May 29, 2023

Jefferson Davis Statue at The Alabama Capitol

 

A column in The Tampa Bay Times discusses the cause of the American Civil War, including quotes from representatives of the states that seceded.

 "Alabama Commissioner Stephen F. Hale wrote a public letter to the governor of Kentucky on December 27, 186,...  The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in November 1860 was nothing less than “an open declaration of war” on the white people of the South. And “the triumph of this new theory of government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans.”

 

SOURCE: HERE.

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