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Title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Author: Jefferson Davis Release Date: November 16, 2006 [EBook #19831] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII Produced by Geoff Horton, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreaders team at http://www.pgdp.net THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT By JEFFERSON DAVIS https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHIjITWiBxh6edOFy1V4dzEqUu-ihEhFjlqZiJ3tyNY/edit?usp=sharing PREFACE. The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered; that the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the States; and that the war waged by the Federal Government against the seceding States was in disregard of the limitations of the Constitution, and destructive of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. The author, fro