Henry L. Benning Quotes

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The Republican party is the permanent, dominant party at the North, and it is vain to think that you can put it down. It is true that the Republican party hates slavery, and that it is to be the permanent, dominant party at the North; and the majority being equivalent to the whole, as I have already stated, we cannot doubt the result.

Henry L. Benning

My next proposition is, that we have a right to argue from the past to the future and to say, that if in the past the North has done this, in the future, if it shall acquire the power to abolish slavery, it will do it.

Henry L. Benning

Is it true, then, that unless there had been a separation from the North, slavery would be abolished in Georgia? I address myself to the proofs of that case.

Henry L. Benning

We will be completely exterminated, and the land will be left in the possession of the blacks, and then it will go back into a wilderness and become another Africa or St. Domingo.

Henry L. Benning

Henry L. Benning

Henry L. Benning

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Born: April 2, 1814

Died: July 10, 1875 (aged 61)

Bio: Henry Lewis Benning was a general in the Confederate States Army, a strong supporter of the Confederate States of America's rebellion against the Union, and a devout defender of slavery in the United States.

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