Dear Editor,
Monday, June 2, is Alabama’s holiday to honor Jefferson Davis, a U.S. Army veteran who fought for the U.S. flag when it symbolized the voluntary Union of Independent States, established in the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Peace Treaty with Britain, and U.S. Constitution.
The Southern States had more right to withdraw from the voluntary Union called the United States than the 13 colonies had to secede from Great Britain, because the Independent States formed the United States, whereas Britain formed the colonies.
U.S. Sen. Jefferson Davis was later appointed secretary of war by President Franklin Pierce, where Davis modernized the U.S. military with the “Mississippi Rifle,” the first rifled weapon to be produced for general issue by the U.S. Army.
February 18, 1861, the popular Jefferson Davis rode up Dexter Avenue in an open carriage in front of 10,000 people to Alabama’s Capitol to be inaugurated on the front steps as president of the Confederate States.
On April 29, 1861, inside Alabama’s Capitol, President Davis explained in his “Message to the Confederate States Congress:”
“So utterly have the principles of the Constitution been corrupted that Abraham Lincoln did not hesitate to liken the relations between a State and the United States to those which exist between a county and the State in which it is situated and by which it was created.
“This is the lamentable and fundamental error on which rests the policy that has culminated in his Declaration of War against these Confederate States.”
Sincerely,
Roger K. Broxton
President, Confederate Heritage Fund
