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Since the Lincoln, a TYRANT thread has been put on lockdown I thought I'd start this one in order to address this from 101combatvet.
101combatvet: "What's really funny is that Lincoln is often referred to as a tyrant but I don't believe Jeff Davis was ever bestowed that honor."
Sure he was.
(bold face emphasis mine)
Linton Stephens in a letter to his brother CSA VP Alexander Stephens warned that Davis was a "sly, secretive, malignant hypocrite [and] tyrant."
James Alcorn, brigadier general, Mississippi state militia, said Davis was a "miserable, stupid, one-eyed, dyspeptic, arrogant tyrant."
Quoted in Mary Chestnut's Civil War: "'Jeff Davis is a tyrant, and Hood is his pet and minion,' answers Dick Manning [Richard Manning, colonel, South Carolina state militia]."
Quoted from Burton Hendrick, Statesman of the Lost Cause, "The Constitution, he [CSA VP Alexander Stephens] declared, forbade Conscription in warfare, suspension of habeas corpus, martial law, the impressment of militay supplies; because the Confederacy had resorted to all these and other measures, Davis had become 'an imperial Despot' and 'constitutional liberty' had ceased to exist."
South Carolina Congressman William Boyce in a letter to Jefferson Davis: "Is not our Federal Government in the exercise of every possible power of a national central military despotism?... Indeed if you were appointed Military Dictator, what greater powers could you exercise than you do now?.... It is plain that our government exercises the powers of a central despotism... The truth is that the Government at Washington has not dared to exercise power on the grand scale our government has."
So does this mean that Davis was a tyrant, imperial Despot, Military Dictator?
No. No more than calling Lincoln a tyrant made him one.
101combatvet: "What's really funny is that Lincoln is often referred to as a tyrant but I don't believe Jeff Davis was ever bestowed that honor."
Sure he was.
(bold face emphasis mine)
Linton Stephens in a letter to his brother CSA VP Alexander Stephens warned that Davis was a "sly, secretive, malignant hypocrite [and] tyrant."
James Alcorn, brigadier general, Mississippi state militia, said Davis was a "miserable, stupid, one-eyed, dyspeptic, arrogant tyrant."
Quoted in Mary Chestnut's Civil War: "'Jeff Davis is a tyrant, and Hood is his pet and minion,' answers Dick Manning [Richard Manning, colonel, South Carolina state militia]."
Quoted from Burton Hendrick, Statesman of the Lost Cause, "The Constitution, he [CSA VP Alexander Stephens] declared, forbade Conscription in warfare, suspension of habeas corpus, martial law, the impressment of militay supplies; because the Confederacy had resorted to all these and other measures, Davis had become 'an imperial Despot' and 'constitutional liberty' had ceased to exist."
South Carolina Congressman William Boyce in a letter to Jefferson Davis: "Is not our Federal Government in the exercise of every possible power of a national central military despotism?... Indeed if you were appointed Military Dictator, what greater powers could you exercise than you do now?.... It is plain that our government exercises the powers of a central despotism... The truth is that the Government at Washington has not dared to exercise power on the grand scale our government has."
So does this mean that Davis was a tyrant, imperial Despot, Military Dictator?
No. No more than calling Lincoln a tyrant made him one.
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