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Stumpage Reports
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Monday, December 16, 2002 :::
I'm Done With School: or, Stop Picking on Jefferson Davis
I finished up with school today, handed in the last paper about 10:45 AM today. I feel like I am entitled to not do shit for the next couple weeks. However, I still have this part time job I have to show up at and have to go to Chapel Hill tomorrow to do some more mining research. Then a quick trip to the Queen City on Thursday and Friday for a couple holiday parties and back here for the weekend. This weekend will be sleeping, watching TV, and most exciting to me, doing research on Confederate monuments in North Carolina, thats what I really like doing for fun (seriously).
I've been following the Trent "Make 'em sit in the back of the bus" Lott fiasco. One of his quotes they've dredged up, in 1984 he said "the spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform." This thing has been quoted to death. Ol' Jeff Davis has been mentioned more times on television in the last week than he has in the last five years. I enjoy it in a peverse way, lots of good old southern history stirring up, the Civil War is still with us. Davis has been getting slammed a bit with all this. From our twentieth century viewpoints those guys all look like whackos, but they didn't have our twentieth century viewpoints. Perhaps in 100 years when the ozone layer is gone people will have a hard time believing we could drive cars in the same way we wonder how people could justify slavery. I smell an essay for Michaelcosm coming on.
In that spirit, here's a few Quotes of the Day:
"Fugitive slaves in flight for more than a month will have their ears severed and marked with a Fluer-de-Lys branded on their shoulder. For absences of another month, he will have his hamstring severed, and branded on the other shoulder. On the third time he will be punished with death." -- Code Noir, Louisiana, 1685.
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the must unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other." -- Thomas Jefferson.
"In short, North Carolina is now a white man's state and white men intend to govern it hereafter." -- The Charlotte Democrat, on the victory of the Democratic candidate for governor in 1876.
"Why has the South become so toadyish and sycophantic? I think it is because the best and noblest were killed off during the war and that the scum element is now in ascendancy." -- D.H. Hill, former Confederate general
::: posted by tom at 11:12 PM
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