If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.Jefferson Davis
Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
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All we ask is to be let alone.
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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
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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.
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