In his speech to the mississippi legislature, what does davis mean by this statement: “we shall then bear to the federal government the relation our colonial fathers did to the british crown”?

This particular speech was given by the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis at the Mississippi Capitol on December of 1862. At this particular time, the great civil war was raging between the American North and South and this speech is intended to reinforce the belief of Mississippians in the righfulness and importance of the secession and independence movement of the South and the Confederacy. At a time when Northern forces were strongly advancing on Southern strategic points, when southern forces were seeing and suffering the power of the armies of the North, Davis calls upon the effervecent feelings of patriotism and love for the way of living of the Southern states to embolden men to join the fight, for southerners, especially Mississippians, to not fail to support the cause in any way they can.

One emphasis that Davis makes in his speech is on the importance of independence both from the subjugation of the North and also from the need for foreign powers to support the cause. And when he compares the relationship that would result when the Confederate State frees itself from the federal government to the freedom gained by the Union from Britain, what Davis is doing to remind Mississippians that there will be absolutely no connection between the North and the South, just as the Founding Fathers severed all connection to the British crown.

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."

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