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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' 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 ...
4 apr 2024 · 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.
In his address to the Second Confederate Congress on May 2, 1864, Davis outlined his strategy of achieving Confederate independence by exhausting the Union will to fight: If the South could show it could not be subjugated, the North would elect a president who would make peace.
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18 feb 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.
Inaugural Address of the President of the Provisional Government. February 18, 1861. Jefferson Davis gave his inaugural address (as "provisional" President) on February 18, 1861. Source: The Jefferson Davis Project at Rice University.
4 apr 2024 · Delivered from the East Portico of the federal Capitol, Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address sought to calm and pacify southerners by convincing them that they had nothing to fear from a Republican administration.
