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• Editorial Board
• Alphabetical List of Authors
• Illustrations
• Introduction
• Organization of the Work
• Note On the Texts
• Part One: the Civil War
• The Crittenden Compromise
• South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
• South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
• Mississippi Ordinance of Secession
• Mississippi Declaration of Causes of Secession
• Virginia Ordinance to Repeal the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America
• Missouri Act Declaring the Political Ties Heretofore Existing Between the State of Missouri and the United States of America Dissolved
• Ordinance of the Kentucky Convention
• Constitution of the Confederate States of America
• Farewell Speech to the United States Congress
• Inaugural Address
• First Inaugural Address
• Proclamation Calling the Militia and Convening Congress
• Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports
• Message to Congress In Special Session
• Proclamation Suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus
• Message to Congress On Gradual Abolishment of Slavery
• Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Emancipation Order
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The Gettysburg Address
• Message to the Congress of Confederate States
• Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States
• Last Order
• Part Two: Reconstruction
• Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
• Veto Message With Wade-davis Proclamation and Bill
• Wade-davis Manifesto
• Special Field Order No. 15
• Second Inaugural Address
• Last Public Address
• Constitution of Indiana, Article Xiii
• Black Code of Mississippi
• U.s. Constitution, Thirteenth Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
• Second Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
• Veto of the Second Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
• Civil Rights Act
• First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Veto of the First Reconstruction Act
• First Supplement to the First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Second Supplement to the First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Debate On Proposed Fourteenth Amendment
• U.s. Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment
• Enforcement Act of 1870
• Enforcement Act of 1871
• Enforcement Act of 1875
• The Constitution of the State of Mississippi, As Adopted In Convention
• Inaugural Address
• Civil Rights Cases
• Constitution of the State of Mississippi
• Part Three: Consolidating Markets
• The Homestead Act
• The Pacific Railway Act
• The Morrill Act
• The Gospel of Wealth
• Cross of Gold Speech
• First Inaugural Address
• First Annual Message
• Lochner V. New York
• Part Four: Consolidating Culture?
• Twelfth Annual Report of the Massachusetts State School Board
• Address On Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes
• Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., At the Opening of the Exposition
• Plessy V. Ferguson
• The Talented Tenth
• Treaty Between the United States of America and the Navajo Tribe of Indians; Concluded June 1, 1868; Ratification Advised July 25, 1868; Proclaimed August 12, 1868.
• Dawes Act
• Proposed Constitutional Amendment
• Massachusetts Constitutional Provision
• Reynolds V. United States
• The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Et Al. V. United States
• Immigration Policy
• The Principles of Scientific Management
• Carrie Buck, By R. G. Shelton, Her Guardian and Next Friend, Plff. In Err., V. J. H. Bell, Superintendent of the State Colony For Epileptics and Feeble Minded
• Introduction to I’ll Take My Stand
• Part Five: Reform Movements
• National People’s Party Platform, Adopted At Omaha, Neb., July 4, 1892
• Coin’s Financial School
• Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means
• The Socialist Party and the Working Class
• Preamble
• The Subjective Necessity For Social Settlements
• Why the Ward Boss Rules
• Declaration of Principles of the Progressive Party
• The Income Tax
• Speech On Constitutionality of an Income Tax
• U.s. Constitution, Sixteenth Amendment
• Direct Election of U.s. Senators
• Resolution Opposing Direct Election of Senators
• U.s. Constitution, Seventeenth Amendment
• First Annual Meeting of the Woman’s State Temperance Society
• Prohibition Debate
• U.s. Constitution, Eighteenth Amendment
• U.s. Constitution, Twenty-first Amendment
• Women’s Suffrage
• The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
• Debate On Women’s Suffrage
• U.s. Constitution, Nineteenth Amendment
• Part Six: Consolidating Government
• The Pendleton Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Veto Message—distribution of Seeds
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• President’s Message to the Senate and House of Representatives
• Federal Trade Commission Act
• The Place of the Independent Commission
• Radio Address On Unemployment Relief
• Commonwealth Club Address
• Inaugural Address
• Federal Emergency Relief Act
• National Industrial Recovery Act
• Redistribution of Wealth
• A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. Et Al. V. United States
• Fireside Chat On the Reorganization of the Judiciary
• National Labor Relations Board V. Jones & Laughlin Steel
• Part Seven: America In the World
• Monroe Doctrine—seventh Annual Message
• Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
• The Fallacy of Territorial Extension
• The Star of Empire
• Open Door Note
• Woodrow Wilson On Neutrality and War
• Statement On American Neutrality
• Address to the Senate
• Dissent In Wartime
• Espionage Act
• Free Speech In Wartime
• Sedition Act
• Schenck V. United States
• Fourteen Points Speech
• Covenant of the League of Nations
• Speech Against the League of Nations
• Kellogg-briand Pact
• Note On Chinchow
• Neutrality and War
• The Atlantic Charter
• The Four Freedoms
• Pearl Harbor Speech
• Sources

South Carolina Ordinance of Secession

December 20, 1860

AN ORDINANCE

To dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled “The Constitution of the United States of America.”

We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained,

That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of “The United States of America,” is hereby dissolved.

D. F. JAMISON, Del. from Barnwell, and Pres’t Convention.

Thos. Chiles Perrin,

Edw. Noble,

J. H. Wilson,

Thos. Thomson,

David Lewis Wardlaw,

Jno. Alfred Calhoun,

John Izard Middleton,

Benjamin E. Sessions,

J. N. Whitner,

James L. Orr,

J. P. Reed,

R. F. Simpson,

Benjamin Franklin Mauldin,

Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr.,

W. Peronneau Finley,

J. J. Brabham,

Benj. W. Lawton,

Jno. McKee,

Thomas W. Moore,

Richard Woods,

A. Q. Dunovant,

John A. Inglis,

Henry McIver,

Stephen Jackson,

W. Pinckney Shingler,

Peter P. Bonneau,

John P. Richardson,

John L. Manning,

John J. Ingram,

Edgar W. Charles,

Julius A. Dargan,

Isaac D. Wilson,

John M. Timmons,

Francis Hugh Wardlaw,

R. G. M. Dunovant,

James Parsons Carroll,

Wm. Gregg,

Andrew J. Hammond,

James Tompkins,

James C. Smyly,

John Hugh Means,

William Strother Lyles,

Henry Campbell Davis,

Jno. Buchanan,

James C. Furman,

P. E. Duncan,

W. K. Easley,

James Harrison,

W. H. Campbell,

T. J. Withers,

James Chesnut, Jr.,

Joseph Brevard Kershaw,

Thos. W. Beaty,

Wm. J. Ellis,

R. L. Crawford,

W. C. Cauthen,

D. P. Robinson,

H. C. Young,

H. W. Garlington,

John D. Williams,

W. D. Watts,

Thos. Wier,

H. I. Caughman,

John C. Geiger,

Paul Quattlebaum,

W. B. Rowell,

Chesley D. Evans,

Wm. W. Harllee,

A. W. Bethea,

E. W. Goodwin,

William D. Johnson,

Alex. McLeod,

John P. Kinard,

Robert Moorman,

Joseph Caldwell,

Simeon Fair,

Thomas Worth Glover,

Lawrence M. Keitt,

Donald Rowe Barton,

Wm. Hunter,

Andrew F. Lewis,

Robt. A. Thompson,

William S. Grisham,

John Maxwell,

Jno. E. Frampton,

W. Ferguson Hutson,

W. F. De Saussure,

William Hopkins,

James H. Adams,

Maxcy Gregg,

John H. Kinsler,

Ephraim M. Clarke,

Alex. H. Brown,

E. S. P. Bellinger,

Merrick E. Carn,

E. R. Henderson,

Peter Stokes,

Daniel Flud,

David C. Appleby,

R. W. Barnwell,

Jos. Dan’l Pope,

C. P. Brown,

John M. Shingler,

Daniel Du Pre,

A. Mazyck,

William Cain,

P. G. Snowden,

Geo. W. Seabrook,

John Jenkins,

R. J. Davant,

E. M. Seabrook,

John J. Wannamaker,

Elias B. Scott,

Joseph E. Jenkins,

Langdon Cheves,

George Rhodes,

A. G. Magrath,

Wm. Porcher Miles,

John Townsend,

Robert N. Gourdin,

H. W. Conner,

Theodore D. Wagner,

R. Barnwell Rhett,

C. G. Memminger,

Gabriel Manigault,

John Julius Pringle Smith,

Isaac W. Hayne,

Jno. H. Honour,

Rich’d De Treville,

Thos. M. Hanckel,

A. W. Burnett,

Thos. Y. Simons,

L. W. Spratt,

Williams Middleton,

F. D. Richardson,

B. H. Rutledge,

Edward McCrady,

Francis J. Porcher,

T. L. Gourdin,

John S. Palmer,

John L. Nowell,

John S. O’Hear,

John G. Landrum,

B. B. Foster,

Benjamin F. Kilgore,

Jas. H. Carlisle,

Simpson Bobo,

Wm. Curtis,

H. D. Green,

Matthew P. Mayes,

Thomas Reese English, Sr.

Albertus Chambers Spain,

J. M. Gadberry,

J. S. Sims,

Wm. H. Gist,

James Jefferies,

Anthony W. Dozier,

John G. Pressley,

R. C. Logan,

Francis S. Parker,

Benj. Faneuil Dunkin,

Samuel Taylor Atkinson,

Alex. M. Forster,

Wm. Blackburn Wilson,

Robert T. Allison,

Samuel Rainey,

A. Baxter Springs,

A. I. Barron,

A. T. Darby.

Attest: BENJ. F. ARTHUR,
Clerk of the Convention.