If The Confederacy Fails, There Should Be

We Protest Solemnly In The Face Of Mankind, That We Desire Peace At Any Sacrifice, Save That Of Honor.

It Is A Duty We Owe To Posterity To See That Our Children Shall Know The Virtues, And Rise Worthy Of Their Sires.

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.

The Withdrawal Of A State From A League Has No Revolutionary Or Insurrectionary Characteristic. The Government Of The State Remains Unchanged As To All Internal Affairs. It Is Only Its External Or Confederate Relations That Are Altered. To Term This Action Of A Sovereign A 'rebellion' Is A Gross Abuse Of Language.

Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than To See A Southerner Apologizing For The Defense We Made Of Our Inheritance.