Jefferson Davis Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

  Jefferson Davis

  Men, Law, Doe

• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  Jefferson Davis

  Together, Slavery, Unions

• It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

  Jefferson Davis

  Southern, United States, Constitution

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