"Your dispatch is received, and...I have to say in reply, that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the States of the South, as a violation of the Constitution, and as a gross usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina."--Governor Ellis (to Lincoln) 1861
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We support those who can put individual ego aside and to defend the Cause of the Old South, and those who are pledged to defend our ancestors and the Cause for which they fought.
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