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.


Speech to the Virginia Convention (1861)

Henry L. Benning Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...