...spokesman, effectually removes it. "The new Constitution (of the Confederacy) has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar...proper status of the negro in our form of civilization Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.'...

...at rest for ever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African slavery. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the...

...recollection of the oldest inhabitant.' " " Last, not least, the new Constitution has put at rcst/orcuer all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, — African Slavery as it cx'ists among us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate...

...recollection * of the oldest inhabitant.' " Last, not least, the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar...civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late nature and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the " rock upon...

...me to allude to one other — though last, not least : the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar...African Slavery as it exists among us — the proper statiu of the negro in our form of civilization. This wot the immediate cause of the late rupture and...

...me to allude to one other — though last, not least : the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar...This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution." Mr. Stephens admitted that "the prevailing ideas entertained" by Thomas Jefferson...

...has put at rest forever all the agitating question relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us— the proper status...in our form of civilization. This was the immediate caute of the late rupture and pretent revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this,...

..."institution," which is what they call it. African slavery as it exists among us, the proper status of a Negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the date rupture and present revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Thomas Jefferson and most...

...the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists amongst us — the proper status of the negro in our form...cause of the late rupture and present revolution. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the...

...relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists amongst us — the proper statut of the negro in our form of civilization. This was...cause of the late rupture and present revolution. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the...