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To: wardaddy; woodpusher; TwelveOfTwenty; jmacusa; x; DiogenesLamp
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.

502 posted on 10/25/2021 9:42:15 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK
I am absolutely not interested in any discussion regarding Southern reasons for leaving. So far as I'm concerned they had a God given *RIGHT* to leave for any d@mn reason they so pleased, even a bad reason.

I am *ONLY* interested in discussing the North's reasons for invading and killing them, because it is this vicious aggression that is the real evil of that war.

509 posted on 10/25/2021 12:06:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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