Speech (1861)
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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?
— Jefferson Davis
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About Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (3 June 1808 – 6 December 1889), the first and only president of the Confederate States. A Democrat and a slave-owner, he and his vice president, Alexander H. Stephens, led the Confederacy against the United States in the American Civil War, before their defeat by the U.S. in May 1865.
About Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (3 June 1808 – 6 December 1889), the first and only president of the Confederate States. A Democrat and a slave-owner, he and his vice president, Alexander H. Stephens, led the Confederacy against the United States in the American Civil War, before their defeat by the U.S. in May 1865.
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