“I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government.
We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have….Slavery never was an essential element. It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination. It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded. There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations . . . “
(President Jefferson Davis, July 1864)
A true Patriot.
If they insist on taking his statue out of the Kentucky Capitol, they should only do so to move it to the White House lawn.
Fair chance it will be replaced by the likeness of one Barak “Lennin” Øsurper.
Or Marx.
Just think, if Stonewall Jackson hadn’t been killed by accident and had been there at ghettysburgh the South would have continued on in its fight and possibly have gained its independance.