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Jefferson Davis' First Inaguaral Address, Feb. 18, 1861
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Posted on 12/14/2010 4:53:34 PM PST by unixman9627

Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the Provisional Government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the duties assigned to me with an humble distrust of my abilities, but with a sustaining confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and to aid me in the administration of public affairs, and an abiding faith in the virtue and patriotism of the people.

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1 posted on 12/14/2010 4:53:38 PM PST by unixman9627
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To: unixman9627

Did a search on the word “slave” and “slavery” an found no occurrences. This probably disappoints the Neo Yankee statist found in the deep recesses of Free Republic.


2 posted on 12/14/2010 5:07:26 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: unixman9627
Our present condition, achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations, illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Right on, President Davis!

(PS: Welcome to FR!)

3 posted on 12/14/2010 5:27:13 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel
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To: central_va
Deep recesses? The Lincoln-loving statists are pretty overt on this site. Damn them all.

Jeff Davis was a True American Hero. I am especially fond of these lines from Davis' second inaugural:

The experiment instituted by our revolutionary fathers, of a voluntary Union of sovereign States for the purposes specified in a solemn compact, and been perverted by those who, feeling power and forgetting right, were determined to respect no law but their own will. The Government had ceased to answer the ends for which it was ordained and established. To save ourselves from a revolution which, in its silent but rapid progress, was about to place us under the despotism of numbers, and to preserve in spirit, as well as in form, a system of government we believed to be peculiarly fitted to our condition, and full of promise for mankind, we determined to make a new association, composed of States homogenous in interest, in policy, and in feeling.

This makes me shiver. "To save ourselves from a revolution... we determined to make a new association." Nothing more American than that.

4 posted on 12/14/2010 5:48:36 PM PST by upstanding
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Thanks, love this site, figured it was time to jump in.


5 posted on 12/14/2010 5:51:06 PM PST by unixman9627
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To: unixman9627

A patriot to his people.....didn’t give a fig about his government.

Good attitude to have...


6 posted on 12/14/2010 5:53:04 PM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: upstanding

Before you “shiver” too much, you might want to that the chief example of the “solemn compact” being violated according to Davis was the failure of the Northern states to enforc the fugitive slave clause.


7 posted on 12/14/2010 5:55:22 PM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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To: upstanding

Before you “shiver” too much, you might want to know that the chief example of the “solemn compact” being violated according to Davis was the failure of the Northern states to enforce the fugitive slave clause.


8 posted on 12/14/2010 5:56:43 PM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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To: unixman9627

Won’t this get you banned here? Establishment conservatives have pretty much surrendered to or even embraced the leftwing view that there was nothing good about the Confederacy and the attempt to resist northern aggression.


9 posted on 12/14/2010 6:05:25 PM PST by Aetius
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Secession Timeline
various sources

[Although very late in the war Lee wanted freedom offered to any of the slaves who would agree to fight for the Confederacy, practically no one was stupid enough to fall for that. In any case, Lee was definitely not fighting to end slavery, instead writing that black folks are better off in bondage than they were free in Africa, and regardless, slavery will be around until Providence decides, and who are we to second guess that? And the only reason the masters beat their slaves is because of the abolitionists.]

Robert E. Lee letter -- "...There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influences of Christianity than from the storm and tempest of fiery controversy. This influence, though slow, is sure. The doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day. Although the abolitionist must know this, must know that he has neither the right not the power of operating, except by moral means; that to benefit the slave he must not excite angry feelings in the master..."
December 27, 1856

Platform of the Alabama Democracy -- the first Dixiecrats wanted to be able to expand slavery into the territories. It was precisely the issue of slavery that drove secession -- and talk about "sovereignty" pertained to restrictions on slavery's expansion into the territories. January 1860

Abraham Lincoln nominated by Republican Party May 18, 1860

Abraham Lincoln elected November 6, 1860

Robert Toombs, Speech to the Georgia Legislature -- "...In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. The country has expanded to meet this growing want, and Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, have received this increasing tide of African labor; before the end of this century, at precisely the same rate of increase, the Africans among us in a subordinate condition will amount to eleven millions of persons. What shall be done with them? We must expand or perish. We are constrained by an inexorable necessity to accept expansion or extermination. Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. All just reasoning, all past history, condemn the fallacy. The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death." November 13, 1860

Alexander H. Stephens -- "...The first question that presents itself is, shall the people of Georgia secede from the Union in consequence of the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States? My countrymen, I tell you frankly, candidly, and earnestly, that I do not think that they ought. In my judgment, the election of no man, constitutionally chosen to that high office, is sufficient cause to justify any State to separate from the Union. It ought to stand by and aid still in maintaining the Constitution of the country. To make a point of resistance to the Government, to withdraw from it because any man has been elected, would put us in the wrong. We are pledged to maintain the Constitution." November 14, 1860

South Carolina December 20, 1860

Mississippi January 9, 1861

Florida January 10, 1861

Alabama January 11, 1861

Georgia January 19, 1861

Louisiana January 26, 1861

Texas February 23, 1861

Abraham Lincoln sworn in as
President of the United States
March 4, 1861

Arizona territory March 16, 1861

CSA Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone speech -- "...last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact." March 21, 1861

Virginia adopted April 17,1861
ratified by voters May 23, 1861

Arkansas May 6, 1861

North Carolina May 20, 1861

Tennessee adopted May 6, 1861
ratified June 8, 1861

West Virginia declares for the Union June 19, 1861

Missouri October 31, 1861

"Convention of the People of Kentucky" November 20, 1861

http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/ordnces.html

[Alabama] "...Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices of president and vice-president of the United States of America, by a sectional party, avowedly hostile to the domestic institutions and to the peace and security of the people of the State of Alabama, preceded by many and dangerous infractions of the constitution of the United States by many of the States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting and manacing a character as to justify the people of the State of Alabama in the adoption of prompt and decided measures for their future peace and security... And as it is the desire and purpose of the people of Alabama to meet the slaveholding States of the South, who may approve such purpose, in order to frame a provisional as well as permanent Government upon the principles of the Constitution of the United States, Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, be and are hereby invited to meet the people of the State of Alabama, by their Delegates, in Convention, on the 4th day of February, A.D., 1861, at the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of consulting with each other as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted and harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most desirable for our common peace and security." [Jan 11, 1861]

[Texas] "...The recent developments in Federal affairs make it evident that the power of the Federal Government is sought to be made a weapon with which to strike down the interests and property of the people of Texas, and her sister slave-holding States, instead of permitting it to be, as was intended, our shield against outrage and aggression..." [Feb 1, 1861]

[Virginia] "...the Federal Government having perverted said powers not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding States..." [Feb 23, 1861]

http://www.csawardept.com/documents/secession/AZ/index.html

[Arizona Territory] "...a sectional party of the North has disregarded the Constitution of the United States, violated the rights of the Southern States, and heaped wrongs and indignities upon their people... That we will not recognize the present Black Republican Administration, and that we will resist any officers appointed to this Territory by said Administration with whatever means in our power." [16 March 1861 -- Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President of the United States on March 4, 1861. The pretext for Arizona's secession was interruption of U.S. postal service.]

10 posted on 12/14/2010 6:06:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Jeff Davis ping.

Still hope you are well, stony.


11 posted on 12/14/2010 6:52:33 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: SunkenCiv

I think your timeline doesn’t quite represent what really happened...it needs to go back to the recession of 1837 when the union labor decimated the northern manufacturers and priced them out of business (just like they’ve done today)...and the south started importing cheaper goods than buying from the north. Therefore the federal government established high tariffs on imported goods from the southern ports trying to FORCE the south to buy the north’s high priced goods...the south put up with that KRAP for OVER 20 YEARS before they got a gutful of the north’s and the federal government’s manipulation of the free market system. Not to mention that Texas was already pissed off because they’d been paying taxes to Washington DC for 20 years and not gotten one whit of help protecting the southern borders (JUST LIKE TODAY).


12 posted on 12/14/2010 6:55:11 PM PST by RowdyFFC (.)
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To: central_va
Did a search on the word “slave” and “slavery” an found no occurrences. This probably disappoints the Neo Yankee statist found in the deep recesses of Free Republic.

Read his farewell to the Senate and his first message to the confederate congress. Jeff's back on the slave track with both of those.

13 posted on 12/14/2010 6:55:11 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: RowdyFFC
I think your timeline doesn’t quite represent what really happened...

Neither does your post. Union labor? In 1837?

14 posted on 12/14/2010 6:57:46 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: unixman9627; central_va

You can’t go wrong with these guys. 2nd South Carolin String Band. Live at 145th anniverary of Gettysburg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB0McDpAjM


15 posted on 12/14/2010 6:57:55 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: RowdyFFC

The war was about slavery, and that’s it. All other rationalizations and revisionism means nothing.


16 posted on 12/14/2010 7:03:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Yes, dear, union labor...read up sometime.


17 posted on 12/14/2010 7:14:26 PM PST by RowdyFFC (.)
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To: SunkenCiv

No, sir, it wasn’t JUST about slave labor and your revisionist version of it just doesn’t quite reveal what really happened.


18 posted on 12/14/2010 7:16:16 PM PST by RowdyFFC (.)
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To: RowdyFFC
Yes, dear, union labor...read up sometime.

How about enlightening us?

19 posted on 12/14/2010 7:18:19 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

I just did...


20 posted on 12/14/2010 7:20:28 PM PST by RowdyFFC (.)
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