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Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum. By Donald Trump Confederate Respect Flag Time Museum

The only argument you can make against having [Confederate] flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag ... By Whoopi Goldberg Confederate Nazis Flag Argument Make

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. By Alan Keyes Stripes Flag Confederate Stars Symbol

CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY By By Sarah Morgan Dawson Confederate Diary Girls

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. By John Shelton Reed Southerners Southernness Confederate Black Implication

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. By E. O. Wilson Alabaman Heart Work North

For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory ... By Zachary Taylor Union Century Fallen Unshaken Half

There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery. By John Coleman Army Union Confederate Slave Slaves

You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again. By Jeff Foxworthy Confederate South Redneck Holding Money

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. By John Shelton Reed Southern Confederate Movement Flag Suspicion

United we stand, divided we fallJust watch us as we beat ya'll.You say 'brother against brother'?Well, my brother screwed your motherAnd she liked it!We'll kick your shins and break your knee'Cause all you got is Robert E. Lee.Farbs! By Leila Sales Brother Robert United Stand Divided

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. By Margaret Mitchell Southerners Resist Losing

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others. By Jimmy Carter Southerners War Ancestors Hundred Years

I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK. By Jimmy Carter Confederate Minds Ancestors People Battle

While the framers of the United States Constitution were ashamed of slavery and used euphemisms in place of the term "slave", the authors of the Confederate Constitution proudly used the term no less than ten times. By C.l. Gammon Constitution Term United States Confederate

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government. By Ambrose Burnside War Secession Persist Purpose Bloody

I think the best way I can put it," Tom summarized, "was what I was once told that a Confederate prisoner said to his Union captor. The Yank said: 'Why do you fight us so hard, Reb?', and his prisoner replied: 'Because you are here, Yank'. By C.g. Faulkner Tom Confederate Union Summarized Captor

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. By John Shelton Reed Accents Manners Yankee Southern Confederate

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot. By Anson Mount Confederate Colonel Wall Photo Cavalry

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all! By James Longstreet Union Army Entire Kill

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ... By Dean Koontz Southerners Qualities Charm Tragic Fine

It wasn't that he was a Confederate. Everyone in Gatlin County was related to the wrong side in the War Between the States. We were used to that by now. It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. Ethan Carter Wate hadn't, and I couldn't, either. By Kami Garcia Confederate War Gatlin States County

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. By Billy Carter Sir Southern Boy Blue Ribbon

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. By Thomas Moore Freedom Bastard Slaves Waves Fustian

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union. By Woodrow Wilson Union Civil War Consciousness Created

Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart. By Robert Anderson Southern Grievously Brothers Brethren Rebelled

We are these people,wistful, ironical, wilful,who have no part innew-world reconstruction,in the confederacy of labour. By Hilda Doolittle Ironical Peoplewistful Wilfulwho Labour Part

Together, cotton and slavery would ensure that there would be no war. Since southerners did not want an armed conflict, it could only come as a result of northern aggression. But northerners would be insane to attempt to challenge the South militarily. Alexander Stephens, soon to become Vice-President of the Confederacy, was not an ardent secessionist. But he struck the same note as the most extreme secessionist when he declared that there was "not a flourishing village or hamlet in the North, to say nothing of their towns and cities, that does not owe its prosperity to Southern cotton". Moreover "England, with her millions of people and billions upon billions of pounds sterling, could not survive six months without it". By John Ashworth War Slavery Ensure Cotton Secessionist

Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men! By Unknown Southerners Peaches Bourbon People Porches

No one knows how to hold a grudge like a proper Southerner. By Charles M. Blow Southerner Hold Grudge Proper

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs. By Benjamin Butler Southern Wrongs Friend Enemy

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched.Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slaveryin fact, its only enemy. By Rutherford B. Hayes Union Rebellion Army Slavery Semitraitors

Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army.""I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing. By Margaret Mitchell Sir Mrs Meade Indignantly Confederate

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War. By Bryan Stevenson War Civil Montgomery Confederate Memorials

I have referred to this unpleasant part of the history of the South simply for the purpose of calling attention to the great change that has taken place since the days of the "Ku Klux." To-day there are no such organizations in the South, and the fact that such ever existed is almost forgotten by both races. There are few places in the South now where public sentiment would permit such organizations to exist. Chapter By Booker T. Washington South Klux Referred Unpleasant Part

The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln. And so didn't Lincoln use force and violence, and on a massive scale, on behalf of the mystique of the sacred "Union," to prevent the South from seceding? Indeed he did, and on the foundation of mass murder and oppression, Lincoln crushed the South and outlawed the very notion of secession (based on the highly plausible ground that since the separate states voluntarily entered the Union they should be allowed to leave). But not only that: for Lincoln created the monstrous unitary nation-state from which individual and local liberties have never recovered. By Murray N. Rothbard Lincoln Abraham American Great Saint

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. By Abraham Lincoln Union Southern Slaves Eighth Population

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. By Ta-Nehisi Coates Confederate Flag Slavery Attempt Raise

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag. By William R. Ferris Civil War Jim Crow Confederate

I sure am sick of the Civil War. By Flannery O'connor War Civil Sick

Despite your daughter's very inappropriate laughter at such a fine pack of soldiers for the Confederacy, I have come to ask you for her hand in marriage. No, sir! Your pardon, I take that back! I have come to beg you for her hand in marriage! By Heather Graham Confederacy Marriage Hand Daughter Inappropriate

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? By Victor Hugo Civil War Men Brothers Foreign

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. By Corey Reynolds Virginia Richmond Confederacy Born Raised

We were raised Methodists," Sue said. "But we converted to the Confederacy. There wasn't time for both." "War is hell," Ed deadpanned. "And it just might send us there. By Tony Horwitz Methodists Sue Confederacy Raised War

I refuse to believe that Southern pride stems from the pain we've inflicted on others. Southern pride comes from what we've built together. In our music and art and innovation. In the people who honor us by taking our culture out into the world and celebrating it. It comes from people seeking us out, and flocking here to experience all that we know and love. We are all neighbors. We are all Southerners. This is OUR culture, and it means what WE choose it to mean. So, yes. I'll say it again - Southern Pride is good collard greens.Death to the flag.Long live the South. By Jason Latour Southern Pride Refuse Stems Pain

Yes, I'm a real southern boy. By Billy Carter Boy Real Southern

The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy. By Edward Gibbon Enjoyment Germans Treasure Ear Love

First, the defenders of the Confederate cause were, almost without exception, Democrats. Coates cites many malefactors from Senator Jefferson Davis to Senator James Henry Hammond to Georgia Governor Joseph Brown. Yet while identifying these men as southerners and Confederates, Coates omits to identify them as Democrats. By Dinesh D'souza Democrats Coates Senator Exception Brown

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow State Sail Ship Union Strong

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man. By Neil Young Southern Man Change Gonna Fast

While many a Georgian condemned the Yankees for ravaging the countryside, it should be noted that the Confederates often treated Southerners just as badly, if not worse. Major By James Lee Mcdonough Georgian Yankees Confederates Southerners Countryside

I'm still true to my Southern roots. By Randy Jackson Southern Roots True

Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also combined new freedoms, as in other major revolutions, with shock, breakdown, trauma, and tragedy. Neither desired nor accurately anticipated by leaders in the North and South, the war dramatized the failure of the whole American system of political negotiation and compromise that had never weakened the institution of slavery but had supported democratic government for whites for over eighty years. Moreover, the long-term outcome of this revolutionary decision would be determined within a context of sectional hate and bitterness, political revenge, and competing presssures for reconciliation, reunion, and forgiveness. By David Brion Davis American Civil African War Breakdown

I don't care what your daddy told you. I don't care what your grandaddy told you. The South lost. Get over it man! -January, 2003; Opening lecture to Intro to Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College By Mark A. Weitz Care Told January Daddy Opening

The war was not won by any single individual, be it Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant. The Union, as a whole, triumphed. The national army, fielding over two million men in toto, led by legions of staff, company, field, and general officers; a correspondingly potent navy; and a far more powerful economy than its adversary were all needed to ultimately subdue the Confederacy. By Joseph A. Rose Grant Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Individual

Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century. By Bryan Stevenson Montgomery Noble Wonderful Glorious Living

Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual circumstance is discovered to be an established fact, they will usually accept it without rancor or judgment as part of the normal order of things. By Michael Mcdowell Southerners Conduct Easygoing Race Aberrations

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight. By Karen Abbott Southern War Leave Droves Beginning

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance ... living on the memory of crushing defeats By Oscar Wilde South Passionate Beautiful Ruined Music

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States. By J. E. B. Stuart States Mason Dixon Confederate Desire

The next great First Amendment battleground is just six inches high. It is a license plate bearing the Confederate flag. By Anonymous Amendment High Great Battleground Inches

The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South. By Hiram Rhodes Revels England States Men Safety Race

It was the mission of the Confederacy, ordinary whites were told, to carry out God's design for an inferior and dependent race. Slaveholders claimed that owning slaves always entailed a duty and a burden - a duty and burden that defined the moral superiority of the South. And this duty and burden was respected by millions of nonslaveholding whites, who were prepared to defend it with their lives. That, perhaps, was the ultimate meaning of a slave society. By David Brion Davis Confederacy God Duty Ordinary Told

The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience ... A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter. By James Madison States Power Confederacy Experience Defect

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me! By Walt Whitman South Magnetsouth Glistening Perfumed Mettle

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. By Robert Dale Owen Confederate Twofold Forces Composed Deny

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished. By Theodore Roosevelt War Civil Evil Struggle Struggles

It was now the fall of 1956, and nine years after entering Georgia Military Academy as a scrawny "Yankee" from Ohio, I was now considered a "southerner," enrolling at one of the North's most elite institutions. By Ted Turner Yankee Southerner Ohio Georgia Military

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. By William Lloyd Garrison Tremblelet Southern Northern Tremble Oppressors

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds. By John Edwards Confederate South Carolina Flag State

You know, I love the South. By Jon Bernthal South Love

To be a Southerner, or to live Southern, is to feel, well, something special even in the quiet, something fine in itself after all those rebel yells and fight songs have finally faded into silence. By Rick Bragg Southerner Southern Feel Quiet Silence

And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry. By Dorothy Allison Displaced Class Days Feel Nation

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners. By John Shelton Reed Southerners Hunt Possum Baptist Scotch

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. By Bum Phillips War Civil Lost Officials

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party ... By Isham G. Harris Northern States Southern Wanton Systematic

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe. By Aaron A.a. Smith Civil War Troupe Join Reenactment

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy ... If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well. By Florence King Southerners Alchemy Genius Psychological Changed

Southern women are unique; there is no disputing that. We are women born of conflict, our pasts littered with battles and chaos, self-preservation, and protection. We've run plantations during wars, served Union soldiers tea before watching them burn our homes, hidden slaves from prosecution, and endured centuries of watching and learning from our men's mistakes. It is not easy to survive life in the South. It is even more difficult to do it with a smile on your face. We have held these states together, held our dignity and graciousness, held our head high when it was smeared with blood and soot. We are strong. We are Southern. We have secrets and lives you will never imagine. By Alessandra Torre Women Unique Disputing Held Southern

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession. By Emmeline Pankhurst War American Civil Slavery Infancy

I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states! By Sean Hannity Democrat Gop Republicans Confederate States

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. By Henry David Thoreau Southern Northern Overseer Hard Worse

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both. By David Strathairn Amendment Confederate Peace

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. By Amiri Baraka Mississippi Confederate Flag Counterfeit President

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged. By Rick Santorum Confederate Clear Flag Position Address

Earlier in the morning Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines had attacked eastward into the ruins of Shuri Castle and had raised the Confederate flag. When we learned that the flag of the Confederacy had been hoisted over the very heart and soul of Japanese resistance, all of us Southerners cheered loudly. The Yankees among us grumbled, and the Westerners didn't know what to do. Later we learned that the Stars and Stripes that had flown over Guadalcanal were raised over Shuri Castle, a fitting tribute to the men of the 1st Marine Division who had the honor of being first into the Japanese citadel. By Eugene B. Sledge Battalion Company Confederate Shuri Castle

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future. By Richard M. Weaver South Faults Annihilation Virtues Praised

What southern whites further sought, and in a sense demanded, was respect. This the North provided after 1876 in paeans to the courage and dedication of soldiers on both sides. Resentment of northern power, the war's destruction, and Reconstruction continued to be strong in the South, and the work of white-supremacist politicians, army veterans, and southern women turned that resentment into a long-lasting ideology of the Lost Cause. Northerners, for their part, congratulated themselves on winning the war and freeing the slaves; they also took pleasure in feeling superior to the South for many generations, while industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and other social changes diverted much of their attention from wartime issues [184]. By Paul D. Escott Sought Demanded Respect South Whites

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats. By Howard Dean Confederate Trucks Democrats Candidate Guys

These militiamen were what Jackson would call cou rouge. Because they were seriously red of the neck. By Kresley Cole Jackson Rouge Militiamen Call Cou

I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction. By William R. Ferris Southerner Proud Past Aware Accept

We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America. By Douglas Brinkley States War America Civil United

If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy. By Hal Holbrook Man Early Put Shoes Understand

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him. By John Frohnmayer Civil War Confederate Union Forces

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes. By Ezola B. Foster Confederate Flag Classes Symbol Hate

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. By Harper Lee Confederate Atticus Drinkers Naming People

The South must put aside the illusion that she will one day be accepted as an equal in this Northern-dominated union. The South must put aside the illusion that the current government is the legitimate outgrowth of the original American Constitutional Republic. These illusions are used by our conquerors to bind the South to this unequal union. By James Ronald Kennedy South Northerndominated Put Illusion Union

A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."34 By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Georgia Confederate Cherokee Volunteer Afterward

In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and once again led to a spike in the use of Confederate imagery. In fact, it was in the 1950s, after racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, that many Southern states erected Confederate flags atop their state government buildings. By Bryan Stevenson Confederate Civil Imagery Racial Activism

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. By John Brough Things Continent Confederacy Side Folly