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Quotes 6

"I am sorry that the movements of our armies cannot keep pace with the expectations of the editors of the papers. I know they can arrange things satsifactory to themselves on paper. I wish they could do so in the field."
- Robert E. Lee-

"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.
-Jefferson Davis-

Philip Stanhope Wormsley, of Oxford University, in the dedication of his translation of Homer's Illiad to General Robert E Lee, "the most stainless of earthly commanders, and, exept in fortune, the greatest."

"Thy Troy is fallen, thy dear land
Is mard beneath the spoiler's heel;
I cannot trust my trembling hand
To write the things I feel."

"Ah realm of tombs; but let her bear
This blazon to the end of time:
No nation rose so white and fair,
None fell so pure of crime."

"When certain sovereign and independent states form a union with limited powers for some general purpose, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal an insurrection? If so, then of what advantage is a compact of union to states? Within the Union are oppressions and grievances; the attempt to go out brings war and subjugation. The ambitious and aggressive states obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the states.

Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as 'rebels', as if they revolted against a master, and a war of subjugation is begun. If this action is once tolerated, where will it end? Where is constitutional liberty? What strength is there in bills of rights-in limitation of power? What new hope for mankind is to be found in written constitutions, what remedy which did not exist under kings of emperors? If the doctrines thus announced by the government of the United States are conceded, then look through either end of the political telescope, and one sees only an empire, and the once famous Declaration of Independence trodden in the dust of as a "glittering generality," and the compact of the union denounced as a 'flaunting lie.'"
-Jefferson Davis-

"Any reasonable creature may know, if willing, that
the North hates the Negro, and that until it was
convenient to make a pretence that sympathy with him
was the cause of the war, it hated the abolitionists
and derided them up hill and down dale�As to Secession
being Rebellion, it is distinctly possible by state
papers that Washington considered it no such thing �
that Massachusetts, now loudest against it, has itself
asserted its right to secede, again and again."

-Charles Dickens-

"But the mass of respectable Northerners, though they may be willing to pay, do not very naturally feel themselves called upon to give their blood
in a war of aggression, ambition, and conquest; for this war is essentially
a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now
engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in
endeavouring to conquer the South; but the more I think of all that I have
seen in the Confederate States of the devotion of the whole population, the
more I feel inclined to say with General Polk, 'How can you subjugate
such a people as this?' and even supposing that their extermination were a
feasible plan, as some Northerners have suggested, I never can believe
that in the nineteenth century the civilised world will be condemned to
witness the destruction of such a gallant race."

-Arthur J. L. Fremantle-

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