“I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination.” ~ Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis never mentioned the word slavery in his inaugural address. Generals Lee, Jackson, Beauregard and Stuart were all opposed to slavery. For what were they fighting? The South was actually fighting to uphold the Constitution, states’ rights and limited central government, based on Jeffersonian principles of a free republic. Robert E. Lee said, “There are but few in this age of enlightenment who will not acknowledge that slavery, as an institution, is a moral and political evil.” — withJason Jadloski.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:45:59 +0000
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