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Thread ID: 7131 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2003-06-05
2003-06-05 03:44 | User Profile
As a Southerner and White, I was wondering if we have forgotten when Former President Jefferson Davis birthday occured. June 4th is his birthday. A late Happy Birthday Jefferson Davis! :D
2003-06-05 04:04 | User Profile
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Was Jefferson Davis guilty or innocent of treason? This question was never answered in a court of law because the U.S. Govt. feared the possibility that Davis would be vindicated if tried for treason and that secession would be found to have been a constitutional right of the States. Pelican Publishing Company Gretna, Louisiana
2003-06-05 04:23 | User Profile
A late Happy Birthday Jefferson Davis!
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On a related note
Gen. Robert Edward Lee Born January 19, 1807 [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=5533&hl=]http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php...f=11&t=5533&hl=[/url]
Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson Born January 21, 1824 [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=5532&hl=]http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php...f=11&t=5532&hl=[/url]
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson [url=http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=227&hl=robert,and,jackson]http://forum.originaldissent.com/index.php...ert,and,jackson[/url]
2003-06-05 04:27 | User Profile
seq,
I am a great fan Jefferson Davis. But I am not sue about the Kennedys. Have you seen this article on Ronald and Donald Kennedy? Dennis Wheeler made some good points.
A Plausible Lie -- a review and expose of The South Was Right by Ronald and Donald Kennedy [url=http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/articles/kennedy/]http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/articles/kennedy/[/url]
Dennis Wheeler's Home Page [url=http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/]http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/[/url]
2003-06-12 12:43 | User Profile
**A Truly Remarkable Man
by Charley Reese
June 3 was the birthday of one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. He was a graduate of West Point, a hero of the Mexican War, a U.S. senator, a secretary of war and the president of the Confederate States of America.
I'm speaking, of course, of Jefferson Davis. It's unfortunate that we live in an age of ideologues and propaganda. No matter how intelligent, how accomplished, how compassionate, how noble in character, how admired by his contemporaries a man is, if he is on the wrong side of the current politically correct fence, then he's condemned. Even as I write this, some yahoos in Kentucky are trying to persuade the state to remove a statue of Davis, one of its most illustrious native sons. I will think poorly of Kentuckians if they allow this ignorant campaign to succeed.
Had he not ended up on the politically incorrect side of the War of Northern Aggression, his story would be the stuff of novels and motion pictures. American history has provided us with some great love stories ÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆïÃâÿÃâýÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃââÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâïÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâÿÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâýÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâïÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâÿÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâý John and Abigail Adams and Andrew and Rachel Jackson, to name just two. The story of Jeff Davis and his beloved wife Varina is another.
Davis had never aspired to be anything but a soldier. After graduating from West Point, he served seven years on the frontier. He fell in love with a daughter of Gen. Zachary Taylor. The old general, who had spent most of his life in dilapidated forts, told Davis that in order to marry his daughter, he would have to resign his commission and find a better way to provide for her. Davis did. He became a planter and married the general's daughter.
Three months later, she died of malaria, and the grief-stricken Davis became a virtual recluse for seven years. It was the vivacity and intelligence of Varina Howell that drew him out of his shell, and though they were as different as two people could be, their great love and marriage lasted until death.
The best way to get acquainted with Davis is with the book "Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 1823-1889," edited by his biographer, Hudson Strode. These letters, which are as interesting as any novel, give you an intimate portrait of Davis and his wife and the many famous Americans their lives were intertwined with. Reading them is like taking a time machine back to the 19th century.
Davis was a Jeffersonian Democrat who believed in a strict construction of the Constitution. Those were the principles he learned from his father, who had fought in the Revolution, and he never abandoned them. After the war and after he was freed from prison, Davis refused amnesty, saying it would be an admission of wrongdoing, and he believed he and his Southern compatriots had done nothing wrong.
According to Strode, Davis had a remarkable ability to inspire friendship. His friends, writes Strode, loved him with an ardor uncommon among men. "Several bishops who knew him long and well unabashedly wrote to him not only of their love but of their veneration," he writes.
One such friend was Robert Brown, a slave who simply ignored emancipation and stayed with the Davises as a friend and servant for the rest of their lives. Brown was entrusted with the Davises' children when Varina sent them to Canada for safety's sake immediately after the war. Davis was in prison. She was not allowed to leave Savannah, Ga., and there was lawlessness everywhere.
On the ship, Brown overheard a white abolitionist making insulting remarks about Davis within the hearing of the children. Brown walked over and said, "Do you believe I am your equal?" Of course, the abolitionist said. "Then take this from an equal," Brown said, and knocked him flat with one powerful punch.
I think you will enjoy this book, and if you are ever in Biloxi, Miss., be sure to visit Beauvoir, Davis' last residence and now a museum. Jeff Davis was a truly remarkable and admirable man. ÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆïÃâÿÃâýÃÆÃâÃâïÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâÿÃÆââ¬Å¡ÃâýÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆïÃâÿÃâýÃÆÃâïÿýÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâé 2003 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
url: [url=http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030613/index.php]http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030613/index.php[/url]**
2003-06-12 16:11 | User Profile
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Fly the colors, Southern Man!!
2003-06-12 19:03 | User Profile
Fly the colors, Southern Man!!-Texas Dissident
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This might be worth a look.
For Southern Men Only by Dennis Wheeler an appeal to Southern men for Southern solidarity [url=http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/articles/southmen.htm]http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/article...es/southmen.htm[/url]
2003-06-24 17:29 | User Profile
Oh Oh, I may have been a day off... :huh:
"June 3 was the birthday...."
Sorry about that!
It has been years since I have seen Jeff Davis' birthday marked on a calender. :angry:
It used to be on every Southern calender till all those negroes and Jews started fussing about it during the 1970's.
2003-06-25 15:54 | User Profile
golfball,
Do worry about, you started a great thread! [img]http://forum.originaldissent.com/uploads/av-387.gif[/img] :gun: :gun: :cowboy: :gun: :gun:
2003-06-26 13:59 | User Profile
Thank you sir! :)
There are lots of other Southern dates of important note that are no longer marked on calanders. It is terrible when negroes and other non-whites are allowed so much control over me and my children's heritage and history. :(
That is one of the reasons why I became active in the professional aspect of our organization. ( The Knights )
More people need to stand up and claim what is rightfully their's, or possibly lose it forever. :unsure:
Some folks just take a stronger stand and make a stronger statement while doing so. I am glad to see that others appreciate their Southern heritage and are willing to express support.
We must do what we can to preserve Southern Events and Special days because negroes and Jews, other non-whites, wish our White children to grow up in an environment that THEY control, including the dispensation of History and Southern Events. If we forget,.... who will tell our children? :shock: