Speech #880196330

I said extemporaneously at that time that the compulsory approach of a civil rights bill was contrary to the Christian philosophy of brotherly love and cited as an illustration of a correct approach the attitude of the immortal Stonewall Jackson to the subject of slavery. Stonewall Jackson was born and reared in a simple home in an area of Virginia. known in the Revolutionary period as West Augusta. which extended throughout West Virginia and Kentucky to the Mississippi River. That section of Virginia was settled primarily by ScotchIrish immigrants of the Presbyterian faith who had come to Virginia in search of religious. political. and economic freedom. They had no slaves and they were bitterly opposed to slavery. In 1860 in that section of Virginia. which later became the State of West Virginia. there was solid support for Gov.