Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: central_va

Meh, I have no problem with this. Jefferson Davis led a traitorous movement. You don’t see the “King George III” expressway in Boston.

The only reason its named the Jefferson Davis Highway is because confederate sympathizers who couldn’t accept that they lost the war insisted on it.

Monuments to Generals are one thing. They honorably led their troops on the field of battle. But I’m not sure why Jefferson Davis should be honored with a highway.

Now... bring out your flaming arrows......


36 posted on 05/15/2019 2:01:49 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]


To: bigdaddy45

You think they are going to stop at Jefferson Davis?


37 posted on 05/15/2019 2:03:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: bigdaddy45

There are many King George Roads in New Jersey (ahem, one of the 13 original colonies) as well as many towns named after English royalty. So, pretty much your argument is nonexistent.


44 posted on 05/15/2019 2:30:46 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: bigdaddy45
Meh, I have no problem with this. Jefferson Davis led a traitorous movement.

George Washington led a traitorous movement. It was traitorous because the United Kingdom did not recognize a right to independence and so it required perpetual allegiance to the King.

*We* on the other hand founded this nation based on a right to Independence, so seeking independence may have been treasonous to the Brits, but it wasn't treasonous to this nation's founding principle.

I still get a chuckle when I hear "four score and seven years ago...". If you do the math, Lincoln was talking about 1776, when a collection of 13 slave holding states separated from a Union and formed a Confederacy, while having their armies led by a slave holding general from Virginia. :)

45 posted on 05/15/2019 3:01:04 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

To: bigdaddy45

Pretty sure George didn’t lead any traitorous movements. Pretty sure that was our guys. Pretty sure there were plenty of monuments for those traitors too.


46 posted on 05/15/2019 3:04:49 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Half the country wants to be left alone, the other half want them dead.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson