Confederate leader honored

Montgomery Advisor ^ | Ken | Spears

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Time has claimed the Montgomery hotel where Jefferson Davis stayed before delivering his inaugural address on the steps of the state Capitol nearly 142 years ago.

But that didn

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Notice the slight comment from the visiting history revisionists.

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Happy Birthday Mr. Davis!

[ladtx]

When I was stationed in Alabama I took my family to visit the capitol several times. We always had to go see the star that is embedded in the spot where Davis took his oath of office. Don't know if it is still there or not. Probably been removed by the revisionists.

[4CJ]

Happy birthday, President Davis.

Deo Vindice.

[billbears]

“This is a little hard to take,” said Hamilton Cooke of Jacksonville, Fla.

What, Mr. Cooke? The truth? Shaking the foundations of the revisionist history you've been taught in public education centers?

Happy Birthday, President Davis

[aomagrat]

Alabama Secession Flag

Unfortunately, the only accurate description of this flag is the one that appeared in the newspaper shortly after the flag was raised. After the war the flag was taken to Iowa where it deteriorated and eventually fell to pieces. In 1939, the flag was returned to Alabama . The fragments had been glued to a sheet and sewn into a protective netting. Fragments (the few that remained ) from both sides had been arranged into what might best be describe as a collage. So there is no one alive today who has actually seen the flag intact. Any illustrations that you may have seen are all conjectural and may be traced to the description which appeared in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser on January 16, 1861. This description was reprinted and widely distributed when the flag was returned in 1939. Almost immediately, drawings based upon this description began to appear and to evolve. Ultimately your supposition is as good as any. We do know however that the background is dark blue, there is only one cotton plant/rattlesnake motif and the flag that she is holding has the word ALABAMA printed above the star. The rattlesnake had 15 rattles representing the slave states.

The Dixie Inn

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Just about all of the confederate memorials have been purged in Montgomery. They've been replaced by plaques showing where MLK scratched his backside. Its sad what they've done.

[ladtx]

Just about all of the confederate memorials have been purged in Montgomery.

What a sad commentary on our times. It was always a good history lesson for my boys. It always amazed them that they could actually stand on the same spot as Jefferson Davis. Guess that part of our history is supposed to be forgotten. No, I don't think so.

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Excellent, PPaul!

President Jefferson Davis said:

• "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
  ---Jefferson Davis

• "We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms."
  ---President Jefferson Davis, 29 April, 1861

• "Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands."
  ---Jefferson Davis

• "When certain sovereign and independent states form a union with limited powers for some general purpose, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal an insurrection? If so, then of what advantage is a compact of union to states? Within the Union are oppressions and grievances; the attempt to go out brings war and subjugation. The ambitious and aggressive states obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the states."
  ---Jefferson Davis

• Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels", as if they revolted against
  a master, and a war of subjugation is begun. If this action is once tolerated, where will it end? Where is constitutional liberty? What strength is there in
  bills of rights-in limitation of power? What new hope for mankind is to be found in written constitutions, what remedy which did not exist under kings of emperors? If the doctrines thus announced by the government of the United States are conceded, then look through either end of the political telescope, and one sees only an empire, and the once famous Declaration of Independence trodden in the dust of as a "glittering generality," and the compact of the union denounced as a "flaunting lie".
  ---Jefferson Davis

• "I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it.''
  ---Jefferson Davis

• "Those who submit to such consequence without resistance are not worthy the liberties and rights to which they were born, and deserve to be made slaves. Such must be the verdict of mankind."
  ---Jefferson Davis
  

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There's a story about the yankee soldiers who captured Jefferson Davis. They were transporting him north, toward the prison where he would spend two years, not charged with a crime.

Passing some Confederate veterans traveling home, the blue belly taunted them: "Hey, Johnny Reb, we've got your president."

"Yessir," the butternut soldier replied, "and the devil's got yours."

Enough said.

[Twodees]

'Nuff said, brother.

[HELLRAISER II]

Well I hope Mr. Cooke didn't let the proverbial door hit him in the @ss when he left, there was no reason to be offended by this. I hate people that have such a chip on their shoulder that they look for a confrontation where ever they go, Mr. Cooke stay at the house I'm sure nobody there will offend you.

[Colt .45]

Hurrah for Dixie!

Send those PC whores packing!

[wardaddy]

My favorite Southern flag....add a magnolia and it's the original flag of my homestate. I wear it proudly as the front tag of my beat up old Land Rover.

[shuckmaster]

Hat's off to America's greatest president!!!

Jefferson Davis' Funeral Train to Richmond

[SunTzuWu]

A "first at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg, last at Appomattox" bump!

[4CJ]

Six state governors acted as pallbearers. Thousands attended the service in Hollywood cemetery. including former Confederate military leaders and privates, where with the Presidential twenty-one gun salute the beloved leader was laid to rest.

Deo Vindice.

[goodieD]

Let me echo that sentiment! Happy Birthday Mr. President! May we never forget that you stood for the Constitution while the devil held Washington.

[archy]

What a sad commentary on our times. It was always a good history lesson for my boys. It always amazed them that they could actually stand on the same spot as Jefferson Davis. Guess that part of our history is supposed to be forgotten. No, I don't think so.

Y'all are certainly welcome to come and visit us here in Memphis some time: