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[B]Confederate States of America[/B][/CENTER]

[B]Excerpts from an Address to Congress,[/B]

My friends, Southerners, and countrymen, lend me your ears. For it has been a week - seven entire days - since Mr. Lincoln ordered the shedding of our own blood on our own soil, and I mean to meet him in kind! [B]I am here to ask this Congress, convened here today, to take immediate action in declaring war against the United States of America.[/B]
One week ago today, at the Battle of Manassas, we all lost some of our friends, brothers, sons, or cousins. They fought bravely for their country, and now we must fight bravely for their legacy. We must not let what they fought for die in vain, my friends! We have estimates that the Confederacy lost between 1500 and 2500 good, young men only one week ago today.
One week ago today, we entered into a battle for the very Soul of the South. Will we let Mr. Lincoln abolish our way of life and slaughter our brave men? If we do nothing, then that is what shall happen. And the events that transpired one week ago today shall mean nothing. And it will be blood on our hands in the history books, my friends. If we do nothing, it is us that smear the image of those who died only one week ago today.
One week ago today is when we should have declared war, but it is not too late.

The Battle of Manassas was not the only battle that stains Mr. Lincoln's hands red. The Battle of New Orleans was a masterful victory by our own navy against a far superior force which attempted to put a stranglehold on us.
The United States of America may have blocked all of our ports to the Atlantic, but we still hold New Orleans. We fought back tyrants at New Orleans. Let it be a sign of things to come, my friends. I do believe that what happened at New Orleans was God foreshadowing to the whole world our victory against tyranny.
In this Glorious and Holy fight against tyranny, we have friends in Great Britain and France. I can tell you with certainty that Great Britain seeks to help us end the blockade of our ports and end the vice grip the United States had put on the Confederate States.

I say all of this to persuade you of the necessity of immediate action. [B]Again, I plead Congress to make a declaration of war against the United States of America.[/B] Thank you, gentlemen.

[B]- Jefferson Davis, Provisional President of the Confederate States of America[/B] [I](on July 28, 1861)[/I]

[B]Later that day, the Congress of the Confederate States of America declared war on the United States of America.[/B]