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President Davis’s response to the EP
Here are just SOME of the amazing tid bits by Davis in this speech
1) Slavery is the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Davis apologist say slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War or the Confederacy. Here, Davis himself says slavery was the very foundation of the CSA.
2) Davis damns Lincoln for using black troops. He claims the war should be just by whites, "scions, peers, men of the same stock" and that to use blacks in battle "degrades" the white race, and justifies no mercy for blacks or whites in battle -- no prisoners.
The Southern lunatics today try to say they had black soldiers -- volunteers no less -- fighting for the South. Nonsense. According to Jeff Davis himself, Lincoln allowing blacks into the Union Army was an abomination against white race, and so changed the nature of the war, that he would invade the North and make slaves of all blacks there too (see below)
3) As a result of Lincoln using blacks -- we will invade the North, enslave the Negroes there!
Thats's right, because Lincoln said he will use black men as soldiers --- the South invade the North, and enslave blacks there, making the US one big slave nation, as God intended!!!!!
4) All slaves ever freed in the South are hereby "placed back on the slave status -- and their issue -- forever"
Many Southern apologist say Davis was going to end slavery soon anyway -- here, he promises to make slavery PERPETUAL -- forever. The slaves and the "issue" -- children -- will be enslaved forever.
5) Davis hopes to reunite the country, and make it all slave states.
Just like the Dred Scott decision, and the Southern Ultimatums, the issue was the SPREAD of slavery. Here Davis says he will reunite the country as a big slave nation.
Really, you have to read it over and over to get a handle on it.
Without further ado.....
Jefferson Davis, Richmond, January 5, 1863.
Here are just SOME of the amazing tid bits by Davis in this speech
1) Slavery is the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Davis apologist say slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War or the Confederacy. Here, Davis himself says slavery was the very foundation of the CSA.
2) Davis damns Lincoln for using black troops. He claims the war should be just by whites, "scions, peers, men of the same stock" and that to use blacks in battle "degrades" the white race, and justifies no mercy for blacks or whites in battle -- no prisoners.
The Southern lunatics today try to say they had black soldiers -- volunteers no less -- fighting for the South. Nonsense. According to Jeff Davis himself, Lincoln allowing blacks into the Union Army was an abomination against white race, and so changed the nature of the war, that he would invade the North and make slaves of all blacks there too (see below)
3) As a result of Lincoln using blacks -- we will invade the North, enslave the Negroes there!
Thats's right, because Lincoln said he will use black men as soldiers --- the South invade the North, and enslave blacks there, making the US one big slave nation, as God intended!!!!!
4) All slaves ever freed in the South are hereby "placed back on the slave status -- and their issue -- forever"
Many Southern apologist say Davis was going to end slavery soon anyway -- here, he promises to make slavery PERPETUAL -- forever. The slaves and the "issue" -- children -- will be enslaved forever.
5) Davis hopes to reunite the country, and make it all slave states.
Just like the Dred Scott decision, and the Southern Ultimatums, the issue was the SPREAD of slavery. Here Davis says he will reunite the country as a big slave nation.
Really, you have to read it over and over to get a handle on it.
Without further ado.....
Jefferson Davis, Richmond, January 5, 1863.
Jeff Davis
An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy
Richmond, January 5, 1863.
"Citizens of the non-slaveholding States of America, .... Heretofore, the warfare has been conducted by white men -- peers, scions of the same stock; but the programme has been changed, and your rulers despairing of a triumph by th employment of white men, have degraded you and themselves, by inviting the cooperation of the black race.
Thus, while they deprecate the intervention of white men -- the French and the English -- in behalf of the Southern Confederacy, they, these Abolitionists, do not hesitate to invoke the intervention of the African race in favor of the North.........
"Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:
"On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever. (RE - ENSLAVE ALL BLACKS EVER FREED)
"All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered.
"Abraham Lincoln has seen fit to ignore the Constitution he has solemnly sworn to support, it ought not be considered polemically or politically improper in me to vindicate the position which has been at an early day of this Southern republic, assumed by the Confederacy, namely, that slavery is the corner-stone of a Western Republic.
"In view of these facts, and conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, -- and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future. JEFFERSON DAVIS"
Source: Broadside, Jefferson Davis Papers, University Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. This is printed in Ervin L. Jordan, _Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia,_ University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1995, Appendix C, pages 319-320.
An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy
Richmond, January 5, 1863.
"Citizens of the non-slaveholding States of America, .... Heretofore, the warfare has been conducted by white men -- peers, scions of the same stock; but the programme has been changed, and your rulers despairing of a triumph by th employment of white men, have degraded you and themselves, by inviting the cooperation of the black race.
Thus, while they deprecate the intervention of white men -- the French and the English -- in behalf of the Southern Confederacy, they, these Abolitionists, do not hesitate to invoke the intervention of the African race in favor of the North.........
"Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:
"On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever. (RE - ENSLAVE ALL BLACKS EVER FREED)
"All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered.
"Abraham Lincoln has seen fit to ignore the Constitution he has solemnly sworn to support, it ought not be considered polemically or politically improper in me to vindicate the position which has been at an early day of this Southern republic, assumed by the Confederacy, namely, that slavery is the corner-stone of a Western Republic.
"In view of these facts, and conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, -- and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future. JEFFERSON DAVIS"
Source: Broadside, Jefferson Davis Papers, University Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. This is printed in Ervin L. Jordan, _Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia,_ University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1995, Appendix C, pages 319-320.
Yes, I came across this Davis statement and was stunned -- promises to invade the North, and make slaves of any free blacks there? Wild!
ReplyDeletePlus his tirade against Lincoln for daring to use black soldiers shows that the South did NOT NOT use black troops. Yes, there were some blacks with Confederates- - but they were still slaves, and the drafting of slaves came about the last week or two, because of massive desertions by Southern soldiers. The desertions of CSA soldiers is one of the most unreported facts of Civil War, and was the reason they lost. They had plenty of men -- far more than enough to defeat the North -- if their men did not keep on deserting. Plus, 200,000 Southern men fought for the Union -- another fact you will never hear.
Davis said in his Macon speech that a stunning 2/3 of CSA soldiers had deserted!! And more deserted after his speech. When SHerman read this in the papers -- the newspapers carried the speech!! -- Sherman changed his plans to do a much more powerful attack, now that he realized, from Davis himself, that his soldiers were deserting en masse.
There is yet another fact about Davis that South will not ever tell -- his Five Ultimatums, issued by Davis and the other Confederate leaders, first thing they did after secession, was to issue these Five Ultimatums.
All five ultimatums were about the SPREAD of slavery into Kansas and beyond. Slavery, they said, must be "respected and accepted" in the territories. Never mind that Kansas had just voted 98% to 2% to keep slavery out.
The people in Kansas MUST MUST accept and respect slavery and they MUST pass legislation to that effect. Sound like states rights to you?
When you put together the things Davis really said and did, you find a totally different story than we are told bout
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