Confederacy Quote by Jack Schlossberg

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was…

— Corrine Brown

“The Confederate States of America in 1861 was legally an independent government. The Southern states seceded by popular conventions of the people of each…

— Brion T. McClanahan

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did…

— G. Edward Griffin

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation.…

— Jefferson Davis

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

— Alexander Hamilton

The States acceded to the Union.

— Benjamin Franklin

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

— Daniel Webster

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a…

— Jefferson Davis

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

“The struggle of the Union and Confederate economies to supply and support their armies thus became a reflection of the prewar antagonism between liberal…

— Allen C. Guelzo

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the…

— Daniel Webster

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

— Ron Paul