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.
B: The athlete went to see a doctor with a broken finger.
C: The player in the middle is the best one on the team.
D: The dogs lounged in the shade beneath the porch.