Deadlocked Confederate Congress

[Stryker65]

Remember reading somewhere that the Confederate Congress was deadlocked throughout the war, with one House being more states-rights-oriented with VP Alexander Stephens and his loyalists, and the other House supporting President Davis's nationalistic policies. I can't find much info on this, does anybody know which Houses these were, and what the extent of this deadlock was?

 

[Pollaco]

I'm hoping other replies will clear this up.I'd be just guessing but I would say the Senate was more "anti Davis" than the House. It appears many were proponents of the military but opponents of Davis.But the House had its Davis opponents as well. Especially on Davis' suspension the writ of Habeus Corpus.I'm not trying to sound like a politician by not taking sides or being a "middle of the roader". I honestly don't know the answer. I never seen the numbers broken down.

 

[RedRover]

Mr. Pollard, of the Richmond Examiner noted post-war of Pres. Davis...

Confederate Congressman from Tennessee Henry S. Foote commented post-war:

Mr. Foote says there was no opposition party in the Confederate legislature, but he supplied an opposition to the Davis administration so far as he could (he having a long-standing dislike of Davis), and this opposition was, to some, the lone interesting subject debated in the Congress, which otherwise was described as "dull..."

 

[Library Lady]

This article might be of some interest. It is JSTOR Open Access so you can read it directly. Please note that it is from 1916.

Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Congress on JSTOR

Robert G. Cleland, Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Congress, The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Jan., 1916), pp. 213-231

www.jstor.org

Just a reminder that Mr. Pollard (and his newspaper) might not exactly be a disinterested observer.

Edward Alfred Pollard, The Richmond Examiner, and the Confederacy

The subject of "Edward Alfred Pollard, the Richmond Examiner, and the Confederacy" was chosen because a thesis on Pollard would not be complete without reference to the Richmond Examiner of which he was a co-editor during a good part of the Civil War, and both of these bear heavily on upon the...

digitalrepository.unm.edu

 

[Pollaco]

Edward Alfred Pollard was co editor of the Richmond Examiner. The other half of the editorial staff was John Moncure Daniel. He was very "anti Davis" from what I've read about him. Do you think his partner would be strictly middle of the road and not partisan or non prejudicial? Who knows, maybe he was.