[FLT-bird]

I see BroJoeK is pushing more of his crackpot PC Revisionist theories in a desperate attempt to explain away Jefferson Davis’ own words said during the war. He’ll take Stephens’ word as gospel but clearly Davis must be lying when he expresses the opposite sentiments. Must be! Because if not, that would call the whole PC Revisionist premise into question and clearly we can’t have that.

[BroJoeK]

FB: "He’ll take Stephens’ word as gospel but clearly Davis must be lying when he expresses the opposite sentiments.
Must be!
Because if not, that would call the whole PC Revisionist premise into question and clearly we can’t have that."

As per usual, FLT-bird is just going nuts on us here.
In fact, the words I quoted in post #481 above were Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis' own words -- Davis' December 1860 original version of the Corwin Amendment, by which Davis hoped to keep Mississippi from declaring secession.
But Davis' original Corwin Amendment was rejected by Republicans and so Mississippi declared secession for precisely the reason Davis had spelled out in his proposed Amendment -- slavery.

Here again is Jefferson Davis' original December 1860 Corwin "compromise" proposal.

And here is Mississippi's January 1861 official "Reasons for Secession" document.

And here again is Corwin's later February 1861 watered-down version of Jefferson Davis' original proposal.

Therefore, quotes to the contrary by Davis years later are obvious lies, since we know exactly what Davis was up to in December 1860.

Yes, Virginia, that was all about slavery.