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"Please you post any proof that Confederate administration advocated the wholesale slaughter of Americans in disagreement with them."

Scores of posts have already demonstrated if Southerners refused to take part in the insurrection they were brutally dealt with. Simply review a number of the postings in this thread for ample proof not all in the South favoured full scale rebellion for the protection of Slavery Inc.

"Again, I have no problem with anyone ending slavery.."

Talk is real cheap. Would you, as so many others did, diligently work to end slavery in the South?

"..yet defending President Davis et al is not expressing a desire for slavery."

Here, for example, is a quote from Davis using the Bible to defend the South's Slaveoracy: "It (slavery) was established by decree of Almighty God and is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments from Genesis to Revelation 4."

While on the other hand Southerners Angelina and Sarah Grimke grew up in a slaveowning family where they became convinced that slavery was an evil institution, unlike Davis & his collection of 'Confederates'. Angelina, her husband, Theodore Weld, and her sister, Sarah, fought slavery vigorously by making public speeches and publishing tracts. They even wrote a book documenting slavery's abuses by culling newspapers for information about the treatment of slaves. The book, American Slavery As It Is, sold 100,000 copies in its first year and undoubtedly aided the antislavery cause.

Albert Gallatin Brown, U.S. Senator from Mississippi, speaking with regard to the several filibuster expeditions to Central America stated: "I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason -- for the planting and spreading of slavery."

Senator Robert M. T. Hunter of Virginia: "There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery."

Atlanta Confederacy, 1860: "We regard every man in our midst an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing."

Richmond Enquirer, 1856: "Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves . . . freedom is not possible without slavery."

Lawrence Keitt, Congressman from South Carolina, in a speech to the House on January 25th, 1860: "African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism." Later in the same speech he said, "The anti-slavery party contend that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate Republic of sovereign States."

Methodist Rev. John T. Wightman, preaching at Yorkville, South Carolina: "The triumphs of Christianity rest this very hour upon slavery; and slavery depends on the triumphs of the South . . . This war is the servant of slavery."

# From your home state, the Georgia Constitution of 1861:"The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves." (This is the entire text of Article 2, Sec. VII, Paragraph 3.)

Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, referring to the Confederate government: "Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition." [Augusta, Georgia, Daily Constitutionalist, March 30th, 1861.]

James H. Hammond, Congressman from South Carolina: "Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth."

There are a lot more Pro-slavery 'Confederate' quotes I could list, but you know all of them by heart.