The Contest Is Not Over,

I Worked Night And Day For Twelve Years To Prevent The War, But I Could Not. The North Was Mad And Blind, Would Not Let Us Govern Ourselves, And So The War Came.

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.

Vicksburg Is The Nail Head That Holds The South’s Two Halves Together.

Let The Gentleman Go To Revelation To Learn The Decree Of God - Let Him Go To The Bible. . . . I Said That Slavery Was Sanctioned In The Bible, Authorized, Regulated, And Recognized From Genesis To Revelation. . . . Slavery Existed Then In The Earliest Ages, And Among The Chosen People Of God; And In Revelation We Are Told That It Shall Exist Till The End Of Time Shall Come. You Find It In The Old And New Testaments - In The Prophecies, Psalms, And The Epistles Of Paul; You Find It Recognized - Sanctioned Everywhere.

Be Not Haughty With The Humble; Be Not Humble With The Haughty.