[Resolutions]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09310 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 11 January 1865 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy
The Confederate House of Representatives, resolving that "the Confederate States are prosecuting the war in which they are engaged for the purpose of establishing their independence as a separate power, and that in so doing they are exercising the natural and inalienable right claimed by them in the revolution of '76…with a sincere conviction of the justice of our cause, and an humble reliance upon the Supreme Ruler of Nations."
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