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“ 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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If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

~ Jefferson Davis

Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care.

~ Jefferson Davis

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

~ Jefferson Davis

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

~ Jefferson Davis