Excerpt from Speech of Hon.: Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on His Resolutions Relative to the Rights of Property in the Territories, Etc, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7, 1860 States united they transferred their forts, their armament, their ships, and their right to maintain armies and navies, to the Federal Government. It was the disarmament of the States, under the operation of a league which constituted a general agent and made the warlike operations, the powers of defence, com, mom to them all. Then, with this equality of the States, with this disarmament of them, if there had been nothing in the Constitution to express it, I say the federal duty to afford protection to. Every constitutional right would follow as a necessary incident, and could not be denied by any one who could understand and would admit the true theory of such a Government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.