Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union and Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right (Paperback or Softback)

Hardy, Alexander H.

ISBN 10: 0692466827 / ISBN 13: 9780692466827

Verlag: Confederate Reprint Company 6/19/2015, 2015

Beschreibung

Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union and Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9780692466827

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union and Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right (Paperback or Softback)
• Verlag: Confederate Reprint Company 6/19/2015
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0692466827
• ISBN-13: 9780692466827
• Einband: Paperback or Softback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 0,36 Pfund
• Buchtyp: Book

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Inhaltsangabe

This little book gives a concise overview of the historical and constitutional arguments, as well as the series of events, which justified the Southern States in their departure from the Federal Union. The author, originally from Maryland, had relocated to Mississippi a few decades prior to the war where he served as Chief Justice of the State's High Court of Errors and Appeals, and from which office he later opposed the unlawful proceedings against Mississippi citizens by military tribunals under the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Also included as an appendix is a speech delivered by Judge Handy in Baltimore, Maryland on December 19, 1860.

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Alexander H. Handy was born in Somerset County, Maryland on December 25, 1809. He moved to Mississippi in 1836 and was elected to the State's High Court of Errors and Appeals in 1853; he was elevated to chief justice of the Court in 1864. Always a champion of States' rights and an outspoken secessionist, he was a staunch supporter of the Southern cause throughout the war, declaring in a speech delivered at Canton, Mississippi as late as March 1, 1865 that the Confederacy must fight on either to independence or death. In 1866, Judge Handy struck down as unconstitutional the Civil Rights Act, arguing that while the Thirteenth Amendment had freed the slaves, it did not give Congress the right to determine the Negroes' future political status. When the military authorities ignored his decision and continued to try civilians before military tribunals for allegedly violating the Act, Handy and two of his colleagues resigned from the Court. He thereafter returned to his native State and was appointed professor of law at the University of Maryland. In 1871, he went back to Mississippi to resume a law practice at Jackson. He died in Canton on September 12, 1883.