Vicksburg Is The Nail Head That Holds

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.

Obstacles May Retard, But They Cannot Long Prevent The Progress Of A Movement Sanctified By Its Justice, And Sustained By A Virtuous People .

Tradition Usually Rests Upon Something Which Men Did Know; History Is Often The Manufacture Of The Mere Liar.

The Principle For Which We Contend Is Bound To Reassert Itself, Though It May Be At Another Time And In Another Form.

African Slavery, As It Exists In The United States, Is A Moral, A Social, And A Political Blessing.