Political Quotes

“I have a privileged resolution at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: H. Res. ___ Whereas on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first State to secede from the Union; Whereas on January 9, 1861, Mississippi seceded from the Union, stating in its ``Declaration of Immediate Causes'' that ``[o]ur position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world.''; Whereas on February 9, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with a group of 11 States as a purported sovereign nation and with Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as its president; Whereas on March 11, 1861, the Confederate States of America adopted its own constitution; Whereas on April 12, 1861, the Confederate States of America fired shots upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, effectively beginning the Civil War; Whereas the United States did not recognize the Confederate States of America as a sovereign nation, but rather as a rebel insurrection, and took to military battle to bring the rogue states back into the Union; Whereas on April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S.…”