Will Davis
Will Davis
government league abuse
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.
war smell southern
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.
arena strife contests
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
men law giving
Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
agency government office
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 ...
majority-rule political politics
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
law forever violence
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
people religion gentleman
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.
blessing political slavery
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
earth crushed stills
Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
government class rights
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.
war sadness inheritance
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
government people ends
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
war fall fighting
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.