State-rights

The leaders of the Revolution, the framers of the Federal Constitution, the men who contended for State-rights, and still more those who led in the great struggle for human rights were of stronger and nobler mold than the politicians who now crowd the halls of Congress.

Education and the Higher Life J. L. Spalding

In 1843 or 1844 I met him for the first time on the Niagara frontier, and quite remember my surprise at his State-rights utterances, unusual among military men at that period.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

Lincoln of all men in 1861 was most thoroughly convinced that the Southerners would never have carried the doctrine of State-rights to the point of secession had it not been for the purpose of repelling what was considered an aggression on slavery; yet in his message there is not a word on this subject and the reason is not far to seek.

Chapter I 1917

This intelligent and fair-minded man, who sympathized with the North because he hated slavery and was convinced that the invocation of State-rights was for “protection to slavery, extension of slave territory and free-trade in slave produce with the outer world, ” made a journey through the Southern States between April 14 and June 19, 1861, and became convinced that the people of the Confederacy were united.

Chapter I 1917

The issues were still more sharply drawn by the resignation of Jefferson Davis from the Senate, to run as a State-rights candidate for Governor of Mississippi.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

Since many Union Democrats cast their votes for Breckinridge as the only hope of defeating Lincoln, his small majority was really a rebuke to the radical State-rights influences which had nominated him.

North Carolina on the Eve of Secession 1912

But a strong, active State-rights minority had appeared during the controversy.

North Carolina on the Eve of Secession 1912

State-rights party, and the federalists as a merely commercial party.

American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899

Mr. Rencher was a State-rights Democrat, Mr. Craige a nullifying southern statesman and Mr. Pearson an old line Whig, or Federalist.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

State-rights and secession -- twin heresies, as promulgated by Calhoun and his followers and maintained by Jefferson Davis and the civil and military powers of the would-be Confederacy, and human slavery,

Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884