Jefferson Davis: Resolutions to the U.S. Senate on the Relations of States

( 1860 ) Commentary by C. Ellen Connally, University of Akron

Glossary

John C. Breckenridge vice president to James Buchanan, southern Democratic candidate for the presidency (1860), general and later secretary of war under the Confederacy
rendition of fugitives from service or labor the turning over of escaped slaves to their captors or masters
severally individually
sovereignties self-ruling governments
take his slaver property into the common Territories move his slaves into the territories of the West, which had not yet become states

Jefferson Davis (Library of Congress)

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