Ezekiel Kirk

English

9 October, 01:50

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this speech.

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

" ... no portion of the speech to which I have referred was received with more marked approbation by the Democracy there assembled than the sentiment which has just been cited."

" ... we may expect that the election will be so conducted as probably to defeat a choice by the people and devolve the election upon the House."

"I would cling tenaciously to our constitutional Government, seeing as I do in the fraternal Union of equal States the benefit to all and the fulfillment of that high destiny which our fathers hoped for ..."

"When I have seen it surrounded by the flags of foreign countries, the pulsations of my heart have beat quicker with every breeze ..."