As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
While the United States bobs in the trouble awaiting President Elect Donald Trump, it would be worth noting another President of the disunited States in Jefferson Davis, a most accomplished man.
Jefferson Davis though had flaws and enemies. Himself being his greatest enemy in he could not separate out different views from his own, and if anyone disputed with him, it was the other person who was at fault.
Three times he was involved in duels which were called off and those with men in Congress.
While amusing to read the assessments of others, it is a telling blow to what generates in an opposition for leadership, when a sitting President is in the White House.
General Winfield Scott summed up Jefferson Davis with, "He is not a cheap Judas. I do not think he would have sold the Savior for thirty shillings; but for the successorship to Pontius Pilate, he would have betrayed Christ and the Apostles and the whole Christian Church".
Then there was this from Texas in Sam Houston, "Jefferson Davis is as ambitious as Lucifer and cold as a lizard".
Mr. Davis though in working the secession over and over, would on the ladder to a step where being commissioned a Major General in Mississippi after lingering in Washington DC to be arrested after his resignation from Congress on his sick bed, had tried to moderate for the Union and then told Southerners he would have hoped secession could have been put off as the South was not ready.
He was though chosen President of the Confederacy and for a man of his position and an acknowledged "infirmity" which was his temper, he would collaborate and defer to the Virginian in General Robert E. Lee on all military matters without any contention. This was the South at heart, a duo of men in military and political, both hesitant to war, with Lee not lusting to be dictator of the South to supplant Davis and Davis, not the least bit in need of validation in trying to take the glory from Lee.
While Secretary of War in an earlier United States presidency, he learned and knew the American army and people, better than the army did. Yet in that, Jefferson Davis was not the incompetent in squandering the early victories of the war.
The Confederacy produced cotton which the North sold for profit to Europe. It bred Niggers as it's only manufacture. The war was lost before it began and this was not Davis' fault. It was reality. The Southern victories were due to lack of judgement from the Union army. The South fought very well as their people were a perfect militia, but the South never had the staff and population to fight a prolonged war.
The South should have struck hard at the north, taking Washington City and dividing the North in the Ohio and then marched to New York. They lingered because as a people, they were natives of their own state's soil. It was only when it was too late that General Lee ventured north at Sharpsburg and Gettysburg and was exposed as not being an innovative field commander. Lee was superb in defense and in withdrawal, no one was better, but he was not able to prosecute the war in battles in which he did not waste resources.
The miracle of the South were Generals Longstreet in field command and Jackson in maneuver.
We have been forced into a 21st century Obama extremism at home and abroad which any flicker of a flame will ignite populations and war, much as Abraham Lincoln faced as this was set up by the New York and European bankers.
The time to deal with trouble is before trouble begins.
The one mistake of Abraham Lincoln in his war, is he let it begin. The moment that insurrection started to be carried out in resignations, all those Americans should have been arrested and not allowed to return to the South. You can not have a war without generals, instigators without politicians or propagandists without media.
There is a lesson in this for the President Elect in measures which must be operationally laid out and carried out when actions take place.......not after the fact that the American House is on fire again.
Nuff Said
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