Authors: Jefferson Davis

1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1861): Confederate States of America

Source: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy: Including the Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865 (Nashville: United States Publishing Company, 1906), 32–36, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112102583558;view=1up;seq=62. Gentlemen of the Congress of the

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1860–1877

African Church Speech

The President said that if he were there to assist in celebrating some great and decisive victory to our arms, or in hailing the establishment of peace, he should have

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