-Caveat Lector-
My friend sent me the following concerning the question of whether or
not Jeff Davis was catholic:
If it is he chose curious prose:
Davis compared the Confederacy's military heroes with their
Scottish forebears: "May it not come to pass that in some hour of need,
future generations, aware of the
grandeur and the virtues of these men, will in a moment of disaster cry out
like the ancient Scot:
O for an hour of Wallace wight,
Or well-trained Bruce
To lead the fight,
And cry St. Andrew and our right."
http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/greatmen/davis/pres-dav.htm
That this quote is directly attributed to him shows someone knew the
meaning of the Confederate Battle Flag's symbolism. As I have mentioned,
the St.Andrew's Cross=Protestantism overseas.
Another website quotes his post-war reference to "black Republicanism."
This was the notion that the federal system had become intrinsically
corrupt...Thomas Jefferson pointed to this in his Letter of Protest he
wrote for the Virginia Legislature (which was suppressed to my
recollection, but is in some of his collected writings).
According to one website he did attend a catholic school early on in
Kentucky (unbeknownst to many, a Catholic stronghold) but his bios I've
found are conflicting and one can never discount false histories being
passed as truth. The story of "Father O'Reilly's saving the downtown
churches of Atlanta from Gen'l Sherman" comes to mind. One said his
parents
were both Welsh immigrants (which would foreclose any likelihood of their
being RC), another went on as to how faithful a Christian he was but did
not specify his communion. That none I found specifies his denomination
does lend credence to the notion he might have been. Why have none
claimed
him? Perhaps his notoriety?
In any event our Founders were definitely not Papists and the Carroll
family the lady mentions started in Calvert County Maryland long before the
papist colony was settled in west Georgia. I'd need to see substantiation
for the claim of "old Southern families" being RC, as I have the RCC's 1855
census of the US and their presence in the South was statistically
insignificant.
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