East Carroll-West Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives News.....Other Civil War leaders gets little respect at 200 February 24, 2008
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The News Star- Monroe, La. February 24, 2008
  Other Civil War leader gets little respect at 200. It hasn't been easy 
getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, 
gaunt bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on 
to lead his people through a bloody Civil War. No not Abraham Lincoln.  Last 
week, President Bush himself helped kick off a two-year celebration of the 
Great Emancipator's Feb. 12, 2009 bicentennial.
  It's that other tall, log cabin-born Kentuckian, Jefferson Davis, whose 
200th has turned out to be something of a lost cause.
  "The response to date has been timid," acknowledges Betram Hayes-Davis, head 
of the Davis Family Association and great-great grandson of the only president 
of the short lived Confederate States of American. "Nobody has said no.  Many 
haven't said yes."
   Even Mississippi, the state where Davis made his fortune, gave the idea of 
commemorating Davis a lukewarm reception.  A bill to establish a 
commission "for the purpose of organizing and planning a celebration in 
recognition of Jefferson Davis' 200th birthday" died in committee.
   On June 3, Davis' actual birthdate, the family will gather in Biloxi for 
the rededication of Beauvoir House where Davis spent the last 12 years of his 
life.
   But, the calendar of events on hhp://jeffersondavisbicentennial.org is, 
well a bit anemic.
   That's to be expected, says William J. Cooper, a LSU history professor and 
author of "Jefferson Davis, American."
   Lincoln "saved the Union." He emanicapted the slaves.  I mean, he won the 
war," Cooper says " Fighting against Lincoln is, you know, fighting against 
motherhood."
   For the most part, if Davis is mentioned at all this year, it will be in 
the context of symposia like "The Contested Legacy of Jefferson Davis," a 
scholarly discussion being hosted this June by the Thomas D. Clark Center for 
Kentucky History in Frankfort. 
   


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