Complete Index of All Documents

This is the complete index of all documents on the site or linked into it, organized more or less along the same lines as the separate index pages.

Brief chronology of the secession crisis.
Suggestions for further reading.
Links to Related Sites of Interest

Document Categories:

• Party platforms:
  • 1856 Republican Party Platform
  • Platform of the Alabama Democracy
  • 1860 Republican Party Platform (Furman University)
  • Democratic Party Platform (Douglas faction)
  • Democratic Party Platform (Breckinridge faction)
  • Constitutional Union Party Platform
• Secession documents:
  • State Declarations of Causes for Secession
    • South Carolina
    • Mississippi
    • Georgia
    • Texas
  • Ordinances of Secession
  • South Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States
  • Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention
  • Speech of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention
  • First Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
  • Second Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
• State and local resolutions and correspondence:
  • Resolutions from the State of Florida
  • Alabama Resolutions
  • Mississippi Resolutions
  • Tennessee Resolutions
  • Botetourt County (Va.) Resolutions
  • Address of William L. Harris to the Georgia General Assembly
  • Report of Alabama's Commissioner to Louisiana
  • Letter from the State of Alabama to the State of North Carolina
  • Gov. Moore's letter to the Alabama legislature
  • Letter from the State of Alabama to the Commonwealth of Kentucky
  • Report of Alabama's Commissioner to Louisiana
  • Floyd County (Georgia) Resolutions
  • Northern Resolutions on Secession:
    • Indiana
    • Maine
    • Minnesota
    • New Jersey
    • New York
    • Ohio
    • Pennsylvania
• Compromise proposals:
  • The Crittenden Compromise
  • The Washington Peace Conference
  • Other Proposals to the Senate and House
  • Virginia Gov. John Letcher's Conditions for Settlement

• The Secession Commissioners

  • Gov. Moore's appointment of the commissioners
  • Letter from J.L.M. Curry to Gov. Hicks of Maryland
  • Letter from Stephen Hale of Alabama to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
    • Gov. Magoffin's reply
  • Letter from John G. Shorter of Alabama to Gov. Joe Brown of Georgia
    • Gov. Brown's reply
  • Letter from Isham Garrott and Robert H. Smith of Alabama to the Governor and legislature of North Carolina
  • Report of Alabama's Commissioner to Louisiana
  • Speech of Fulton Anderson of Mississippi to the Virginia Secession Convention
  • Speech of Henry Benning of Georgia to the Virginia Secession Convention
  • Speech of John Preston of South Carolina to the Virginia Secession Convention
  • Address of William L. Harris of Mississippi to the Georgia General Assembly
  • Letter of Jacob Thompson of Mississippi to the Governor of North Carolina
  • Address of John McQueen of South Carolina to the Texas Secession Convention
  • Address of George Williamson of Louisiana to the Texas Secession Convention

  Abraham Lincoln's speeches and letters:

  Lincoln's letter to George Robertson, a Kentucky attorney Lincoln's House Divided Speech The Cooper Union Speech, Feb. 27, 1860 Lincoln's New Haven speech, March 6, 1860 (extract)

  Lincoln's New Haven speech, March 6, 1860 (complete) A Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860 Lincoln's First Inaugural Lincoln's Second Inaugural

  • Other political speeches and correspondence:

    A letter from Henry Benning to Howell Cobb John C. Calhoun's Southern Address of 1849 (Furman University) William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise Charles Sumner's "Crime Against Kansas" Speech John Brown's Final Speech to the Court Letter of Congressman John Reagan, of Texas Speech of Congressman John Reagan, of Texas, on January 15, 1861 Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Speech Robert Toombs's Speech to the Georgia Legislature Alexander Stephens's Reply to President-Elect Lincoln William H. Trescot on "The Position and Course of the South" The Doom of Slavery in the Union: Its Safety Out of It, by John Townsend

    Alexander Stephens's Speech to the Georgia Legislature Open Letter of Gov. Joe Brown to the People of Georgia Inaugural message of South Carolina Governor Pickens, 1860 (Furman University) Extract from President James Buchanan's Fourth Annual Message to Congress The "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander Stephens (extract) The "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander Stephens (complete) Reflections on the "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander Stephens Jefferson Davis's Reply to Senator Seward Jefferson Davis's Farewell Speech to the U.S. Senate Jefferson Davis's First Message to the CS Congress A letter to Jefferson Davis Sen. Stephen Douglas on Popular Sovereignty

  • Editorial commentary:
    • "The Question of the Hour," by James Russell Lowell
    • Charleston Mercury editorial of February 28, 1860
    • Charleston Mercury editorial of October 11, 1860
    • Nashville Republican Banner editorial of January 25, 1861
    • Washington (Arkansas) Telegraph editorial of January 13, 1865
    • New Orleans Daily Picayune editorial of November 4, 1860
    • Richmond Enquirer editorial of March 23, 1861
    • DeBow's Review on the attitudes of non-slaveholders, January, 1861