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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Speech of President Davis. (search)
irit of that declaration which rests the right to govern upon the consent of the governed, but the wickedness of the North would entail war upon the country. The present war waged against the rights of a free people was unjust, and the fruit of the evil passions of the North. In the progress of the war those evil passions have been brought out and developed; and so far from resulting with such a people — a people whose ascendants Cromwell had gathered from the bogs and fens of Ireland and Scotland--a people whose intolerance produced discord and trouble wherever they went — who persecuted Catholics, Episcopalians, and every other sect that did not subscribe to their bigoted and contracted notions.--who hung witches, and did a thousand other things calculated to make them forever infamous — the President was emphatic in his declaration that under no circumstances would be consent to reunion. He drew a glowing picture of the horrors of war, and the ravages of the enemy; and while <