The parties to this conflict are not merely abolitionist and slaveholders. They are atheists, socialists, communists, red Rupublicans, Jacobins, on the one side, and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is a battleground. Christianity and atheism are the combatants and the progress of humanity is at stake.
-James Henley Thornwell
Presbyterian Pastor and Theology Professor
"We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms."
--- President Jefferson Davis - 29 April 1861
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