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.
Right on, President Davis!
(PS: Welcome to FR!)
A patriot to his people.....didn’t give a fig about his government.
Good attitude to have...
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.
Jeff Davis ping.
Still hope you are well, stony.
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
He expresses no hope in avoiding war, three months before the firing on Ft. Sumter. “War of Nothern Aggression,” my ass. This is a declaration of war. And no, there is no mention of slavery, because he knew damned well that to mention it was to make laughable his appeals to “justice,” “tranqility,” etc. What slave could not read the Declaration of Independence and see within it his own compulsion to lift his bonds?
Lincoln desired nether slavery, nor war to end it. His desired course of action was the truly conservative one: to contain it, until it withers like a vine. While Jeff Davis is expressing that “we may not hope to avoid war,” Lincoln was profusely denying any intent to combat.
Yet I do not claim that Lincoln imagined the South peacefully seceding. He knew full well that secession would inevitably bring war; even if the North had immediately surrendered all its holdings in the South, ordered all Southern-based armies to surrender (and what would become of them?), war would still come: the slave-based economy had already begun to wither. Don’t forget that the present crisis was triggered by the North’s attempts to contain slavery to the confederacy. Certainly, the South would claim the entire Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican cession, and California, and with the Oregon territory 1000 miles isolated from the Union, it too. This is why once the belligerence of the South was demonstrated by their attack on Ft. Sumter, Lincoln knew an invasion was necessary. But all sane men know that the Union did not strike first, but allowed the South to first demonstrate its bloodlust.
Jeff Davis ping
In case you hadn’t noticed, the rebels lost their war and came crawling back into the Union. Jeffy Davis was captured, running for his life, dressed in drag. Some “hero” you have there. Ms. Davis’ high falutin’ words were the usual BS fed to the ignorant Southerners that they were being tread upon, when it was instead the Southern elites who used their largely ignorant “brothers” as cannon fodder for their own dreams of empire and economic slave hegemony.
Better you honor the personage of Robert E. Lee who did not wish to see the South secede and who was, for the time period, the antipathy of the Davises of the South. Lee championed re-unification and saw the folly of what the Southern elites had tried to do.