e sure that the former issues are really dead before you bury them.
R.L. Dabney
And everyone knows that there was enough theological expertise on General Jackson's staff to form the faculty of a Presbyterian
seminary . . .
M.E. Bradford
Soldiers, let us humble ourselves before the Lord our God, asking through Christ the forgiveness of our sins, beseeching the aid of the
God of our forefathers in the defence of our homes and our liberties, thanking him for his past blessings and imploring their continuance
upon our cause and our people.
Robert E. Lee
Owing to the false opinion of his own excellence which every person entertains, there is no one who patiently endures that others
should rule over him . . . The Apostle cuts off, by a single word, all disputes of this kind, by demanding that all who live "under the yoke"
shall submit to it willingly.
John Calvin
It is quite clear that these men who founded the Southern Presbyterian Church saw in abolitionism something far more significant
than a mere protest against slavery as an institution. They saw it as a continuation of the French Revolution, motivated by the same
philosophy and pursuing the same ends. They saw it primarily as a humanistic revolt against Christianity and the world and life view of the
Scriptures. They saw in it the expression of a democratic philosophy which left no place for a sovereign God and accorded all prestige to a
sovereign humanity . . . Thornwell, Dabney, and their contemporaries saw in abolitionism a threat to Calvinism, to the Constitution and to the
proper ordering of society. They properly read abolitionism as a revolt against the biblical conception of society and a revolt against the
doctrine of divine sovereignty in human affairs.
C. Gregg Singer
To meet the arguments of these aspiring Amazons fairly, one must teach, with Moses, the Apostle Paul, John Hampden, Washington,
George Mason, John C. Calhoun, and all that contemptible rabble of "old fogies," that political society is composed of "superiors, inferiors,
and equals"; that while all these bear an equitable moral relation to each other, they have very different natural rights and duties; that
just government is not founded on the consent of the individuals governed, but on the ordinance of God.
R. L. Dabney
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and
form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable -- a most sacred right -- a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the
world . . . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of
such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the territory as they inhabit.
Abraham Lincoln
