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The South Was Right

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by James Ronald Kennedy


  16. James Kent, Commentaries on American Law (Da Capo Press, New York, NY: 1971), vol. I, p. 186

  17. Edgar S. Dudley, “Was ’Secession’ Taught at West Point?” as cited in The Century Magazine, 1900, p. 633

  18. James Kent, Commentaries on American Law (Da Capo Press, New York, NY: 1971), vol. I, p. 185

  19. Edmund Burke, “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies” in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Third Edition (W. W. Norton and Company, New York, NY: 1974), vol. 1, pp. 2352-366

  20. Ibid

  21. James Morgan, “Lithuania and the Confederacy: Thoughts on the Meaning of Secession,” Camp Chase Review, vol. XVII, #10, September 1990, pp. 19-20

  22. James Kent, Commentaries on American Law (Da Capo Press, New York, NY: 1971), vol. I, pt. I, Lecture II, “Of the Law of Nations”

  23. Francis B. Simkins, A History of the South (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY: 1959), pp. 43-58

  24. Ibid, p. 47

  25. Ibid

  26. Ibid

  27. Ibid

  28. Ibid

  29. James Kent, Commentaries on American Law (Da Capo Press, New York, NY: 1971), vol. I, p. 171

  30. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 26

  31. Ibid, p. 27

  32. Ibid, pp. 25-26

  33. Ferguson and McHenry, The American Federal Government, Tenth Edition (McGraw-Hill, New York, NY: 1969), p. 73

  34. Ibid, Appendix 2, Articles of Confederation, Article XIII

  35. Ibid, Appendix 3, The Constitution of the United States, Article V

  36. George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), pp. 27-28

  37. James Kent, Commentaries on American Law (Da Capo Press, New York, NY: 1971), vol. 1, p. 190

  38. Ibid, p. 191

  39. Ibid

  40. Edgar S. Dudley, “Was ’Secession’ Taught at West Point?” as cited in The Century Magazine, 1900, p. 635

  41. The North American Review, vol. XXII, April 1826

  42. William Rawle, A View of the Constitution (H. C. Carey and Lea, Philadelphia, PA: 1825), p. 296

  43. Ibid, p. 302

  44. Jefferson Davis, “Farewell Address to the United States Senate.” See Addendum II.

  45. Harry MaCarthy, “The Bonnie Blue Flag.” See Songs of the Confederacy, edited by Henry S. Humphreys (The Willis Music Company, Cincinnati, OH: 1961), p. 20

  46. The National Cyclopedia, vol. VII, p. 442

  47. Jefferson Davis, “Inaugural Address.” See Addendum III.

  48. George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), p. 27

  49. Ibid

  50. Daniel Webster, as cited in Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), pp. 65-66

  51. Ibid, p. 66

  52. H. Newcomb Morse, “The Foundations and Meaning of Secession,” Stetson Law Review, vol. XV, No. 2,1986, p. 423

  53. Ibid

  54. Mildred L. Rutherford, Truths of History (M. L. Rutherford, Athens, GA: 1907), p. 92

  55. H. Newcomb Morse, “The Foundations and Meaning of Secession,” Stetson Law Review, vol. XV, No. 2,1986, p. 432

  CHAPTER NINE

  1. Chase, as cited in James Jackson Kilpatrick, The Sovereign State (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL: 1957), p. x

  2. Personal conversation between Walter Donald Kennedy and Professor Jay Hoar. [Similar views of Professor Hoar can be found in Confederate Veteran, September-October 1990, p. 30]

  3. Abel P. Upshur, The Federal Government, C. C. Burr, editor of 1868 edition (Van Evrie, Horton and Company, New York, NY: 1868), p. ii

  4. Ibid, p. iii

  5. Ibid

  6. Ibid, p. iv

  7. Ibid, p. v

  8. Ibid, p. 21, footnote

  9. Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 35

  10. Abel P. Upshur, The Federal Government, C. C. Burr, editor of 1868 edition (Van Evrie, Horton and Company, New York, NY: 1868) p. vi

  11. Ibid

  12. James Brown Scott, Sovereign States and Suits Before Arbitral Tribunals and Court of Justice (The New York University Press, New York, NY: 1925), p. 37, footnote

  13. Abel P. Upshur, The Federal Government, C. C. Burr, editor of 1868 edition (Van Evrie, Horton and Company, New York, 1868), p. 157

  14. Madison, as cited by Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 62

  15. Abel P. Upshur, The Federal Government, C. C. Burr, editor of 1868 edition (Van Evrie, Horton and Company, New York, NY: 1868), p. viii

  16. Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 157, footnote 23

  17. Merrill Jensen, The New Nation (Northeastern University Press, Boston, MA: 1981), p. 10

  18. Isidor Paiewonsky, Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies (Fordham University Press, New York, NY: 1989), p. 75

  19. Hamilton, as cited in James Jackson Kilpatrick, The Sovereign State (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL: 1957), p. 54

  20. John Marshall, as cited in James Jackson Kilpatrick, The Sovereign State (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL: 1957), p. 42

  21. Herman V. Ames, State Documents on Federal Relations (Northeastern University Press, Philadelphia, PA: 1911), p. 7

  22. Ibid, p. 9

  23. William Grayson, as cited in Jackson Kilpatrick, The Sovereign State (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL: 1957), p. 40.

  24. George Mason, as cited in James Jackson Kilpatrick, The Sovereign State (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL: 1957), p. 41, footnote 55

  25. Abel P. Upshur, The Federal Government, C. C. Burr, editor of 1869 edition (Van Evrie, Horton and Company, New York, NY: 1868), pp. 100-102

  26. Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 13

  27. Clay, as cited by Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 15

  28. Seward, as cited by Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 15

  29. Calhoun, as cited by Marshall L. DeRosa, The Confederate Constitution of 1861 (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1991), p. 10

  CHAPTER TEN

  1. Claude G. Bowers, The Tragic Era (The Literary Guild of America, Inc., New York, NY: 1929), p. vi

  2. Ibid, p. 63

  3. Ibid, p. 93

  4. Ibid, p. 72

  5. Ibid

  6. Albion W. Tourgee, A Fool’s Errand (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA: 1961), pp. 27, 39

  7. Ibid, p. 381

  8. Ibid, p. 386

  9. P. G. T. Beauregard, as cited in T. Harry Williams, Napoleon in Gray (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1954), p. 267

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  1. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Harper and Row, New York, NY: 1966), vol. II, p. 476

  2. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

  3. Milton Friedman, Free to Choose (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, NY: 1980), pp. 128-49

  4. Ibid

  5. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Harper and Row, New York, NY: 1966), vol. II, p. 475

  6. Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney, History Today, July 1980, p. 13

  7. Gandhi, as cited in Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (Harper and Row, New York, NY: 1983), p. 220

  8. John C. Calhoun, The Works of John C. Calhoun (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1844), vol. I, pp. 56-57

  9. John S. Mill, Representative Government, in Great Books of the Western World, Maynard Hutchins, ed. (Encyclopaedia Br
itannica, Inc., Chicago, IL: 1952), vol. 43, pp. 382-83

  10. Ibid, p. 383

  11. Ibid

  12. Ibid, p. 384

  13. Ibid, pp. 387,388

  CHAPTER TWELVE

  1. Edward A. Pollard, A Southern History of the War (The Fairfax Press, New York, NY: 1978), p. 64

  2. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence

  3. Patrick Henry, Virginia Convention, Richmond, Virginia, March 1775

  4. John S. Mill, On Liberty, as cited in Great Books of the Western World, R. M. Hutchens, ed. (William Benton, Publisher, Chicago, IL: 1952), vol. 43, p. 271

  5. John S. Mill, On Liberty, as cited in Great Books of the Western World, R. M. Hutchens, ed. (William Benton, Publisher, Chicago, IL: 1952), vol. 43, p. 271

  6. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, The Radical Alternative (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, NY: 1971), p. 27

  7. Lyle H. Lanier, et al., /’// Take My Stand (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1977), pp. 146-54

  8. Ibid, p. 148

  9. Pope Paul VI, as cited in Populorum Progressio

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, as cited in The Secret Six, Otto Scott (Times Books, New York, NY: 1979), pp. 319-20 [Why is it that men like Emerson could have so much hatred for the South but say nothing about Northerners such as his great-grandfather, Cornelius Waldo, who was a slave merchant in Boston, Massachusetts (see The Transatlantic Slave Trade by James A. Rawley, p. 336)?]

  2. John Chodes, “Education for a Conquered Nation,” Chronicles, March 1989, p.21

  3. John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1963), pp. 131-32

  4. John Chodes, “Education for a Conquered Nation,” Chronicles, March 1989, pp. 20-21

  5. Davidson, Fletcher, et al., I’ll Take My Stand (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1983), p. 112

  6. John Chodes, “Education for a Conquered Nation,” Chronicles, March 1989, p. 23

  7. Nation, as cited in Cracker Culture, Grady McWhiney (University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL: 1988), p. 260

  8. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and the Discourses (Random House, Inc., New York, NY: 1950), p. 18

  9. Ibid, pp. 182-83

  10. Allen Nevins, as cited in The Uncivil War, Thomas B. Keys (The Beauvoir Press, Biloxi, MS: 1991), p. viii

  11. Official Records: War of the Rebellion (hereinafter cited as O.R., Series I unless otherwise indicated), Ser. I, vol. II, p. 664

  12. O.R., Ser. II, vol. I, p. 204

  13. O.R., Ser, II, vol. IV, p. 533

  14. O.R., vol. XV, p. 23

  15. O.R., vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 35

  16. Ibid

  17. O.R., vol. XVIII, p. 541

  18. Ibid, p. 182

  19. O.R., vol. XXX, pt. Ill, p. 189

  20. Official Records: War of the Rebellion, Union and Confederate Navies (hereinafter cited as O.R.N., unless otherwise indicated), Ser. I, vol. XXV, p. 701

  21. O.R., vol. XXXIV, pt. IV, p. 188

  22. O.R.N., vol. XXIII, p. 432

  23. O.R., vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 16

  24. Ibid, p. 390

  25. Ibid, p. 556

  26. Ibid, p. 81

  27. O.R., vol. XXIV, pt. Ill, p. 574

  28. O.R., vol. XXXII, pt. I, p. 176

  29. O.R., vol. XLIV, p. 527

  30. O.R., vol. XLVII, pt. II, p. 704

  31. O.R., vol. VII, p. 551

  32. O.R., vol. XXIV, pt. Ill, p. 92

  33. O.R., vol. XLIII, pt. I, p. 57

  34. O.R., vol. VIII, p. 507

  35. O.R., vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 93

  36. O.R., vol. X, pt. II, p. 204

  37. O.R., Ser. Ill, vol. II, p. 53

  38. O.R., Ser. I, vol. XXXIV, pt. IV, p. 270

  39. Ibid, p. 315

  40. O.R., vol. XLVIII, pt. II, p. 774

  41. O.R., vol. Ill, p. 529

  42. O.R., vol. VIII, p. 449

  43. Ibid, p. 450

  44. O.R., vol. XX, pt. II, p. 318

  45. O.R., vol. XXXIII, p. 309

  46. O.R., vol. XVI, pt. I, p. 640

  47. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 236

  48. O.R., vol. XXIV, pt. Ill, p. 157

  49. Ibid, pp. 186-87

  50. O.R., vol. XXXI, pt. Ill, p. 262

  51. O.R., vol. XXXII, pt. II, pp. 280-81

  52. O.R., vol. XXXIX, pt. II, p. 132

  53. Ibid, p. 157

  54. O.R., vol. XXXVII, pt. II, p. 366

  55. John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1963), p. 414

  56. O.R., vol. XXXIX, pt. Ill, p. 162

  57. O.R., vol. XLIII, pt. II, p. 340

  58. O.R., vol. XLIII pt. I, p. 62

  59. O.R., vol. XLIII, pt II, p. 553

  60. O.R., vol. XLV, pt. II, p. 622

  61. O.R., vol. XXX, pt. IV, p. 235

  62. Janet S. Hermann, Joseph E. Davis Pioneer Patriarch (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson and London: 1990), p. 143

  63. David A. Nichols, Lincoln and the Indians (University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London: 1978), p. 87

  64. Ibid, p. 95

  65. Ibid. p. 180

  66. Lyon G. Tyler, A Confederate Catechism (Lyon G. Tyler, Holdcroft, VA: 1935), p. 14

  67. Ludwell Johnson, “Furl That Banner?” Southern Partisan, vol. XII, First Quarter 1992, p. 20

  68. Harriet Magruder, A History of Louisiana (D.C. Heath and Company, Boston, New York, Chicago: 1909), p. 291

  69. Ibid, p. 295

  70. Ibid

  71. Dethloff and Begnaud, Our Louisiana Legacy, Second Edition, Teacher’s Guide (Steck-Vaughn Company, Austin, TX: 1980), p. 208

  72. Ibid, p. 221

  73. Bryant Burroughs, “Legal Lynching,” Southern Partisan, Third Quarter, 1991, p. 44

  74. Andrew Nelson Lytle, Southern Review, Vol. I (Louisiana State University Press: 1935), p. 422

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  1. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 833

  ADDENDA

  1. James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH: 1966), p. 385

  2. H. Storing, ed., The Anti-Federalist, “The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to Their Constituents” (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 1985), p. 205

  3. Jacobsonv. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)

  4. Patrick Henry, as cited in The Anti-Federalist, H. Storing, ed. (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 1985) p. 297

  5. James Madison, The Federalist #39, as cited in Great Books of the Western World, R. M. Hutchins, ed. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago, IL: 1952), vol. 43, p. 127

  6. Confederate States Constitution, Article I, Section 2

  7. Ibid, Article I, Section 3

  8. Ibid, Article I, Section 2, Paragraph 5

  9. Ibid

  10. Sen. Thomas H. Benton, as cited in Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes (The Blue and Gray Press: Secaucus, NJ: 1987), pp. 57-59, 80

  11. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (The Blue and Gray Press: Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 59

  12. Confederate States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1

  13. Ibid, Article I, Section 8

  14. Ibid, Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 9

  15. Ibid, Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 10

  16. Nicholson, Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Confederate Constitutions, C.S. Bar Assn. J., March 1987, at 4, 14

  17. Confederate States Constitution, Article II, Section 1

  18. Ibid, Article V, Section 1

  PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. Pacific Marine Review, “History of the Clipper Ship Nightingale,” F. C. Matthews, October, pp. 557-60; W. E. B Dubois, The Suppression of the Africian Slave Trade
to the United States of America 1638-1870 (Russell and Russell Inc., New York, NY: 1965), pp. 162-63, 298

  2. The Untold Story of the Battle of Gatlinburg, First Edition (Brannon Publishing Company Division of the Georgia Mint, Inc.: 1991), pp. 5, 7

  3. John Ray Skates, Mississippi’s Old Capitol (Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS: 1990), p. 106

  4. Alabama Historical Quarterly, “The Forty-Sixth Alabama Regiment,” Spring Issue, 1942, p. 155

  5. Official Records: War of the Rebellion, Union and Confederate Navies, Ser. I, vol. 21, p. 594

  6. Booth’s Records, vol. Ill, book 1, p. 44,; Helen B. Wasson, Our Kith &f Kin (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD: 1986), pp. 39, 41

  7. The Southern Digest, vol. 22, # 15, July 17, 1992 (Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA)

  8. Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865 (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1989), p. 113

  9. James Dinkins, By an Old Johnnie (Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, OH: 1975), pp. 25-26

  10. James W. Nicholson, Stories of Dixie (Claitor’s Bookstore Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, LA: 1966), p. 57

  11. Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, Andrew B. Booth, ed. (The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spar-tanburg, SC: 1984), vol. Ill, book 2, p. 276 (hereinafter cited as “Booth’s Records”)

  12. Brand Family History, National Archives records, Morgan L. Brand

  13. William Couper, The Virginia Military Institute at the Battle of New Market (William Couper), p. 28

  14. Booth’s Records, vol. Ill, book 1, p. 348

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