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Jefferson Davis, Embodiment of The GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE TWO PRESIDENTS: JEFFERSON DAVIS, EMBODIMENT OF THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF RACISM HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE JEFFERSON DAVI S Our Perennial Quest to Do Harm So Good Will Come President Lincoln 1809-1865 President Davis 1808-1889 HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE “To be active, well, happy, implies rare courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.” — Henry Thoreau HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1808 June 3, Friday: Birth of Jefferson Davis. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 6th day 3 of 6 M / Nothing material to insert. The mind rather appressd than otherways In the evening at O W & C Rs - Evans Thomas & companion has arrived to attend the Yearly Meeting, more friends are expected in a few days from NYork - RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NEVER READ AHEAD! TO APPRECIATE JUNE 3D, 1808 AT ALL ONE MUST APPRECIATE IT AS A TODAY. AS OF THIS DAY JEFFERSON DAVIS IS JUST ANOTHER HUMAN INFANT HAVING NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH THE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE A RAID BY ABOLITIONISTS ON THE FEDERAL ARSENAL AT HARPERS FERRY AND NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH ANY SUCH CONSTRUCT AS “THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.” (EVEN THE FOLLOWING DAY, TOMORROW JUNE 4TH, IS BUT A PORTION OF THE UNREALIZED FUTURE AND IFFY AT BEST). HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1809 During this year and the following one, the family of the infant Jefferson Davis would be moving to the Bayou Teche country of Louisiana and shortly thereafter to Wilkinson County, Mississippi. They would settle in Woodville and build “Rosemont” — or, rather, their slaves would build “Rosemont” while they looked on and administered the appropriate rewards and punishments. “It is simply crazy that there should ever have come into being a world with such a sin in it, in which a man is set apart because of his color — the superficial fact about a human being. Who could want such a world? For an American fighting for his love of country, that the last hope of earth should from its beginning have swallowed slavery, is an irony so withering, a justice so intimate in its rebuke of pride, as to measure only with God.” — Stanley Cavell, MUST WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY? 1976, page 141 HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1816 From this year into 1818, Jefferson Davis would be attending St. Thomas College near Springfield, Kentucky. (Such a fact, offered by itself, provides us with the additional information that this Jefferson Davis was a white boy and that his parents were of means.) HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1818 Jefferson Davis returned from his schooling in Kentucky to enter Jefferson College in Mississippi; later he would transfer to the Wilkinson County Academy in order to be able to live at home in Woodville. HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1823 During this school year, Jefferson Davis would be a member of the junior class at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1824 Our national birthday, Sunday the 4th of July: In New-York, a “Patriotic Volunteer” ballet performance was offered at the new theater at Chatham Garden. Meanwhile, thousands watched as municipal firemen paraded from the lawn in front of the hospital on Broadway between Anthony and Duane streets (Hospital Green) to the Bowery Church. In Newport, Rhode Island, Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 1st day 4th of 7th M / Our Morning meeting was solid & silent & to me a season of some favour — In the afternoon a few words from D Buffum - pretty good Meeting — With my H & John went out to D B Jr & took tea & set the evening.- RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Horace Mann, Sr. was invited by the citizens of Dedham to deliver an oration. His oration would impress John Quincy Adams. In Poultney, Vermont, a couple of hundred men repaired a road, after which they repaired to a locale at which “ladies of the neighborhood” had prepared for them a “plenteous repast.” Jefferson Davis’s father Samuel Emory Davis died. Hezikiah Prince Jr. lived in the small port town (for the coasting trade) of Thomaston, Maine, and in his journal of 1822-1828 (published by the Maine Historical Society in 1965) he described the July 4th celebrations there. On this year the 4th had been a Sunday, so the national birthday celebration actually took place on Monday the 5th:1 We had a stage erected in front of the pulpit [of the Brick Meetinghouse] ... The first performance after the reading of the Constitution was an oration by Demerrick Spear, next a written disputation between ... and another between ... we went to the Shore to a dinner provided by the Widow Spear. About 50 set down to dinner after which some appropriate toasts were drunk. [about 3:30 pm] I came home in the chaise I had hired for the day -- Mrs. Hasting’s chaise and Mr. Jourdain’s horse. ... About seven o’clock ... tackled my horse and chaise and carried Miss Henrietta Marsh and Miss Fanny Sprague (two young ladies from Bath and fine agreeable ones, too) over to a ball ... [meeting a party of about 12 couples] ... we spent the evening or rather night in dancing and very pleasantly till about two o’clock when I came away with Miss Marsh and Sprague. Some of the party continued till three o’clock. 4th July, 1826, National Jubilee. A fine morning was ushered in by 1. This was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, or Hathorne’s, 20th birthday. HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE the roar of cannon in all parts of the town, by a salute of 24 guns from a brass six pounder on the hill and by the ringing of bells. It is the fiftieth anniversary of that joyous day which we hail as our nation’s birthday. It was a glorious day to our country -- it was so to the world, for it declared that “all men are born free and equal” and this principle of equality is gaining upon the old notions of imperial, kingly and lordly characters and as it gains ground, the world becomes enlightened and refined ... After the services at the Meetinghouse the procession formed again walked to the new ropewalks lately erected where a table of 300 plates was spread and a dinner in ample order. Mr. Ruggles presided assisted by five vice-presidents. ... After the cloth was removed and the wine was placed before us, some fine sentiments were drank to and a fine flow of soul seemed to pervade the whole company in number over 200. ... A Mr. Brown sung some fine patriotic songs and towards the last some comic songs in fine style. All was life and spirit, yet all was orderly and harmonious. In the evening a fine display of fireworks was had, procured from Boston ... CELEBRATING OUR B-DAY In a footnote he added that the meetinghouse had been adorned with the names of Washington, Knox, and other patriots in white roses, along with that of Simón Bolívar who had helped revive their fine sense of a steady march of freedom. HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1824 Jefferson Davis became a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1825 August: Jefferson Davis was court-martialed for a visit he had made on July 31st to Benny Havens’ pub (it’s all makebelive when you’re dealing with the white boys; this cadet’s sentence would be remitted). HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1826 December 25, Monday: Cadet Jefferson Davis was arrested and ordered to be confined to quarters at the beginning of the “Eggnog Riot” (this cadet would be released in February 1827). HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1828 Jefferson Davis graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, 23d in a class of 33. HDT WHAT? INDEX JEFFERSON DAVIS JEFFERSON DAVIS GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1829 During this year and the next, Alexis de Tocqueville would read and discuss history with Gustave de Beaumont while the two of them were taking Francois-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot’s course in the history of civilization in France. Both men came from aristocratic families but were reduced under Charles X to serving as magistrates. They would both support what remained of the monarch through the 1830 revolution which saw Charles X’s downfall; then, uneasy about their prospects under the new constitutional regime and anxious to see America, they would propose a joint trip to examine the penal system of the United States. While de Tocqueville’s attention would go primarily toward the government and the public institutions supporting the new American republic, de Beaumont would focus upon the manners and social customs of Americans, at first particularly as they involved the remnants of the bands of Noble Savages. After a theater experience in Philadelphia, de Beaumont’s focus would enlarge to include the treatment of black Americans, slave and free.
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