In the years after the end of the Civil War in 1865, this period was known as “Reconstruction”. It was a period of great turmoil. A lot of things were happening during this time. The Confederacy had lost the war and Federal troops had been stationed all over Southern Lands. Needless to say, this caused a lot of animosity and anger among the Southern populous. Uprisings for the atrocious behavior of federal troops and the Union government were common. Civil war soldiers were basically treated as prisoners after their return home. They arrived to find a ravaged homeland and basically no rights left to speak of. Northern officials were clambering for heads to roll and for “PAYBACK” for the millions of dollars the war cost the Union. When the Southern lands were seized, some of it was distributed via (General Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15. The order, issued on January 16, 1865, gave freed slaves 400,000 acres of abandoned rice land on Georgia’s Sea Islands and on the coast of South Carolina. The land was divided into forty-acre plots, and later the army was ordered to provide mules to the freedmen. This arrangement became known as “forty acres and a mule”. (from article By Jessica McElrath, About.com entitled “The Reconstruction Era http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/reconstruction/a/reconstruction.htm)
The reason I wanted to lay this ground work is for you to see the hypocrisy after this fiery time in American History. I wanted to SHOW you that what you have learned about us here is mostly half truths. A lot of you will not recognize any of this because you have been taught by the Union system, the victors Why does this matter? It’s because the victors get to write history. The winners get to make themselves the heroes and fabricate a cause that could not be further from the truth, as was so called cause of slavery.
We have all been taught that Lincoln was a great emancipator. He freed the slaves and that is what you know about the civil war. This is a complete falsehood. It was not about slavery. In fact slavery was not introduced as a reason for the civil war until 18 months AFTER the war had started. The North was losing the war and Lincoln was desperate. After 18 months of bloody losses to the Confederates, Lincoln made his Emancipation Proclamation. It was intended to provoke slave revolts on plantations where women and children had been left alone while the men were off fighting the Union. Then and ONLY then did Lincoln become an abolitionist. In fact, as a lawyer and legislator, he repeatedly fought to protect the institution of slavery. He supported the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which obligated the federal government to assist in returning escaped slaves back to the South.
This following section is from J. McClure in his review of the book by J.DiLorenzo “The Real Lincoln”
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus for the duration of his administration in order to quell Northern opposition to the war. Chief Justice Taney responded the president had no lawful power to do so, but Lincoln ignored the Court. Thousands of Northern citizens were imprisoned without trial on rumors they opposed the war. A secret police force was established to weed out dissenters. According to DiLorenzo, “[p]risoners were not told why they were being arrested, no investigations of their alleged ‘crimes’ were carried out, and no trials were held” (138).
More than 13,000 citizens were held in Lincoln’s political prisons, many of them at Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor, the “American Bastille.” Prisoners were thrown in crowded cells with beds of straw or moss and served raw pork fat and water filled with tadpoles. Most of the Maryland legislature ended up in Fort Lafayette, along with many other state legislators from across the North. The grandson of Francis Scott Key was imprisoned at the very place his grandfather wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Free speech was quickly ended when Lincoln assumed power. Newspaper editors opposing the war were imprisoned without trial. Some were allowed to continue, but only if they agreed to report favorably on the war. The consequence of printing “disloyal” stories was destruction of the paper and imprisonment or hanging of the editors.
Does ANY of this sound familiar in today’s political arena? National police force. Report only favorable articles about the government. Free speech being stifled. Sound familiar?
I have went through all of this spiel, number one to educate you and number 2 to show you the similarities of what is happening today and number 3 to set the damn record straight about the South and that war.
On this 201st anniversary of Jefferson Davis’s birthday, I wanted to SHOW you the lies about our people and how what you have been taught in school is fabricated by your government. For those of you who do not know who Jefferson Davis was, I will enlighten you.
Jefferson Davis was the first and only President of the CSA Confederate States Of America. He was a strict Constitutionalist, Christian, Patriot and Great Father. He fought in the Mexican-American war. He was a West Point graduate. He was the United States Secretary Of War under Franklin Pierce and a U.S. Senator for Mississippi. Davis’s father, along with his uncles, had served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War; he (Davis’s father) fought with the Georgia cavalry and fought in the Siege of Savannah as an infantry officer. Also, three of his older brothers served during the War of 1812. Two of them served under Andrew Jackson and received commendation for bravery in the Battle of New Orleans. (Some info from Wikipedia from their data located here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis)
This will not get reported on NBC Nightly News, but the one and only CSA President adopted a black child by the name of Jim Limber. Not a lot about Jim Limber is known. The information we DO know comes from the communications between his wife Varina Davis and their family members and friends. Jim Limber was a black child that Mrs. Davis rescued. Apparently the boy was being beaten by another black man, his guardian. Mrs. Davis witnessed this on her way back from Richmond and promptly put a stop to the beating and brought the child home with her. Later they supposedly adopted him into their family. That’s right. That’s what I said. Where is the proof of this child? The proof is in a picture taken of Limber located here. http://richmondthenandnow.com/Images/Famous-People/Jim-Limber.jpg Jim Limber was taken away from the Davis’s after their capture near Irwinville, Georgia. Northern articles were written proclaiming the North had “rescued” Limber thus was the reason he was taken.
Taken from “What Do We
Really Know About
“Jim Limber”?
By John M. Coski, Historian and Library Director, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond,Virginia © 2008
Even without official documentation, wartime sources do corroborate Mrs. Davis’ postwar account of Jim Limber’s presence in the Confederate executive mansion. On February 16, 1864, a family friend, the celebrated diarist Mary Chestnut, recorded that she saw (in the 3rd-floor room where Varina’s mother lived for part of the war) “the little negro Mrs. Davis rescued yesterday from his brutal negro guardian. The child is an orphan. He was dressed up in Little Joe’s (The Davis’s natural born son) clothes and happy as a lord. He was very anxious to show me his wounds and bruises, but I fled.”
A year later, nine-year-old Margaret Davis wrote to her younger bother, Jeff, who was spending time with the army, relaying that “Jim Limber sends his love to you…” As the Davises fled southward from Richmond in April 1865, Varina included Jim limber in her reports to her husband about the family. On April 19, 1865: “The children are well and very happy—play all day—Billy & Jim fast friends as ever…” On April 28, 1865: “Billy and Jeff are very well—Limber is thriving but bad.”
Within two weeks, Federal troops caught up with the Davis family and their party of military aides, slaves, servants—and Jim Limber—near Irwinville, Georgia. When the captives reached the Atlantic coast on a river transport ship, the Davis’s and Jim Limber were separated forever.
Now you know.
Thanks for reading
Deo Vindice
