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We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1808
Born: June 3
Died: 1889
Died: December 6
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Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
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Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.
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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, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.
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A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
Jefferson Davis
The past is dead let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
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Be not haughty with the humble be not humble with the haughty.
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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 the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
Jefferson Davis
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man its origin was Divine decree.
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
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Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.
Jefferson Davis
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
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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 affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.
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If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.
Jefferson Davis
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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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
Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
Jefferson Davis
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
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A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
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