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A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

~Jefferson Davis

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The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

~Jefferson Davis

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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

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It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

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It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

~Jefferson Davis

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Leader

Born: June 3rd, 1808

Died: December 6th, 1889

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