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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.
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.
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