A Restitution Of The Union Has Been

Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than To See A Southern Man Apologizing For The Defense We Made Of Our Inheritance. Our Cause Was So Just, So Sacred, That Had I Known All That Has Come To Pass, Had I Known What Was To Be Inflicted Upon Me, All That My Country Was To Suffer, All That Our Posterity Was To Endure, I Would Do It All Over Again.

Let The Gentleman Go To Revelation To Learn The Decree Of God - Let Him Go To The Bible. . . . I Said That Slavery Was Sanctioned In The Bible, Authorized, Regulated, And Recognized From Genesis To Revelation. . . . Slavery Existed Then In The Earliest Ages, And Among The Chosen People Of God; And In Revelation We Are Told That It Shall Exist Till The End Of Time Shall Come. You Find It In The Old And New Testaments - In The Prophecies, Psalms, And The Epistles Of Paul; You Find It Recognized - Sanctioned Everywhere.

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.

Neither Current Events Nor History Show That The Majority Rule, Or Ever Did Rule.

How Idle Is This Prating About Natural Rights As Though Still Containing All That Had Been Forfeited.