I missed it. Jefferson Davis’ birthday. Yesterday?
Yesterday was an excuse for lazy state workers in Alabama and Florida to cheat taxpayers out of a day’s work in favor of a fake Monday, three day weekend holiday.
He was actually born on June 3 which was Friday. Tennessee has its official state holiday on June 3 and Mississippi celebrates Jeff’s birthday on the last Monday of May – Last Monday of May? Memorial Day? I thought Memorial Day was for all the dead of the Civil War. And don’t give me the revisionist title “war between the states” bullshit.
I have stopped trying to research this fake messiah birthday item state by state in the old southern states of the Confederacy. Why bother?
I, did while researching, run into a blatant lie in of all places a government web site on the U.S. Senate.
“Tall, slender, and gaunt at the age of 52, Davis had been confined to his bed for more than a week….”
Tall? Tall? He was a shrimp! (Sorry)
Forty years ago I saw the “dress” he was captured in, in a display case at the Civil War Museum in Philadelphia. It was not a dress but a silk paisley dressing gown. How metrosexual for the times guys! Did I mention how small this article of clothing was? Like when I first saw it. I thought it was for a child, the gown was so petite.
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I researched it. He was five foot four inches tall (162 cm). I guess he was tall in the Senate and compared to the other senators? Perhaps if he were alive today, Jeff would be driving or have one of his slaves driving him in a Hummer to offset psychological physical short comings if you know what I mean etc.
As I have stated before in this or some other blog, Jefferson Davis, as one time Secretary of War had the blueprints and plans for a southern route of a national transcontinental railroad, the projected moon shot space project of its day, to be financed by the federal government.
The lawyer for the northern railroads and the northern railroad transcontinental route lobby groups in the form of Abraham Lincoln signaled the end of the expansion of slavery on the continent. Davis’ plans to build the southern route with cheap slave labor would have given him a shot at becoming the nation’s first billionaire.
How many dead darkies per mile would it have taken to make Jeff and his cronies’ multi multi millionaires building this dream of a southern railroad cash cow to the Pacific? Who would care?
Strange thing is that most “Christians” don’t really know their neighbors let alone love them as commanded by one long forgotten mystic and seer.
Odd thing was that Jeff was educated in a Catholic school along the way, even though not catholic. Which is why I think Pope Pius IX had such a fondness for Jeff, and his brave stance defending the honorable age old institution of slavery. Whatever.
With the Gadsden Purchase in hand for a southern railroad Pacific route, the business men of the old south went their way into their brave new world of the Confederacy. With lots and lots of nut cases running around the planet like pro-slavery southern freebooter William Walker taking over countries like Nicaragua, funded by Vanderbilt types, the future seemed bright to fuel the future slave republics of Mexico and Central America in league with the Confederacy.
All Jeff Davis had to do was build the south’s railroad to the Pacific Ocean to be king of the world.
I am not exaggerating these facts. Greedy men with ego problems like Jeff Davis have and continue to plague and ruin the world to this day for the rest of humanity, slave or not.
If you want to have cake with slave master dictators in the old south y’all, go right ahead. Enjoy.
Have a nice day.
