Jefferson Davis Quotes About Civil War
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Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.
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For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.
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The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
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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.
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Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.
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The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.
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A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
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If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.
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Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.
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A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
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Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
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Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
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The authors of all our misfortune.
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Jefferson Davis
- Born: June 3, 1808
- Died: December 6, 1889
- Occupation: Former President of the Confederate States of America
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