The Quotable Jefferson Davis: A Call For Unity

 

"The past is dead; let us bury it's dead, its hopes and aspirations;
before you lies the future.

Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling,
and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about 
a consummation devoutly to be wished...a reunited country."
-Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Finis Davis

(June 3, 1808-December 6, 1889)

President of the Confederate States of America
Former U.S. Secretary of War
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