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| Monday April 29, 1861 |
The second session of the Provisional Congress of the
Confederate States of America is meeting in Montgomery.
President Davis addresses the Congress.
He states " We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest
solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any
sacrifice save that of honor and independence; we seek no
conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the
States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be
let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now
attempt our subjugation by arm."