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From Quotes by Jefferson Davis
- The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal…
- Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time…
- Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that…
- Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If…
- It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
- 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…
- Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages,…
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