Identifier: storyofconfedera00derr (find matches)
Title: Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Derry, Joseph Tyrone, 1841-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America -- History
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B.F. Johnson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ 1775, though they were still unwillingto dissolve their union with Great Britain, their oldlove had vanished, and the red-coated soldiers, insteadof being regarded as friends, were now detested as op-pressors. Such was the change of feeling producedby ten years of tyranny and wrong. 9. The king and Parliament spoke of the Ameri-cans as rebels, and called their leading men traitors.They claimed that Parliament had the right to l)indthe colonies in all cases whatsoever, and demanded ofthe Americans absolute submission to their will. 10. But the Americans claimed that in coming tothe wilds of the New World to build up for Britian a
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(27 1 28 Story of the Confederate States. great empire they had lost none of their rights asfree-born Englishmen. They acknowledged allegianceto the King, but claimed that only their colonialassemblies had the right to tax them. Their cry was,No taxation without representation. They felt thatthey were contending for a great principle, and carednothing for the hard names given them by theiroppressors. 11. At length the war of words and contendingopinions led to a conflict of arms at Lexington andConcord, and the great struggle for American libertybegan. 12. At first the Americans were fighting only fortheir Iights as British subjects. They did not at firstdesire separation from the British government, butafter several months of fighting, the great majoritybegan to desire absolute freedom from British rule. 13. One colony after another instructed its delegatesto vote for independence. When the unanimous con-sent of the thirteen colonies in rebellion had been se-cured, the Continental Co

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