Quotes About Confederacy

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift— "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING

A few months later, Everett followed up with another missive repeating the argument that while this war may not be an abolitionist one on the Union's part due to constitutional restraints, it was a proslavery one on the Confederacy's part.

He occupied the very seat once held by Jefferson Davis, who had left the Senate to become the president of the Confederacy. (After the war Davis had been apprehended attempting to flee to Cuba, disguised in his wife's clothing.)

If this book accomplishes anything it will be to have exposed a number of myths about the American dream, to have disabused readers of the notion that upward mobility is a function of the founders' ingenious plan, or that Jacksonian democracy was liberating, or that the Confederacy was about states' rights rather than preserving class and racial distinctions.

Wars are battles of words, not just bullets. From 1861, the Confederacy had the task of demonizing its foe as debased, abnormal, and vile. Southerners had to make themselves feel viscerally superior, and to convince themselves that their very existence depended on the formation of a separate country, free of Yankees.

The old Church is still there, the graveyard, the road--and when the night is dark and windy, who knows who else? —The Phantom Rider of the Confederacy

Harriet, Georgiana, and Bess formed a bond so tight that Harriet would later say it "made it a rule never to conceal anything great or small from each other than concerned ourselves, and never to import anything that concerned our respective friends unless by their desire or consent." These women formed a confederacy of feminine freedom-a freedom they vigorously exercised.