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Mr. Lincoln’s “Lost Speech”

By Vito Mussomeli

“May 29, 1856 “Abraham Lincoln, of Sangamon, came upon the platform amid deafening applause. He enumerated the pressing reasons of the present movement. He was here ready to fuse with anyone who would unite with… »

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Gouverneur Morris in 1812

By Vito Mussomeli

Northern secession was openly in the political brew again. Eleven (11) years before, Jefferson had cautioned New England’s desire to secede while accepting their sovereignty to choose as they wished. Since then extensive changes had… »

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The Secession Movement in the Middle States

By Vito Mussomeli

A review of The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973) by William C. Wright (WCW) “Historical writing during the Civil War and immediately after noted the existence of these… »

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The Barber of Natchez

By Vito Mussomeli

Review of The Barber of Natchez (LSU, 1954, 1973) edited by Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan. Author’s Note: In 1938 a trove of documents dating from 1793 -1937, “over 60 volumes of account books,… »

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The Defining Differences Between the United States and Confederate Constitutions

By Vito Mussomeli

‘Their revolution (the South in 1861) … was in fact an act of restoration, for the constitution drawn up in Montgomery in 1861 for the Confederate States of America was a virtual duplicate of the… »

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A Black Sugar Planter in the Old South

By Vito Mussomeli

A review of Andrew Durnford, A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South by David O. Whitten, (Transaction Publishers, 1995). I In the year 1800 the Viceroyalty of New Spain was still intact, and Louisiana still… »

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Sam Houston and Texas Secession

By Vito Mussomeli

“Lincoln, under no circumstances, would I vote for … So, I say, stand by the ‘Constitution and the Union’, and so long as the laws are enacted and administered according to the Constitution we are… »

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The World They Made Together

By Vito Mussomeli

A review of The World They Made Together, Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia, by Mechal Sobel, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987 I In America, in 1607 the first successful British… »

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American Sovereignty and “Unconditional Loyalty”

By Vito Mussomeli

Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free: Beginning of Jefferson’s Statue for Religious Freedom, passed by the Virginia Legislature in 1786 I With one intro line Jefferson explains the core of human liberty. Our… »

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Reconsidering Luther Martin

By Vito Mussomeli

A review of Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, The Life of Luther Martin, by Bill Kauffman, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008 “Happiness is preferable to the Splendour of a national Government”  Luther Martin to the Constitutional Convention,… »

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