Tis been said that I should apply to the United States for a pardon, but repentance must precede the right of pardon, and I have not repented. Rememb… - Jefferson Davis

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

It would grant me much relief to learn your sons were engaged matrimonially to other white men if I was previously faced with the spectre of those same sons wedding negro women, slave or free, and siring negro sons that could presume to claim inheritance of your namesakes and property, or worse, equality with your purer grandchildren.

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.