Not only would the property and estates of vanquished rebels be confiscated, but they would be divided and distributed among our African bondsmen." Even the extravagance and absurdity of the foregoing declarations were outdone in other parts of the address.

These senators and representatives--not ignorant men themselves--presumed so far upon the ignorance of their constituents as to assure them that "our enemies with a boastful insolence unparalleled in the history of modern civilization have threatened not only our subjugation, but some of them have announced their determination if successful in this struggle to deport our entire white population, and supplant it with a new population drawn from their own territory and from European countries.
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Think of it! That we the descendants of a brave ancestry who wrested from a powerful nation by force of arms the country which we inhabit--bequeathed to us by them, and upon which we have been born and reared; that we should be uprooted from it and an alien population planted in our stead is a thought that should inspire us with undying hostility to an enemy base enough to have conceived it." The white population of the eleven Confederate States was at that time between five and six millions.