Jefferson Davis' Birthday

Tidewater · Jun 3, 2017

He is 209 years old today.

Jefferson Davis said:
Our present political position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations. It illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

First Inaugural Address, 1861

Jefferson Davis said:
We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor and independence; we seek no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the states with which we were lately confederated; All we ask is to be let alone.

Message to the Confederate Congress, April 29, 1861.

Jefferson Davis said:
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Letter to James Frazier Jacquess & James R. Gilmore, July 17, 1864.

Jefferson Davis said:
The sovereignty of the people [is] the cornerstone of all our institutions.

Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 2:718.

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