Which excerpt from Jefferson Davis’s speech to the Mississippi Legislature best expresses a major theme of his speech?
A- “…whenever a Northern army should be assembled to march for the subjugation of the South, they would have a battle to fight at home before they passed the limits of their own State…”
B-“Absurd as all this may seem to you… I have reason to believe that it has been inculcated to no small extent in the Northern mind.”
C- “In the language of the venerated Calhoun I consider the disruption of the Union as a great though not the greatest calamity.”
D- “For many of the best years of my life I have followed that flag and upheld it on fields where if I had fallen it might have been claimed as my winding sheet.”

Jefferson Davis was an American politician who sided with the Southern Stated during the Civil War, serving as president of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Although he was a slaveholder and shared common interests with other Confederacy leaders, he was reluctant to secession as it is shown in the selected excerpt. Nevertheless, he believed that the States had the right to leave the Union if they ultimately decided to.