The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Jefferson Davis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2) Author: Jefferson Davis Release Date: November 16, 2006 [EBook #19831] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT *** Produced by Geoff Horton, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreaders team at http://www.pgdp.net The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Volume One (of Two( By Jefferson Davis PREFACE. The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered; that the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the States; and that the war waged by the Federal Government against the seceding States was in disregard of the limitations of the Constitution, and destructive of the principles of the Declaration of Independence.