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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Jefferson Davis. (search)
owing words which he wrote after the secession of South Carolina were chiseled on the pedestal: Does the South really fear that a republican administration could directly or even indirectly interfere in its slave affairs? The South would in this matter be just as safe as in the time of Washington. Or what he wrote on the 4th of May, 1861: I have not the intention of attacking the institution of slavery; I have no legal right, and certainly no inclination to do it, etc., etc. Again, January 10, 1861, Jefferson Davis, like General R. E. Lee, earnestly strove for the reconciliation of the States, and those were not the words of an ambitious, self-seeker; but of a troubled patriotic heart, when he said, What, senators, to-day is the condition of the country? From every corner of it comes the wailing cry of patriots in pleading for the preservation of the great inheritance we derived from our fathers. Is there a senator who does not daily receive letters appealing to him to use even