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Editor says, what happens during the Union Presidency of Jefferson Davis asked our readers? Well since you ask.. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1865, driven incandescent with fury over his role in coercing the Deep Southern States back into the Union, the fire-eater John Wilkes Booth sneaked into the presidential box at Ford's theatre in Washington and shot Jefferson Davis at point blank range.
Revenge of the Fire-Eaters
Co-written with Scott PalterConvinced by the mythos is that no true gentleman could submit to being forced to do something without loss of honor, Dixie Fire Eaters had been forced to watch the US Navy blockade their coast. And even with "help" (smuggling) from Georgia and North Carolina, South Carolina's economy had been strangled into submission.
As a result, the Deep Southern States that seceded in the winter of 1860/1 (when it looked like Lincoln might take office) were coerced back into the Union. But only after Jefferson Davis had fully exploited his considerable network of contacts to manipulate the secessionists into reluctant re-admittance.
And for that betrayal, Davis now lay seriously injured in a boarding house on 10th Street..To be continued
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~ A Marylander killing a Mississippian over secession. The more things change...
~ I would find it more plausible, if the president ticket of Douglas-Davis beat Lincoln in the 1860 election, thus preventing any states from seceding.
~ I agree with my learned friend Mr. Wall. Lincoln's election was the catalyst for secession. One ATL that doesn't get explored much would be having John Brown headed off _before_ he hits Harpers Ferry and scares the South witless---maybe have Flashman decide that, after all, he _is_ First Assassin and backshoot the old nuisance?
~ It's "abolitionists."
And given the gory history of "bleeding Kansas" prior to Bown's ill-fated raid, abolitionists were hardly alone in being complicit in "out and out murder." (Let alone, of curse, the gruesome record of the slave states before the Civil War not only toward their slaves but toward anyone white who too publicly opposed the "peculiar institution.")
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