Posted on 02/09/2011 3:42:15 PM PST by central_va
Davis was informed the next day.
Two things come to mind on this date beyond what's already been discussed:
1). Mr. Davis was offerred the presidency of what became Texas A&M University. Although he turned that position down, it shows the good stuff of which Aggies are made since he was the first person considered for that honor. This fine gentleman would have been a great leader of that institution.
2). Threads such as these have become much more adult and civilized since the long-overdue zotting of homosexual defender and South hater Non-Sequitur.
Good reading frun among these gentlemen...though a questionable source...
The Ideologues
Who are the intellectuals who form the core of the modern neo-Confederate movement? And what exactly do they think?
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Ah, now that was a great zot! Nearly everyone celebrated when NS rode the lightning.
Puleeze! You don’t like the USA? MOVE!
A great Christmas Present to us from Mr. Robinson!
That was one awesome present.
“Elected?” He was named or selected as provisional president on February 9, 1861 by the Confederate constitutional convention and inaugurated on February 18, 1861. He was “elected” by a popular vote to a full term on November 6, 1861. No one ran against him. All kind of sketchy or fishy.
Look. I’m not going to waste my time refighting the Civil War. You can check out my profile and read some of the links. You might learn something. But then again, I think you’ve made up your mind what you want to believe.
It's good not to start a fight you can't possibly win.
LOL. That’s really funny coming from your perspective. Have a nice night.
Not exactly however a degree of insight can be gained by looking at what had motivated the Confederacy to form in the first place.
Try these on for size and tell me they don't make the hair on you neck stand...
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.
The period is near at hand when our foes must sink under the immense load of debt which they have incurred, a debt which in their effort to subjugate us has already attained such fearful dimensions as will subject them to burdens which must continue to oppress them for generations to come.
Spooky huh? They were fighting the same exact issues we are today because the same exact crap had oozed into the federal government that we are dealing with today.
And what are we hearing today?
Session from D.C.
Because all this has been buried in time it all looks new, all the issues with the fed.gov Nothing new about it, the same bunch of creeps cooking up the same BS games.
So, picture a continuance of the 2010 elections in 2012 and 2014. The commie dems continue to be revealed for what they are and are voted out of office. That is what we could have had 140 years ago. Instead we got a fed.gov behemoth, ever expanding democracy.
We started with a Republic.
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Looking at your profile, I notice that the few states you haven't visited include Texas and Oklahoma, two of the more reliably Conservative states.
Not wishing to engage you in an argument (since we likely have differing views about the South that can't be reconciled in this forum), I respectfully ask if you've purposely avoided these two (along with Louisiana) or if circumstances have never taken you there?
In the interest of transparency on my part, I've been to all states except for Alaska (having never had a reason to go there yet) and Oregon. The latter is one that do I purposely avoid because of both its liberalism and dreary weather.
I'm not sure that were he alive today, "The Sage of Baltimore" would necessarily be a FReeper but his intellect and wit can't be denied.
And no, I don't have any ill will towards the South. My mom's side of the family is from Alabama. I lived there for a while myself, and in my 20s came very close to relocating there permanently. I was a huge Skynyrd fan and wore Reb flags on my clothes all the time.
Plus you like George Jones! That's a counterbalance to the Grateful Dead -- I just never acquired a taste for them. And believe me, I'm long past a "Touch of Gray". :-)
Mencken was quite southern in his own right, at least by today’s standards. Maryland has always been a little bit blue, a little bit gray.
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