Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered During the Summer of 1858.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, delivered during the summer of 1858. Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01203300CollectionID: CTRG93-B4275PublicationDate: 18590101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "To the people of Mississippi. I have been induced by the persistant misrepresentation of popular addresses made by me at the North and the South during the year 1858, to collect them, and with extracts from speeches made by me in the Senate in 1850, to present the whole in this connected form; to the end that the case may be fairly before those by whose judgment I am willing to stand or fall. Jefferson Davis."--P. [2]. Collation: 56 p.; 23 cm Contributor Bio:  Davis, Jefferson Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was the president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce. William J. Cooper, Jr., is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University. His most recent book is ""Jefferson Davis, American, winner of the 2001 ""Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography and the Jefferson Davis Award. He lives in Baton Rouge. ""From the Hardcover edition.