Before the Skeptics throw their red flag on the field and expose my insincerity, I admit this illustration of Charles Darwin is from 1879, not 1861, but trust you me, evolution was not just a “thing”, is was “the thing” in 1861.

Darwin’s critics were “Johny on the Spot” in depictions of Darwin as half-ape, half-man, and this illustration serves as Exhibit A in the case of Black Lives Matter versus the “White Supremacy”.  Caucasians were the first to be compared to apes after Charles Darwin dared to publish what was, until then, just spoken of in university corridors.

If we are all indeed just animals, what kind of animal are we?  If one animals life form bootstraps the next into existence, what species created human beings?

Full stop.

At this juncture it is imperative for my African American brothers and sisters to realize just how self-defeating insular logic truly is.  African Americans have consistently argued that Africans were being singled out by “White Supremacists” in characterizations of Africans as apes, or half-apes.

Not true.  Europeans were the first to be indoctrinated into this unfounded belief, and Europeans were just as insulted as Africans by this particular libel of accredited academia.

African Americans failed to make natural allies in the moment.  African Americans must come to realize that both human evolution and slavery as its result effected both European Americans and African Americans.

Am I saying African Americans should not be insulted when they are compared to apes?  Not at all!  In fact, I am saying be just as insulted as I am.  The more plaintiffs there are in this case, the more likely the Righteous will prevail in the Court of Public Opinion.

But make “evolutionary racism” exclusive to Africans and you loose all your natural allies.

That does not appear wise.  Nor does it appear true.

Take slavery for instance.  Jefferson Davis did us all one favor in documenting the scope of his crimes against humanity, he published his expertise and efficiency for all to see.  In so doing, Jefferson Davis identified 1,680 natural allies for every African enslaved by science.

You don’t see how?

Check my math for me then.

If 300 slaves were forced to till 1,700 acres, in an age when a human being could only reasonably till one acre of land per day, 300 slaves displaced 1,680 white southerners from the labor market.

If African Americans have indeed been studying the history of slavery as they should, they will have done the math, but they have not.  I forgive them.  I’d likely only do the math which concerned me directly too. 

But had African American scholars listened to Confederate soldiers, who complained the Civil War was a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight, they may have connected the dots much earlier.

For every African forced to toil to the breaking point to enrich the Planters, there were 5.6 white southerners who could not find jobs in the most lucrative agricultural economy of the 19^th century.  In the 19^th century, cotton was the source of energy for all the world’s navies, and that meant every nation on earth.  No cotton, no navy.

Few if any white southerners were employed in “Dixie”.

That reality held true for white southerners following Reconstruction. 

Yeah, historians can say the Union won the Civil War, but I insist the Union won the battles but lost the peace.  To this very day African Americans and European Americans from the south are convinced they are enemies when, in fact, they were natural allies all along.

Science distracted us all with nauseating implications of “scientific theses”.

Just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, the first war against Socialism in world history, Louis Pasteur proved that microbial life did not spontaneously generate, meaning no greater form of life ‘spontaneously generated” either. 

Louis Pasteur appeared to lend credibility to what Darwin argued: We’re all sexual animals.  Everyone who chose to believe Darwin and the Agnostics began looking for primates in the mirror.

Atheists inevitably pointed to Africans and found greater similarity there.

The rest, as I keep saying, is history.

I’ll return to the subject of phenotypical parity when I recall the election campaign of Barrack Obama, and here conclude with the warning, it would be a long time before Darwin’s comparisons would stop making waves.

Here, in concluding my introduction to Jefferson Davis as a man, I’ll close with this summary.  Davis continued to correspond with Sarah Taylor, the general’s daughter, and eventually convinced Zachary Taylor to relent in opposition to their marriage.  After the wedding, Sarah joined Jefferson Davis at the plantation of Davis’s sister, Anna Smith, where both contracted malaria within days of their arrival.

Sarah Taylor-Davis died on September 15^th, 1835, after only three months of marriage.

Obviously, Louis Pasteur’s discovery would not have saved Sarah from her fate, but it is unnerving to realize just how close Mankind was to a miracle.  Between Sarah’s death and 1860 Jefferson Davis poured all his resentment into building his own plantation called Brierfield.  By 1860 Jefferson owned 113 slaves.  James Pemberton, his first slave and aide des camps, was made overseer.

We all know how the rest of Jefferson Davis’s story goes.  Jefferson Davis overcame his grief, married a proper southern belle named Varina, then went to work for the Democrat Party to preserve the Planter’s interest in Antebellum America.

The day war broke out between the United States and Mexico, Jefferson Davis had already been elected a Congressman.  Jefferson Davis seized the opportunity to grand stand and had himself appointed commander of a Mississippi militia regiment which came to be known as the Mississippi Rifles.

Perhaps by chance, perhaps by plan, Jefferson Davis discovered his unit assigned under the command of General Zachary Taylor during the Mexican American War.  Historians are mute on what personally transpired between the men, but in battle the Mississippi Rifles distinguished themselves during the Battle of Monterey, and Jefferson was recognized as responsible. 

The veracity of Jefferson’s “hero” status becomes suspect after he was forced from service after being wounded in the heel during the Battle of Buena Vista.  Historians all laud Jefferson for taking on risky assignments protecting the army’s flanks, but it is more likely General Taylor wanted Jefferson as far from the center of command as feasibly possible.

I argue it was not Jefferson Davis who led the Mississippi Rifles to glory.  Rather, it was the Mississippi Rifles who saved Jefferson Davis from a humiliating battlefield death.  After returning to Mississippi to convalesce from his “wounds”, Jefferson Davis was offered a commission as Brigadier General by none other than President Polk himself!

We all know who put Jefferson Davis in for that “promotion”.  General Zachary Taylor had more missions in mind for his former son-in-law.  One may only wonder at the stress Jefferson Davis was under.  Declining a Presidential commission would require two-stepping had yet to master.

In the nick of time the Hero of Beuna Vista cried constitutional foul and slip Taylor’s knot.  Jefferson claimed the President had no authority to promote him to general.  According to Jefferson Davis, the United States Constitution reserved the “regulation” of militias to the states. 

In outright cowardice did Jefferson Davis’s commitment to state’s rights begin.

Had Jesse Speight not died as Sir Robin ran away, that may have been the last anyone heard of Jefferson Davis.  Jesse Speight was a United States Senator representing Mississippi and the governor appointed the Hero of Buena Vista to replace Speight in the United States Senate.

An observation I’d like to make is that not even the people of Mississippi can be blamed for Jefferson Davis’s rise to power.  I’d like to think the Rightoues of Mississippi would never have elected a drunk and a coward like Jefferson Davis to represent them.

As Senator Davis remained oddly silent as his former commander and former father-in-law, Zachary Taylor campaigned for the Presidency.  Taylor awarded Jefferson’s silence with an appointment as Secretary of War, a fateful inflation of the man’s ego which would come back to haunt to nation.  In gaining the title, Jefferson acquired the appearance of “civilian leadership” to whom all military leaders must defer.

Jefferson’s civilian authority would tip the scales when the northern barracks and southern barracks at West Point would come into play in 1861.

Taylor’s administration and untimely death have been the subject of controversy, with noteworthy figures of that age firmly convinced Taylor was assassinated by Jefferson Davis a year after his election.  Jefferson certainly had the motive, the means and the opportunity, but tests conducted on Zachary Taylor’s remains that the late President did not die from poisoning as was suspected at the time.

Taylor’s doctor at that time had concluded Taylor died from cholera, an illness which was later identified due to Louis Pasteur’s research.  Jefferson survived Taylor’s demise continuing on into the Pierce Administration where he managed to convince the new President to overturn the Missouri Compromise.

To say Jefferson Davis was a Taylor loyalist, a holdover from a promising, progressive administration, is therefore in refusal of the facts.  Taylor and Jefferson were oil and water.  One must conclude, following Jefferson’s performance at the Battle of Buena Vista, Zachary felt soul bound to the man who had married and buried his daughter.

Jefferson returned to the United States Senate where he licked his wounds, consoling himself only in having turned Kansas Bloody, and waited for an opportunity to realize his version of Dixie.

To suggest that American History from 1850 forward could be viewed through the prisms of land grants and microbes would be an understatement.  Because land grants had defined the boundaries of slavery from inception, and land grants would define the boundaries of the United States going forward, land grants were the exclusive preoccupation of southern Planters.

Among the South’s atheist scholars, democracy’s promise of equality meant the United States would continue to be composed equally of free and slave states.  To the Atheists in accredited academia, southerners had a right to their livestock, all the way to the Pacific.

Among the Classical Scholars dominating northern universities, democracy’s promise meant slavery would exist nowhere on earth.  By 1850 many beyond James Oglethorpe had proven the humanity of Africans.  Even Southern Planters had codified a confession of sorts into Law.  Laws passed prohibited the education of slaves, intended to keep slaves from reading and understanding the Holy Bible, confirmed for abolitionists what all should have known by default.

Animals cannot read, and only a soul can be saved.

Jefferson Davis may have matured into a man of conscience had Sarah Taylor lived.  One may only speculate, but it was in his scientific convictions where Jefferson Davis ultimately failed.  Jefferson Davis read, understood and believed Darwin and Marx. 

In Jefferson Davis’s eyes northern industry was lead by greedy hypocrites who reaped profits as the fellow man starved, while trying to “humanize” what most in the south regarded as a sub-species of primate.

In Jefferson Davis’s mind Dixie would deliver the promised land democracy could not.  Of course, it would not.  In the end Jefferson was disgraced, captured trying to flee the battlefield disguised as a woman, and imprisoned for the crimes he committed against the nation.

Tragically, but tellingly, Jefferson was ultimately betrayed by his older brother, Joseph upon the brother’s death.  Although Joseph made Jefferson the executor of his will, Jospeh left none of his land to Jefferson.  Jefferson seethed, sued his own brother’s estate and lost.  Adding insult to injury, Jefferson discovered Joseph had sold his plantation to his former slave, Ben Montogomery.

I’d call that justice if Ben Montgomery had not later been driven off the land, its mortgage foreclosed by Jefferson himself.  That, unfortunately, was the fate of too many freed slaves.  Jefferson and most southerners were shameless in claiming the Confederacy would never have surrendered if they knew African Americans would be enfranchised.