Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . al elector. In 1845he was elected a Representative to Con-gress; but resigned in 1846, having beenelected colonel of the First MississippiVolunteer Regiment of rifles, and servedin the Mexican War, greatly distinguish-ing himself at Monterey and BuenaVista, and being severely wounded inthe latter battle. He was appointed aBrigadier-General of volunteers byPresident Polk in 1847, but declined thecommission on the grounds that, by theConstitution, the militia appointmentswere
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . al elector. In 1845he was elected a Representative to Con-gress; but resigned in 1846, having beenelected colonel of the First MississippiVolunteer Regiment of rifles, and servedin the Mexican War, greatly distinguish-ing himself at Monterey and BuenaVista, and being severely wounded inthe latter battle. He was appointed aBrigadier-General of volunteers byPresident Polk in 1847, but declined thecommission on the grounds that, by theConstitution, the militia appointmentswere reserved to the States, and thatsuch appointments by the President werein violation of State rights. The same year he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, andwas re-elected by acclamation in 1850 fora full term. In 1853 he was appointedSecretary of War by President Pierce,and in 1857 was again elected to theUnited States Senate, when he took aprominent place among the Southernleaders, and was among the most deter-mined of them all in his assertions of therights of the States under the Constitu-. JEFFERSON DAVIS tion, and also of the right of Jan. 21, 1861, he took his leave of theSenate in a speech in which he gave hisopinion that, by the secession of hisState, his connection with that body wasterminated, and reaffirmed the doctrineof the right of secession. The Confeder-ate Congress, at Montgomery, Ala., chosehim President, under the ProvisionalConstitution, on Feb. 9, 1861, and he ac-cepted the office on the 16th. On April 17, two days after the firstproclamation of President Lincoln, heresponded by a proclamation authorizingprivateering; and on Aug. 14 issued asecond one, warning all persons of 14years and upward, owirig allegiance tothe United States, to leave the Con-federacy within 40 days, or be treatedas alien enemies. On Nov. 6 he waschosen permanent President, and was in- DAVIS 278 DAVIS augrurated Feb. 22, 1862. Mr. Daviscontinued t
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