Some where this week,someone wrote in an email. I think it was Jim Bently From Stone Fort Camp. Whoever it was , it was a brilliant thoughgt.
They said, Since the day of Appomattox, our morals and our rights have all went downhill! This is as true a statement as I have ever heard.
As I have told you before I ahve been to Vicksburg over a hundred times. I have visited the Breach, the Texas monument, and have hurried through the Yankee lines that they force you through so I could hurry to the statues that I liked. But I have never stopped at the statue of His Excellency, the President of the Confederate States, Jeff Davis. So I have been reading and studying about this great man and want to try to convey my fellings to you. I have never given the respect or admiration to President Davis that I have give to Lee, Jackson, and Forest, all of which they deserve but so does he.
I beleive no one suffered like Davis after surrending and then being captured. The victors treated him terribly. So this time my brother and I stopped at his statue at Vicksburg. I personally was overwhelmed when I think they made a hero of Lincoln and vilified this great man. I'm surely not smart enough to be a constitutional authority but think about this: in 1850, Davis turned down an appointment to be Brigadier General because he thought the apointment was unconstitutional. Is this not a great man of principal? The SCV will celebrate ""The year of Jefferson Davis" in 2008.
