.
Grayson
"Another One of the People"
PDF (15 MB)
Remarks
at the Southern Convention
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker
PDF (15 MB)
Rights of
the slave states
"A Citizen of Alabama" [John Campbell]
PDF (32 MB)
The
Southern States: their present peril and their certain remedy
PDF (19 MB)
(Missing Pages 14-15 and 18-19)
The
Union: past and future (How it works and how to save it)
William J. Grayson
PDF (9 MB)
1851
Address of the Southern Rights Association of the South
Carolina College to university students throughout the South
(including resolutions)
PDF (14 MB)
Address
on secession
Francis Leiber
PDF (9 MB)
Address
on the question of separate state secession
Lewis Malone Ayer Jr.
PDF (15 MB)
Address
to the annual meeting of the University of Virginia alumni
John Randolph Tucker
PDF (44 MB)
Letter to
John Richardson, President of the Convention of Southern Rights
Associations of South Carolina
W.W. Boyce
PDF (6 MB)
Letters
of Curtius
"Curtius" [William J. Grayson]
PDF (63 MB)
Oration
on the Fourth of July
Richard De Treville
PDF (6 MB)
Oration
on the Fourth of July upon the policy of separate secession
D.H. Hamilton
PDF (12 MB)
Proceedings of the Great Southern Co-operation and Anti-Secession
Meeting
PDF (11 MB)
Proceedings of the meeting of delegates from the Southern Rights
Associations of South Carolina
PDF (19 MB)
Remarks
before the Convention of Southern Rights Associations
R.W. Barnwell
PDF (7 MB)
Resolutions of the Nashville Convention: The constitution and
proceedings of the Southern Rights Association
PDF (12 MB)
Separate
state secession practically discussed
Rutledge
PDF (30 MB)
Speech
before the Convention of Southern Rights Associations
A.P. Butler
PDF (21 MB)
Speech
for the purpose of nominating delegates to the southern congress
Mr. Memminger
PDF (15 MB)
1852
Journal of the state convention of South Carolina
PDF (27 MB)
Letter in relation to the action of the late convention
E. Bellinger, Jr.
PDF (8 MB)
1854
Address on the Third of July
John Randolph Tucker
PDF (18 MB)
1856
The true theory of government
Abel Upshur
PDF (12 MB)
1858
An appeal to the State Rights Party of South Carolina
PDF (32 MB)
1859
Oration on the Fourth of July on patriotism and state
sovereignty
Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr.
PDF (18 MB)
Quotation about the Republican Party (From the Congressional
Globe)
Sen. James Chestnut
PDF (1 MB)
Remarks on
the popular sovereignty as maintained and denied respectively by
Judge Douglas and Attorney-General Black
"A Southern Citizen"
PDF (32 MB)
1860
Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify
the secession of South Carolina
PDF (10 MB)
Oration
on state pride
William Porter
PDF (14 MB)
Secession
movement of 1852
C.G. Memminger
PDF (64 MB)
Sermon on
the Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer
W.C. Dana
PDF (8 MB)
Sovereign
rights of the states
"Justinian"
PDF (20 MB)
Speech
delivered in the Democratic State Convention of the state of Alabama
W.L. Yancey
PDF (20 MB)
Speech on
relation of states
Louis T. Wigfall
PDF (25 MB)
Speech on
the pending political issues
Louis T. Wigfall
PDF (25 MB)
Speech on
relation of states
James H. Hammond
PDF (9 MB)
Speech on
the resolution submitted by Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
James Chestnut, Jr.
PDF (17 MB)
1861
Addresses delivered before the Virginia State Convention
PDF 1: Intro and Fulton Anderson (24 MB)
PDF 2: Henry L. Benning (30 MB)
PDF 3: John S. Preston (28 MB)
Philosophy of secession
L.W. Spratt
PDF: Copy 1 (6 MB)
PDF: Copy 2 (8 MB)
(These are two separate printings of the same document, both have
been posted in case some variation exists between them)
Reply to
Professor Hodge on the state of the country
[William John Grayson]
PDF (20 MB)
Secession, concession or self-possession
[J.P. Clarke]
PDF (27 MB)
(Missing Pages 32-33)
Speech on
the eve of the Civil War (Congressional Globe)
Mr. Toombs
PDF (8 MB)
The state
of the country
J.H. Thornwell
PDF (20 MB)
Two
Lectures on the Constitution of the United States
Francis Lieber
PDF (25 MB)
1863
Nullification and compromise: A retrospective view
James Mason Williams
PDF (23 MB)
1865
Sovereignty and its bearing upon secession and state rights
Emory Washburn
PDF (24 MB)
1872
The State Sovereignty Record of Massachusetts
"A Son of Norfolk"
PDF (19 MB)
1875
Discourse on the nature of the American union
George Ticknor Curtis
PDF
(48 MB)
1877
Address at the annual commencement of the University
of Maryland
John Randolph Tucker
PDF
(17 MB)
1880
True doctrine of state rights with an examination of
the Democratic and Republican parties in connection with slavery
James B. Waller
PDF
(103 MB)
1889
Address on the influence of Presbyterian polity on
civil and religious liberty in Virginia
John Randolph Tucker
PDF
(33 MB)
1891
The slave insurrection in Virginia 1831
Stephen B. Weeks
PDF
(10 MB)
1892
Annual address before the American
Bar Association
John Randolph Tucker
PDF
(26 MB)
Speech before the election of U.S. Senators by
the people
Henry St. George Tucker
PDF
(13 MB)
State sovereignty before 1789
Daniel H. Chamberlain
PDF
(12 MB)
1895
Address on reminiscences of
Virginia's judges and jurists
John Randolph Tucker
PDF
(33 MB)
1908
The states and the federal government
Woodrow Wilson
PDF
(11 MB)
1989
Confederate soldier (Photo with letter from Herb
Peck of Tennessee)
PDF
(2 MB)
No Date Listed
Address to the Bar of Virginia
John Randolph Tucker
PDF
(18 MB)
The great debate of 1833
Unknown
PDF
(8 MB)
Lectures on law: Of the natural rights of
individuals (Fragment)
James Wilson
PDF
(6 MB)
Notes of Jim McClellan (State Rights)
James McClellan
PDF
(1 MB)
Notes on lectures on natural law
John Randolph Tucker
PDF
(13 MB)
An oration
Anonymous
PDF
(35 MB)
Practical exposition of the nullification
doctrines by the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut in relation
to the Embargo Law of 1807
Anonymous
PDF
(5 MB)
The Resolution of May 15, 1776 (with notes and
explanantion)
Unknown
PDF
(4 MB)
What does Charleston want?
"Agricola"
PDF
(10 MB) 
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