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[B]Confederate States of America[/B][/CENTER]

[B]Excerpts from an Address to Congress[/B]

Proclamation Ninety-Three. That, gentlemen, is Abraham Lincoln showing his true colors. He has shown the world that he is a tyrant. He claims he wants to uphold the the Constitution our forefathers fought for, but he violates it with this proclamation. This man who was made President of the United States might very well be called Tyrant of the United States!

I have nothing to give but blood, toil, sweat, and tears, gentlemen. It is what I ask you to offer; it is what I ask every man in this nation to offer.
Blood. Spilled in the Stand of the Thousand and elsewhere.
Toil. The struggles are soldiers face day in and day out fighting these tyrants.
Sweat. The hard work that fuels this nation and keeps it going forward.
Tears... Tears. Have you shed them, gentlemen? I know I have. I shed them now. It is truly a dark hour for liberty. The Union is in our land. And they seem to be winning. We have been backed into a corner, gentlemen, and we must come out swinging.

I, personally, have full confidence that if every one of us... Every person here and in the fields of war and at home, if we all do what we must and what is necessary, if nothing is neglected and the best of arrangements are made, as I believe I have made, then we shall overcome. We shall ride out this war and outlive this monstrosity of tyranny to our north. If we must weather this storm for years or if we must stand alone, then we shall do that with God at our back. The Thousand I've spoken of before were not even Christian men - many of them were American Indians - and yet even they had God at their back! Such is the strength of our cause! These States, convened together in a Confederacy and assembled in a national government in Charleston, South Carolina, are linked together by blood. By toil. By sweat. By tears. We will defend to the death our way of life or we shall die trying!
Even though broad swaths of our land have fallen and may fall into the grip of the Union and be placed under its tyrannical rule, we shall not give up and we shall not give in. We shall fight in Virginia and Tennessee, in Arkansas and Mississippi, we shall fight on the seas and in the rivers, we shall fight with growing revelry, we shall defend our nation, whatever the cost may be. If we must, we shall even fight in our own fields of harvest and in the cities we dwell in; we shall never surrender, and if several of our states fall to this tyranny, which I fear may happen, then I have faith that at least one State here shall keep fighting this good fight! I have faith that at least one State among us all will keep our way of life sustained like the Israelites were sustained in their toil, until the Old World, with it's grandeur that has stood the test of time, shall see that it must step forward once again into the New World to help end tyranny here like they once did in France nearly forty years ago.

Gentlemen, I shall not go into the specifics, but let me assure you that preparation for our continuing fight have been made, and I think that we shall, in the second half of this year, see much of our land be returned from the tyranny of the Union.

[B]- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America[/B] [I](on May 30th, 1862)[/I]