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Remembering Jefferson Davis: American Patriot & Southern Hero
Canada Free Press ^ | June 3, 2012 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

Posted on 06/04/2012 6:00:58 AM PDT by BigReb555

Do you and your family know what is considered by some folks the largest monument to an American?

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Kentucky; US: Mississippi; US: South Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: american; anniversary; confederate; davis; dixie; jefferson; mississippi
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To: Notwithstanding
And Lincoln was a blood thirsty dictator. So I guess everything is equal.

That treason trial and execution of Jeff Davis was really somethi...Oh, wait Davis wanted a trial but the cowards in DC wouldn't give him one. Never mind.

21 posted on 06/04/2012 7:29:08 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

And Obeyme was hailed as the second coming of Lincoln.

How’s that working out for us?


22 posted on 06/04/2012 7:31:19 AM PDT by Salamander
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To: Salamander

DADT President Bump.

23 posted on 06/04/2012 7:36:34 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MHGinTN

Thank you!


24 posted on 06/04/2012 7:37:41 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: starlifter

Why don't you pettition vDOT and have them change this sign from "Jeff Davis" to Traitor Hwy. LOL.

Davis was a great American and believed in the republic. You wouldn't know a republic if it bit you on the arse.

25 posted on 06/04/2012 7:41:05 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wfu_deacons

There is nothing in the founding documents that says what he and the CSA Government did was treasonous. If he had gone to trial—he could have won. Many states considered Session before 1860—including New England (during the unpopular Mexican War). The Bloody Civil War should have been avoided if cooler heads had prevailed.


26 posted on 06/04/2012 7:50:38 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Ohioan

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.


27 posted on 06/04/2012 7:56:12 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: central_va

Good comment.


28 posted on 06/04/2012 7:57:30 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: central_va

Heh.


29 posted on 06/04/2012 7:59:43 AM PDT by Salamander
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_secession#New_York_City_secession


30 posted on 06/04/2012 8:03:20 AM PDT by Salamander
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
I live in Kentucky. Here we have a true monument to the first and only president of the Confederacy.

At 351 feet tall, it is the largest [unreinforced] concrete obelisk in the world, and the fifth tallest monument in the United States. The top four are St. Louis's Gateway Arch, 630 feet tall; San Jacinto (Texas) Monument, 570 feet (built to the peoples who created an independent country -- just like the Confederates); the Washington Monument, 555 feet; and the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial at Put in Bay, Ohio, which, at 352 feet, nudges its way past the Davis obelisk by a mere extra 12 inches. The Davis monument was conceived in 1907, at a reunion of the Orphan's Brigade of the Confederate Army. In 1917, construction began. After a halt during World War I, the obelisk was finally completed in 1924. The walls are seven feet thick at the base, two feet thick at the top. The monument features an elevator to an observation room.

The view from the observation room of the surrounding countryside are beautiful. I stumbled upon this by accident while driving on business near Fairview, KY. Upon seeing the monument in the distance I drove towards it until I came to the parking lot. The site was virtually vacant except for me and the elevator operator that took me to the observation room.

31 posted on 06/04/2012 8:09:57 AM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JoeDetweiler

Snicker...


32 posted on 06/04/2012 8:10:51 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: 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.

Amen. Good post. 

33 posted on 06/04/2012 8:19:25 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Notwithstanding

>>Jefferson Davis was a treasonous traitor.<<

Here we go again. 500 posts later, we will have changed no minds and we will be as polarized as the U.S. Congress. I have one question for all the Yankee critics of the Confederacy: Under what circumstances, if any, is any state able to opt out of its membership in the Union?

150 years ago, we had a President from Illinois who started a war against the states, disregarding the Constitution and freed the slaves. Today, we have a President from Illinois who is waging war against the states, disregards the Constitution and wants to make us all slaves.


34 posted on 06/04/2012 8:26:02 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: NTHockey

It was the south who initiated hostilities not the north.


35 posted on 06/04/2012 8:29:55 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Jemian

Yes, just as is the traitor Nancy Pelosi. What is your point - we can’t criticize persons claiming to be Christians?


36 posted on 06/04/2012 8:49:23 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Christ Jesus Victor, Ruler, Lord and Redeemer!)
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To: NTHockey
NTHockey wrote - 150 years ago, we had a President from Illinois who started a war against the states
Ah, one too many pucks to your head?
37 posted on 06/04/2012 9:25:10 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Notwithstanding

So were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. What’s your point?


38 posted on 06/04/2012 9:28:21 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: rockrr

“It was the south who initiated hostilities not the north.”

That’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? One could say that, by occupying sovereign territory against the wishes of the state government, the Feds initiated hostilities. They wouldn’t have expected to park US troops at a fort in Canada and gotten away with it, would they?


39 posted on 06/04/2012 9:37:56 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: NTHockey
Under what circumstances, if any, is any state able to opt out of its membership in the Union?

With the consent of Congress..the same way you came in.

40 posted on 06/04/2012 9:46:20 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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