[babyface00]

Stainless,

Those quotes are moving. You've motivated me to learn a bit more about JD.

[Budge]

If some would read more about Jefferson Davis, they may learn the the war betwen the states was not about slavery, as many uninformed claim.

[savedbygrace]

"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

This one in particular has got me thinking . . . which is a good thing.

[stainlessbanner]

The third-grade teacher in Arkansas asked her class, "Now, who can tell me who our president was during the Civil War?"

A little boy raised his hand. "Yes, Johnny?" said the teacher.

"Jefferson Davis," the boy said proudly. And no one could argue with that.