Posted on 06/01/2013 3:13:19 PM PDT by BigReb555
The time is long overdue for school teachers throughout this nation to teach not only the historical facts about Abraham Lincoln, but also those about Jefferson Davis.
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The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library will be officially dedicated on his birthday Monday, June 3, 2013 at “Beauvoir” Davis’ last home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Biloxi. Read more at: http://www.beauvoir.org/events/index.html
You have probably heard about or seen the movie “Lincoln” which was produced and Directed by famed film Director Steven Spielberg in 2012. The movie has been called superb and did have an excellent cast that included veteran actors Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field. Hollywood has produced movies about Abraham Lincoln, some good, some bad and others forgettable like “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” but I do not remember any made about the life and times of Jefferson Davis. Polls reflect the Southern people’s equal admiration for Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln but….
During these “political correct” times Southerners are often depicted on TV and in the movies as backward and dumb. The truth is that the South is the birth place of many intelligent, well-spoken and patriotic people like that of Jefferson Davis who was a great orator and there was standing room only on the floors of the United States Senate when he delivered his February 9, 1861 resignation speech as Mississippi Senator.
Mr. Spielberg, would you direct and produce a movie about Jefferson Davis who like Lincoln was born in the State of Kentucky?
The time is long overdue for school teachers throughout this nation to teach not only the historical facts about Abraham Lincoln, but also those about Jefferson Davis.
Jefferson Davis like many Southerners was against secession but recognized the sovereignty of each state of the Union and their Constitutional right to secede. Jefferson Finis Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian County, Kentucky. Davis who would become the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. He was a strong Unionist and a strong defender of the United States Constitution.
Here are a few of his many accomplishments:
• Graduate of West Point Military Academy • Fought valiantly in the War with Mexico • United States Senator • Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce • First to suggest the transcontinental railroad to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans • First to suggest the Panama Canal Zone • Suggested the purchase of Cuba • Appointed Robert E. Lee Superintendent of West Point Military Academy
Jefferson Davis' last marriage was a good one to Varina, who gave her husband four sons and two daughters (Billy, Joseph, Jefferson, Samuel, Margaret and Winnie). Joseph was killed by an accidental fall at the Confederate White House in Richmond, Virginia in 1864, Samuel died at age 2 and an abused black child named Jim Limber was virtually adopted as a member of the Davis family.
In 1865, Jim was forcibly removed by Union soldiers and never seen again. It is said that the Davis children were crying at the scene and poor Jim was kicking and not making it easy for his abductors. After the War Between the States, Jefferson Davis tried to locate the whereabouts of Jim Limber, but was not successful.
The funeral for Jefferson Davis was attended by thousands of mourners. Milo Cooper, a former servant, traveled all the way from Florida to pay his last respects. It is written that, upon entering Davis' sick room, Cooper burst into tears and threw himself on his knees in prayer that God would spare the life of his old master and bless Davis family. Davis is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
The Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site is a Kentucky State Park preserving the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America. It is located in Fairview, Kentucky, in Todd County.
God bless America’s Heroes of yesterday and today!
One of many complex men in a very complex time.
“We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms.”
President Jefferson Davis - 29 April 1861
If he said THAT, he probably was a Tea Party member back then.
That's very true and not only applicable to Jefferson Davis but also to Nathan Bedford Forrest as well. Check out nathanbedord's About Page to get the full measure of this man who doesn't fit into the leftist characterture that's been repeated ad nauseum to the point that it's become taken as fact.
Sam Houston is another. He loved his south but desired an option other than war.
Jefferson Davis Pie ___ If you've never had it you're really missing something. Ricipe here: http://sweetteaandcornbread.blogspot.com/2013/05/jefferson-davis-pie.html
“Jefferson Davis Revisited”
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Jefferson Davis: American Patriot
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A better man than Lincoln by far.
Houston truly was a great and wise man.
So much misery would have been avoided if he had been listened to.
From Wikipedia:
After leaving the Governor's mansion, Houston traveled to Galveston. Along the way, many people demanded an explanation for his refusal to support the Confederacy. On April 19, 1861 from a hotel window he told a crowd:
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.
Jefferson Davis will always be a better patriot than Lincoln. I have always stated that we should have another go at it, and let’s see who’ll come out on top.
Between Sam Houston and the Freesoil party, war would have been avoided, slavery would have died its natural death and states rights would not have caught cancer.
Thank you very much for posting this. It's very enlightening. If only leftists would give this a thorough listening, their whole worldview would be shaken.
Ditto, Robert E. Lee!
It was Jefferson Davis who was the one forcibly removed.
It is right to say that any adoption by the Davises was "virtual" - since it was illegal under Virginia law for a white family to adopt a child with black ancestry. Legal to purchase certainly, but not to adopt.
The Davis family loved him so dearly that there is no record they ever attempted to contact him again.
TEA party members aren’t cowardly treasonous insurrectionists (generally speaking).
Strictly your opinion. There is another side that equation.
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail."
I was born in Atlanta and lived most of my life in Texas.
Slavery was evil. Buying and selling human beings like cattle was evil. The Confederacy was evil.
Enslaving human beings, be it Marxism, Nazism, Islam, or the Confederacy is evil.
Period.
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