To the People of Mississippi. 

I have been induced by the persistent misrepresentation of popular
Addresses made by me at the North and the South during the year 1858,
to collect them, and with extracts from speeches made by me in the
Senate in 1850, to present the whole in this connected form; to the
end that the case may be fairly before those by whose judgment I am
willing to stand or fall. 

Jefferson Davis. 

Extracts From Speeches in U.S.  Senate. 

In the Senate of the United States, May 8, 1850, in presenting the
Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi: 

It is my opinion that justice will not be done to the South, unless
from other promptings than are about us here--that we shall have no
substantial consideration offered to us for the surrender of an equal