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A p p ro v e d A p ril 17 , 1900. (v) Prefatory Note. T h e official papers of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to McKinley were compiled by me a few years ago. That compilation is entitled “Messages and Papers of the Presidents,” is in ten volumes, and was published by the au thority of Congress. I have now, by permission of Congress, compiled and edited all the messages, proclamations, and inau gural addresses of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, together with the important and interesting diplomatic correspondence of the Confederacy. This compilation is a fitting companion piece to the former work. Biographical sketches of President Davis, Vice President' Stephens, General Robert E. Lee, and the three Secretaries of State, Robert Toombs, Robert M. T. Hunter, and Judah P. Benjamin, have been prepared and are included. There will be two volumes of this work, the first containing the official papers of the President, the second com prising the diplomatic correspondence. The only omission of any message has been in the case where it contained simply a formal nomination without comment. Neither the State papers of Mr. Davis nor the diplomatic correspondence of the ...
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy : Including the Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865
