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Excerpts from "An Address to the Citizens of Alabama, on the Constitution and Laws of the Confederate States of America" by Robert H. Smith.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the address Smith comments on the recent election of Lincoln; describes the objectives and administration of the new Confederate government; gives a historical and religious defense of slavery; commends the new government's prohibition of the foreign slave trade; and discusses the reasons for secession: "We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel....We have now placed our domestic institution, and secured its rights unmistakably, in the Constitution; we have sought by no euphony to hide its name--we have called our negroes 'slaves,' and we have recognized and protected them as persons and our rights to them as property." He believes that the Confederacy will be allowed to coexist peacefully with the United States: "In my opinion, we shall have no war."
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600 Ppi Tiff
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1861 1861
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