NEW-ORLEANS, Thursday, March 21. The State Convention, to-day, after a lively debate, ratified the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States by a vote of 100 Ayes to 7 Nays. Advertisement ...

“I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever.” 34 —Stephen A. Douglas What would a truly pro-slavery constitution look like?

and a clause was put into the Confederate Constitution imposing upon the Confederate Government the duty of making laws for its prohibition. It seems now that foreign nations, when the subject of ...

Six days earlier, Confederate forces had invaded Kentucky, drawing that state into the war on the Union side and firming up the border between North and South. But who to trust in the border states?

On the 6th, Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. In the days following, Union forces encountered little resistance in gaining an important foothold in ...

Moreover, many former U.S. officials who had joined the Confederacy led the resistance ... and Representatives of Thirty-sixth [1859–1861] and Thirty-seventh [1861–1863] Congresses, officers ...

Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, had no doubt about the answers. Consider these words from his 1861 “Cornerstone ... the formation of the old constitution, were that the ...

Those coins came in two different designs, each with its own story. 1861 Confederate States of America Half Dollar In 1861, ...

Each terrace is dedicated to a Confederate state and flies the flag that state flew from 1861-65. Another tribute, known as the Confederate flag plaza, was erected at the base of the mountain’s ...

The city of St. Louis and the leader of its city council filed a federal lawsuit Monday against a new Missouri law putting a state-appointed board back in control of the local police department, ...