Zitat des Tages von Jefferson Davis:
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
All we ask is to be let alone.
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.
Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
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.
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.
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
