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22 de feb. de 2017 · Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history.
Source: Inaugural Address of the President of the Provisional Government, February 18, 1861, by Jefferson Davis. Reprinted in Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, edited by James D. Richardson (Nashville: United States Publishing Company, 1906), pp. 32–36. Some may feel that this speech reveals how Jefferson Davis sought to justify the ...
23 de nov. de 2023 · A provisional constitution was unanimously ratified on February 8, 1861, and on February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as chief executive of the aspiring new nation. In his inaugural address, Davis spoke forcefully of “the separate existence and
1 answer. Lincoln reacted to Jefferson Davis's inaugural address by stating that the argument made by the South to leave the Union was not justified. He believed that secession was unconstitutional and that the Southern states did not have the right to leave the Union. Lincoln was determined to preserve the Union and was not willing to ...
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 ...
Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861. Lincoln's first inaugural address to the nation. Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President ...
How did President Abraham Lincoln react to the idea expressed in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address? (1 point) Responses Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified. Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified. Lincoln called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling on the legality of secession. Lincoln called on ...
