The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Hon. Jefferson Davis Book.

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+ Hon. Jefferson Davis Book.
r. Gen. Writ Adams, Messrs. Apple
tons Agent for Mississippi for the sale
of Hon Jefferson Davis long expected
and eagerly looked for Book, "the Rise
and Fall of the Confederate" most
important and authentic work which
has been written or will ever be written
of the war between the North and the
South, Its causes and results informs US
that it viii be issued from the press in
very short time. Agents have been
appointed for every county in the State,
and they have been furnished with order
book for inserting the names of sub
scribers. 1t will be issued in two octave
volumes; the type is of an excellent
size, the impression beautiful, and the
paper fine. Altogether, the work
promises to be much handsomer and
better than the average of subscription
books. 1t will be Illustrated with nu-
merous steel engravings. Those which
We have seen are capital, being portraits
of the Presidents staff, Of the members
of the Confederate Cabinets, of Mr..
Davis himself, of Calhoun, Stephens,
and Gems. Hampton, A. S. and S. E.
johnson, Beauregard, jackson, Lee,
Hardee, Longstreet and Bragg.
THE INTRODUCTION,
which is grand, and characteristic of its
iLustrous author, is as follows
A duty to my countrymen; to the memo
ry of those who died in defense of a cause
conseerated by inheritance, as well as sus-
tanned by conviction and to those who,
perhaps less fortunate, staked all, and lost
all, save life and honor, in its behalf has
impelled me to attempt the vindicaton of
their cause and conduct. For this pur-
pose have decided to present an historical
sketch of the events which preceded and
attended the struggle of the Southern States
to maintain their existence and their rights
as sovereign communities creators,
not the creatures of the General Govern
ment.
The social problem of maintaining the
just relation between Constitution, Govern
ment and people has been found so difficult
that human history is record of unsuccess-
full efforts to establish it. A government, to
afford the needful protection and exercise
proper care for the welfare of people, must
have homogeneity in its constituents. 1t is
this necessity which has divided the human
race into separate nations, and finally has ]
defeated the grandest efforts which con. [
luerors have made to give unlimited ex ,
tent to their domain. When our fathers !,
dissolved their connection with Great
Britain, by declaring themselves free and j
independent States, they constituted thir- G
teen separate communities, and were care 6
full to assert and preserve, each for ITSELF its :
sovereignty and Jurisdiction
At a time when the minds of men are |
'traying far from the lessons our fathers @
taught 1t seems proper aud well to recur to q.
the original princi Piles on which the system
If government they devised was founded.
The eternal truths which they announced, a
,he rights which they declared s'iHdtienoble,"
ire the foundation stones on which rests the A
Of the Confederate cause.
He must have been careless reader of
our political history who has not observed
hat, whether under the style of Omitted
Colonies" or Omitted States" which was I
adopted after the Declaration of Indepen-
ience, whether under the articles of Con-
ederation or the compact of Union, there +
everywhere appears the district assertion of L
suggestion of any purpose on the part of
he States to consolidate themselves into q
me body. Will any candid, well-informed :,
nan assert that at any time between 1875 :
md 1890, a proposition to surrender the =
overeignty of the States and merge them y
n central government would have had :;
he least possible chance of adoption? Can e
my historical act be more demonstrabe =
han that the States did, both in the Con- ;,
and the Union, retain their SOW
reiguty and independence as distinct com.
nunities, voluntarily oonsenting to h
but never becoming the fractional
parts of a nation ? That such opinions .
hould find adherents in our day, may be :,
attributable to the natural law of aggrega- =
ion; surely not to a conscientious regard !,
or the terms of the compact for union by =
he States. :,
In all free governments the constitution a
# organic law is supreme over the govern |,
nent, and in our Federal Union this was T
most distinctly marked by limitations and I
hlbltions against all which was beyond a.
he expressed>grants of power to the General i
government. In the foreground, there \
ore, take the position that those who 8
esisted violations of the compact were the y
rue friends, and those who maintained the .,
of undelegated powers were the e.
cal enemies of the constitutional Union.
To the parents, the widows and the a.
rphans of the Confederate dead, | offer the g
onsolation that those for whom they mourn !,
led for the Eight-a willing sacrifice on the e
liar of their country, where their memories, =
nshrined in the hearts of their people, will :,
o down in tradition to posterity. minors Il
allied by yalor in defence of home, and y,
lartyrdom for liberty.
Trichina In Hoboken. =