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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?

— Jefferson Davis Speech (1861)

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

We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence - and that, or extermination, we will have.

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