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On March 4, 1801, Jefferson was sworn in as the third President of the United States. In his First Inaugural Address, Jefferson called on the American people to approach one another with civility and magnanimity—famously announcing, “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.”. To that end, Jefferson discussed the need for his fellow ...
First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801. III. First Inaugural Address. Friends & Fellow Citizens, Called upon to undertake the duties of the first Executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been ...
To increase power, develop the resources, and promote the happiness of this Confederacy, it is necessary that there should be so much homogeneity as that the welfare of every portion be the aim of the whole. When this homogeneity does not exist, antagonisms are engendered which must and should result in separation.
Jefferson Davis represented Mississippi in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. He also served as Secretary of War for President Franklin Pierce. Mississippi’s secession from the Union on January 9, 1861 prompted Davis to resign from the United States Senate on January 21, 1861.
A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever ...
18 de feb. de 2010 · In his Inaugural Address of February 1861 delivered in Montgomery, Alabama, President Jefferson Davis declared: “We have assembled to usher into existence the Permanent Government of the Confederate States. Through this instrumentality, under the favor of Divine Providence, we hope to perpetuate the principles of our revolutionary fathers. . . .
New York, 1861–1868, I, Document 37. Remembering the American Civil War - Presidential Documents, Memory, Legacy: As a senator from Mississippi in the pre-Civil War period and the secretary of war for Democrat Franklin Pierce between 1853 and 1857, Jefferson Davis was one of the influential politicians of his time.
