The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. - Jefferson Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
- Jefferson Davis
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, autho… - Jefferson Davis
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, autho…
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, route… - Jefferson Davis
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, route…
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destruc… - Jefferson Davis
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destruc…
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in natu… - Jefferson Davis
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in natu…
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sac… - Jefferson Davis
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sac…
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation. - Jefferson Davis
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.
Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again. - Jefferson Davis
Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever. - Jefferson Davis
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
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