Is Davis A Traitor?

The introduction to Mike Church’s edited volume of Albert Taylor Bledsoe’s masterful work, Is Davis A Traitor? or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?

The Congress of the Confederate States of America adopted “Deo Vindice” (God Will Vindicate) as the official motto of the Confederacy in 1864. Less than a year later, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled Richmond, the Confederate Congress folded, the Confederate Constitution became a relic rather than a framework of government, and tearstains mixed with blood on tattered and muddied butternut. Despair, defeat, destruction, and destitution marked the hour. God, it seemed, had abandoned the Confederacy in its time of need. Yet, though the cause of independence was lost, vindication for the principle of secession and for the Southern people still seemed possible, if faint.

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