You made the following assertion:” But from Day One of his administration, Jefferson Davis announced that he would decide if ‘the integrity and jurisdiction of our territory be assailed, it will but remain for us with a firm resolve to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of Providence upon a just cause.’ “.
You left out Mr. Davis appeal for peace.
“ If a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. But if this be denied us, and the integrity and jurisdiction of our territory be assailed, it will but remain for us with a firm resolve to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of Providence upon a just cause.”
Shame on your censorship.
PeaRidge: “...Shame on your censorship.”
Thanks for posting the rest of Davis’ paragraph.
I try to keep my own posts as short & to the point as possible.
So I do sometimes end up leaving out otherwise important material.
But in this particular case, history showed us that Davis’ appeal for peace was totally insincere, while his threat of war came from the heart.
In fact, Davis made no serious efforts to either keep the peace in 1861, or to restore it afterward.