[Colt .45]

"But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other -- though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."

Says you. Same old yadda-yadda! Nothing new to see here folks, time to move along.

[Non-Sequitur]

Says you.

Says Alexander Stephens, vice president of your confederate states. Don't you think he would know?