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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 232 (search)
Doc. 220. Mr. Cardwell's resolutions, offered in the Tennessee Legislature, December 10, 1861. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, As its unanimous sense, that any and all propositions of the Congress of the (so-called) United States of America to reconstruct a Union which they have prostituted to the base purposes of annihilating the liberties, trampling upon the rights, destroying the lives, and plundering the people of the Confederate States, thus driving them to the assertion of their independence and the formation of a new Confederacy, for the maintenance of their inalienable rights and the preservation of their sovereignty, is but another form under which our enemies would subjugate the South and reduce us to the despotism of their degraded doctrines, and that we cannot view any such proposition of reconstruction in any other light than as a crowning insult to our intelligence and manhood, to thus approach us after the acts of rapine, murder, and bar