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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08981.02 |
| From Archive Folder | Confederate acts and resolutions |
| Title | Resolutions respecting the present war, and the causes leading thereto |
| Date | 20 January 1863 |
| Document Type | Military document |
| Content Description | Confederate resolution proclaiming the South will "forever remain free," condemning the Emancipation Proclamation, and blaming the Civil War on Northern fanatics, "the Black Republican party." States "The war now existing between the Confederate States and the United States, had its origins from bad and wicked fanatics, known as the abolition party...they not only made war upon the institution of slavery, but went so far as to proclaim the equality of the black with the white race, thus adding the grossest insults to the past and contemplated injuries to the Southern people." Lincoln's proclamation is responsible for "creating a servile insurrection, and instigating the indiscriminate butchery of helpless women and children." |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Republican Party Presidential Speeches and Proclamations Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation African American History Slavery Abolition Politics Atrocity Women's History Children and Family |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; Children & Family; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |