"Whether by the House or by the People,……" — Jefferson Davis
"Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you the question of whether you will permit the government to pass into the hands of your avowed and implacable enemies... such a result would be a species of revolution by which the purposes of the Government would be destroyed and the observance of its mere forms entitled to no respect. In that event, in such manner as should be most expedient, I should deem it your duty to provide for your safely outside the Union of those who have shown the will, and would have acquired the power, to deprive you of your birthright and reduce you to worse than the Colonial dependence of your fathers."
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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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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana,…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
— Susan Jacoby
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The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's…
— Unknown Author
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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