. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . he announced by specialmessage the like accession of the State of RhodeIsland, and congratulated Congress on the happy eventwhich united under the General Government all theStates which were originally confederated. 31. It is well to close this chapter with the state-ment that, though the Federal Government, under theConstitution, had larger powers than un
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . he announced by specialmessage the like accession of the State of RhodeIsland, and congratulated Congress on the happy eventwhich united under the General Government all theStates which were originally confederated. 31. It is well to close this chapter with the state-ment that, though the Federal Government, under theConstitution, had larger powers than under the Arti-cles of Confederation, the Union was still a confederacyand not a consolidated nation. Hamilton, whose in-clination was for a strong government, repeatedly, inthe Federalist (Nos. ix. and Ixxxv.), speaks of the For the letter, see American State Papers, Vol. I., Miscellaneous, or The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, by Jefferson Davis,page 112. 46 Story of the Confederate States. new government as a Confederate Republic and aConfederacy, and calls the Constitution a Com-pact. Washington, also, on different occasions refer-red to the Constitution as a Compact, and spoke ofthe Union as a Confederated PART II The Growth of the United States, and the Causeswhicli letL to the Foiiiuition ot the Goverumentot the Confederate States. Politics in the United States. 49
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