President Davis – Today In Southern History
9 February 1861
On this date in 1861…
Mexican War hero, former Secretary of War, and U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected by the provisional Confederate government as President and Alexander Stephens as Vice-President of the Confederate States of America.
Other Years:
1611 – While leading a Paspahegh war party near Jamestown, Virginia, Chief Wochinchopunck of the Powhatan Confederacy was killed killed by Cpt. William Powell during a fight with English colonists in Virginia
1861 – A vote for Tennessee secession failed.
1926 – Atlanta, Georgia schools forbid the teaching of the Darwin’s theory of evolution.
1960 – The first star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring Joanne Woodward of Thomasville, Georgia.
1989 – New York-based Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. completed the $25 billion purchase of RJR Nabisco, Inc.
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After the Civil War it is said that Jefferson Davis spent the rest of his life saying that he was a man without a country. The United States gave him back his citizenship per Jimmy Carter. The citizenship that creates an act of treason against the lawful or de jure states. A RED citizenship.
The Jefferson Davis treason case was one of the significant happenings in American history. It envelopes the basis of my research, which is how the American Union was highjacked by a Communist faction. You can read the piece I put together on Davis at: https://pacinlaw.us/warned
That paper, You Have Been Warned, contains information on how this usurpation has transpired through operations of the 14th Amendment. The amendment I aptly call: The Red Amendment.