“Our present position...illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established…and when in the judgment of the sovereign States now comprising the Confederacy it [no longer meets] the purposes for which it was ordained,...”
-- Speech, February, 1861
Who delivered this speech in 1861?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
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Jefferson Davis
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