On States Rights, Slavery and the underlying causes of the Civil War -
David Hunter
“ You say you are fighting for liberty. Yes, you are fighting for liberty-liberty to keep 4,000,000 of your fellow-beings in ignorance and degradation; liberty to separate parents and children, husband and wife, brother and sister; liberty to steal the products of their labor, exacted with many a cruel lash and bitter tear; liberty to seduce their wives and daughters, and to sell your own children into bondage; liberty to kill these children with impunity when murder cannot be proven by one of pure white blood. This is the kind of liberty-the liberty to do wrong-which Satan, chief of the fallen angels, was contending for when he was cast into hell.”
Extract of a letter from Commanding, The Dept. of the South, written at Headquarters, Hilton Head, SC
April 23, 1863 to Jefferson Davis , Richmond, Va
