The defining Southern/Confederate quotes

[Nelson3]

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"I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."
<div>-- Abraham Lincoln, upon his replacement of General Burnside with General Hooker for command of the Army of the Potomac

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The North's Hateful Triumph </font>
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<div>From: bernhard1848@att.net </font></div>
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<div>The British sided with the American South for not only pecuniary reasons,
they clearly saw the South exercising the same drive for self-determination
against Lincoln as Washington’s rebels had exercised against George III.
They also feared for their remaining Canadian possession in North America, and
this fear drove the Canadians toward confederation as a protection against the
now-powerful armies of the radical North. </font></div>
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<div>Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
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<div>The North’s Hateful Triumph: </font></div>
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<div>“The South is doomed. With the surrender of General Lee ends not indeed the
possibility of military defense, still less that of desperate popular
resistance, but the hope of final success. After four years of war, sustained
with a gallantry and resolution that have few, if any, precedents in history;
after such sacrifices as perhaps no nation ever made in vain; after losses that
have drained the lifeblood of the country; after a series of brilliant
victories, gained under unequaled disadvantages, courage and skill and devotion
have succumbed to brute force; and by sheer power of numbers a race, inferior in
every quality of soldiership and manhood, has prevailed over the bravest and
most united people that ever drew a sword in defense of civil rights and
national independence. </font></div>
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<div>To numbers, and to numbers alone, the North owes its hateful triumph. Its
advantages in wealth and resources, in the possession of the sea and the command
of the rivers, were neutralized by Southern gallantry. In spite of the most
numerous navy in the world, half a dozen Confederate cruisers drove its commerce
from the seas. In defiance of all its power, Southern energy contrived to supply
the armies of the Confederacy with everything of which they stood in need.
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<div>When the war broke out, the North had every kind of military stores in
abundance…the South had scarcely a cannon, had but few rifles, still fewer
swords and bayonets, and not a single foundry or powder factory. All these
deficiencies were supplied by the foresight of the Confederate government and
daring of the Confederate armies. The routed forces of the North supplied
artillery and ammunition, rifles and bayonets to the Southerners. The cannon
that thundered against Gettysburg, the shot which crushed the brave mercenaries
of Burnside on the slopes above Fredericksburg came for the most part from
Northern arsenals. </font></div>
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<div>No Southern failure is attributed to the want of arms and powder; no
Federal success was won by the enormous advantages which the North enjoyed in
its military stores and its open ports. Had these been the only odds in its
favor, long ago would the Federal government have taken refuge at Boston or New
York and every inch of Southern soil have been free from the step of the
invader. Numbers, and numbers alone, have decided the struggle.” </font></div>
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<div>When we compare the respective numbers belonging to free and despotic
States, when we count up the overwhelming numerical superiority of despotisms,
legitimate and democratic, over all the constitutional countries combined, we
can but feel that the fall of the Confederacy is a presage of evil for the cause
of liberty and the future of mankind.” </font></div>
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<div>(English Sentiment for the South, Methodist Review, 1867, Confederate
Veteran Magazine, February 1921, page 47)

</font></div>"Now what are we fighting for? We are fighting for the idea of race." The Daily Richmond Enquirer, November 1864
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</div>Edited by: Nelson3

[Michael]

Quote of the day:

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. – Robert E. Lee

http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/...11/12/22/duty/

[Nelson4]

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"Your requisition is illegal, unconstitutional, revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical, and cannot be complied with."
-- Claiborne Jackson, Missouri Governor in response to Abraham Lincoln's call for troops in 1861

http://scvcamp229.org/quotes.html