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David Hilton

The Papers of Jefferson Davis - 2 views

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    Collection of the papers of Jefferson Davis, the president of the South during the American Civil War. Nice-looking chap.
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    The Papers of Jefferson Davis, a documentary editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is publishing a multi-volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be found on this web site. The site also provides extensive information on Davis and his family and numerous images.
David Hilton

Jefferson Digital Archive - 1 views

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    Another excellent historical source site run by those good people at the University of Virginia. This one is all about Jefferson - has extensive links and sources.
Mr Maher

To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 October 1787 - 1 views

  • The mutability of the laws of the States is found to be a serious evil. The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from these sources21 contributed more to that uneasiness which produced the Convention, and prepared the public mind for a general reform, than those which accrued to our national character and interest from the inadequacy of the Confederation to its immediate objects.
  • Those who contend for a simple Democracy, or a pure republic, actuated by the sense of the majority, and operating within narrow limits, assume or suppose a case which is altogether fictitious.
  • Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.
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    This is James Madison telling Thomas Jefferson, and history teachers in the 21st century what went on in the Constitutional Convention. Notice his statement that it was the fear of popularly elected state legislatures that had more to do with the calling of a Constitutional Convention than the failures of the Articles of Confederation. US History Instructional materials teach the opposite
Sage Borgmastars

Jefferson and Religion - 6 views

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    Possible article for student reading . Rest of site looks interesting as well.
Mr Maher

Jefferson Davis' Speech at Jackson, Miss.December 1862 - 0 views

  • ble and clearly defined in the spirit of that declaration which rests the right to govern on the consent of the governed, but because I foresaw that the wickedness of the North would precipitate a war upon us. Those who supposed that the exercise of this right of separation could not produce war, have had cause to be convinced that they had credited their recent associates of the North with a moderation, a sagacity, a morality they did not possess. You have been involved in a war waged for the gratification of the lust of power and of aggrandizement, for your conquest and your subjugation, with a malignant ferocity and with a disregard and a contempt of the usages of civilization, entirely unequalled in history. Such, I have ever warned you, were the characteristics of the Northern people--of those with whom our ancestors entered into a Union of consent, and with whom they formed a constitutional compact. And yet, such was the attachment of our people for that Union, such their devotion to it, that those who desired preparation to be made for the inevitable conflict, were denounced as men who only wished to destroy the Union. After what has happened during the last two years, my only wonder is that we consented to live for so long a time in association with such miscreants, and have loved so much a government rotten to the core. Were it ever to be proposed again to enter into a Union with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than to trust myself in a den of thieves.
  • The issue then being: will you be slaves; will you consent to be robbed of your property; to be reduced to provincial dependence; will you renounce the exercise of those rights with which you were born and which were transmitted to you by your fathers?
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      How strange is it that Jeff Davis uses the term "slaves" in reference to white southerners under northern oppression. Just what do they think a slave is?
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    21st century readers may be surprised to hear Jeff Davis's language when he talks about the north a year and a half into the Civil War.
David Hilton

The Declaration of Independence Home Page - 0 views

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    Documents on the Declaration of Independence provided by Duke University.
David Hilton

THOMAS: Historical Documents - 2 views

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    A collection of documents for American history C18 to the C20th, provided by the Library of Congress.
David Hilton

The World of Early America - 1 views

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    An excellent site containing primary sources on early America (or at least the English-speaking part of it). Seems to focus mainly on the C18th.
David Hilton

Archiving Early America: Primary Source Material from 18th Century America - 2 views

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    A very good collection of primary source materials on early America.
David Hilton

Index Page - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net - 0 views

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    A site dedicated to resources for the American Declaration of Independence, including a copy of the text of the document.
Joseph Phelan

Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural - 14 views

As storm clouds of disunion and war were gathering across the nation, president elect Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic first inaugural address on March 4 closing with these words addressed t...

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