[Ohioan]

Calling the heroes of our sister States "traitors," because they sought to dissolve a relationship freely entered into, when they believed that the Federal Government that administered that relationship would no longer treat them fairly, does not help rally American Conservatives to a common cause, today.

Benedict Arnold did not challenge the compact, still in formation, when he betrayed the Continental Army. He betrayed it by stealth, in the middle of the War, for personal benefit. If you want a comparison, look at someone like Quisling in Norway (the Norwegian Socialist) who used stealth to invite the German Socialists in, while those who trusted him slept. Jefferson Davis, honorably, resigned from the Senate, when Mississippi seceded, and explained his reason in a brief, to the point address.

Jefferson Davis behaved with honor, as did Robert E. Lee. Benedict Arnold, like Quisling--and like those trying to betray America into a World Government, today--behaved with total dishonor.

William Flax

[MHGinTN]

Well and truly stated, sir.

[PeaRidge]

Excellent post and accurate. Jefferson Davis was honorable to the people and the US Constitution, until the people in power allowed it to fail his people.

[zeugma]

Calling the heroes of our sister States "traitors," because they sought to dissolve a relationship freely entered into, when they believed that the Federal Government that administered that relationship would no longer treat them fairly, does not help rally American Conservatives to a common cause, today.

Amen. Good post. 

[snippy_about_it]

Well said and true. South Carolina thanks you.

I suppose the poster calling Jeff Davis a traitor would infer that all southerners were traitors, Lee, Jackson, and all the Confederate soldiers as well.

I say that poster does not know Southern history, let alone American history.

I guess some yankees would have us all shot even today, yet how many of them wish their state would secede now and leave the liberals and obama in ‘another country’?