[central_va]

"The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language."

                          -- Jefferson Davis Pres. CSA

[central_va]

Rebel bump.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[gorush]

On this day in 1964, 75,000,000 tuned into the Ed Sullivan Show.

[Huck]

He's an idiot for characterizing the US Constitution as a league. Would that it were so! Maybe that's why the CSA were dumb enough to create a government that wasn't a confederacy! I've always wondered why they did that. Sort of ironic...a confederacy that isn't a confederacy.

As an aside, I always thought Mrs. Jeff Davis was a hottie.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[gorush]

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Jeff Davis leading the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War

[jmacusa]

You LOST. You lost 150 years ago and you lost 150 years later. YOU”RE A LOSER! That goes for all you JohnnyReb wannabes. GROW UP ALREADY!!

[newheart]

Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

Now there's a regrettable career move.

[IrishCatholic]

Thanks for the history note. Also at your link Custer got married on that day.

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the present we forget to keep track of the past.

[trumandogz]

Davis was just like Jimmy Carter, a Democrat who was soundly rejected by the American people during his first term.

[Walts Ice Pick]

According to Wikipedia, Jefferson Davis was one of Ronald Reagan's heroes. He was an interesting man.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[x]

“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.

[SharpRightTurn]

Jeff Davis BUMP.

Thanks for posting.

[usmcobra]

cross dressing coward bump

[Neoliberalnot]

I have been to Gettysburg and I own, and have read, The Killer Angels. It brought tears to my eyes to read about the untimely death of so many young boys. If you haven’t read the book, do so.
Old historical films of Civil War Vets meeting at Gettysburg. Worth watching.

http://biggeekdad.com/2011/01/gettysburg/

[NTHockey]

The political conditions in 1861 are similar to those today. The SCOTUS handed down an extremely unpopular decision in the Dred Scott case. Slavery was the law of the land. People on both sides of the issue were not happy with that decision - the North, because slavery was not abolished and the South, because it did not adress further expansion into territories. Today, it is abortion and DeathCare.

Then, as now, an extremely unpopular President held office. Change was coming and it was not going to be accepted. The constitutionality of much of what the President does/did were raised.

The War of Yankee Agression was a truly unnecessary war. The Confederacy wanted to leave in peace; the Yankee government determined that once ratified, states had no power to leave and had to succumb to federal tyranny.

BTW, the first shot of the misnamed Civil War was fired by John Brown and his merry band of Abolitionists. Their aim was to overthrow the Constitutional Republic. Who ended the insurrection? None other than Robert E. Lee, soon to be the Conferacy’s military leader.

Some things never change. And the South was right, there is no power granted to the federal government to force membership(making people buy health insurance?)

[Joe 6-pack]

The day after William T. Sherman’s Birthday :-)

[CodeToad]

Even Lincoln agreed with him...until his railroad buddies told him they needed the North and South to stay together.