“ To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of th… Jefferson Davis
“ 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. Jefferson Davis
“ The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. Jefferson Davis
“ If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. Jefferson Davis
