Not enriches them,Had the South permitted her property, her constitutional rights and her liberties to be surreptitiously taken from her without resistance and made no moan, would she not have lost her honor with them? If the alternative were between such a loss and armed resistance, is it surprising that she preferred the latter?
But leaves us poor indeed.
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battles is all that is left us.”
So said and thought Patrick Henry, in reply to the British exactions upon the colonies.
So thought, too, the people of the Confederate States, and they did fight.
They waged a war for which history has no parallel against such odds in resources and numbers.
Borne down by odds, against which it was almost vain to contend, we were bound to submit, and they have taken from us that which, in my opinion, it will be found
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