Let Men Not Ask What The Law

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.

Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than To See A Southerner Apologizing For The Defense We Made Of Our Inheritance.

Let The Gentleman Go To Revelation To Learn The Decree Of God - Let Him Go To The Bible. . . . I Said That Slavery Was Sanctioned In The Bible, Authorized, Regulated, And Recognized From Genesis To Revelation. . . . Slavery Existed Then In The Earliest Ages, And Among The Chosen People Of God; And In Revelation We Are Told That It Shall Exist Till The End Of Time Shall Come. You Find It In The Old And New Testaments - In The Prophecies, Psalms, And The Epistles Of Paul; You Find It Recognized - Sanctioned Everywhere.

The Withdrawal Of A State From A League Has No Revolutionary Or Insurrectionary Characteristic. The Government Of The State Remains Unchanged As To All Internal Affairs. It Is Only Its External Or Confederate Relations That Are Altered. To Term This Action Of A Sovereign A 'rebellion' Is A Gross Abuse Of Language.

The Time For Compromise Has Now Passed, And The South Is Determined To Maintain Her Position, And Make All Who Oppose Her Smell Southern Powder And Feel Southern Steel.