Question

40 points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which excerpt from Jefferson Davis’s speech to the Mississippi Legislature best expresses a major theme of his speech?


“…whenever a Northern army should be assembled to march for the subjugation of the South, they would have a battle to fight at home before they passed the limits of their own State…”


“For many of the best years of my life I have followed that flag and upheld it on fields where if I had fallen it might have been claimed as my winding sheet.”


“Absurd as all this may seem to you… I have reason to believe that it has been inculcated to no small extent in the Northern mind.”


“In the language of the venerated Calhoun I consider the disruption of the Union as a great though not the greatest calamity.”

Answer 1

I think its about defending slavery and advocating secession if any abolitionist becomes president

Answer 2

“For many of the best years of my life I have followed that flag and upheld it on fields where if I had fallen it might have been claimed as my winding sheet.”

Step-by-step explanation:

This is the excerpt from Jefferson Davis's speech to the Mississippi Legislature that best expresses a major theme of the speech. In this text, we learn that Jefferson Davis has always greatly appreciated and admired the nation. He is reluctant to secede, and would prefer it if the colonies remained together. This is expressed in this sentence. In this sentence, Davis tells us that for many years he has defended his country and that he loves and values the flag and everything it symbolizes.