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Jefferson Davis' First Inaugural Address. Alabama Capitol, Montgomery, February 18, 1861. Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens: Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the Provisional Government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the duties ...
Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi and former Secretary of War, publicly resigned his Senate seat during an emotional farewell address to Congress on January 21, 1861, only days after his home state had seceded from the Union.
Jefferson Davis gave his inaugural address (as "provisional" President) on February 18, 1861. Source: The Jefferson Davis Project at Rice University. Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends, and Fellow-citizens: Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Magistrate of the Provisional Government ...
18 févr. 2019 · Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln: Dueling inaugural addresses. On this day in 1861, former U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis took to a podium for his presidential inaugural and gave an impassioned speech about the Constitution.
President Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address | | Extra printing of Davis's speech from the Richmond Enquirer. The address was delivered on 22 February 1862. The paper was then published by Tyler, Wise & Allegre. Bottom of document mentions the evacuation of Nashville on February 22.
Jefferson Davis, né le 3 juin 1808 à Fairview et mort le 6 décembre 1889 à La Nouvelle-Orléans , est un planteur esclavagiste, officier et homme d'État américain, président des États confédérés pendant la guerre civile américaine.
Jefferson Davis' Second Inaugural Address. Virginia Capitol, Richmond, February 22, 1862. Fellow-Citizens: On this the birthday of the man most identified with the establishment of American independence, and beneath the monument erected to commemorate his heroic virtues and those of his compatriots, we have assembled to usher into existence the ...
