- Other political speeches and
correspondence:
- President Andrew Jackson on Secession and Nullification
- A letter from Henry Benning to Howell Cobb
- John C. Calhoun's Southern Address of 1849
- "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"---Frederick Douglass
- The Appeal of the Independent Democrats against the Nebraska Act
- William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise
- Robert Toombs's Speech in Boston, Jan. 24, 1856
- Ramseur Letter from West Point
- Leonidas Spratt on Re-opening the Internationl Slave Trade (1858)
- Stephen Douglas's speech at Chicago, July 9, 1858
- Jefferson Davis's 1858 Speech to the Mississippi Legislature
- Speech of Mississippi Senator A.G. Brown, at Hazlehurst, September 11, 1858
- John Brown's Final Speech to the Court
- Lydia Maria Child comments on John Brown
- William Lowndes Yancey's speech to the Democratic Convention, April 28, 1860
- Speech of Rev. J.E. Carnes at Galveston, Texas, Dec. 12, 1860
- Sam Houston's Proslavery Speech against Secession
- Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Speech
- John Baldwin's speech to the Virginia Secession Convention (3/21/61 - 3/23/61)
- The "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander Stephens
- Jefferson Davis's
First Message to the C.S. Congress
- A letter to Jefferson Davis
- Senator Hunter's Speech in Opposition to Confederate Enlistment of Black Troops
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