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.

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the price of our current war is high; it costs money and it costs lives.

but it does not cost our pride. it does not cost the guilt that would arise from knowing that we did nothing to intervene while our neighboring nations fell to despotic leaders.

it does not cost the terror of knowing that our allies are unstable. it does not cost the fear that we, too, will be next to fall.

which sentence most accurately explains why the speaker's use of the parallel structure is effective in this passage?

a. it underscores that disagreement will not be tolerated and will be dealt with swiftly.

b. it makes the speaker seem like a decisive and capable leader.

c. it emphasizes reasons to fight and inspires listeners to aid the war effort.

d. it establishes the speaker's credibility by acknowledging the difficulties of war.