1Kenneth M. Stampp, The Imperiled Union,
Essays on the Background of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1980), 35-36.
2Abraham Lincoln, 1847 Congressional debate in
the United States House of Representatives in John Shipley Tilley,
Lincoln Takes Command (Nashville: Bill Coats, Ltd., 1991), xv. Tilley's
source, as stated in footnote #4 on page xv, was Goldwyn Smith, The
United States: an Outline of Political History, 1492-1871 (New York and
London, 1893), 248.
3"The Right of Secession," The New-York Daily
Tribune, December 17, 1860, in Howard Cecil Perkins, ed., Northern
Editorials on Secession (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1964), 199-201.
4"The Right of Secession," The New-York Daily
Tribune, December 17, 1860, in Howard Cecil Perkins, ed., Northern
Editorials on Secession, 199-201. Here is the entire editorial:
We have repeatedly asked those who dissent from our view of this matter
to tell us frankly whether they do or do not assent to Mr. Jefferson's
statement in the Declaration of Independence that governments "derive
their just powers from the consent of the governed; and that, whenever any
form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government,"
&c., &c. We do heartily accept this doctrine, believing it intrinsically
sound, beneficent, and one that, universally accepted, is calculated to
prevent the shedding of seas of human blood. And, if it justified the
secession from the British Empire of Three Millions of colonists in 1776,
we do not see why it would not justify the secession of Five Millions of
Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861. If we are mistaken on this
point, why does not some one attempt to show wherein and why? . . . --we
could not stand up for coercion, for subjugation, for we do not think it
would be just. We hold the right of Self-government sacred, even when
invoked in behalf of those who deny it to others . . . if ever 'seven or
eight States' send agents to Washington to say 'We want to get out of the
Union,' we shall feel constrained by our devotion to Human Liberty to say,
Let Them Go! And we do not see how we could take the other side without
coming in direct conflict with those Rights of Man which we hold paramount
to all political arrangements, however convenient and advantageous.
5Journal of the Hartford Convention, as
quoted in George M. Curtis, III, and James J. Thompson, Jr., eds., The
Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver (Indianapolis: LibertyPress, 1987),
153.
6Stetson University, in DeLand, Florida, was
founded in 1883, and is Florida's first university. Stetson's College of
Law, founded in 1900, is Florida's oldest law school.
7H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning of
Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 420.
8Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning of
Secession," Stetson Law Review, Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986, 420.
9James Madison, 2 The Madison Papers
(Philadelphia: 1840), 895, in H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 426.
10H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 422-427.
11Chief Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden,
22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1 (1824), 200, in H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and
Meaning of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law
Review, Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 428.
12H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 428.
13H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 428-432.
14Judah P. Benjamin, "Farewell Address to the U.
S. Senate," delivered February 5, 1861, in Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Joel
Chandler Harris, eds., Library of Southern Literature (Atlanta: The
Martin and Hoyt Company, 1907), Volume I, 318.
15H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 433.
16H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 433-434.
17H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 434-436.
18H. Newcomb Morse, "The Foundations and Meaning
of Secession," Stetson University College of Law, Stetson Law Review,
Vol. XV, No. 2, 1986), 436.
19George M. Curtis, III, and James J. Thompson,
Jr., eds., The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver (Indianapolis:
LibertyPress, 1987), 152. Richard M. Weaver graduated from the University of
Kentucky in 1932, earned an M.A. degree at Vanderbilt University, and a
doctorate in English from Louisiana State University in 1943. He taught at
the University of Chicago until his death in 1963. He wrote scores of essays
and published several books. He is best known for his books Ideas Have
Consequences, and The Ethics of Rhetoric.
20Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor; or
Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?
(Baltimore: Innes & Company, 1866; reprint, North Charleston: Fletcher and
Fletcher Publishing, 1995), i-ii. Dr. Clyde N. Wilson is a world renowned
scholar of John C. Calhoun, having edited most of Calhoun's voluminous
papers. He has written several books, and numerous articles and essays on
Southern history.
21Curtis and Thompson, eds., The Southern
Essays of Richard Weaver, 153-154.
22Taking on Webster also challenges most of the
others who did not believe the Constitution was a compact, because most of
the others quoted Webster and used his argument.
23Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 6.
24Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 151-153.
25Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 16.
26Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 12.
27Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 12-17.
28Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 17.
29Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 25.
30Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 25.
31Gouverneur Morris, Life and Writings,
vol. iii., p. 193, as quoted in Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 65.
32Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 64-65;
Yanak and Cornelison, The Great American History Fact-Finder, 278.
33Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 66-73.
34Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 72.
35Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 73.
36Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 154.
37Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,
as quoted in Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 155. The reference to
Democracy in America footnoted by Bledsoe is Vol. i, Chap. xviii., p
413.
38Bledsoe, Is Davis a Traitor?, 157.
