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Our adjutant sent me an article from the Houston Chronicle and as usual it was really low rating His Excellency Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and praising as I understand Jefferson Davis called him, "His Majesty Abraham the First". Davis called people like this reporter lower than an apologist for the South. Davis didn't apologize, was never reconstructed, but he said the worst thing to him was when he saw the press doing these apologies. Davis said, and I quote from the Southern Patriot (21), "Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance and denying the great truths on which all our institutions were founded. To be crushed by superior force, to be robbed and insulted, were great misfortunes, but these could be borne while there still remained manhood to assert the truth, and a proud consciousness in the rectitude of our course. When I find myself reviled by Southern papers as one renewing "dead issues, the pain is not caused by the attack upon myself, but by its desecration of the memories of our Fathers and those of their descendants who staked in defense of their rights—their lives, their property and their sacred honor. To deny the justice of their cause, to apologize for its defense, and denounce it as a dead issue, is to take the last of their stakes, that for which they were willing to surrender the other."

Davis knew his country and he had done nothing to be reconstructed for. But the Houston Chronicle article said that Kentucky, where Davis was born and Mississippi where Beauvoir is, was going to do nothing to celebrate his 200lh birthday. But that Kentucky would be putting on a big show for Lincoln. But there will be 35,000 SCV members who will celebrate His Excellency Jefferson Davis's birthday this year. 1 hope that most of our family members will celebrate also. The Houston Chronicle article stated that if there was anything done for Davis on his birthday it should be a commemoration and not a celebration. Well, I say to heck with these apologists.

This is the 200th year of the birth of His Excellency Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. Remember the line in the movie Braveheart

The ones who write the history hung the heroes.

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