1861 Civil War newspaper 1st CONFEDERATE CONGRESS begins in MONTGOMERY Alabama

Description

1861 pre-Civil War newspaper with a inside-page detailed report annoucing that the
Confederate Congress
, meeting in in MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Creates the Bureau of Lighthouses as part of  the CONFEDERATE TREASURY -
inv # 7Q-214
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
New York Herald
(NY) dated March 13, 1861 with fantastic CONFEDERATE SECESSION and Organization history, as the CONFEDERATE STATES of AMERICA, continues to form itself.
The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and "permanent" legislative assembly of the Confederate States of America that existed from 1861 to 1865. Its actions were for the most part concerned with measures to establish a new national government for the Southern "revolution", and to prosecute a war that had to be sustained throughout the existence of the Confederacy. At first, it met as a provisional congress both in Montgomery, Alabama and Richmond, Virginia.
The precursor to the permanent legislature was the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, which helped establish the Confederacy as a state. Following elections held in states, refugee colonies and army camps in November 1861, the 1st Confederate Congress met in four sessions. The 1863 elections led to many former Democrats losing to former Whigs. The 2nd Confederate Congress met in two sessions following an intercession during military campaign season beginning November 7, 1864 and ending on March 18, 1865, shortly before the downfall of the Confederacy.
All legislative considerations of the Confederate Congress were secondary to winning the war for independence from the United States. These included debates whether to pass Jefferson Davis war measures and deliberations on alternatives to administration proposals, both of which were often denounced as discordant, regardless of the outcome. Congress was often held in low regard regardless what it did. Amidst early battlefield victories, few sacrifices were asked of the Southern people, and Congress and President Davis were in essential agreement.
During the second half of the war, the Davis administration’s program became more demanding, and Congress responded by becoming more assertive in the law-making process even before the 1863 midterm elections. It began to modify administration proposals, substitute its own measures and sometimes it refused to act at all. While it initiated few major policies, it often concerned itself with details of executive administration. Despite its devotion to Confederate independence, it was criticized by supporters of Davis for occasional independence, and censored in the dissenting press for not asserting itself more often.
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