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Box 5
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Staff Only
Contains 4 Results:
States' Rights; Item 05-018: 1) Original; 2) No Title; 3) 7 leaves; 4) Complete; 5) Edited writing criticizing the concept of state sovereignty, calling the Union government the "most perfect", accusing the Confederates of wishing to establish a "monarchical and military power" and encouraging loyalty to the Constitution; 6) No Transcript; 7) Good condition, embossing in upper right corner, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Dates:
undated
Found in:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
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Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
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Series 4. Writings and Speeches
States' Rights; Item 05-019: 1) Original; 2) No Title; 3) 7 leaves; 4) Complete; 5) Edited draft of a message to the Virginia Legislature following the war, advising the rapid election of local officers, once a loyalty oath had been administered and praising the mercy of the Union government; 6) Transcript exists, see 05-022 and 05-023; 7) Appears to have been torn from a bound volume, on Virginia Executive Department stationary, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Dates:
undated
Found in:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
/
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
/
Series 4. Writings and Speeches
States' Rights; Item 05-020: 1) Original; 2) No Title; 3) 4 leaves; 4) Complete; 5) Draft of a writing by Pierpont concerning the legitimacy of his government immediately following the war, levels of enfranchisement within the state, and the right of the General Assembly to ratify Constitutional Amendments; 6) Transcript exists, see 05-024 and 05-025; 7) Slight discoloration, ragged at edges, ca. 1866
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Dates:
ca. 1866
Found in:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
/
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
/
Series 4. Writings and Speeches
States' Rights; Item 05-021: 1) Original; 2) "The Situation"; 3) 3 leaves; 4) Fragment; 5) Draft of part of a manuscript concerning the role of the press in postwar politics, stressing the bias of these papers towards former Confederates; 6) No Transcript. For revised version, see 05-026. For transcriptions of revised version which include the introduction from 05-021, see 05-028 and 05-029; 7) Somewhat discolored and ragged, embossed in upper left corner, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Dates:
undated
Found in:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
/
Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) Papers
/
Series 4. Writings and Speeches