"Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn……" — 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, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation...Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come."
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Jefferson Davis
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53 Quotes by Jefferson Davis
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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by…
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The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future…
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The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who…
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African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
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If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on…
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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God…
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The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains…
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by…
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Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are…
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Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a…
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Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or…
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