| Summary: | This article gives the proceedings of the Confederate congress during the twenty-fifth day of its session. That day a delegation from Alabama presented a marble inkstand to the president of the congress, and J. L. M. Curry spoke about the gift's significance and Alabama's industrial potential. William Parish Chilton then spoke about designs for the Confederate flag submitted by students at Tuskegee Female College, and he commented on the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln: "This is the day when our Northern brethren inaugurate their President--the grand gala day which consummates their triumph and enables them to carry on their government without being partakers of what they esteem our sin of African servitude, but which we regard as the God-ordained auxiliary to Christianity and civilization. We bid them God speed, and wish them all the blessings they are capable of enjoying. We are brethren, and since we cannot harmoniously live together let us part in peace. We tender them the olive branch, and upon them will be thrown the terrible responsibility of rejecting it, if it be rejected."
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