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The Roosevelt he was insulting was the newly elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Congressman was a paranoid conspiracy theorist who believed that FDR had been put into office to become dictator of the United States by an imagined cabal of international bankers.
by recent Southern military losses Ironically, it was the Southern States and Southern politicians who had ever since President Andrew Jackson, illegally appropriated most of the Indian lands. It was the Supreme Court who ordered Jackson not to remove the Cherokee, but he and the other Southerners did so anyway with mild protest coming from the North. Neither section treated the Indians fairly, but the South had been much worse.
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Like many war leaders, Davis tried to dehumanize the Northerners, against whom the Confederates were fighting. His “”theory” was that The Southerners were the good and upright sons of the Founding Fathers but the Northerners were the “degenerate” sons.
