The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, ...

The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

quote by Jefferson Davis
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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