ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by E. B. TREAT. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. COLLECT MACDONALD & STONE, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS, 43 CENTRE STREET, N. Y Checked May 1913 NOTICE. The Publishers present this little volume to the public in the belief that a record of the great speeches and public acts emanating from the South during the late struggle, will prove, as a matter of History, both valuable and interesting to all classes of readers. CONTENTS. SPEECH OF HON. A. H. STEPHENS, delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of Georgia, Nov. 14, 1860, PAGE. 7 AFRICAN SLAVERY, THE CORNER-STONE OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. A Speech by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, delivered at the Atheneum, Savannah, SPEECH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS, at Richmond June 1, 1861, SPEECH OF EX-GOVERNOR HENRY A. WISE, SPEECH OF J. M. MASON, at Richmond, Va., June 8. 1861, 166 SAM HOUSTON'S SPEECH, at Independence, Texas, May 10, 174 SPEECH OF HOWELL COBB, at Atlanta, Ga., May 22, 1861, 182 |