Real Sons Of Confederate Veterans 'Compare Notes'

James Brown And H.V. Booth Among 32 Surviving 'Sons'
Tim Waller
WYFF News 4
Looking Out 4 You

POSTED: July 22, 2010

ANDERSON, S.C. --

How old do you have to be to have had a father who fought in the Civil War? James Brown and H.V. Booth know the answer. They're among 32 surviving sons of confederate veterans.

"My father was born in 1841," Brown said.

"My daddy was born in 1847," said Booth.

The two men sat down together at the first national convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to be held in Anderson. Brown is 91, and lives in Elbert County, Ga. Booth is 98, and resides in Greene County, Tenn.

"My daddy was sick, Booth told Brown. "They sent him home on a mule from Andersonville up to Elbert County."

Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a military prison established by the Confederacy during the Civil War. It was located 500 miles from where Brown's father served as a Confederate soldier.

"My father went in, and was 20," said Brown. "He stayed the whole length of the war, and wound up at Appomattox."

Brown's father was 82 when he died. Booth's was 87 years old. Both men lived long and healthy lives, according to their sons, who have kept their stories and memories alive.

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Reunion opens with reverence for Old South

By Liz Carey
Anderson Independent Mail
Posted July 22, 2010

ANDERSON — A line of Confederate soldier re-enactors stood in uniform and a single bagpipe skirled through the Anderson Civic Center. A huge Confederate flag faced the assemblage and many flags of the South’s past hung in the room where hundreds had gathered to honor their heritage.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans were beginning their national reunion.

The group, whose members are descendants of soldiers of the Confederacy, is in Anderson through Saturday at the Anderson Civic Center. It is the largest convention in Anderson County’s history.

Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts opened the reunion to a standing ovation when he presented a proclamation to Ron Wilson, commander of the Manse Jolly Camp No. 6 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the host of the convention.

In the proclamation, Roberts said “our country is a nation of people united by a common history of individual heritage, diverse cultures …” He said it was important to reflect on the nation’s history and gain insight from its mistakes and successes.

South Carolina’s Attorney General Henry McMaster said those who would besmirch the history and heritage of the South should be stopped.

“We need to understand the history in our state and what our heritage is and we need to be proud of it,” McMaster said. “Our ancestors stood tall believing in what they thought was right and they did so with great sacrifice.”

Chuck McMichael, the commander-in-chief of the national organization, said this year marks the 150th anniversary of those sacrifices.

“What must our ancestors have been talking about on their back porches, and after church?” he said. “They were talking about what was going on in their country, and the dismay in their hearts of the course the nation was in, the encroachment of the federal government of the rights that belonged to the states. … It was a storm and a change that they did not believe in.”

As the first state to secede, South Carolina holds a special place in the Confederacy, not only because of its secession, but also because it sent more men to the cause of the Confederacy, while not providing a single organized group to the Union.

McMichael said that as soon as Abraham Lincoln was elected president, a parish in Louisiana seceded from the Union and declared war on the North. South Carolina was to follow in December of 1860.

McMichael said an anti-secessionist attorney, James L Petigru, was reported to have said that “South Carolina is too small to be a republic and too large to be a lunatic asylum.”

“If that’s the case,” McMichael said. “Then for this weekend, I’m proud to be an inmate.”

There were also a number of short speeches by city and county officials including former Anderson County administrator Joey Preston, Anderson County Council members Ron Wilson, Tommy Dunn and Tom Allen, interim Anderson County administrator Rusty Burns and state Rep. Dan Cooper of Piedmont.

© 2010 Anderson Independent Mail.

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From: Timothy D. Manning - timanning1@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2010
Subject: Thinking Southern & The (new) American Patriot's Bible

Dear Friends of the South,

There is a great and largely unconscious confusion in the United States about 1) the nature of patriotism and nationalism, 2) the relationship of a citizen to his representative government, 3) the relationship of a State government to that of the central federal government and 4) the relationship of churches, Christianity and Christians to both the State and federal governments. These authorities and ideas have become dangerously joined and co-mingled. The result brings us to a position that has divinised (given the highest level of authority to) the government, particularly the federal level of government, and to a continuous flow of self-justification concerning nearly every turn of events about the authority, powers, actions and decisions of the U.S. central government. Government "of" the people and "by" the people has devolved to government "over" the people. This is not just a play on words.

The United States is now nearly the only country in the world in which its subjects or citizens "want" to pledge their personal allegiance to their central government. Even some Christians place their hands over their hearts to perform their pledge of faithfulness to their central government. This is a very recent historical phenomena. To question anything about this practice is nearly to commit immediate public political suicide. Churches have actually excommunicated longstanding and faithful members of their congregations over their refusal to repeat the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in their church services on dedicated July the 4th or on Memorial Day services. Echoing through the halls of time I can just picture the early apostles reactions had some enthusiastic Roman tried to flag the Roman Eagle in a first century synagogue or church. A sense of the "Holy" is becoming increasingly obscured in western Christian churches and in their doctrines.

Most States now fly the national United States flag "over" their State flags flying over their capital buildings which indicates that the States are no longer free, sovereign and independent, but rather a vassal to a higher ruling government. The States also fly the U.S. national flag in the superior position to their State flag in the halls of government and in their court rooms where State laws are being administered. This also is a very recent historical phenomena. The States since 1865 are to the U.S. federal government more like a county is to its State government. The States are now the servants of their central government rather than having their central government as their servant exercising only powers delegated to them by the States. There is no longer a check on federal power and authority. It used to be the States that limited federal overreaching of its delegated authority. This is also a relatively new practice that the Founders of the united States would have found offensive.

Many consider the most offensive practice today is that churches fly the United States flag in the "superior" position with the Christian flag in the "interior" position inside of their houses of worship meaning that the highest authority of that church is not God but rather the newly divinised government of the United States of America. Such a practice would have been seen by Christians living in empires of the past as blasphemy against their God. They would not have had a national flag in their churches at all much less have flown it in a superior position to the symbol of the Cross of Christ. Many now believe that such church denominations and pastors are no longer morally or spiritually qualified to offer a legitimate opinion on the relationship of church and state. These churches are quiescently compliant to the centralised state.

A new book titled The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance: A Sacred Prayer to a Secular Power considers just what is a reasonable assessment of the above commonly accepted practices in the United States of America. The book also contains a large Appendix that presents U.S. laws and regulations regarding the proper display and handling of a State or national flag and how ceremonies should be conducted where such flags are utilised and honoured. Flag protocols have also been obscured during the last 50-100 years.  This paperback flag resource and history of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance can be ordered for $19.95 plus $3.99 for shipping. Make the check payable to "Tim Manning" and send to: TSPR, c/o Tim Manning, 160 Longbridge Drive, Kernersville, North Carolina 27284.  Or purchase at www.thesouthernpartisan.com.

This weeks attached essay is a thought provoking assessment of the new American Patriot's Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America by Lawrence M. Vance.

May God bless you as you read.

Deo Vindice.

--
Timothy D. Manning, M.Div
Executive Director
www.TheSouthernPartisan.com
160 Longbridge Drive
Kernersville, North Carolina 27284
Phone: (336) 420-5355
Email: tim@thesouthernpartisan.com

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Disloyal Abolitionist Creatures
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Ohio Congressman Samuel S. “Sunset” Cox and other Northern Democrats were well aware of the cause of war in 1861, and encouraged its end via a negotiated compromise in a convention of the sovereign States of the Union. They believed the States held the key to reunion or separation, not the federal agent they had created for limited functions.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net

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Disloyal Abolitionist Creatures:
 
“President Lincoln, proceeding on his own initiative, suspended habeas corpus in specified areas and directed summary arrest of suspected persons. In September 1862 he proclaimed that, for the duration of the war, individuals engaging in disloyal activities would be subject to martial law and trial by military commission. Under this directive the War Department jailed thousands of offenders without civil trial. Democratic success in the elections of 1862 sprang partly from popular reaction to this policy of arbitrary arrest.
 
Cox, outraged by the charge of disloyalty against Northern Democrats, turned the charge against the Radicals. It was not Democrats “who urged the “Wayward sisters” to depart in peace,” he said. “Were they Democrats,” he asked...who hounded on the war, and then brought Southern Negroes to fight the battles in which they would not risk their own lives?...How many abolitionists…were hiding from the draft, or paying…substitutes?
 
It was such craven creatures as these, who charged Northern Democrats with secession sympathy….By what irony of events was it that these creatures – who were at times more disloyal to a constitutional Union than the most violent secessionists – who wormed themselves and their plots into national affairs, and prolonged the war in which they had no part, except to incite the conflict and fan the flames of passion.”
 
(“Sunset” Cox, Irrepressible Democrat, David Lindsey, Wayne State University Press, 1959, page 68)
 

Confederacy is our best hope
 
From: acivilwarjunkie@yahoo.com
 
Why do I call myself acivilwarjunkie and not a War Between the States or War for Southern Independence  or War of Northern Aggression junkie?
 
It is patently obvious that there "Civil War" was nothing of the kind. Yet, if I am to present my Southern views and sympathy to individuals who have been deceived by revisionist history, they can only relate to the term "Civil War"
 
My native State of Missouri seceded from the Union because the Constitution had been ignored and conditions become unbearable.  As the third largest cotton growing State, the Federal Government had made life onerous for its citizens.
 
Today, once again, life is being made onerous not only for us Missourians, but for all Southern people.
 
I'm 65 years old and most people my age or younger have been taught in schools that Missouri was a Union State, although the duly elected State Government voted a Bill of Secession in October 1861 and was admitted to the Confederacy on November 15, 1861 as the twelfth Confederate State.
 
We are denied our Southern heritage, called Midwestern and most Americans think wheat, not cotton, is our largest farm crop.   Because of our unique geographic position, both are large crops.
 
Most New England banking and financial institutions have placed large regional or national Headquarters in St. Louis, thus diluting our voting power. Kansas City has always been Liberal and there you will find an extremely large number on Mexicans making it a two language, not bilingual City.
 
A Joint State House and Senate nullification resolution was effectively killed by tabling it indefinitely in the Senate.  We have had to pass into law, over our liberal Governor's veto or in his absence, specific nullification acts.  The Liberal Federal Abortion support rules have been nullified and when nationalized medicine goes into effect in 2011, it has already been declared null and void in Missouri.
 
When a sovereign State has to fight its Federal compact, that compact is invalid.  Period.
America is already weakened from within by big money caused depression and unemployment, and the promotion of deplorable moral excesses encouraged as a norm to be supported by these godless people.
 
Is America a Christian nation? Not any more.
 
Secession has once again become, more than in the Nineteenth Century, necessary for the guarantee of individual freedom.
 
Like ancient Rome, we have not been conquered in war, but are falling due to decay from within.
 
Anyone who does not play the Yankee game will find themselves in an almost indefensible position.
 
Our Confederacy is our best hope.  Maybe our only hope.
 
May God help us all.
 

LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH STATEMENT
 
Ten years ago, The League of the South issued the following Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence. Standing on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, the leadership of the League understood that the day must come in which the South would be politically free so she could preserve her sublime cultural inheritance and all that stems from it. That day has arrived. The South can no longer abide in an empire hostile to her very existence as a distinct and living entity. On this day, 23 July 2010, we, The League of the South, call upon our Southern brothers and sisters to rise and shake off the chains—both figurative and literal—that have for too long bound us in thrall to an empire of deceit and tyranny. The empire cannot survive amongs t us if we ourselves do not provide it with hands and feet, eyes and ears. Moreover, it cannot continue to exist if we decline to acknowledge its legitimacy and therefore withdraw our consent from it. Lastly, it cannot keep us in bondage if we refuse to fear it.
 
As you read and ponder the words below, consider whether our Southern homeland is worth your sacrifice of “blood, treasure, and sacred honor.” If it is, we invite you to join our ranks and fight for her survival and prosperity against the forces of darkness that threaten to envelope her.
 
Michael Hill
Killen, Alabama
 
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THE DECLARATION OF
SOUTHERN CULTURAL INDEPENDENCE
(Issued at Montgomery, Alabama, on 4 March 2000)
 
“We, as citizens of the sovereign States of the South, proclaim before Almighty God and before all nations of the earth, that we are a separate an d distinct people, with an honourable heritage and culture worthy of protection and preservation. Standing in the very place where our President Jefferson Davis stood in 1861, we declare that Southerners are entitled, like all peoples, to self-determination. Looking ahead to the time when political self-determination is a reality, we hereby pledge ourselves to the preservation of our culture in preparation for, and in the fervent hope of, the coming of that day.
 
To this end, we exhort all Southerners to abjure the realm of the American Empire that now threatens the liberties of our families and communities, and of the corrupt and sterile national culture that pervades this land. The national culture of the United States is violent and profane, coarse and rude, cynical and deviant, and repugnant to the Southern people and to every people with authentic Christian sensibilities. Purveyors of the national culture have everywhere lowered standards of mora lity and debased human dignity. They have appealed to mankind's worst impulses through profanity and obscenity in the arts and literature; they have depicted decadence and debauchery as normal and desirable; they have distorted Southern symbols and denied our right to interpret or display those symbols; they have assumed the authority of parents in the areas of religion and education; they thus have driven a wedge between the generations; they have prostituted all areas of thought and learning for market share; they have demonised Southern heroes and canonised tyrants and war criminals; they have distorted Southern history to advance their ideas of social justice; they thus have driven a wedge between the races and regions; they have destroyed hope; they have spread despair; they have called good evil and evil good; they have everywhere substituted the opinions of men for the decrees of God.
 
We, as Southerners, will, as far as possible, decline to pa rticipate in this alien, national culture. Rather, we shall seek to defend and perpetuate our noble heritage and be of service to our people. In doing so, we will emulate our great heroes--Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Calhoun, Davis, Lee, and Jackson, among others. In an attempt to preserve Southern language, speech, manners, music, literature, tradition, thought, custom, and faith, we pledge to cooperate economically to build and sustain our separate educational and cultural institutions. We intend regional and local action; pledging blood, treasure, and sacred honour, we shall starve the national malignance and nourish the goodness close at hand.
 
Our cultural inheritance is not based upon the abstract slogans, armed doctrines, and sanctified greed that characterizes the present American regime. Instead, it is based on the permanent things that order and sustain life: faith, family, tradition, community, and private property; loyalty, courage, and honour. Cut off from these permanent things, the South will become only a point on the compass, and our descendants will justifiably curse us for the destruction of their noble heritage.
 
To our Southern forebears the triune God gave the inspiration and wisdom to create a confederated, constitutional republic based on the principle of local self-government and sustained by a vibrant and vital cultural heritage. We consider our heritage a sublime and unmerited blessing and we cherish it. Today it is threatened as never before by the godless national culture of death, supported by an overbearing government that acknowledges no limits to its power.
 
We reaffirm the cultural inheritance of our honourable forefathers and declare to the world our intention to defend and preserve it. The preservation of historic cultures--especially those that establish liberty--has never been cheap or easy. We hereby proclaim to the world that the st ruggle to protect and advance our Southern cultural heritage begins in earnest today. Henceforth, we shall stand steadfast in defense of our inheritance as free men and women of the South, and we welcome all who share our principles to stand with us. As witness to our intent, we affix our signatures to this Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence, invoking the blessings of our Lord, Jesus Christ, on a just cause.”
 
(Please note British orthography used in Declaration)
 

Fox is not your friend!
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
I would like to applaud Nelson Waller’s admonitions regarding Fox and other "conservative" personalities in his last SHNV post and add to those sentiments a few of my own. 
 
First, let’s give Fox and Neocon talk radio hosts their due, as they do provide a public service. They provide a balance to the incessant Obama-worship that permeates the airwaves on the other news networks. They keep the pressure on the guy and they have been responsible for giving us a look into the type of folks that he seems to enjoy hanging out with. (Remember the old saying, “show me your friends and I’ll know you?). 
 
That’s about where the public service ends and the demagoguery and dishonesty begin. 
 
As I have said many times, just because you dislike Obama and Fox dislikes Obama does not mean that Fox is your friend. Nor for that matter are people like Limbaugh your friend. Your mutual dislike for the current el Presidente is the limit of what you have in common with Fox and with most "conservative" radio talk show hosts. Before you run out and get “Factor t-shirts”, or “Hannity Fan Girl” cups or a doctored up poster of Glenn Beck and the Founders signing the Declaration of independence, you would do well to remember the old Arab saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Its meaning is quite subtle actually – he’s not really your “friend,” at least not in the way we normally think of when using the word “friend.” He’s an ally of convenience, the relationship is temporary, and when the object of your mutual dislike is removed, all bets are off. In fact, don’t be too surprised if he rams the knife in your back even before your mutual enemy is gone. He needs to be watched as closely as your enemy. Yes, it’s fun to watch Obama and his nutcase appointees squirm when Fox sticks it to them and it’s perfectly fine to sit there and cheer when that happens. Just make sure that you keep repeating to yourself afterward….”The enemy of my enemy is my friend”…and….”Fox is not my friend!” 
 
Do not be fooled by guys like Glenn Beck sounding off about Constitutional Government. Fox loves big government as much as anyone. The only reason Fox is now singing the “government of limited and defined powers” song is that the Democrats are currently running the show. Trust me folks, when the Democrats get kicked to the curb, Sean Hannity and company will put on their cheerleading outfits and root for big government once more, just like they did through 8 years of George Bush. 
 
You hear things like “government of limited and defined powers” coming out of the mouths of Fox personalities and it rings a chord with you? You hear Fox personalities railing on about protecting the Constitution, and once again, it rings a familiar chord in you? Fine. Just don’t forget to remind yourself that when George Bush called the Constitution a “scrap of paper”, and when he pushed through the egregious “Patriot Act”, allegedly to protect us, that the only guy on Fox to put up a stink was Judge Andrew Napolitano, and he’s not even a regular on that network. And if Fox is currently railing against Obama for the Justice Dept’s suit against Arizona’s immigration law, ask yourself why they did not rail against George Bush, who, after 19 illegal aliens killed 3000 of us 9 years ago, continued to allow the borders to function in their current state of disrepair for 8 years.  
 
The only reason that folks at Fox are now singing the “government of limited and defined powers” song is that the party they support (the GOP) is no longer in power. Fox, Limbaugh and others like them love big government as much as anyone – just as long as it’s the GOP that’s running the show. Their idea of good government is a government of a type so big that it would make even Massa Linkhorn’s head spin! Their only requisite is that the right people be running it – their people – Republicans. That said, don’t go out and buy that Glenn Beck t-shirt and make sure you remember to keep repeating….”The enemy of my enemy is my friend” and “Fox is not my friend!”
 
Now, as far as your Southern Heritage is concerned, ever notice how the folks at Fox wrap themselves in the mantle of patriotism while at the same time taking every opportunity to lay the big one on y’all, as Hannity did in the video that Nelson referenced? Hannity frequently prides himself on being a “patriot.” As I listen to his blustering on this subject for years I think I understand what Samuel Johnson meant when he said that “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel!” Someone needs to tell Hannity that “Patriotism” is the love of one’s people and the love of one’s country and the willingness to sacrifice for them. It does not mean love of one’s government.   
 
Funny how Hannity and company seem to forget that whenever America gets into a scrape and needs volunteers to go die in some far off hellhole, that it's been Southerners who have been the first to step up?! Yet, guys like Hannity (who are usually not the first to “step up) have no qualms whatsoever about kicking Southerners and their heritage to the curb. And, if you haven’t been paying attention, this isn’t the first time it has happened. O’Reilly, Beck, Shepherd Smith and others have all taken their turn at bashing you. A Fox reporter who covered the big Confederate flag raising in Tampa two years ago admitted to me in an email that his bosses and colleagues at Fox were angry at him for giving favorable coverage to the event. Y’all should remember that as I posted it in this newsletter. What more proof do you need that these guys hate you? You got it straight from the horse’s mouth! 
 
These people are demagogues - at present they are trying like hell to win over blacks to the Republican Party and they will pull out all the stops to do it, including running over you and your ancestors and by telling stories that they think black folks want to hear. I do hope that black Americans have the sense to see what they are trying to do. I do hope that they will perhaps gain some historical awareness that for the last 145 years, at different times, both political parties have pandered to their interest, and that the results of that pandering have been disastrous for the black community. I do hope that they will eventually recognize that in all such cases, the parties in question have ultimately sold them down the river. I do hope they realize what some of us white boys have realized – that neither party is truly anyone’s friend, and that a demagogue is no one’s friend but his own. Sadly, I am not inclined to put money on any of these things happening. 
 
Since Fox is, in effect, the media arm of the GOP, you can bet that they’ll be appealing to blacks by first telling them what they think they want to hear, i.e., ‘we love Martin Luther King just like you do’  and then by somehow managing to blame all their perceived ills on Democrats, Progressives, and of course, Confederates. Remember this strategy the next time you watch Beck or Hannity when they deal with a black issue and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
 
Hannity “debated” Al Sharpton? Think about that spectacle. It doesn’t exactly conjure up images of the Lincoln – Douglas debates now, does it? Do words like “ludicrous” get conjured up in your mind instead? You would think if Hannity was really interested in an honest debate that he would have chosen an opponent who at least had the sense that God gave a chicken. Why pick Sharpton? Well for one thing, Sharpton is the intellectual version of the old 98 pound weakling. For another, he is perhaps one of the most well known of the “black activists”. By engaging in polite debate with him, Hannity probably figured that he was showing blacks respect by, in effect, showing respect for one of their “leaders.” Since guys like Hannity usually wet their pants when they see more than 2 black people standing in the same spot, he’s probably unaware that not a few black people actually do see Sharpton for the slug that he is. 
 
If Hannity were worth his salt, he would have disdained Sharpton entirely. And if he chose to approach Sharpton at all publicly, he would have reminded him of such names as “Tawana Brawley”, “Steven Pagones”, and "Yankel Rosenblum", names which should bring to mind behavior on Sharpton’s part which would make any decent person of any race recoil in disgust. In a day and age when "apologies" have become all the rage, I have yet to hear Sharpton apologize for the incidents associated with these names. Yet, it seems, Sharpton has drawn a free pass all these years, not only from the liberal media, but from Fox as well. In fact, Hannity was downright respectful of a man who deserves no respect at all. That’s because Hannity's sole purpose in this "debate" was simply to win over black converts to his party. And he did it by treating Sharpton like he was actually a respectable representative of the human race instead of the reprobate that he is, and, by saying to African American viewers, ‘see, we hate the same thing as you do – the Confederate flag – we have a lot in common.’ How much more transparent than that can you get? 
 
Keep repeating this until you’re saying it in your sleep – “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” and…..”Fox is not my friend.” 
 
Bill Vallante
Commack NY
 

Latitudes and Attitudes, cont.
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
It's a serious mission of mine to keep highlighting the vast difference in North/South worldviews and even personal styles. Why bother? Because truth matters, and this particular truth accounts for a great deal of recent world history. We're talking about a plague on this planet every bit as destructive as environmental pollution or flu pandemics -- possibly more so.
 
The latest case is especially pregnant with meaning for the role the Y-word itself enters plays in it: yankees are even anathema to each other. The yankee compulsion for aggression and destruction does not leave yankee realm unscathed!
 
The great Elizabeth Wright, who is sometimes heard from in SHNV, has just trenchantly weighed in on another overwrought subject in ways that incidentally highlight the great divide in question -- the death of the sports "legend" George Steinbrenner:
 
http://issuesviews.blogspot.com/2010/07/georges-new-edifice.html
 
I'm more radical than most, so I'm not even going to talk baseball -- the sport means nothing to me. But look at the "hero" Miss Wright exposes here -- loud, crammed with hubris, tyrannical, abusive, self-promoting and -glorifying, and worshiped as a god. Steinbrenner is simply the *embodiment* of the yankee!
 
In addition to (or the midst of) those qualities, the essence is the pushy know-it-all utopianist who insists that humanity will be served best by submitting to his whims of iron. His big ideas are strictly about self-aggrandizement but are hyped as improvements for the general good. (Where have we heard this before? Politics. Is he studying with them, or vice versa?) What everybody else holds dear is literally demolished by this monster on the premise that he, as a System demigod, knows what's better for people than they do themselves.
 
Romania's mad dictator Ceausescu bulldozed thousands of ancient villages and put the people up in soulless concrete bunkers that only had electricity at certain hours of the day. Steinbrenner took it upon himself to raze one of the absolute most classic icons of American culture, Yankee Stadium, and replaced it with a nutty, unpopular monument to himself -- what more textbook-style example could we ask?
 
The yankee mentality must be constantly chronicled and analyzed if the South is to survive. Don't hate yankees if you want to be a good Christian, but please remember that the Scriptures command us to hate yankee depravity and criminality -- Amos 5:15. I daresay nothing's going to improve in this country  until people take that passage at its word and start hating evil. A people incapable of hating hateful things is one slated for imminent demolition. The same goes for individuals in the plain words of the KJV!
 

A Victory of Superior Numbers
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Prior to his election as Governor in 1862, New York’s Horatio Seymour warned his electorate of the true cause of the war, and that the North’s triumph would be the result of superior numbers and munitions of war. 
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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A Victory of Superior Numbers:
 
“It was [Seymour’s] belief, he declared, that if people asked themselves why the United States had split asunder in civil war, they had only to read Washington’s Farewell Address for their answer and find out how completely they had neglected the warning of their first President.  Men who were loyal to nothing less than the whole Union both North and South would have to fight the spirit of both North and South alike, for people who made their prejudices and passions “higher” laws than the laws of the land were by no means confined to the eleven States which had arrogated to themselves the dangerous right to secede.
 
A majority of the American people, he reminded his hearers, had not preferred Lincoln for President, and a large part of the voters had deplored his election as a calamity, but Lincoln had been chosen constitutionally and deserved a “just and generous support” – as long as he kept himself within the limits of that very Constitution by which he was entitled to his office.
 
What would it profit the North to conquer the South if it destroyed the compact of government in the process? Alexander Stephens, though he disapproved of secession, had followed his Georgia out of the Union; Seymour, though he disapproved of abolition and did not vote for Lincoln, stayed in the Union with New York. 
 
Yet the war was a fact, and because the decision of it would depend on might, the men of the North would be most unwise to call the victory they fought for “right.”  “We are to triumph,” Seymour warned his hearers, “only by virtue of superior numbers, of greater resources, and a juster cause.” The arrangement of his words is significant.
 
Slavery, he insisted, was not the cause of the Civil War, for slavery had always existed in the land; it was present when the Union was formed, and the people had prospered before it became a matter of dispute. Causes and subjects were frequently distinct: the main cause of the war was the agitation and arguments over slavery. [Seymour stated] “If it is true that slavery must be abolished to save this Union then the people of the South should be allowed to withdraw themselves from that government which cannot give them the protection guaranteed by its terms.”  To grant immediate freedom to four million uneducated Africans would disorganize, even if it did not destroy, the Southern States.”
 
(Horatio Seymour of New York, Stewart Mitchell, Harvard University Press, 1938, pp. 238-239)

From: Badalli Fred - fredbadalli@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2010
Subject: Secession Solution
To: hk.edgerton@gmail.com, mail@southernheritage411.com

Mr. Edgerton,

I'm a fan! If American Black folks knew what I know about the "Civil" War, they too would have fought for the South and worked to reform it afterwards!

Proudly,

FB

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Ladies & Gentlemen,

Since July 4th symbolizes the thirteen American colonies demanding their Secession and independence from Great Britain, it is a significant date to offer this peaceful, pro liberty Secession Solution to America's many socio-economic problems of which peaceful Secession is the valid means by which to achieve much more needed social and economic Liberty. I view Secession as taking the 10th Amendment to its logical conclusion, as it states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". In fact, Thomas Jefferson acknowledged that he could foresee the U.S. breaking up into several Republics and he wished them well. I must agree with Jefferson because I see Washington DC as an irreversible cesspool of corruption, massive debt and waste regardless of which party is in office.

The Federal Welfare-Warfare State continues to further bankrupt "our" nation. Therefore, it is time for us to demand independence and separation from Washington DC. After all, the States created the federal government, not the other way around. As we know, Washington DC remains out of control and out of touch with the people. Yet, ironically enough, Washington DC which we seek a divorce from, has supported Secession & separation across the globe: Taiwan, South Korea, South Viet Nam, Eastern Europe and Kosovo.

Secession does not mean war and it certainly must oppose trade barriers between states, territories and nations. It means that newly seceded states or territories self-govern and self-finance. All newly seceded states must pay for and maintain their own public works.

I recommend a new country of Liberty, Property & Peace having a mixture of the real world examples of the Free Markets of Kong Kong, the self-governing Swiss Canton system and the social tolerance of Holland included in a strictly limited Constitutional Republic that obeys its Constitution and respects and protects Individual rights.

The Washington DC of today, without any Constitutional authority and against the will of the people, continues to push war, bailouts, corporate welfare, crony "capitalism", corporate socialism, political correctness, HUGE deficits, inflation, big taxes, massive over regulation and a tragic, unconstitutional, interventionist, unchanging, status quo foreign policy.

When we look at our troubled nation we can easily see that each and every state already has: a legislature, courts, judges, policemen, firemen, national guard units and militias, jails, prisons, roads, utility companies, interstate highways, buses, trains, airports, hospitals, churches, banks, credit unions, insurance companies, newspapers, the internet, TV stations, radio stations, libraries, schools, universities, museums, landfills, recycling centers, day care centers, retirement homes, parks, golf courses, tennis courts, sports complexes, farms, supermarkets, pharmacies, malls, theaters, factories, numerous types of businesses and services, all types of charities and much, much more...

Every state already has Departments of Commerce, Health, Education, Agriculture, Transportation, Environmental and more. Why are we wasting billions for the same federal agencies?

Newly seceded states will not have a huge unrestricted central government stirring up international trouble. There will be no empire or nation building and no troops stationed throughout the world. There will be no out of control, endlessly expanding Military-Industrial-Congressional -Complex which sees opportunity in endless civil wars and conflicts throughout the world.

US citizens from any other states and foreigners who already own property and businesses in newly seceded states will not have their property or businesses threatened or disturbed. U.S. citizens from states who have not left the union are free to come and go, to work, to reside, to buy property and to invest. Roads, bridges, power lines, railroad tracks, and radio and TV towers will not be disturbed.

The following conditions and details for a new Constitution do not violate anyone's Constitutional rights, their property rights, their civil rights or their human rights, nor do they seek to further tax, regulate or disarm anyone(violent criminals excepted). The new Constitution would have in place a method to amend it as proscribed by law. I also offer these new constitution principles, rules and ideals to the Tea Party.

In the mean time, as we move towards Secession, all current states must Nullify most if not all endlessly enacted federal laws.

The following principles, rules and severe restrictions on government power would be contained in a new Constitution and Bill of Rights for a strictly limited government Republic which is somewhat similar to the U.S. Constitution, yet also including sound economics with the Ethics of Liberty at its center core, while always promoting social tolerance and personal responsibility:

CIVIL LIBERTIES

Free speech, free press, religious freedom, freedom from illegal search and seizure, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of contract, strong gun ownership rights, fully informed juries, term limits across the board(no career politicians and bureaucrats), civil unions for same sex couples, abortion remains legal with absolutely NO tax funding and NO partial birth abortions, the terminally ill are free to use any medication they choose and to make their own decisions in writing and/or on video as to when and how to leave our world.

NO government regulation or censorship of the internet.

NO draft registration NO conscription, NO drug war, NO torture,

NO victimless crime laws, NO persecution of holistic-alternative medicine,

NO affirmative action, NO government-enforced political "correctness".

NO judges appointed for life. NO government-imposed travel restrictions.

NO government suspension of Civil & Economic Liberties in times of "crisis".

Liberty for all, special privileges for none.

ECONOMICS

Our economic system is not pro business per se, but rather pro Free Enterprise which prohibits the blurring of the line between industry and government.

The market is a constant discovery process with the Entrepreneur as the central, creative, driving force of society.

The first economic duty of a government is to preserve and protect a true, honest and competitive Free Market Economy which will flourish and promote diverse Entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of micro taxes and micro regulations with:

NO Central Bank

NO barriers to market entry

NO government interference with free trade

NO tax-funded bailouts

NO bank is too big to fail

NO business is too big to fail

NO government ownership of bankrupt businesses

NO monopolistic political privilege for industry and labor

NO tax-funded subsidies for business and labor

NO monopolistic political privilege for doctors and lawyers

NO government fixing of wages and prices

NO crony "capitalism"

NO corporate welfare

NO corporate socialism

NO state capitalism

NO Hemp prohibition

NO protectionism

NO mandatory union membership

NO tax-funded farm welfare

NO tax-funded sports welfare

NO tax-funded science welfare

NO tax-funded arts welfare

NO government-owned and operated postal service

NO government-enforced FDA-AMA-Pharmaceutical Monopoly

NO persecution or harassment of alternative medicine

NO persecution or harassment of alternative energy

NO irresponsibility-encouraging government subsidized flood insurance

NO government-controlled mandatory health care

NO tax-funded foreign aid

NO government ownership of sports complexes, airports, convention centers, trains, radio or TV stations

Because it is their funds at risk to liability law suits, the Insurance Industry will play a larger role in regulating and inspecting its policyholders such as the oil industry, coal mines, utility companies, ocean shipping lines, hospitals, the airlines, cruise ships, trucking companies, manufacturers and many other industries.
 
A weakening of the current patent & copyright laws by at least 75%.  

Foreign investment is most welcome and secure.
 
We oppose World Government and any call for a fiat global currency.   NO government membership or political subservience to the UN, CFR,  World Bank, IMF, NATO, NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA, Export-Import Bank, EU or any other statist, mercantilist, tax-funded, Globalist schemes.

MONETARY SYSTEM

NO Central Bank, i.e. the Federal Reserve, which causes the economy's boom and bust cycle through inflationary credit expansion caused by artificially lowering interest rates below market forces.

NO monopolistic legal tender laws.

NO endless supply of paper money created out of thin air and backed by nothing.

NO government-imposed fixed exchange rate between gold & silver.

NO taxes or government interference with the creation and supply of gold & silver currency or other currency-backing valuable commodities.

NO government confiscation or prohibition of gold & silver or any other commodities which are freely accepted in the competitive market place.

NO government interference with competing currencies.

NO government bailouts of foreign banks or any other foreign financial institutions.

TAXATION

All taxes must remain micro taxes.

There need be only enough tax revenue to fund what is listed in the new, strictly-limited Constitution.

Budgets must be balanced only by spending cuts with NO raising of taxes, NO government borrowing and NO printing money.

A Free Market in lotteries from anywhere.

A 2% excise tax on gambling, alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.
    
A 2% corporate tax.

Food, clothing, housing, cars and trucks are exempt from sales tax.
   
NO income taxes

NO withholding taxes

NO inheritance tax

NO taxes on interest income

NO estate taxes

NO death taxes

NO capital gains tax

NO taxes on retirement income

NO prohibitions to internet gambling

All states pay for their own public works.

User fees for roads, bridges and state parks.

All road and bridge fees go only towards their purpose and may not be used for schools, health care or any other non infrastructure purposes.

Voluntary taxes are accepted from any of those who care to pay more.
         
SOCIAL SECURITY

We ask our former federal government to honor all Social Security obligations or offer a lump sum buy out to current recipients.
 
There is no longer a mandatory government-funded social security system. All individuals are free to contribute to their own private retirement system of which many options will come into existence.

There are NO taxes on retirement income.

EDUCATION

Education is far too important to be left up to monopolistic, socialistic, government-owned schools and their teachers' unions to control, regulate and indoctrinate.

Private schools of all secular and religious types and sizes must be allowed to flourish anywhere and everywhere, free of government control. Home schooling will not be persecuted, harassed or prohibited. All schools must serve the needs of their customers, that is the parents and children.

Entrepreneurship is very good for education too.  Martial art schools and music schools continue to thrive in strip malls, and elsewhere, yet so could math and science schools, computer schools and English schools. Many other innovative education opportunities will develop. The former government schools would be leased as private schools. There will be more trade schools and technical schools.
 
HEALTH CARE

Diet, nutrition, vitamin & mineral supplementation, exercise and holistic/alternative medicine(Chiropractic, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Acupuncture and more) should be everyone's first choice for health maintenance and illness prevention.

NO government harassment or persecution of holistic/alternative medicine

NO government harassment or persecution of holistic/alternative medicine producers and manufacturers of vitamins, minerals, equipment and machinery.

NO government-enforced FDA-AMA-Pharmaceutical Monopoly.

NO tax-supported health care and NO mandatory health insurance.

NO government-mandated requirements on health health insurance.
 
The purpose of health insurance is mainly for catastrophic purposes.

Tax Free Medical Savings Accounts become the norm. They are portable and if need be, medical insurance premiums may be paid from them.

Tort law reform and reform of outrageous jury awards, which contribute to higher health care costs and higher insurance premiums.

Physicians are free to publicly post and to clearly advertise that they "do not have malpractice insurance." Their customers enjoy lower costs.

NO government interference in purchasing insurance across state lines.

NO government interference or prohibition in purchases of foreign-made medicines.

NO government interference into the medication choices of the terminally ill. 

NO government interference into the wishes of the exit strategy of the terminally ill. 

NO mandatory vaccinations.

NO government interference in advertising by doctors and dentists.

Drug, alcohol and gambling addiction will be treated medically with education, prevention and compassion.

Charity and social welfare

Private charity is encouraged and necessary.

There is no government interference or harassment of private charity.  Soup kitchens, feeding the homeless, the less fortunate and caring for the sick are the duties of numerous charities and voluntary Dr. care including: churches, food banks, Goodwill, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Rescue Missions, and numerous secular and religious charities including Christian charities, Muslim charities, Hindu charities, Jewish charities, Buddhist charities, agnostic charities, atheist charities and other private charities.

Our new economic system of micro taxes, micro regulations and no drug war will greatly lessen the number of poor and lower income people, while providing much more opportunity in a sea of hopelessness and despair.

GUNS

NO gun control. NO gun confiscation.

Like credit checks, background checks and police reports would detect undesirable would be purchasers. There are few gun ownership restrictions except towards violent criminals or violent X felons. The use of firearms for other than sport, hunting or self-defense are subject to harsh prosecution and incarceration.  However, because there is no drug prohibition, no drug war and vastly increased employment opportunities, the incidence of violent gun crimes and murder will greatly decrease as will crime in general.

ENERGY

A Free Market in energy with a multi-pronged approach which includes: oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar, wind and other developing technologies.

NO government subsidies to energy producers which only results in political privilege, corporate welfare, crony "capitalism" and more government-industry partnership boondoggles.
 
NO government-imposed damage liability caps.

NO government persecution or harassment of alternative energy.

FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE
     
Armed Neutrality, Free Trade and goodwill with all nations are the foundations of our foreign policy. Since there will be no endlessly growing centralized Warfare State, there will be no Empire or nation building and no tax-funded foreign aid.  All seceding states maintain a common defense and each seceding state's national guard and air national guard becomes it's own defense force and all coast guard ships stationed at coastal seceding states become that state's Coast Guard.

NO political or military intervention into the affairs of foreign countries.

NO stationing troops throughout the world

NO draft registration

NO conscription
 
NASA facilities will not be disturbed but no longer funded by seceding states.
 
NO tax-funded space program.
 
NO government interference with private sector space exploration.

AMTRAK

Amtrak trains may run through our states undisturbed, we will pay to ride them, but our states send no taxes to Washington to subsidize Amtrak.

ENVIRONMENT

Pollution is essentially a scientific problem requiring numerous, diverse technologies, innovations, inventions, ideas and improvements of existing technologies.
  
Strict liability applied to polluters through tort law and property rights.

NO government protection of special interest group polluters.

NO government-enforced limits on polluters' liability.
 
NO harassment or persecution of alternative pollution technology and environmental protection technology.

EMINENT DOMAIN

Very narrowly defined conditions of eminent domain which apply mainly to roads and bridges, power lines, utilities and railroad tracks.
 
Private property may never be taken from its rightful owners and given unethically to other private owners and/or private developers regardless of compensation.
 
IMMIGRATION

English is the official language. All government documents and all road signage are written in English.

U.S. citizens from states that have not seceded may come and go, work, own property, reside and invest without government harassment.
 
All immigrants must pass through a legal immigration process.

An effective guest worker program must be established.

Since there is no government Welfare State, illegal immigrants cannot receive free health care or free education and there are no anchor babies.

GETTING THERE

To more readily achieve our newly seceded nation or nation states, I suggest that the 11 Southern States who first seceded should lead the way through Nullification followed by peaceful Secession based on the new Constitution's principles, rules and conditions as listed above.

Other issues and problems will always be addressed with a pro market, pro individual rights, limited government methodology.

Since change is the only constant, our new nation with its true Free Market Economy and its sound monetary system will more readily adapt to technology, innovation, foreign trade and foreign competition. We will be on the competitive cutting edge, with no government interference in the market system and the monetary system.

Liberty for all and special privileges for none.

Secession is good. Secession is right. Secession works.


Happy 4th of July,

FB

P.S. to those who would say that Secession based upon the above new Constitution is unworkable, I pose this hypothetical question: IF you did have the choice of remaining in the U.S. as it currently is or you could live in this new Constitutional Republic, which would you choose?


 

Facebook Deletes Official Alex Jones Page Over Gadsden Flag

Social networking giant has embarked on a move to ban Tea Party material as part of wider cybersecurity agenda for web censorship and political oppression

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, July 16, 2010

Facebook has sensationally banned the official Alex Jones Facebook page after a customer services representative admitted that all material containing images of the famous Gadsden flag was being deleted by the social networking giant.

While some fan pages remain up,  the official Alex Jones Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/realalexjones has been terminated. Other Alex Jones pages run by Infowars readers have also been deleted, such as the page that was formerly at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Real-Alex-Jones/.

If Facebook has embarked on a policy of banning political expression and images it deems offensive then the company should be more open about the fact. While Facebook didn’t consider it necessary to delete a fan page dedicated to the British murderer Raoul Moat, it is now purging all material related to the Tea Party movement, states’ rights and the Gadsden flag, which is a symbol of resistance against tyranny and was originally used by the United States Marine Corps.

It’s unsurprising that Facebook has nailed its political colors to the mast in serving the establishment by targeting grass roots Facebook pages that display the Gadsden flag. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has denounced privacy as a ‘social norm’ of the past, an apt excuse given the fact that his website is little more than a vast intelligence database used by spy agencies to dig up information on people. Even more alarmingly, IM’s from Zuckerberg’s early Facebook days reveal his total disregard for privacy. In the IM’s, Zuckerberg insults Facebook users as “dumb fucks” for trusting him with their private information.

The move to ban Tea Party-related material is just one example of the wider move to censor the Internet as part of the cybersecurity agenda.

During an appearance on CNN last month, Senator Joe Lieberman, the sponsor of a bill that would give President Obama the power to shut down parts of the Internet, admitted that cybersecurity was all about seizing the same policing power over the world wide web employed by the Communist Chinese government.

As we have documented, Chinese censorship of the Internet has nothing to do with security and is almost exclusively focused around covering up government atrocities and abuse by silencing whistle blowers and blocking the free flow of information. The system that Lieberman wants America to adopt is all about political oppression and preventing people from becoming organized and active in standing up against big government.

We are continuing to investigate Facebook’s move to ban the official Alex Jones page and we encourage everyone to contact Facebook and let them know that you will boycott their services if the page is not re-instated.

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Feds Ignore Due Process, First Amendment, Shut Down Thousands of Blogs

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
July 17, 2010

Once again, the Obama administration has violated the Bill of Rights. Earlier this month, the feds took down a free Wordpress blogging platform and disabled more than 73,000 blogs. The action was completely ignored by the corporate media. The site, Blogetery.com, was told by its hosting service that the government had issued orders to shut down the site due to a “a history of abuse” related to copyrighted material.
   
In late June, Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel said the government would move to take down sites offering unauthorized movies and music. “Criminal copyright infringement occurs on a massive scale over the Internet, reportedly resulting in billions of dollars in losses to the U.S. economy,” said Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bharara’s office and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched “Operation In Our Sites” and executed seizure warrants against nine domain names.

Blogetery.com claimed the shut down of 73,000 blogs “was not a typical case, in which suspension and notification would be the norm. This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server.”

“That seems odd,” notes Techdirt, a website that covers government policy, technology and legal issues. “If there was problematic content from some users, why not just take down that content or suspend those users. Taking down all 73,000 blogs seems… excessive.”

The DMCA’s takedown actions are a direct violation of the First Amendment under prior restraint. However, explains law professor Wendy Seltzer, because “DMCA takedowns are privately administered through ISPs… they have not received… constitutional scrutiny, despite their high risk of error.” Seltzer adds that “because DMCA takedown costs less to copyright claimants than a federal complaint and exposes claimants to few risks, it invites more frequent abuse or error than standard copyright law.”

TorrentFreak worries that the Blogetery.com case has set a precedent. “Fears remain… that this action is only the beginning, and that more sites will be targeted as the months roll on. Indeed, TorrentFreak has already received information that other sites, so far unnamed in the media, are being monitored by the authorities on copyright grounds,” writes a blogger on the site.

“They say it’s because of copyright infringement, but is it really?… it would seem that only sites/blogs which were streaming movies and TV shows were shut down initially, but upon further perusal, it seems like the Feds just arbitrarily shut down a server with several tens of thousands of bloggers on it without due process as is usual with this administration,” writes Smash Mouth Politics. “How soon before they find some reason to shut down other servers or networks? What’s probably infuriating to the bloggers who were shut down is that they have no recourse. They have no idea why the server was shut down. And the Feds are mum about it. Also, if the bloggers can even get a hold of the server admin, they’re refused any explanation of why.”

In October, 2004, more than 20 Independent Media Center websites and other internet services were taken offline, not in response to alleged copyright infringement but for political reasons. The disappearance of the Indymedia servers was shrouded in secrecy and the ISP and government would not provide an explanation. On October 20, 2004, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit in Texas and argued that “the public and the press have a clear and compelling interest in discovering under what authority the government was able to unilaterally prevent Internet publishers from exercising their First Amendment rights.”

It was later discovered that the ISP had shut down IndyMedia’s websites after they were contacted by the FBI. The FBI said a particular article on the website nantes.indymedia.org contained personal information and threats regarding two Swiss undercover police officers. It was later determined that the article contained neither threats nor names or address information and contained instead photographs of police agents provocateurs masquerading as anti-globalization protesters.

The Obama administration — in step with he Bush administration before it — does not have a problem ordering the government to violate the First, Fifth, and Tenth Amendments. In its declared effort to prevent online piracy of copyrighted material, the government has trashed the Bill of Rights. It has used the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to intimidate ISPs to shut down web sites.

In June, a Senate committee approved a dictatorial cybersecurity bill that would allow Obama to shut down the internet. The bill, known as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, would grant Obama the authority to carry out emergency actions to protect critical parts of the internet, including ordering owners of critical infrastructure to implement emergency response plans, during a government declared cyber-emergency. Obama would supposedly need congressional approval to extend a national cyber-emergency beyond 120 days under an amendment to the legislation approved by the committee.

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Breitbart to NAACP president: 'Go to hell'

Journalist insists black leaders – not tea partiers – are real 'racists'
July 17, 2010

By Drew Zahn
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Internet journalist Andrew Breitbart unleashed a tirade on talk radio yesterday, blasting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its condemnation of tea partiers as "racist," instead charging the NAACP itself with racism and telling its president where he can "go."

"Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP: You can go to hell," Breitbart said. "I have tapes, a tape, of racism, and it's an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism, and it's coming from the NAACP."

Breitbart made the explosive comments on the air with Scott Hennen, who hosts a morning talk show on WZFG 1100 AM in Fargo, N.D.

His comments came in response to a resolution adopted by the 101st annual convention of the NAACP earlier this week, condemning the "racism" of the tea-party movement and claiming it could return the nation to the pre-civil-rights era.

According to a report from KMBC television in Kansas City, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous told his organization's members tea parties must "expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions."

"We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards and hide behind signs that say 'lynch our president' or anyone else," Jealous said.

Specific charges within the NAACP resolution, reports the Kansas City Star, include allegations that tea-party supporters have engaged in "explicitly racist behavior," have "displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically" and have used racial epithets in verbally abusing members of Congress.

Breitbart, however, contends that the tea-party movement is about the president's policies, not his race, and that many of the charges of racist behavior at tea-party rallies are exaggerated. Breitbart has also offered a $100,000 reward for any tangible proof of the epithets that were reportedly launched at black U.S. representatives during a tea-party rally protesting Congress' health-care reform efforts – a bounty no one has yet been able to claim.

"You are manufacturing this in a summer in which the economy is the No. 1 issue affecting blacks and whites in this country," Breitbart said of the NAACP. "This country can ill-afford the schism of race to be exploited the way you are, based upon the false premise of the tea party being racist. … This is absolutely manufactured for political gain."

When Hennen brought up a Washington Times story linking the NAACP to the New Black Panther Party, whose Minister King Samir Shabazz not only escaped federal prosecution for voter intimidation amid much controversy but also called for the killing of "some crackers" and "some of their babies" to gain black freedom from white oppression, Breitbart continued his criticism of the NAACP convention.

"Where is the resolution to condemn the racism coming from the [Black Panthers] and killing cracker babies?" Breitbart asked. "Why is the mainstream media ignoring that story while playing up the nonexistent story of the n-word being hurled at congressmen?"

Breitbart joins many voices objecting to the NAACP's denouncement of racism within the tea-party movement.

"For the NAACP to accuse the tea parties of racism is insulting to the great patriots who have participated in this movement and sadly shows just how out of touch that group is with the American people," Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell told Politico. "Some of the most compelling leaders of this movement are of many different races – men and women such as William and Selena Owens, Lloyd Marcus, Kevin Jackson and others.

"The racism accusation by the likes of the NAACP has been proved false time and again. Earlier this year, Democrats smeared tea-party activists by claiming members of the Black Caucus were spit on and called the n-word as they paraded through a crowd of tea partiers," he told the publication. "Their blatant lie was proved false by overwhelming evidence from multiple video cameras that recorded the event."

In a blog posted the day before interviewing Breitbart, Hennen expressed similar sentiments.

"In spite of a coordinated bias by the mainstream media, patriotic Americans continue to assemble throughout the nation in protest of big-government policies threatening to undermine our basic liberties," Hennen writes.

"Maybe you're one of the thousands of participants who showed up at one of the tea parties this summer. Take a look in the mirror; what do you see? A racist? Or do you see an average, hard-working American, concerned about the future of this republic?" he asked. "I've met enough of you at these events to virtually guarantee that it's the latter."

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Glenn Beck’s Lincoln Contradictions

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

I’ve been occasionally watching Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel and think he has done an admirable job of smoking out and identifying the shockingly hardcore, radical socialists who dominate the Obama administration. He has also done a generally good job talking about the libertarian founding principles of America, how they have been lost, and our duty to regain them. But he has been absolutely abysmal when discussing the subject of Lincoln, the War to Prevent Southern Independence, and its legacy. I suspect that the reason for this disconnect with historical reality is that: 1) The Fox News Channel is essentially a propaganda arm of the neoconservative political cabal that has captured the Republican Party; 2) One of the cornerstones of neocon ideology is Lincoln idolatry and hatred of the South and Southerners. (Professor Paul Gottfried, for one, has written extensively about this.) 3) Therefore, if Glenn wants to keep his gig at Fox, he must toe the party line on Lincoln. Being otherwise libertarian – while the Democrats are in power – serves the purposes of the neocon cabal nicely.

To the neocons, Lincoln idolatry serves the purpose of helping to prop up the centralized, bureaucratic, liberty-destroying, military-industrial complex that defines their existence. As William F. Buckley, Jr., the original neocon, declared in 1952, fighting the Cold War meant that "we have got to accept Big Government for the duration," including "a totalitarian bureaucracy within our own shores" with its "large armies, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington." In case you haven’t noticed, for quite some time now the Republican Party has stood for war, war, and more war, and little else. How on earth genuine conservatives who favor limited constitutional government came to embrace Buckley as one of their leading spokesmen is a bizarre mystery.

When I debated one of the gurus of neocon Lincoln idolatry – Harry Jaffa – shortly after The Real Lincoln was published in 2002, he bellowed at one point that "9/11 proves more than ever that we need a strong central government." (In reality, it proved the failure and incapability of "the central government" to protect even its own D.C. headquarters from a few nuts armed with box cutters.) "We need big, totalitarian government to fight all the new Hitlers and potential Hitlers in the world" is the neocon mantra, in a nutshell.

To neocons, Lincoln is the poster boy of militaristic big government that runs roughshod over civil liberties while bankrupting the country with taxes and debt and murdering thousands of innocent foreigners (not that Southerners during the 1861–1865 war were foreigners; they were fellow American citizens). Doesn’t this sound like the Republican Party of today, as embodied in the recently dethroned Bush administration?

Despite his admirable performances discussing the founding fathers, socialism, progressivism, and other topics, Glenn Beck has been absolutely awful and sometimes untruthful when discussing Lincoln and his legacy. During one show he claimed to have read the actual original copy of The Confederate Constitution. I assume he made this assertion to show that he must really be quite the expert on the document. I didn’t believe him when he said this, and his next sentence proved to me that he did not read the document. The next sentence was the statement that the formal title of the document was "The Slaveholders’ Constitution . . ." Anyone can look the document up at Yale University’s online Avalon Project, which warehouses all the American founding documents, commentaries, and more, to see for yourself that Beck was wrong about this.

Beck’s next false statement was that "I read it" (the Confederate Constitution) and "it wasn’t about states’ rights, it was all about slavery." Read it yourself online. It is a virtual carbon copy of the U.S. Constitution, with a few exceptions: The Confederate president had a line-item veto; served for one six-year term; protectionist tariffs are outlawed; government subsidies for corporations are outlawed; and the "General Welfare Clause" of the U.S. Constitution was deleted.

The act of secession was the very essence of states’ rights, contrary to Beck’s proclamation, for the basic assumption was that the states were sovereign. They delegated certain defined powers to the central government for their own mutual benefit, but all other powers remained in the hands of the people and the states, as stated in the Tenth Amendment. As sovereigns, they had a right to secede for whatever reason. If a state needed the permission of others to secede, as Lincoln argued, then it was not really sovereign.

The U.S. Constitution adopted a federal, not a national system of government. That is another way of saying a states’ rights system of government. The Confederate Constitution was nearly identical.

As for slavery, the Confederate Constitution was not essentially different from the U.S. Constitution as it existed at the time. Beck was grossly deceiving when he told his audience that the Confederate Constitution protected slavery while saying not one word about how the U.S. Constitution did the exact same thing. Slavery had been protected by the U.S. Constitution since 1789. That’s seventy-two years of slavery protection under the U.S. Constitution. A Fugitive Slave Clause was written into the original U.S. Constitution, and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress was never challenged constitutionally. That in fact is why the great libertarian abolitionist Lysander Spooner launched so many vitriolic attacks on the Lincoln administration. As a trained lawyer, he had laid out the constitutional case against slavery, but the Lincoln administration and the Republican Party wanted nothing to do with him or his peaceful route to emancipation – the same route all other countries of the world (and the Northern states) took during the nineteenth century to end slavery.

Moreover, Beck’s hero, Lincoln, orchestrated passage through the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives of the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which would have formally and explicitly enshrined slavery in the U.S. Constitution by prohibiting the government from ever interfering with Southern slavery. This amendment passed the Senate and the House just days before Lincoln was inaugurated. In his first inaugural address he said he believed slavery was already constitutional and then, alluding to the Corwin Amendment, said: "I have no objection to it [slavery protection] being made express and irrevocable" in the Constitution. This was by far the strongest defense of slavery ever made by an American politician, coming from the president himself. Beck and the wacky preacher posing as an intellectual made no mention of this.

More recently, Beck has admirably attacked the idea of "collective salvation" that Obama himself espouses, and which is apparently as much a part of the ideology of the American Left today as militarism fueled by Lincoln idolatry is of the Right. According to the doctrine of "collective salvation," a Christian cannot be saved and go to Heaven unless one first embarks on a crusade to have government "save" the "oppressed" of society by expanding the welfare state, raising taxes, making taxation more "progressive," adopting more racial hiring quotas, and regulating and nationalizing as much of private industry as possible. It is a variant of "liberation theology" which, according to Pope John Paul, II, is essentially Marxism masquerading as Christianity.

What Beck and his wacky preacher/faux Lincoln expert do not know is that the main supporters of the Lincoln regime believed in the exact same quasi-religious ideas. Indeed, it defined their very existence. As explained by Murray Rothbard in "America’s Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861" (in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War, Transaction Publishers, 1997, p. 128):

The North, in particular the North’s driving force, the "Yankees" – that ethnocultural group who either lived in New England or migrated from there to upstate New York, northern and eastern Ohio, northern Indiana, and northern Illinois – had been swept by a new form of Protestantism. This was a fanatical and emotional neo-Puritanism driven by a fervent "postmillennialism" which held that, as a precondition for the Second Advent of Jesus Christ, man must set up a thousand-year Kingdom of God on Earth.

To the Yankees, their "kingdom" was to be a "perfect society" cleansed of sin, the principal causes of which were slavery, alcohol, and Catholicism. Furthermore, "government is God’s major instrument of salvation," Rothbard wrote. This is why the Yankees never seriously considered ending Southern slavery how THEY had ended it in their own states – peacefully through some kind of compensated emancipation. They were not so concerned about the welfare of the poor slaves. Indeed, even Tocqueville noticed that "the problem of race," as he phrased it, was worse in the North than it was in the South. Instead, as Rothbard continues:

The Northern war against slavery partook of fanatical millennialist fervor, of a cheerful willingness to uproot institutions, to commit mayhem and mass murder, to plunder and loot and destroy, all in the name of high moral principle and the birth of a perfect world. The Yankee fanatics were veritable Pattersonian humanitarians with the guillotine: the Anabaptists, the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, of their era.

"Collective salvation," as opposed to the individualistic salvation that the Bible teaches, was what motivated the Yankees and their war on the South. This of course is exactly what Glenn Beck has been ranting and raving about recently when it is practiced by opponents of the neocon establishment – the exact same establishment that embraces the Lincolnite, Yankee millennialist fervor as one of its defining characteristics. That’s why the neocons constantly invoke Lincoln’s "all men are created equal" words from the Gettysburg Address (via Jefferson’s Declaration of Secession) to "justify" their endless military meddling in over 100 countries of the world. ALL men deserve "equal" liberty, they tell us, and it is OUR job to invade, conquer, and occupy any nation on earth where there is a lack of such liberty.

America was founded with the George Washington/Thomas Jefferson foreign policy of commercial relationships with all nations, entangling alliances with none. The neocon establishment, which is influential in both major political parties, believes in just the opposite: "entangling alliances" and endless military interventionism with as many nations as possible, all in the name of some undefinable Great Moral Cause, in the tradition of Dishonest Abe.

Of course, all of this high-handed talk about the Republican Party supposedly being "the party of great moral ideas" is also a convenient smokescreen for the economic greed that is its real motivation, and has been ever since the party first gained power. As Rothbard further explained: "On the economic level, the Republicans [in 1860] adopted the Whig program of statism and big government: protective tariffs, subsidies to big business, strong central government, large-scale public works, and cheap credit spurred by government." It hasn’t changed much since.

Copyright © 2010 by LewRockwell.com.

On The Web:   http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo190.html

 

On Sun, 7/18/10, Georgia Flagger - cobbslegionscv@yahoo.com  wrote:

From: Georgia Flagger - cobbslegionscv@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010

From: wildbill4dixie@ yahoo.com
To: me@glennbeck. com
CC: info@wallbuilders. com
    
Mr. Beck 
    
I have reviewed the transcripts of your June 25th show on “Black Founding Fathers” and I have a few thoughts and comments for you. 
    
Let’s start with the title of the show itself - “Black Founders.” FYI, the men who conceived, founded and in the first 50 years at least, built this country, were white men of Anglo-Celtic descent. They gave to their posterity, as well as to all of us who are not descended from their bloodlines, their language, their culture, their political philosophy and laws, and their belief in liberty. As an American of Italian descent, I am thankful for that, though secretly at least, I do wish that somewhere I could find, in the Declaration of Independence, a signature with a name like, Russo, Cabelli, or even Vallante. At the very least, I would be thrilled to no end if I could find such a name somewhere among the names of those men who built America in those first 50 years. But the reality of it is that I could look all day long and never find such a signature or such a person. I accept what is and I do not try to make up fables and fantasies to pretend that something existed which in fact did not. I am simply happy to be who I am, and happy to have inherited the fruits of the labor of those men, whether or not my ancestors came from the same shores as theirs or not. Stop trying to pander to your black audience. Their ancestors were certainly a part of this country’s history, but they did not “found” anything any more than mine did. 
    
There is nothing “revisionist” about history as it used to be told. And the former Confederates did not re-write the History books nor did the things they wrote try to “hide the black man under the stairwell,” as you put it. They simply wrote rebuttals of books authored by northern historians. Those northern historians, in many cases, demonized the South and blamed the war on Southerners. There is nothing wrong with defending oneself, whether it is against physical attack or slander. Southerners lost the war militarily. They surrendered and gave up their dreams of independence, returned to the Union, and promised to be good citizens, a promise they have lived up to for 145 years – as demonstrated by the fact that they are usually the first to volunteer whenever America gets itself into a scrape and needs men to go get killed in some far off land. Nowhere however, in the terms of that surrender did it say that they had to sit on their thumbs and accept slander, blame and degradation without defending themselves. No one hid anything and no one revised anything. 
    
It is people like you and David Barton who are doing the revisions. It is people like you who are distorting - by taking people who are historical footnotes and raising them to the level of iconic status, while telling the unknowing public that our problems were all caused by a bunch of bad guys. That is not history, it is fantasy, it is a lie and that lie is being told by you, Barton and others like you in order to further your own ends. 
    
About the Confederate Constitution – I have read it several times and have even seen a photo reproduction of the original document. Nowhere does it say in the title, “The Slaveholding Confederate States of America.” To put it bluntly, “YOU LIE!” And so does Mr. Barton. I guess Obama has some company, eh? 
   
Nor did a state have to be a slaveholding state in order to join the Confederacy. During the Confederacy’s Constitutional Convention, the proposal was made that only slave states be allowed to join. It was never adopted. Consult Marshall DeRosa’s book, “The Confederate Constitution of 1861.” Professor DeRosa is a scholar and an expert on this matter. You are not and neither is Barton. Once again, “YOU LIE!” And so does Barton. 
    
I might also point out that while the Confederate Constitution prohibits the Confederacy’s federal government from abolishing slavery, that it does NOT prohibit individual states from doing so. Article 1, Section 9, Point Number 4 states, “No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.” This prohibition, along with everything else in the “Confederate Constitution,” unless otherwise specified, applies to the federal government of the Confederacy, not the state governments. Once again, so that you get it straight this time, this Constitution was not written for the governments of the individual states, as those states had their own constitutions. It was written for the Confederacy’s central government. 
    
Next - regarding the abolition of the slave trade. Here’s a little something that you left out. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, most delegates were in agreement that the importation of slaves from Africa needed to stop. The original date for the stoppage of slave importation was initially set as January 1, 1800. It is a matter of record that General Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina, (a slave state), made the initial motion to extend that date to 1808. It is also a matter of record that Mr. Gorham, delegate from Massachusetts, (a “free” state), seconded that motion. It isn’t so surprising that Massachusetts would second such a motion, for though a “free state”, she was, like her sister states in New England, heavily involved in the international slave trade at that time. It was ships sailing from her ports that sailed to Africa, purchased slaves from Africans, and brought them to America to sell at a huge profit. It is a pity that I see nothing about this in the transcripts of your show. But why would I? It would get in the way of your storytelling. 
    
On this same matter, I thought you might be interested to see who voted for the extension motion, and who voted against it. The final voting tally does not break down along North/South lines, and it puts a crimp in your effort to make the Southern states look like the villains in all this: 
    
“New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina, voting in the affirmative, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia in the negative……..” 
    
Next, regarding your celebration of Republican Senator Matthew Gaines of Texas – Gaines was a former slave who became a State Senator after the war during the time known as “Reconstruction,” a time in our history where most of the white people in the Southern states who had supported the Confederacy were disenfranchised, and when most of the newly freed slaves (called “freedmen,” who, for the most part, were illiterate), were given the franchise and organized politically by the Union League, an organization closely affiliated with the Republican Party. During your celebration of this “black founder,” you neglected to mention that in the years that the Republican Party controlled Texas after the “Civil War” (during Mr. Gaines’ tenure), the state’s tax rate went up 400%. As one who frequently complains about Democrats raising taxes, I thought you might find this piece of information enlightening. This was also not an isolated incident. You think someone is hiding history? In some ways you might be right, but not in the way you think. Contemporary historians usually fail to mention that, to cite some examples, Georgia’s state debt went from “0” in 1865 to 50 million dollars in 1872, that Louisiana’s 1871 legislative session cost 9 ½ times what a pre-war session cost, that in 5 years of Reconstruction, Mississippi’s tax rate went up 14-fold….. I could go on and on but I’ll stop here for the sake of brevity. And all these things happened under the watch of people like Gaines and their white radical allies who were - REPUBLICANS! 
    
Finally, I had to laugh at your childish attempt to convince your audience that somewhere, way back when, a bunch of bad guys changed history, turned it “upside down” and caused us to “hate” one another. Actually, I stopped laughing when I realized that a large segment of your audience is stupid enough to have believed you. 
    
It wasn’t a covert bunch of bad guys that caused Americans of different races and ethnic groups to “hate” one another. In part, this type of strife was and still is caused by fear and ignorance. Not all of it is, however. Some of it is reality based. “Diversity” is not a “blessing”, as some modern day demagogues would have us believe. Read a world history book or simply pick up a newspaper, read them with open eyes and an open mind and you will quickly see that “diverse” societies are the ones which are most often fraught with conflict. Human history is in large part, a history of sometimes violent competition and strife between groups of people who are different from one another in some way, racially, ethnically, religiously, tribally, philosophically, politically, or other. This strife, sadly, is part of the human condition and there is no quick fix for it - especially not by telling your audience that you magically uncovered the reason or the solution for it. Your contentions are as both childish and false, not to mention misleading. If you or even those who perpetrate the lie that “diversity is a strength” really wanted to make this diverse society of ours work, you wouldn’t start off by telling lies - you’d start by admitting the truth, namely, that making a diverse society work is a difficult task at best, and then moving from there. You wouldn’t be promoting easy answers because you would realize that there are no easy answers. Telling lies and fables about American history to your unknowing audience isn’t going to “bring us together.” Bringing people together is not accomplished by creating fables and demonizing the dead, who are not here to defend themselves. It can only be done if we recognize our failings as human beings and we all try to live the words spoken by that Jewish carpenter some 2000 years ago – “Love your neighbor as yourself” and “do unto him as you would have him do unto you.” 
    
Having had to walk, at least during some times in my life prior to retirement, through fields of bullsh**, (I’m speaking figuratively) , I find that my nose has become keenly attuned to the smell of it. Whenever I turn on any of the major networks these days, I find myself having to open the windows to air out my house. Your network and you, do not, unfortunately, provide an exception. But then again, what else should I expect from you and your handlers? The network you work for is well known for being nothing more than a shill for the Republican Party, a party which, in its early days, made itself a political force, not only by launching an illegal invasion of sovereign states, but by afterward pandering to the black man, who it claimed to be trying to help. Ever since Obama and his gang got elected, you people at Fox have been heroically portraying yourselves as defenders of the Constitution and limited government. The truth is, however, that Fox is no more interested in having a government of limited and defined powers than the King of Saudi Arabia is interested in attending Midnight Mass. It wasn’t Obama who referred to the Constitution as a “scrap of paper,” it was George Bush. It wasn’t Obama who pushed through the egregious “Patriot Act,” it was George Bush and his cronies. And other than Judge Andrew Napolitano, no one on your network seemed to have a problem with it. You people love “big government” as much as anyone, just as long as it’s the Republicans that are running it. 
    
And as far as you yourself are concerned, you worked for the nauseatingly liberal CNN for years and now, all of sudden, you’re a hot shot on an opposing network, passing yourself off as a history teacher and a guardian of the Constitution? Wow! Sounds like a remake of “Saul on the Road to Damascus!” Did you get hit by a lightning bolt perchance? Talk about a fantasy!? Do you think I was born yesterday? Did you really think that some of us would be so blind as to be unable to see through your charade? Do you really believe that I am so blind as to be unable to see past those crocodile tears that you occasionally shed on your show? You are worse than ill-informed. You sir, are a liar, and your behavior is as transparent as a g-string on a stripper – though, not nearly as appealing. 
    
Bill Vallante
Commack NY

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From: Mary Stevens - mstevens@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2010

HI:
 
It was great to read this correspondence. Thanks so much to those who compiled such informative and timely letters to Glenn Beck. However, I don't think that I would have told Glenn he was a "liar", which Bill Vallente said many times in his letter. That's just my opinion.
 
I am a fan of Glenn's but have been disappointed lately with the content of his programs. I noted that when he refers to War Between the States he depicts the American South as the Bad Guys and the North are the Good Guys. He sees this period of our history in "black and white" terms. So, I sent a short (but to the point) email to him, pointing out the following:
 
* Neither did slavery begin nor did it exist only in the South
* Why is there never any reference to the African Chiefs for selling their own into slavery?
* Why does he not mention that the Southern slaves were bought and brought here by Northern States, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts in deplorable conditions on ships.
 
I thought about writing more and might at a later date.
 
Mr. Beck needs to realize that he has a large Southern fan base and he will lose them with his programs that do not tell the real story.
 
Thanks.......
 
Mary (MJ) Stevens
 
PS...His email address is me@glennbeck.com.  His producer's email address is stu@glennbeck.com

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Glenn Beck’s Lincoln Contradictions

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

I’ve been occasionally watching Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel and think he has done an admirable job of smoking out and identifying the shockingly hardcore, radical socialists who dominate the Obama administration. He has also done a generally good job talking about the libertarian founding principles of America, how they have been lost, and our duty to regain them. But he has been absolutely abysmal when discussing the subject of Lincoln, the War to Prevent Southern Independence, and its legacy. I suspect that the reason for this disconnect with historical reality is that: 1) The Fox News Channel is essentially a propaganda arm of the neoconservative political cabal that has captured the Republican Party; 2) One of the cornerstones of neocon ideology is Lincoln idolatry and hatred of the South and Southerners. (Professor Paul Gottfried, for one, has written extensively about this.) 3) Therefore, if Glenn wants to keep his gig at Fox, he must toe the party line on Lincoln. Being otherwise libertarian – while the Democrats are in power – serves the purposes of the neocon cabal nicely.

To the neocons, Lincoln idolatry serves the purpose of helping to prop up the centralized, bureaucratic, liberty-destroying, military-industrial complex that defines their existence. As William F. Buckley, Jr., the original neocon, declared in 1952, fighting the Cold War meant that "we have got to accept Big Government for the duration," including "a totalitarian bureaucracy within our own shores" with its "large armies, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington." In case you haven’t noticed, for quite some time now the Republican Party has stood for war, war, and more war, and little else. How on earth genuine conservatives who favor limited constitutional government came to embrace Buckley as one of their leading spokesmen is a bizarre mystery.

When I debated one of the gurus of neocon Lincoln idolatry – Harry Jaffa – shortly after The Real Lincoln was published in 2002, he bellowed at one point that "9/11 proves more than ever that we need a strong central government." (In reality, it proved the failure and incapability of "the central government" to protect even its own D.C. headquarters from a few nuts armed with box cutters.) "We need big, totalitarian government to fight all the new Hitlers and potential Hitlers in the world" is the neocon mantra, in a nutshell.

To neocons, Lincoln is the poster boy of militaristic big government that runs roughshod over civil liberties while bankrupting the country with taxes and debt and murdering thousands of innocent foreigners (not that Southerners during the 1861–1865 war were foreigners; they were fellow American citizens). Doesn’t this sound like the Republican Party of today, as embodied in the recently dethroned Bush administration?

Despite his admirable performances discussing the founding fathers, socialism, progressivism, and other topics, Glenn Beck has been absolutely awful and sometimes untruthful when discussing Lincoln and his legacy. During one show he claimed to have read the actual original copy of The Confederate Constitution. I assume he made this assertion to show that he must really be quite the expert on the document. I didn’t believe him when he said this, and his next sentence proved to me that he did not read the document. The next sentence was the statement that the formal title of the document was "The Slaveholders’ Constitution . . ." Anyone can look the document up at Yale University’s online Avalon Project, which warehouses all the American founding documents, commentaries, and more, to see for yourself that Beck was wrong about this.

Beck’s next false statement was that "I read it" (the Confederate Constitution) and "it wasn’t about states’ rights, it was all about slavery." Read it yourself online. It is a virtual carbon copy of the U.S. Constitution, with a few exceptions: The Confederate president had a line-item veto; served for one six-year term; protectionist tariffs are outlawed; government subsidies for corporations are outlawed; and the "General Welfare Clause" of the U.S. Constitution was deleted.

The act of secession was the very essence of states’ rights, contrary to Beck’s proclamation, for the basic assumption was that the states were sovereign. They delegated certain defined powers to the central government for their own mutual benefit, but all other powers remained in the hands of the people and the states, as stated in the Tenth Amendment. As sovereigns, they had a right to secede for whatever reason. If a state needed the permission of others to secede, as Lincoln argued, then it was not really sovereign.

The U.S. Constitution adopted a federal, not a national system of government. That is another way of saying a states’ rights system of government. The Confederate Constitution was nearly identical.

As for slavery, the Confederate Constitution was not essentially different from the U.S. Constitution as it existed at the time. Beck was grossly deceiving when he told his audience that the Confederate Constitution protected slavery while saying not one word about how the U.S. Constitution did the exact same thing. Slavery had been protected by the U.S. Constitution since 1789. That’s seventy-two years of slavery protection under the U.S. Constitution. A Fugitive Slave Clause was written into the original U.S. Constitution, and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress was never challenged constitutionally. That in fact is why the great libertarian abolitionist Lysander Spooner launched so many vitriolic attacks on the Lincoln administration. As a trained lawyer, he had laid out the constitutional case against slavery, but the Lincoln administration and the Republican Party wanted nothing to do with him or his peaceful route to emancipation – the same route all other countries of the world (and the Northern states) took during the nineteenth century to end slavery.

Moreover, Beck’s hero, Lincoln, orchestrated passage through the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives of the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which would have formally and explicitly enshrined slavery in the U.S. Constitution by prohibiting the government from ever interfering with Southern slavery. This amendment passed the Senate and the House just days before Lincoln was inaugurated. In his first inaugural address he said he believed slavery was already constitutional and then, alluding to the Corwin Amendment, said: "I have no objection to it [slavery protection] being made express and irrevocable" in the Constitution. This was by far the strongest defense of slavery ever made by an American politician, coming from the president himself. Beck and the wacky preacher posing as an intellectual made no mention of this.

More recently, Beck has admirably attacked the idea of "collective salvation" that Obama himself espouses, and which is apparently as much a part of the ideology of the American Left today as militarism fueled by Lincoln idolatry is of the Right. According to the doctrine of "collective salvation," a Christian cannot be saved and go to Heaven unless one first embarks on a crusade to have government "save" the "oppressed" of society by expanding the welfare state, raising taxes, making taxation more "progressive," adopting more racial hiring quotas, and regulating and nationalizing as much of private industry as possible. It is a variant of "liberation theology" which, according to Pope John Paul, II, is essentially Marxism masquerading as Christianity.

What Beck and his wacky preacher/faux Lincoln expert do not know is that the main supporters of the Lincoln regime believed in the exact same quasi-religious ideas. Indeed, it defined their very existence. As explained by Murray Rothbard in "America’s Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861" (in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War, Transaction Publishers, 1997, p. 128):

The North, in particular the North’s driving force, the "Yankees" – that ethnocultural group who either lived in New England or migrated from there to upstate New York, northern and eastern Ohio, northern Indiana, and northern Illinois – had been swept by a new form of Protestantism. This was a fanatical and emotional neo-Puritanism driven by a fervent "postmillennialism" which held that, as a precondition for the Second Advent of Jesus Christ, man must set up a thousand-year Kingdom of God on Earth.

To the Yankees, their "kingdom" was to be a "perfect society" cleansed of sin, the principal causes of which were slavery, alcohol, and Catholicism. Furthermore, "government is God’s major instrument of salvation," Rothbard wrote. This is why the Yankees never seriously considered ending Southern slavery how THEY had ended it in their own states – peacefully through some kind of compensated emancipation. They were not so concerned about the welfare of the poor slaves. Indeed, even Tocqueville noticed that "the problem of race," as he phrased it, was worse in the North than it was in the South. Instead, as Rothbard continues:

The Northern war against slavery partook of fanatical millennialist fervor, of a cheerful willingness to uproot institutions, to commit mayhem and mass murder, to plunder and loot and destroy, all in the name of high moral principle and the birth of a perfect world. The Yankee fanatics were veritable Pattersonian humanitarians with the guillotine: the Anabaptists, the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, of their era.

"Collective salvation," as opposed to the individualistic salvation that the Bible teaches, was what motivated the Yankees and their war on the South. This of course is exactly what Glenn Beck has been ranting and raving about recently when it is practiced by opponents of the neocon establishment – the exact same establishment that embraces the Lincolnite, Yankee millennialist fervor as one of its defining characteristics. That’s why the neocons constantly invoke Lincoln’s "all men are created equal" words from the Gettysburg Address (via Jefferson’s Declaration of Secession) to "justify" their endless military meddling in over 100 countries of the world. ALL men deserve "equal" liberty, they tell us, and it is OUR job to invade, conquer, and occupy any nation on earth where there is a lack of such liberty.

America was founded with the George Washington/Thomas Jefferson foreign policy of commercial relationships with all nations, entangling alliances with none. The neocon establishment, which is influential in both major political parties, believes in just the opposite: "entangling alliances" and endless military interventionism with as many nations as possible, all in the name of some undefinable Great Moral Cause, in the tradition of Dishonest Abe.

Of course, all of this high-handed talk about the Republican Party supposedly being "the party of great moral ideas" is also a convenient smokescreen for the economic greed that is its real motivation, and has been ever since the party first gained power. As Rothbard further explained: "On the economic level, the Republicans [in 1860] adopted the Whig program of statism and big government: protective tariffs, subsidies to big business, strong central government, large-scale public works, and cheap credit spurred by government." It hasn’t changed much since.

Copyright © 2010 by LewRockwell.com

On The Web:   http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo190.html

 

From: cpprhd10@aol.com
To: undisclosed-recipients
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010
Subject: Fwd: **********WATCH THIS AND SEE IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND...

Here's a video that should win top prize in the warm fuzzies dept. It's all about the new world order and what it's going to do for (to) all of us. Watch and forward to friends.
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Sent: Sun, Jul 18, 2010
Subject: **********WATCH THIS AND SEE IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOG-_nHYyA&feature=related
 
Note that THE NEW WORLD ORDER is identified in one of these videos as COMMUNISM.  Remember that in Communism, contrary to the Commie brainwash, the loot is NOT divided among the people but is collected in the pockets of the elites.
 
Note:  There is a very nice photo of McCain in this video.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg75JybQA0Y&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89SB59DT34&feature=related  This video is guaranteed to shock you.  Do watch it all the way through.  There certainly is some truth in it despite the weirdness.  Imagine former U.S. President all participating in a giant owl ritual.  I have read of this off and on during past years-in, of all places, the local newspaper.  I think that last year the site in the woods sold--if I remember the new article correctly. I saw a Bush daughter give the odd hand sign you'll see flash across the screen in one portion of the video.  I, also, saw and years back passed on  to our gang the photos of McCain's wife and Hillary Clinton wearing identical New World Order pins.
 
Strange things have happened.  The Masonic group discussed herein--does not seem to be our American one-- If it is, Americans have never learned the truth about the top of their group and may have just been fascinated by the Egyptian symbolism.
 
Interesting, to say the least.
 
I am passing all of this on to you---because I think that you are like I am---interested in knowing as much as possible about all that is going on in our world---and what various people are thinking.
 
Whether you believe or disbelieve-- I suspect you will not choose to be ignorant of what others believe.
 
As for me, I reserve judgment-- on some of this, but do believe that the NEW WORLD ORDER has revealed itself repeatedly because its members are convinced they have won.
 
Wars are just one part of their plan for world dominance. Money and power---are the roots of their desires.
 
We all have been suckered into believing many things totally untrue.  A nine year war that, according to McCain, can last 100 years---should be enough to make all of us wonder about our ability to differentiate truth from propaganda.
 
The latest word from top men involved in the study of the Twin Towers happening==should make us really, really question our ability to recognize truth when we hear it.
 
Why have both our Political Parties brought in thousands upon thousands of Muslims into our land?  Why do both parties insist on keeping our borders open? Why h
 
Does any of this make you suspect that something is rotten at the highest levels in our nation----and in the world?
 
Do you continue to believe that everything we are told by our government, by our military leaders, by our preachers and teachers is the whole truth?

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From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010
Subject: Fw: **********WATCH THIS AND SEE IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND...
To: Cpprhd10@aol.com

Dear Brethren (bcc herein),
 
Please remember that we Confederates have been telling you about these cumulative events, shown herein in these video's, for a number of years now and long before the InterNet came into being.  The Confederate Society of America has incessantly spoken of these events since our inception in 1992 and their inter-relationship with one another & the manner in which this nation was being 'Transitioned'.  Of course we were depicted by our adversaries (et al), in their usual manner, via attempted segregation from all others through demonization and false historical portrayal's relating to our Confederacy.
 
We were quickly listed on Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center's 'watch list' because we dared to speak the Truth!
 
I remember a man who joined the Society about two years ago who once believed we were a bunch of whacko's.  I remember him telling me how sorry he was and how very wrong he was....and just how right we were ALL ALONG!
 
Folk's, what is going on today is NOT accidental or the product of anyone's wild imagination.  It is quite real and has been crafted by deliberate design over a number of years.
 
Do you think it was an accident or mistake that this Federal Government sold it's debt to it's arch enemy the Red Chinese if it were NOT for a deliberate reason?
 
And look at what it accomplished:

> the Feds got their money to continue to advance, create and further bloat their Social Entitlement programs thus further assuring their station while making half of this country's population social dependants. 

> the States of course were already paying the Banksters in Washington more than they were getting in return and were forced to raise their state taxes even higher in order to exist, quite literally.  this burden only added to the plight of the American taxpayer impacting their quality of life while advancing other's who the Feds portrayed as less fortunate thus creating that old divide and conquer scenario that always works for a chosen few but never the majority.  the essential difference between a Republic and Democracy whose 'Democratic plurality' has always served the existing political powers throughout World History.

> it allowed the One Worlder's the ability to 'cement' their relationship with the Red Chinese through mutual dependency and subsequent trade practices.
 
> their 'Social' programs, as stated, simply galvanized their station at the expense of this country and the people's of both nations become indentured servants without them having so much as a clue as to how they were being fleeced into becoming unwilling participants in their scheme.
 
> it's kind of like a junkie on drugs- first the 'dealer' needs to get them hooked thereby insuring their dependency and ultimately, once hooked, providing them with only enough drugs in order for them to sustain themselves in order to keep them in check in order to do their bidding.
 
> why do you think Bernanke went with Federal officials to China?
 
> Bernanke is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System- a System that has NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!  they are merely private bankers who control this country's Banking System who print money and control the dynamics of this nation, thanks to Woodrow Wilson who shoved this down our throats in 1913 during Christmas recess much like Pelosi's HealthCare Bill.
 
> they, the 'Federal Reserve System' has NEVER been audited- NOT once!....and yet they set the monetary policy of this Nation that controls every aspect of the human endeavor up to and including how many people work at a given time.

> they are this country's Central Bank and work in close consort with most other nation's Central Bank's.
 
ARE Y'ALL NOW BEGINNING TO GET THE PICTURE?
 
> War's become too expensive, especially when you have to re-build a country for it takes many years in which to 're-develop' its infrastructure & overcome the natural hatred realized from those people's whose asses you just killed.  It takes generation's whereas controlling the World Market by eliminating those 'natural' sovereigns & 'problems' is a much faster way of inducing 'international drug dependency'.  Control the international money flow and you control everything.  Once an international currency is introduced, most problems can be 'dealt' with via an international army and police force... ever hear of the United Nations?  How many I wonder remember those UN commercials of about 30 years ago in which such an International Army was being depicted?
 
> do you still believe this to be the simple machinations of a mis-guided group of people?
 
> look at the social dependency structure within the US at present and the impact it has had and tell me if we Confederates are wrong.  More than 50% of people within this country do NOT pay a dime in taxes and what is this Federal Government thinking of doing- introducing a Valued Added Tax (known as VAT) that is nothing more than a National Sales Tax to continue to support the Nanny State at YOUR expense.
 
This is NOT insanity!  It is enslavement by design, scripted and written through various laws and over these last 145 years beginning at the conclusion of The War For Southern Independence in 1865!
 
ARE Y'ALL BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND AT WHAT WAS LOST BACK THEN?
 
> If the Feds really represented you, all they would have to do in order to restore this Constitutional Republic to its People would be to PASS ONE SIMPLE LAW- THE ELIMINATION OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS IN WASHINGTON!  That means they would have to represent and work for YOU for their very survival would depend on it!
 
> Now y'all don't need to be a phi-beta kappa to figure that one out, do you?   And how about a flat tax that EVERYONE would have to pay rather than Income Tax? In this manner, EVERYONE HAS SOME 'SKIN' IN THE GAME AND NOT JUST 50% OF US.  Now what's so difficult about that......just like keeping our borders secure?
Does anyone still think we Confederates are a group of yahoo's.....or are we very much on target and have been ever since we decided to go our own way peaceably in 1860 because we saw what was coming and wanted NO part of it THEN or NOW!
 
> Y'ALL DON'T NEED TO BE A POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR TO SEE THE FOREST FROM THE TREE'S.  Common sense and God's given logic is there for anyone with an ounce of courage and an ability to read and understand what was lost back then and what has been going on ever since.

> Reconstruction said it all beginning in 1865 after the War!  What gave the Feds the right to Reconstruct the Southern States in THEIR image?  NO-ONE !

> So what do you think they have been doing to this country ever since 1865- Reconstructing EVERYONE over time while systematically controlling education and thereby revising history to their own liking & accord for without any left to question their authority, the road ahead to their One World, New World Order is clear and un-obstructed.
 
Thanks to the Society's Resident Historian, Al Benson, for sending us these video's.
 
When the South Lost, so Too did this Entire Nation, but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time!
ALL Roads Lead to 1865!
Craig Maus,
president, The Confederate Society of America
www.deovindice.org
PS- Will YOU Join us as Members Now?

PPS- Now can YOU understand why the Feds will NOT protect our Southern Border or why every immigrant is catered too while natural Americans have become second class citizen's?  Separation is tantamount to survival and will guarantee a Return to a Constitutional Republic.  The RESTORATION of the legal Government of the South, The Confederate States of America will secure that position for one and all!  Now perhaps YOU can appreciate the reason why President Davis NEVER surrendered our legal Confederate Government to these Federals.
 

Friday, July 16, 2010

The Untold Story

by David Ware
dware4dixie@gmail.com

As the Sesquicentennial unfolds, we will be indoctrinated with stories of how blacks deserted the South and flocked to the Union army to fight for their freedom. Nothing will be said about the majority millions who stayed behind in loyalty, friendship and patriotic devotion to their southern homeland.

Blacks came to this continent in Virginia at Jamestown in 1619. During the first war of Revolution, some 8,000 blacks served in George Washington’s army. Many made the trip with Washington from Mount Vernon to Boston. Despite the offer of emancipation to any slave who served the cause of Britain, few left the colonies. Blacks also served in the War of 1812.

In 1822, Liberia was created for American free blacks. Fewer than 3000 left for the new country, for by this time they were not Africans, they were Americans.

By 1860, it was clear that slavery was a dying issue. It was possible for those that desired their freedom to achieve it and it was happening. In 1800, for example, the black population of Washington, D. C. was 746 of which 123 were free. In 1860 there were 10,983 of which 9,209 were free.

The Confederate States of America in 1861 contained 500,000 free blacks of which 60,000 were in Virginia alone. There was no mass black migration from the South to the North. By and large, southern slaves and ex-slaves viewed the south as their home.

Slaves and free blacks fought for the first Confederacy in 1776 and in the second Confederacy in 1861 because they were fighting for their home. A federal observer of Stonewall Jackson’s Army on the way to Antietam estimated 3,000 black soldiers mixed in with what he called “the Rebel horde.” One half of the people that worked at Tredegar Iron Works and Chimborazo Hospital were black.

The greatest contribution that black patriots made to the Confederacy, however, was in shoring up and maintaining the home front. The Confederate army had the highest conscription rate of any army ever assembled on the face of the Earth. Upwards of some 90% of eligible white men served the cause, leaving no young men to look after things back home. To my knowledge of all the letters that survived the war not one of them indicated that any soldier had to go home because of concern for the safety and welfare of their farms and families because of any actions by Southern blacks.

The Yankee does not understand the social intimacy between Southern blacks and whites. As a boy, I thought nothing of the fact that the children I played with while their mothers and fathers worked in our fields had to eat in a different place than we did, but were right in the front row at our family funerals and weddings. After getting his PhD from Boston University, Martin Luther King was asked to describe Boston: “Boston is the Birmingham of the north but Birmingham will change for the better, Boston won’t.” Undoubtedly, loyal blacks enabled the Confederate States of America to exist for four years instead of four weeks. To them, true patriotism was the belief that their descendants would benefit from their actions. The deeds of these loyal, noble people should not ever be forgotten or swept into a corner by political correctness.

On The Web:   http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/07/untold-story.html

Throwing rotten tomatoes back
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: Confederate Flags Create Controversy at Hanover Tomato Festival 

Sons of Confederate Soldiers hand out free confederate flags sparking outrage from some festival-goers.
WTVR
http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-confederate-flag-tomato-festival-story,0,3178469.story
 
/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS: I cannot believe that this stuff passes for journalism or news in a supposedly educated, civilized country. I've just posted the following message saying so. Everybody who hasn't yet, pile on! Blather like this must not be allowed to slide through with no resistance.
 
<<<This is one of the most purely stupid stories yet. They supposedly don't like the Southern flag -- what are they doing in the South? And you, WTVR, you don't have to flaunt so blatantly the fact that you're owned by rabidly anti-Southern interests far from Richmond. You're CBS, you're socialist, you voted for Obama and would do it again, you're NUTS and your liberal agenda hasn't ever brought anything but misery to the world.
You bobby-sox news readers, you must be lying when you say some people didn't come or left early because of the flags, because you show absolutely nothing to support this wild claim. Where did you in fact learn to news-read? BASIC 5-W journalism here. But isn't lying what you were taught to do in media school, you chic bimbos for PC? And what's with this slouching, simpering "minority advocate"? He's the real bigot here besides yourselves. Maybe he's just some actor you hired? Come on, it's ridiculous and preposterous, the whole story. Don't you feel ridiculous and preposterous wasting air time and brain cells on it? Truth, please, for once!
 
When you start showing the same respect and giving greater or equal coverage to majority advocates you'll begin to gain some credibility, but as it is you have none -- zero -- and you're doing nothing but digging your whole industry in deeper with each new installment of this kind of genuinely bigoted, hateful, racist, prejudiced, discriminatory pseudo-news.>>>
 
/\/.\/\/. CONTINUES: The often totally yankee little fillies slinging this hash may be the prettiest and most vivacious there are beyond their work, but their work is stabbing Dixie in the face every day all day and slashing our flag to shreds and just dynamiting everything Ed Asner or Larry King wouldn't approve of. Somebody needs to contact the WTVR ghouls directly, whether by phone or email, tell them exactly the criminals they really are, and show them that (as I said) their whole industry is only grinding itself to nothing with its incessant drumbeat of hate and condemnation against its customers.
 
Medianites are the most evil and yet often the most charming, personable, sincere, seemingly human crowd out there off-screen. It's the ultimate irony that these are the people doing to civilization what BP is doing to the Gulf of Mexico. How to explain it? Their mothers and fathers obviously brought them up to be very mannerly and down-to-earth, to get good grades and succeed in life -- how can it be that they so poisonous and so utterly blind -- or proud and smug -- about it, so rock-ribbed in their patently insane ideology, so consistent in their fashionable and well-paid sociopathy?
 
I don't mind if you laugh out loud at my frankness, but it's all the literal truth. Some bomb skyscrapers and are put in prison, others do every bit as much damage to society (or 100 times more) through yellow journalism/urinalism and are paid millions and showered in glory for it. The "mainstream" media are 100% captive to big business, and they simply spews its agenda, value and memes around the clock. Can it be that its personnel actually consider themselves free agents in any sense, much less bold crusaders for truth as per their snotty on-screen personae?
 
Can in of this really be happening???
 
Make no mistake about it -- the corporate cartel media are in the business of "shaping" attitudes. That's what they do. It has nothing to do with informing people of what matters. I think I'm going to fling this sweetly in their face from now on when I'm interviewed etc.
 

 

Re: Slavery and the Confederacy:  Who is the revisionist?
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
 
Chuck,
 
This man must be responded to by a “gonzamacher” from our side, not just an ordinary individual – even a well educated one. Dr. Clyde Wilson, Dr. Tom DiLorenzo, Mr. Thomas Moore and a host of other well known Southern apologists are certainly more than able to refute him. I suggest DiLorenzo for anything on Lincoln – and especially anything to do with God telling Lincoln anything – and the others to point out that the term slavery often indicated the location of the state rather than any really desperate need to vindicate the institution. Virginia came within three votes of outlawing slavery at least once.
 
Ordinary folks aren’t going to get a response even if they are “spot on” in their points, but some academic and historic credentials might at least get a reading and this is too important to let it pass by.
 
Valerie
 
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Slavery and the Confederacy:  Who is the revisionist?
 
From: davyandjim@sprintmail.com
 
David Barton http://www.wallbuilders.com/SCHbioDB.asp, a repeat visitor on Glenn Beck's TV show, wrote the piece found at the following link:  http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=92.  Therein, Barton
makes the claim that "the South’s desire to preserve slavery was indisputably the driving reason for the formation of the Confederacy."  He cites "four notable categories of Confederate records" as "proof."
 
I'd love for someone knowledgeable to refute Barton, particularly since he appears to have standing in some prestigious circles, e.g., his name appeared briefly on Dr. Charles Stanley's Fourth of July television program.
http://www.intouch.org/site/c.cnKBIPNuEoG/b.4945473/k.BE35/Home.htm
 
The aforesaid piece notwithstanding, there is another on Barton's website, written in 2003 by Stephen McDowell, president of the Providence Foundation, a Christian educational organization, http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=120#FN40 which, near its conclusion, makes these points:
 
"The causes behind the war were many. Certainly slavery was a part of the cause (and for a small number of wealthy and influential Southern slave owners, it was probably primary), but slavery was not the central issue for
all people in the South. Most Southerners did not own slaves and most of those who did had only a small number.
 
"States rights and perceived unconstitutional taxes were also motivations for secession. There were many abolitionists in the North, both Christian and non-Christian, who pushed for the war, seeing it as a means to end slavery. Though slavery was not initially the reason Lincoln sent troops into the South, he did come to believe that God wanted him to emancipate the slaves."
 
_________________________
Albert Bushnell Hart, The American Nation: A History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906), vol. 16, Slavery and Abolition, 1831-1841,, pp. 67 ff. Hart records that in 1860 only about 5% of the white population made a
substantial profit of slave-keeping (a direct profit; many others benefited from the commerce associated with slavery). About 2% of this number (0.1% of the total white population) were large plantation owners who exerted much political influence.  Some people have pointed out that only 3% of Southerners owned slaves. While this is technically true in some measure, it is misleading. The 3% reflects ownership by the head of the household and
does not include all its inhabitants. Taking this into account, at the time of the Civil War about 19% of the population lived in households with slaves; and this was 19% of total population which included a large number
of slaves. When you consider that in 6 Southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina), there were almost as many or more slaves than whites, this 19% figure actually represents 35%-45% of the white population (in those states) having a direct relation to a home that had slaves.
 

Re: Confederate Flags Create Controversy at Hanover Tomato Festival
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
 
www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-confederate-flag-tomato-festival-story,0,3178469.story
 
Consider the thirteen-stripe United States Flag:
 
It flew over ships bringing slaves to the Western Hemisphere. No Confederate Flag ever did.
 
It flew over mass slaughters of people strictly because of their ethnic background (the various Native American nations). No Confederate Flag ever did.
 
It flew over concentration camps where certain American citizens were imprisoned purely for their ethnic background (the Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II). No Confederate Flag ever did.
 
Add to that the fact that it has been, and is, used heavily by hatemongers (see http://pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm).
 
Condemning the Confederate Battle Flag without also condemning the United States Flag is at best applying a double standard and at worst hypocrisy.
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon

 

11 July 2010
The Dominance of Southern Culture

"The south has produced the world's best literature. It dominates world culture. Southern culture is the most powerful and expressive in the world." ~ Timothy Tyson
 
"The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends." ~ The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

"The South is cultivated in collards and covered in kudzu . . . Many of us are descended from Scottish settlers and African slaves--and we usually find that we have more in common with each other than with Northern urbanites." ~ Clint Johnson

"The Southern Mind loathes abstractions . . . particularly harmful abstractions which go against the family, the organic community, ancestral customs, and religious faith." ~ Alphonse Vinh

There will no doubt be howls of disagreement from those who are obsessed with mocking and impugning Southerners--holding in special derision those Southerners who hold to a more traditional view of culture and history or who are involved in WBTS "heritage history" or "celebratory history."

Others will likely agree, but fear saying so publicly as they are apparently dealing with some burden of guilt and having to constantly explain and excuse being Southern. Reading their blog posts, essays, editorials, discussion board comments, and other commentary often remind me of what a Priest might hear in a confessional or what a psychiatrist might hear from someone on the couch. These folks seem to be conflicted: in one breath proudly proclaiming and reminding readers of their "Southernness" - ("Me too! Me too!" - and then apologizing for it with the very next breath. Some writers offer their remorse over past celebrations of Confederate history and appear to be involved in some type of self-flogging to atone for their formerly held sinful views regarding the WBTS and the South. They are a rather curious bunch in my view. I can only conclude that these individuals are overly concerned what others might think of them. Frankly, I could not care less what others think. I tend to resist the pull and tug of popular culture and trendy, faddish notions of history - both instinctively and consciously.

I often hear the question asked why so many in the South focus on the WBTS heritage aspect of Southern culture and history? After all, it was only four years. (I have to wonder why so many Northerners do the same.) Well, why not? Why do others focus on mocking every WBTS heritage event they can, making fun of the art, the reenactors, and those who attend such events?

At the same time, the mockers and the guilt-ridden proclaim to the world that there are "other" aspects of Southern heritage, acting as if they've stumbled onto some new, formerly unknown nugget of truth and revelation that will shock the world. Please, give it a rest. The sun did not rise in your eyes. Others have long seen, and are more than aware, what you assume that you're the only one seeing.

Of course, this sophomoric level of condescension toward the South is not confined to the blogosphere and internet discussion boards. It's standard fair in The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS, the networks, and all the other usual, predictable statist media outlets. It's a fact Southerners have endured for generations - to one degree or another. Then there are those individuals among us who have fled the rotting, insane, high-tax, high-crime areas of the Northeast, seeking refuge in the South. But as soon as they arrive, they begin their incessant whining and complaining against the culture and the way of life here calling on "the government" to enact laws and policies that will result in the same kind of insanity from which they just fled. I've heard some of these folks complain about the "lack of services" in rural areas of the South, or about the "smell of farms." So if things were so great where you were, why did you leave? Are these folks not cognizant of the fact that there are trade-offs?

Yet, Southern Culture dominates the American landscape. There is ample evidence of this fact. Google presents us with some of that evidence. I recently did some "comparative" searches. Here are the hit results:


Southern Culture: 441,000

Northern culture: 25,900

Southern Cooking: 352,000

Northern Cooking: 18,100

Southern Hospitality: 867,000

Northern Hospitality: 25,000

Southern Style: 1,600,000

Northern Style: 93,100

Southern Accent: 437,000

Northern Accent: 42,000

Southern United States: 1,250,000

Northern United States: 431,000

Robert E. Lee: 1,660,000

Ulysses S. Grant: 794,000

Obviously, this is not scientific and these search results contain sites outside of the topic, and the links are no doubt both positive and negative but, nonetheless, it is undeniably indicative of my overall point . . . the dominance of Southern culture. Consider also:

There is a Y'all Magazine, there is no You Gi-eeez Magazine.

There is a Southern Living Magazine. There is no Northern Living Magazine.

We have Southern Gospel music. We do not have Northern Gospel music.

There is Southern Appalachia, but nothing known as Northern Appalachia.

We have Southern Fried chicken, no Northern Fried chicken.

There are Southern manners, no Northern manners.

We have the Center for the Study of Southern Culture (Ole Miss), but no corresponding Center for Northern Culture.

We have the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (UNC Press), but no Encyclopedia of Northern Culture.

We have the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation, but no Northern Cultural Heritage Foundation.

We have a large university Documenting the American South, but none that I know of which documents the American North.

We have Southern belles, but no Northern belles. (And who wouldn't rather listen to a woman from Alabama with a soft Southern drawl talk to you over the phone vs. the nasal twang of a young lady from New Joisey?)

Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans numbers around 33,000. If all past living members were included, it would be over 100,000.

Membership in the Sons of Union Veterans is around 3500, 1/10 of the SCV, despite the fact that approximately 2.1 million men served in the Union Army while only about 800,000 Confederates served. Why such a vast disparity in SCV and SUV membership numbers? Especially when the SCV is constantly bashed by many academic historians? (This is a question that really has me puzzled. I'm sure someone must have studied this and written about it before?)

The same type of disparity exists with the women's WBTS heritage groups. Why? Also, as I've pointed out before, pay attention to the full page/color ads in most Civil War related magazines. The vast majority of them cater to purchasers of Confederate Heritage art and history - ostensibly, "Lost Cause" sympathizers.

Does this reflect favoring the underdog? Is it a fascination with the bad boy of American culture, the Rebel? Or is it that Southern culture - all of it - is simply richer than any other region in the United States? To wit:

The South has given us Jazz, Rock n Roll, The Blues, R & B, Country Music, Gospel Music, Bluegrass Music, Nascar, Cajun Food, Chitlins, Hushpuppies, Fried Catfish, Barbecue, Sweet Tea, Grits, Texas Pete, Soul Food, Smithfield Hams, Moon Pies, Corn-dogs, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi-Cola, RC Cola, Mountain Dew, Mayberry, Dixie, the Nation's Capital (God forgive us), and literally hundreds of other prominent cultural contributions that are almost innumerable.

The South dominates much of American history and culture. Why? How did this happen? And is this cultural dominance by the South (that many elites and academics look upon with such disdain) the very reason it is so often mocked and impugned?

Your thoughts?

On The Web:   http://oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com/2010/07/dominance-of-southern-culture.html

 

Few salute South Carolina's Confederate compromise

2000 decision to move flag from State House dome angers many, but lawmakers aren't ready to revisit issue.
By John O'Connor
joconnor@thestate.com
Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010

COLUMBIA A decade after striking the compromise that removed the Confederate battle flag from the State House dome, S.C. political leaders said they have no interest in revisiting the debate despite lingering objections.

Ten years ago - on July 1, 2000 - the flag was moved from the dome and installed next to a Civil War soldier monument in a plaza on the north side of the State House. The flag has long been a flashpoint in state politics, dividing those who see it as a symbol of South Carolina history and culture from those who view it as a symbol of a slave-owning, racist past.

Some Confederate-flag supporters and Southern-heritage groups think the flag should never have been removed, and have called on the S.C. Legislature to let state residents vote on where the flag is flown. The decision to allow the flag to remain flying on State House grounds sparked the NAACP to call for a state tourism boycott. It has been in effect for a decade.

The flag question becomes a political pitfall every four years for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates during the state's key early primaries. Anger about the flag was also a factor in former Gov. David Beasley's re-election loss in 1998, after the Republican proposed removing the flag from the dome.

But many of the lawmakers who brokered the compromise think it has served the state well, preventing the flag debate from re-igniting while other issues were ignored.

"The mainstream of South Carolina on all sides has embraced it," said Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, a strong supporter of preserving the state's Civil War history. Allowing the debate to resurface again and again "would not have been good for the long-term health of the state."

Rep. David Weeks, D-Sumter and chairman of the S.C. Black Caucus, said compromise, by definition, will leave some people unhappy.

Though lawmakers have introduced bills nearly every year that would remove the flag, Weeks said the debate seldom gets any further because of more pressing issues.

"They want the flag removed," Weeks said of voters he has spoken with. "But the flag is a much lesser concern than trying to get people back to work."

Still, J.T. McLawhorn, who heads the Columbia Urban League, said the flag is an economic issue for the state.

Companies are choosing to locate elsewhere because of the flag, he says, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association has a ban on most post-season sporting events here to comply with the boycott. The compromise, he said, has not been in residents' best interests, noting that a compromise once counted slaves as three-fifths of a U.S. citizen.

"This compromise has not enhanced the quality of life of South Carolina," he said. "The flag has impeded economic and social well-being."

Flag backers aren't happy either, saying the compromise has sold out the state's past. The S.C. Conservative Action Council held a State House rally on June 26, asking the Legislature to let S.C. voters choose where the flag flies.

"They need to get it through their heads that many millions of modern Southerners are still proud, un-brainwashed, Reconstruction-proof and absolutely unbending in their heritage defense," the group wrote on its blog.

Weeks agreed that some would never accept the compromise, but said a decade of hindsight supports the 2000 decision. "It was the best way of handling things under the circumstances," Weeks said. "I don't think that will ever be resolved."

On The Web:   http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07/13/1559409/10-years-later-the-flag-flies.html

 

Saturday, July 10, 2010
Intelligence and Poverty (-stricken lawyers)
Deconstructing SPLC "Intelligence" Reports

I see from a Facebook post that the poverty-stricken lawyers in their multi-story Airstream in the Cradle of the Confederacy have the Museum of the Confederacy in their, um, figurative gun sights.

I haven't read but a paragraph or two of the hit piece (which goes on and on and on for pages and pages and pages -- this article below explains why I don't read their crap) and I'm not putting a link to it. If you wanna read it, find it yourself.

In September 2005, I did some research on the SPLC's website for a post in a discussion group. I found two very interesting passages.

The first is about the publication, the Intelligence Report, and it sed, "Each year, Intelligence Project staff sift through hate groups' publications, citizens' reports, news reports and information from law enforcement agencies and field sources to develop the most up-to-date data on American hate groups. That data is then passed on to law enforcement, journalists, academics and the general public."

Something similar was found in a paragraph about the list of "hate groups" the SPLC tracks: "This list was compiled using hate group publications and websites, citizen and law enforcement reports, field sources and news reports."

I found these sources of information very interesting. (It's also interesting that the last time I looked, these passages had been removed or almost unrecognizably altered. cw, July 2010)

One of the sources is identified as "law enforcement reports." Out of curiosity, since SPLC's hate group map plasters West Florida with hate group symbols, I decided to find out what kind of reports local law enforcement agencies give to the SPLC about these groups. I talked to three people at the Escambia County Sheriff's Department --one of them Sheriff McNesby himself, with whom I am nominally acquainted.

Well, they don't give reports to the SPLC, so the "watchdogs" at the poverty palace in Montgomery have to get whatever "law enforcement reports" they want from West Florida from somewhere else. More than likely, the only law enforcement agencies that provide information to the SPLC are federal agencies -- the FBI, the BATF, etc. -- the jackbooted thugs of NRA fame.

Then, there is the source "hate groups' publications." I freely admit I don't study hate group literature, so I don't know how accurately the SPLC reports what they find there. However, I do know that they frequently misreport and misconstrue material from proSouthern publications -- and from those of the Christian right, whom they passionately hate.

Next we have "news reports". I have read only a fraction of the articles in the Intelligence Report -- mostly only those about proSouthernism -- but I find the citing of a news source (or any other source, frankly) to be as rare as hens' teeth. In fact, now that I think about it, I don't remember a single one.

That leaves "citizens' reports" and "field sources." That's mostly where the "intelligence reports" come from. They are anonymous accounts and as such, wholly unreliable. We aren't told who is supplying the information, how reliable they are, whether they have an agenda, and if so, what it is. We don't know the circumstances under which they gather the information. Did they interview people? Did they identify themselves right up front? If not, how was the information gathered?

These "citizens' and field source reports" are written in the language of persuasion and propaganda, not the language of factual and dispassionate reporting. They are not vetted by an impartial editor for fairness and objectivity. They are manufactured, beginning to end, by people with an agenda, for the purpose of pushing that agenda. They are written and edited by people whose (very substantial) incomes depend on convincing contributors that there's a huge and growing, dangerous, violent "hate" menace stalking the country.

I believe these reports from citizens and field sources to be considerably embellished, and in part actually fabricated.

Here's an interesting "report" about a meeting of the Constitution Party several years ago, representatiave of what I'm talking about.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/fall/our-terrible-swift-sword

None of it came from "news reports" -- at least, not legitimate ones -- or, if it did, Moser didn't properly cite them. No ABC-NBC-CBS-Fox News stories cited, nothing from the Oregonian in Portland, no radio or magazine reports cited...

(The article does cite "Ballot Access News publisher Richard Winger," but only for generic information about the average percentage of the third-party vote, not information about the Constitution Party meeting being reported on. All the "analysis" of third-party history isn't intelligence reporting -- anybody can look that info up on the web.)

Also, there are no facts identified as being supplied by the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department, the Portland Police Bureau or the Oregon State Police or any other law enforcement agency, either (so much for "law enforcement" sources...)

That leaves totally anonymous, totally unverifiable -- in other words, wholly specious -- "citizens' reports" and "field sources."

Of course, the citizens and field sources themselves are not identified....

The SPLC claims that the Intelligence Report is journalism, but there's not a particle of journalistic objectivity to it. Its paragraphs are littered with manipulative language. For example, from the Constitution Party article:

"CLACKAMAS, Ore. -- They've journeyed west from as far as Pennsylvania and Maryland, this band of true believers, 100 strong. Some of them decked out in their Sunday finest, others casual in plaid work shirts and jeans, they have huddled together on a rainy April Saturday in a low-lit hotel conference room in this blue-collar Portland suburb that gave the world Tanya Harding, figure skater gone bad."

What tripe! A truly journalistic account would sound more like....

"CLACKAMAS, Ore. -- About 100 people from as far away as Pennsylvania and Maryland have arrived in Clackamas for the 2003 convention of the Constitution Party."

"decked out in their Sunday finest" "band of true believers" "huddled together" "blue-collar Portland suburb" "Tonya Harding, figure skater gone bad" are all word-picture irrelevancies designed to manipulate and bias the reader.

This kind of manipulative language liberally sprinkles the whole article.

And the passages about the meeting in Oregon were clearly written by someone who was there ... but the source isn't named. What a surprise....

If you are so anxious to believe crap like this, go right ahead. And if you want to give your money to a bunch of avaricious "fundraisers," who am I to try to dissuade you? It's your money. Send 'em lots. They need it. The POVERTY law center has only got $120 million, and I just know they've sacrificed and sent some of it for Katrina relief... Although, I haven't been able to find confirmation of it in the media, yet.... But they're so generous and caring, surely they've sent a big donation....

On The Web:   http://one80dts.blogspot.com/2010/07/intelligence-and-poverty-stricken.html

 

Confederate Flags Create Controversy at Hanover Tomato Festival

Sons of Confederate Soldiers hand out free confederate flags sparking outrage from some festival-goers.

Catie Beck, Staff Reporter
Prepared by Sandi Cauley CBS 6

July 11, 2010

HANOVER COUNTY - The confederate flag can often stir emotions. For some it stirs pride and for others - outrage. At last weekend's Hanover Tomato Festival it was getting both reactions and may have sent some festival-goers home early and kept others from attending all together.

Instead of handing out free tomatoes at the fair, the Sons of Confederate Soldiers handed out free confederate flags and many proudly displayed. Minority advocate Rodney White says for many African-Americans the flag symbolizes servitude and repression and is hurtful.

But flag supporters say it symbolizes southern history and has great meaning and value to those with ancestors who fought in the Civil War. They say event goers couldn't have been too offended because they handed out every one they brought to give away.

"[We're] teaching the kids that there's nothing wrong this confederate flag," said Grayson Jennings, a Sons of Confederate Soldiers member, "It's our heritage and everybody should be proud of it."

But White says while he agrees that the constitution protects the right to display the flag he says people should also understand the message that's conveyed to some when they do display it.

"I think that people as a whole must be more sensitive about the symbol itself and the attitude that it carries," said White.

Copyright © 2010, WTVR

On The Web:   http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-confederate-flag-tomato-festival-story,0,3178469.story

 

Thinking Southern & Dispelling Popular Myths,

The western political and Christian world have been under attach by atheists and agnostic socialists for more than the last 400 years. Early socialists were called “Levellers”, then “Equalitarians”, then “Egalitarians”, then “Marxists”, then “Fabians”, then “Socialists” and today in the U.S. they are simply called “Liberals” or “Democrats” and some are “Republicans.” The rear-guard and authority driving and permitting these movements has been the ever-present “Fascists.”

The only thing now new to Americans is not socialism or facism but it is their newly found willingness to admit that socialism is transitioning into American “Communism.” And in Communism, Americans now recognise the final demise of their 1st world status as the American economy careens toward a 2nd and 3rd world status. All most Americans see that is left of past economic successes is its military (and they have undergone defeats constructed by civilian U.S. politicians). Unfortunately, the social reconstruction and social engineering programs of American Liberals have met with almost complete success in our northern and western States and with some success amoung Christians of the Southern States. Success in eliminating Christian thinking and input in national policy has become all too achievable.

Great strides have been successful in seeking to distort how Christians form governments that would preserve their concepts of freedom and true liberty. During the last one-hundred years Christian input has been entirely eliminated in the U.S. government; however, government at State levels still responds upon occasion to the balanced views of orthodox Christian voters and their moral perspectives, but most of the historic institutions that preserved clear notions of liberty and freedom are now destroyed. Many of those institutions now are openly Marxist.

Book Note:

How Unitarians & Agnostics Influenced Christmas Practices in the United States examines and explains the origin and nature of the incarnation of God's only Son as to the manner in which it has come to be popularly celebrated and revered in the United States of America as a secular Christ-denying pseudo-religious event. Who are the agnostics and how have they come to dominate western Christianity from within the American Christian church itself? How is it that many Christians and Christian denominations have accepted the social, cultural and political agenda of modern agnosticism and socialism in the place of solid orthodox Biblical theology? Why do Christians experience an allergic reaction to the study of Biblical “doctrines”? Is it fair to say, as many western Christians do, that communism is the truest form of Christianity? This betrayal is at the heart of apostate American pseudo-Christianity and it explains how Americans no longer, even remotely, are capable of thinking like a free or Christian people.

Every Christmas Christian ministers, churches and Christian families struggle to know how to relate to “the season.” Most clergy, overwhelmed by the secular and materialistic practices that so clearly define much of American industrial, entertainment, and business society, quietly comply with the American post-Christian culture and values while a remaining Christian remnant seek to discover what their churches can do to take advantage of this hi-jacked major “holiday (holy day)” to turn the hearts and minds of their parishioners and the surrounding secular and agnostic communities to God and the wondrous miracle of the incarnation of the promised Messiah. To order: Make the check to “Tim Manning” and send to 160 Longbridge Drive, Kernersville, NC 27284.

The Attached Essay:

The attached article by M. E. Bradford on Lincoln and the Language of Hate and Fear: A View From the South is an excellent explanation about Abraham Lincoln that dispels many of the myths about the Lincoln persona. Bradford eloquently gives details that are most revealing and lifts much of the mysterious and hysterical hype that cloaks an open discussion about the end of the Republic of the U.S. and the destruction of the Confederate Republic of the Southern States. This essay was one of the essays that prevented Bradford's nomination for appointment to Ronald Reagans administration from being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. This is a classic piece of history that every serious historian needs to understand. “Conservative” Republican senators hated Bradford for the history he brought to light in this work.

May God bless you as your read.

Deo Vindice.

Timothy D. Manning, M.Div
Executive Director
www.TheSouthernPartisan.com
160 Longbridge Drive
Kernersville, North Carolina 27284
Phone: (336) 420-5355 
Email: tim@thesouthernpartisan.com

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Why POTUS Loves to Visit Asheville, NC: It's All About Liberals!

There is some North Carolina history you might not be aware of, a state run by Democrats and their good-old-boy politicians.

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It is why I was not surprised by the story titled, Pastor Yanked From Capitol Over 'Jesus' Prayer, run on July 9, 2010. FOX News reported that the honorary chaplain of the North Carolina state house of representatives, Pastor Ron Baity, would be relieved of his duties for speaking the word of Jesus to the many soiled good-old-boy weasels of the NC state legislature, his being yanked off of state property.

I mean doesn't the Bible in Matthew 7:6 already warn of throwing pearls to swine anyway?

In fact, I believe North Carolina might have the record for the most elected government officials ever to be sentenced to jail. But as the state of North Carolina turns even more liberal, who will be left to put the corrupt away? The Democrat Party probably hopes nobody, the new DNC in Washington already at work doing this from the top down under Obama's new (DOI) Department of Injustice.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

Looking at it this way, it's obvious Jesus (or any other religious figure) hasn't been around much to instruct those elected to (cough) serve in North Carolina state government about morals and character. Besides, unfortunately in democracies the people usually get the government they richly deserve.

I guess this especially applies to America since it's no longer a Republic, the demise of the status warned by Thomas Jefferson. He said it would happen if the people were ever to vote to take free money off the backs of others, which they it did in the November election of 2008 of the Socialist Barack H. Obama.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

So as Rev. Wright had shouted from his pulpit, I guess the chickens really have come home to roast.

Therefore, it should be no surprise that North Carolina is becoming one of the most liberal progressive states in the union. For instance, state law had required that when a citizen accepts an elected position in NC they're required to put their hand on a Bible to be sworn into office.

But in the last November election for a councilman in Asheville, North Carolina, Cecil Bothwell, an atheist, openly broke the law and refused to put his hand on a Bible as an oath to promise to be honorable when serving the people of Asheville. The North Carolina DOJ simply ignored Bothwell's refusal, Bothwell instead giving an oath based on his own value system. In the end Cecil was allowed to openly break state law, the North Carolina Department of (cough) Justice reported to have done nothing.

This is the same department that allowed the Duke craziness to go on for so long that officials could no longer hide the injustices they had personally allowed by one of their own dirt bags, Mike Nifong.

DOJ won't investigate Duke lacrosse prosecutor Nifong

The NC DOJ's blatant disregard for justice had finally made global headlines, revealing an operation run by a bunch of good-old-boys drunk from too much power and moonshine, a laughing stock operation delivered to the world of the Keystone Cops.

Keystone Kops - The Keystone Hotel

A few years ago the state also ignored the growing membership of the new SDS from the 1960s, SDS members chasing a former conservative Congressman off the Campus of UNC at Chapel Hill. Looking at their Web site, you would have to agree the North Carolina DOJ had to know what was going to come down. Yet as with Nifong, it simply turned its head knowing a former congressman would be put into harm's way.

Speak out for immigrants rights and against racism!

The former congressman had come to UNC at Chapel Hill to discuss the serious problem of illegal aliens in America at an evening event when the SDS threw rocks, breaking the glass in the classroom windows he was speaking in, threatening his life.

Tom Tancredo Event UNC Shut Down By Violence

UNC was also the same campus where most employees of its student library had been complaining annually they were offended by Christmas trees being put up during, you know, the "Christmas" holiday. So the director decided not to put them up, keeping them locked up in storage. Of course there were no reports of anyone asking the students what they wanted, the paying customers who are supposed to be the ones served.

No Christmas Trees at UNC

North Carolina became a state that would be owned by the Democrat Party from 1898 when the party's white supremacists created an environment where over a dozen black Republican businessmen were openly murdered for being conservative and black. After that event the state has been owned by the Democrat Party.

About 60 years later the state's arrogant Democrat Party would go on to name its annual state fund raising event after one of those supremacists, Charles Aycock, saying (cough) he was an advocate of education.

How Democrats and the Media Destroyed Freedoms Before!
It's amazing how the facts of White Supremacists when they were Democrats have their bigot history somehow erased, as in this Grave finding Web site.
Charles Aycock, NC White Supremacist . . . and Educator?

Yet Charles B. Aycock was reported to have said the following in a speech he made in December of 1903 to the North Carolina Society, five years after the massacre of conservative blacks in North Carolina:

"But there flows in my veins the blood of the dominant race; that race that has conquered the earth and seeks out the mysteries of the heights and depths. If manifest destiny leads to the seizure of Panama, it is certain that it likewise leads to the dominance of the Caucasian. When the negro recognizes this fact we shall have peace and good will between the races."

So with Obama along with his Democrats in Congress pushing for socialist agendas such euthanasia, faith-based physicians forced to give abortions in hospitals, and abortions paid by the American taxpayers, with North Carolina already having a state medical board accountable to no one in a Democrat supported legislature state, the state political environment is environmentally ripe for abuses against any doctors who finds the new Obamacare Health bill offensive or interfering with their patient-doctor relationship.

Of course if a Republican fund-raising committee did this for a fine educated citizen who was also an upstanding North Carolina White Supremacist, it would have been called Racist by the likes of Jesse Jackson, arranging bus loads of NAACP members to protest those fund-raising meetings.

But for the North Carolina Democrat Party? Not those good-old-boys, having its fund raiser named after Aycock for over forty years now.

As I have always said about too many Democrats leaders today, the heart doesn't fall far from the sheets, proven again in Bill Clinton's tearful speech over the death of West Virginia's Senator Robert Byrd, the progressive media's lap dogs licking up Clinton's words as fast as they could.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. - Thomas Jefferson - (And when they are not?)

Ironically, it was reported that it was Bill Clinton himself who had made a comment to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, saying of a potential Obama candidacy, A few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee.

Teddy's anger

You would think blacks in NC, or even good old Al Sharpton, would picket the North Carolina's Democrat's annual fund raiser named in Aycock's honor. But hell no, black Democrats even attend it, celebrating the deaths of those black conservatives they sometimes call Oreo Cookies today, an obviously accepted racist statement only allowed by Democrats and America's drive-by media such as CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek Magazine, the New Yorker, etc. Do I really need to go on about these progressive bigots?

EVEN Obama attended one of those events during his 2008 campaign in Asheville. He later returned this year for his vacation at the same facility where the event had featured, the Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa. The local daily newspaper of record for Asheville, the Asheville Citizen Times owned by Gannett, even wet its panties writing of all the places in the area their POTUS could visit.

Live coverage of President Barack Obama in Asheville coming today

Oh, on the values of the now Councilman Cecil Bothwell?

He had written a book calling Billy Graham the Prince of War and reported that the fetus was a parasite to its mother, similar ideologies found with some of Obama's Czars.

Asheville, North Carolina Councilman Cecil Bothwell Acts as Abortion Center Escort

Bothwell also supports the growing of hemp, wanting farmers in the area to plant the stuff to (cough) help the local economy.

Hemp History Week: Asheville

And you thought California was liberal, Asheville called Little San Francisco. I refer to it as Boulder East because of the progressive major U.S. weather research centers located in each city. It you remember it was also Boulder's School System that had brought in "experts" to speak to the students at the local high school about enjoying sex and drugs, parents furious they weren't notified of the content of the event.

As an unknown preacher warned our society that slobbers over so many of its progressive celebrities and their ideologies, If God blesses America, he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

But don't laugh. The warning was real.

Lech Walesa, the Polish freedom fighter who fought Russian domination over his country and put his life on the line, recently observed America was no longer the moral authority of the world. This was around the same time Barack Obama was flying Air Force One up to Norway to grab a Noble Peace Prize for himself for what the committee said, "he might do," as opposed to what Walesa did do.

As we have discovered since for Obama, it hasn't been much!

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Foundation

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Addendum

I have to admit how naive I was of North Carolina's political history after moving to the western part of the state from the northeast almost seven years ago. You should know from a retirement point of view, I researched on this area for almost three years creating a fact's binder.

At the time, I thought the state might be a wonderful God-fearing place filled with faith-based people. But I discovered instead too much of it was filled with arrogant progressives, manhandling social issues that had been reserved for the people, reports of politics more corrupt than what I had seen in New Jersey.

But now that the people of New Jersey have had enough of the failed progressive agenda and elected Governor Christie to run their state, North Carolina has moved to the top of my corrupt list. Compared to Governor Bev Perdue, it's like night and day when serving the needs of the people.

In my research of this area, I should have also realized the retirement Web sites were in part trying to relocate new money here, and probably why none of them mentioned the San Francisco environment found in the city of Asheville. If they had, we might have retired to another location. But today, seeing Asheville being extremely limited in its impact to the other 22 wonderful, surrounding mountain counties, my wife and I do not regret our decision.

However, now living in western North Carolina for over half a decade, I have discovered the meaning of a southern Democrat, which seems to be one whom serves the party before anything else . . . "my granddaddy voted Democrat, my daddy voted Democrat, and I'll vote Democrat!"

They seem so caged to the party they stick to the party line even if it insults their faith-based beliefs to the point of allowing the party to corrupt their basic family values. Amazing! I even had the recent opportunity to sit in a larger local Baptist church where the preacher suddenly felt comfortable using the Obama code word for Marxism, or better known as social justice.

Democrats to never question the party's progressive motives have become their own enemy, always confident a Democrat would get into office that they don't even show up to vote. That is how the aforementioned Cecil Bothwell was elected to office with what I was told was only a 14% voter turn out. This allowed a small number of local radicals to take control the city government. With that election, basic faith-based beliefs were finally flushed down the toilet and sent out to pasture by decades of arrogance by the voters of the Democrat Party.

But what the southern Democrats don't get is that today's Democrat is not their granddaddy's or even your daddy's Democrat. For myself, I never left following the belief of ideas from my college days of fifty years ago, a registered Democrat living in Kentucky at the time and a JFK follower. He was so well loved, virtually anyone today who was alive when Kennedy was shot (the word they used) can tell you where they were located and what they were doing the moment they heard the news.

Unlike what I have found in western North Carolina, I didn't follow any political party through-out my life. Instead I followed leaders of conviction who wanted to lead. And for me that continues to be John Fitzgerald Kennedy. After you listen to his State of the Union speech on May 25th, 1961, linked above, you will better understand how things today have obviously "changed" in the leadership and character of a president assigned to protect our nation!  Have you noticed how the administration is threatening us with ridiculous claims that we will have to cut Medicare and Social Security?

Because of that, I had to register as a Republican so I could continue to follow the ideology of Kennedy, who advocated the protection of our nation, the dangers of Communism, and to never make fun of the strength of our nation and the people who serve it, as today's Washington Democrats love to do. You can click on the photo on the right to read about the new Democrat's Politics of Fear.

So not being one who follows the mythical lemmings running over the cliff, I wanted to discover the truth of how blacks in North Carolina felt about the North Carolina Democrat Party holding its annual fund raiser named after a White Supremacist, Charles Aycock.

To discover the truth, I actually drove in the early evening to the Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa in the early fall of 2008 to see if any blacks from inside or outside the state were protesting candidate Obama, who was speaking at the Aycock fund raiser that night.

Of course you guessed it. Instead all I found was mostly lilly-white Democrats all dressed up in their fancy clothes headed into the entrance to meet Barack Obama, with not one single black protesting outside the event in remembrance to those innocent North Carolina businessmen who were murdered in 1898 because they were conservative and black.

To this end, I have a closing thought for Jesse Jackson, one who has become a spokesman for the black community:

"What a hoot, eh Jesse, no protestors at a Democrat event named after the White Supremacist, Charles Aycock, who wrote from the paragraph seen above, When the negro recognizes this fact we shall have peace and good will between the races?

Have an Oreo Cookie on the house from my freezer, your own president more of an actual Oreo cookie than those blacks you have so easily mocked over the years in the same way, calling them Oreo Cookies for their conservative views, the same blacks Charles Aycock helped to murder in the North Carolina massacre of 1898.

That's because unlike the people you like to organize, black conservatives love their country, their freedom, and their right of self expression without having to get your approval. In your view, the rule seems to apply to give a man a fish so he can eat for one night, your hoping he'll want you to come back the next day with another fish, and then another and another.

But in the view of black conservatives, teach a man to fish and he wouldn't need handouts. In fact, he wouldn't need anyone's damn handouts, black, white, or another other color! And that's why you seem to like those you lead to be as if barefoot and hungry needing your help, keeping that money flowing in to fill your closet with all those suits and airline tickets.

About 25-years ago on a business trip I saw you standing alone in a Memphis airport, and I nodded my head in your direction. I respected you then. But somewhere along the line the ideologies of you and King traveled on different roads.

King wanted respect for his people. You used them. King wanted them to stand up and move on to be independent. You have kept them needing you. And so it continues to be since King's death of over forty years ago, as if his message of respect didn't make it into your travel bags.

Millions of Americans, black and white and not just you, remember those difficult times when everyone was asking, 'Where did you go, John, Bobby, and Martin?'

King was like Jesus, ready to sacrifice his life for his people. You were like Judas, loving those 13 pieces of silver every time your face appeared before a camera.

King will always be remembered for his non-violence, today a giant in American history. You will always be remembered but for your threats, turning everyday blacks into everyday thugs. King wanted respect for blacks. You want people to fear them.

Good luck with that as a new tide has reached our nation's shore, washing in over 12-million illegal aliens that your president wants to make into legal citizens, in the process taking away more jobs from blacks who listened to you and not to Rev. King."

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

On The Web:   http://www.freedomisknowledge.com/obamaaycock.html

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Slavery in Rhode Island--Who would ever have guessed?

By Al Benson Jr.

Awhile back an honest writer named Jeff McDonough wrote an article that appeared in the Jamestown Press in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It had to do with slavery in Rhode Island. I know that our current crop of what passes for historians seldom mentions slavery north of Mason-Dixon, the idea being that we are not even supposed to realize that it existed up there. And if it is admitted it’s downplayed.

So Mr. McDonough’s article was quite revelatory, and you can bet no major media picked up on it.

McDonough noted that: “Few people living today in Rhode Island realize that the slave trade was once a vital component of the Ocean State’s economy. ‘The numbers are astonishing’ says Ray Rickman, project director of an exhibit dealing with the slave trade in Rhode Island. In an 80-year period, people in Rhode Island got rich from the slave trade.”

According to Rickman slavery was pretty widespread in Rhode Island. “Slaves worked on South County farms and in the mansions of Newport. But it was the slave trade that was the number one financial activity for Rhode Island from 1720 to 1807.” McDonough noted that many Rhode Islanders were involved in the slave trade and Rickman noted that “Rhode Islanders are poorly educated in school about slavery.” Do you wonder why? In the War of Northern Aggression Rhode Island fought for the Union and so the winners got to write the “history” books and you can bet the farm that they wrote them to make themselves look good and the South look bad.

Some may claim that the North got rid of its slaves decades before the South did. So what? Slavery was still slavery whether it took place in 1760 or 1860 and if it was wrong for one section of the country why was it not wrong for another section? Why aren’t Northerners just as guilty as Southerners? The only difference involved is the time frame.

And as far as guilt is concerned, there is more than enough to go around and it doesn’t all belong to the white Southerner. In his monumental work on the slave trade Hugh Thomas noted, on page 13, that: “If one is looking for villains in this matter, and some are, one should certainly indeed look at royal families more severely than at Jewish ones: I am partly thinking of the rulers of Benin; the kings of Ashanti, Congo and Dahomey; and the Vili rulers of Loango, who sold great numbers of slaves over many generations…” All of these recently-mentioned rulers, starting with Benin, were black. That’s another fact you seldom hear expounded--the fact that blacks captured and sold other blacks as slaves, to whites or whoever would pay for them.

More information is starting to come out about this now, thanks to the Internet and other sources, but for years, this was a subject that was hardly mentioned. We were led to believe that white slavers just went over to Africa and kidnapped black Africans as they could find them. It seldom happened that way. Back in those days whites just didn’t wander around in Africa looking for slaves. It was too dangerous. They always did business with black slave dealers simply because it was a lot safer.

As time goes on and little tidbits of information about the slave trade begin to slip out more and more people will be shocked to learn that they don’t really know how much they don’t really know about this issue. If they continue to rely on government school “history” books they will continue in blissful ignorance, as the writers of those history books intended that they should.

Content ©2010  Al Benson Jr.

On The Web:   http://www.cakewalkblogs.com/antiestablishmenthistory/slavery-rhode-islandwho-would-ever-have-guessed.aspx

 

From: southernnationalcongress.org  -  tgmoore@mindspring.com
Date: Fri, Jul 9, 2010
Subject: [SNC] Third Southern National Congress update


“Three Hundred for the Third”
Call for Delegates to the Third Southern National Congress

In the 11th Century BC, the children of Israel were sorely oppressed by the Baal-worshipping Midianites.  But God raised up a champion, Gideon, the sixth of the great Judges of Israel.  No doubt you know the story, one of the best-loved in the Bible, found in Chapter 7 of the Book of Judges.  With only 300 picked men, Gideon routed the vastly superior army of Midian and its allies.  Israel lived in peace and liberty for forty years, until Gideon passed on to his fathers. 

In 480 BC, a greatly outnumbered force of Greek allies held off the invading army of Xerxes and his Persians at Thermopylae.  You know the story, for the heroic stand of the 300 Spartans who fought to the end is celebrated in recent films and books like “300” and the best-seller Gates of Fire.  This handful of Greek heroes changed the course of history, contributing to the ultimate defeat of the Persians and ensuring that freedom prevailed in the West instead of the despotism of the East.

Closer to our time and place, General Francis Marion, the immortal “Swamp Fox” of the America’s first War of Independence, waged a daring partisan campaign against the British invaders in South Carolina, tying down ten times his number of British Regulars and inspiring Patriot resistance in the darkest days of British conquest.  He seldom had more than 300 men under arms at any one time, yet his lightning raids and ambushes were a decisive element in the victory of American independence.

Today we Southerners, in fact all Americans, are facing threats to our liberty, prosperity and dignity as dire as those our forebears faced in other times and places, perhaps worse.  We of the Southern National Congress are just as determined as they were to defeat the threats.  We’re looking for our own Three Hundred, modern-day heroes with the courage and fortitude to meet the challenges of the times.

Call for Delegates

If you’re a Southerner of good will and good character and meet the qualifications below, the SNC Board of Governors invites you to apply to become a Delegate to the Southern National Congress.  Come join the Three Hundred at the Third.

The Third Congress will convene November 12-14, 2010 at Montgomery BeThird Southern National Congressll State Park, near Dickson, TN.  The Park has an excellent central location for those who may travel from the outlying States.  About 40 minutes southwest of Nashville, it has good air connections with the rest of the country.  (Nashville Airport code is BNA)

The Park enjoys a beautiful setting and ambiance, and the guest rooms have all the usual amenities.  Based on double occupancy, rooms are approximately $78.00 per night, with tax.  Meals in the on-site restaurant are quite good and reasonably priced.

Because of the flood of Delegate applications now coming in, we anticipate a large turn-out.  Consequently, we have reserved the entire Inn for the SNC.  As soon as final details can be worked out, we will post a link for reservations and further information on the SNC website, www.southernnationalcongress.org.  Please watch for our notice of the posting of this link and prepare to reserve your place at the Third Congress if you are approved to be a Delegate. 

For more information on Montgomery Bell State Park, click on this link:

http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/MontgomeryBell/index.shtml#conference

Delegates slots are open for the Represented States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Each State will have one vote in the Congress, regardless of its number of Delegates attending.  (Oklahoma has provisional SNC status and is invited to send Official Observers.  They will enjoy Floor privileges but not a vote, unless Oklahoma is admitted as a Represented State).

What Are the Qualifications to Become a Delegate?

First, there are no restrictions based on race, creed, or sex. 

    * A Delegate must be a resident of one of the 14 Southern States listed above. 
    * A Delegate must be 18 when the Congress convenes on November 12, 2010.
    * A Delegate must be willing to affirm the following: I believe that I have a duty to my home State. I believe that the Southern people are a distinct people. I believe in the right of voice, the right of preservation, and the right of recognition, for the South and her people.

Other qualifications are related to the character of the individual Delegates, including maturity and good judgment, self-sacrifice, realism, courage, a spirit of charity and magnanimity toward all, and the necessary resources to take part.  (Regrettably, we are not able to defray the costs to participate.)

Please keep in mind that final approval of Delegates is up to each State Delegation.  Clearly, the SNC is not for everyone.  Only a special few meet these qualifications.  However, if you feel led to play a unique and historic leadership role in the life of the Southern nation in these challenging times and if you meet the requirements above, then we welcome you to apply to become one of our Three Hundred.  Please fill out the Delegate Application eForm.

http://www.southernnationalcongress.org/delegateapplication.php

What Is the Southern National Congress?

The Southern National Congress is the only representative assembly of citizens of the Southern States that provides an alternative, legitimate forum to express Southern grievances and advance Southern interests in a way that is no longer possible through today’s political process or the major political parties.

The SNC was organized around the proposition that we Southerners are a separate and distinct people, rooted in kinship and place, with a common culture and history.  We respect the rights of other national and ethnic communities to self-preservation and self-determination, and we demand the same. But we Southerners won’t restore our rights unless we assert them ourselves.

The SNC seeks to reclaim the great Southern principles of individual liberty and a small central government limited to its enumerated powers, and which is the creation, the servant, and the agent of the sovereign people acting through their respective States. Today these principles have been irretrievably violated. The United States Government is engaged in “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evincing a design to reduce us under absolute Despotism,” as Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence.

Decent, honorable people of the South who still love liberty and justice and who seek to preserve their livelihoods, their identity, and their heritage have no choice but to withdraw their consent from the corrupt government in Washington.  But withdrawing our consent is not enough. We must exercise our sovereignty and create alternative, legitimate institutions which speak for us and to which we can transfer our consent. This is the principle behind the SNC.

For more detailed information about the role and purpose of the Congress, please consult the SNC website:  www.southernnationalcongress.org.

What Will the Third Congress Do?

The Third Congress will continue voicing Southern concerns and grievances. More than at any time in recent history, Southerners need to rally around their historic ideals and identity. Only by remaining true to ourselves as Southerners can we make it through troubled times that are bearing down on us.

The Third Congress will:

    * Consider findings and recommendations stemming from the SNC Peoples’ Forums or town-hall meetings conducted by various State Delegations.
    * Debate resolutions offered from the Floor and deemed in order by the SNC Board of Governors.
    * Debate a pre-drafted measure declaring the United States Government in fundamental breach of the social and political contract binding the several States and the People to the regime in Washington, DC.
    * Elect new SNC officers. If you’d like to exercise your leadership on behalf of the Southern cause and People, here is your opportunity.  (More details on offices and elections will be posted soon on the SNC website.)
    * New Delegates may wish to affirm and sign the Southern National Covenant adopted by the Second Congress in September 2009.  See the Covenant at: www.southernnationalcongress.org/southernnationalcovenant.shtml.

The Third Congress will be the most important yet -- a high-profile, high-impact event that will include a sit-down banquet Saturday night with a keynote speaker of national prominence (to be announced).  We expect media coverage of this event.

SNC Volunteers

If you wish to participate in some way other than as a Delegate, we also need volunteers to handle publicity and media relations, administration and logistics, and other critical support functions. Please become an SNC Volunteer and tell us how you’d like to help by filling out the SNC Volunteer eForm

[http://www.southernnationalcongress.org/volunteersignupform.shtml].

The Final Call…

Numbers by themselves are not the key to victory; history is always made by the committed few.  But 300 is a powerful number, as history has proven; and we are calling for 300 Delegates.  “Three Hundred at the Third” will show conclusively that the Southern National Congress has taken root as a legitimate Southern institution, and will confirm our moral authority to speak for the South and her People. 

The SNC offers a unique opportunity to those who are moved by a sense of adventure and duty to work collectively with your fellow Southerners for liberty, justice, and prosperity for our beloved Southland.  If you are such a person and if you meet the qualifications above, I hope you’ll plan to become a Delegate and attend the Third Southern National Congress on November 12-14, 2010.

May God bless the Southern States and People.

Tom Moore, Chairman.
On behalf of the SNC Board of Governors

For more information: http://SouthernNationalCongress.org

 

Brothers-in-law Generals Wore Confederate Gray

By O.C. Stonestreet
July 6, 2010

This is the story of three men who married sisters, all daughters of the Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, the first president of Davidson College. The men were Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Daniel Harvey Hill and Rufus Clay Barringer. All were Confederate generals during the Civil War.  Lieutenant General Jackson (1824-1863) is better known by his nickname, "Stonewall." Lt. Gen. Hill (1821-1889) usually went by his initials, "D.H.," and Brigadier General Barringer (1821-1895) may be unknown to all but Civil War buffs.

Thomas J. Jackson was born in Clarksburg, Va., now West Virginia. He was the central character in the 2003 movie, "Gods and Generals," based on the historical novel of the same title and is perhaps the most famous Confederate officer after Robert E. Lee.  Many armchair historians, as well as those with academic credentials, maintain it was the absence of Jackson at the Battle of Gettysburg that sealed the fate of the Confederacy.
Jackson's last battle was at Chancellorsville, Va., just a month before Gettysburg. While scouting out the terrain in the dark for the next day's battle, Jackson was accidentally shot by "friendly fire" from a Confederate unit.
Jackson's left arm was amputated and he died of complications of pneumonia on May 10, 1863. He is buried in Lexington, Va.  Jackson married Mary Anna Morrison in July, 1857. His first wife, "Ellie" Junkin, died during childbirth in 1854.  Jackson, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican War, was an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute when the Civil War began. He and D. H. Hill became friends while both lived in Lexington and it was probably Hill who introduced his wife's sister to widower Jackson.

D. H. Hill was born in what would become York County, S.C., graduated from West Point in 1842, and won several battlefield promotions during the Mexican War. He resigned from the U.S. Army in 1849 and taught mathematics at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Va., for several years before leaving there to teach the same subject at Davidson College.  In 1859 he left Davidson College to become the superintendent and math instructor at the newly-established North Carolina Military Institute in Charlotte, N.C. The Institute stood where the current YMCA on Morehead Street now stands.
He married Isabella Sophia Morrison in 1848. The couple had nine children.  Hill joined the Confederate Army at th beginning of the Civil War and, with the rank of colonel, commanded the First North Carolina Regiment (afterwards known as "The Bethel Regiment') during the first battle of the War, the Battle of Big Bethel, near Fort Monroe, Va.,which was a Confederate victory.  By 1862 Hill was a major general. One historian has commented that Hill, ever the mathematician, held back his forces from battle until the last possible moment, but when he attacked, he held nothing back, nothing in reserve, that he "fell on the enemy like an avalanche."  During the Battle of Antietam, Md., he had three horses shot from beneath him.  Following the death of Jackson, his brother-in-law, Hill was not promoted to command of a corps, but was sent to North Carolina to help with recruiting. He also assisted in protecting the Confederate capital, Richmond. This was due, in part, to a personality conflict with Gen. Lee.  Sent to the Confederate Army of Tennessee, Hill commanded a corps in the Battle of Chickamaugua and was one of a group of officers highly critical of Gen. Braxton Bragg, a favorite of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.  Hill was sidelined and his last major battle was at the tragic Battle of Bentonville, N.C., fought when the War was basically lost.  Following the War Hill returned to Charlotte and beginning in 1866, published and edited a Southern history magazine, "The Land We Love." He next served as the first president of the University of Arkansas and then held the same position at the Georgia Military and Agricultural College.  D. H. Hill died in Charlotte in September, 1889, and is buried in the Davidson College Cemetery. There is a North Carolina Historic Highway Marker on Highway 115 just north of the college denoting Gen. Hill's final resting place. Mrs. Hill survived her husband by 15 years and died in December of 1904. She rests beside her husband.

Rufus Barringer was born to a prominent Cabarrus County family in 1825. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1842, returned to Concord, N.C., became a lawyer and got into politics. He represented Cabarrus County in the lower house of the state legislature from 1848 to 1850.  With the start of the War, Barringer, who is not known to have had any military training, volunteered and because of his education and connections, was made captain of a cavalry company in the First North Carolina Cavalry Regiment.
A quick learner, Barringer was steadily promoted and by 1864 had achieved the rank of brigadier general. He is said to have been wounded three times while fighting in 76 engagements with Union forces. He was cited for bravery seven times.  Barringer was captured by disguised Union cavalrymen in April of 1865 and was imprisoned until July. After the War he returned to Cabarrus County, then moved to Charlotte, where he became a Republican. Local Democrats regarded him as a traitor and his brother-in-law D. H. Hill, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, reportedly refused to serve Barringer Communion. Barringer transferred his membership to the Second Presbyterian Church in that city.  Entering politics again, Barringer unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor. In 1888 he switched parties, again becoming a Democrat.  Barringer's first marriage was to Eugenia Erixene Morrison in 1854. They had a son and a daughter. Following her death from typhoid fever in 1858, Barringer married again and following the death of this second wife from tuberculosis, married a third time.  Barringer died of cancer in February of 1895, and is buried in Charlotte's historic Elmwood Cemetery. His third wife and three sons survived him.  There are several photographs of Gen. Barringer and his first wife and the flag of the Cabarrus Rangers in the The Concord Museum, 11 Union Street, Concord, N.C.

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On The Web:   http://www2.statesville.com/content/2010/jul/06/brothers--law-generals-wore-confederate-gray/lifestyles/

 

Calling Confederate flag offensive is hypocritical

July 7, 2010

I was reading the Community section June 27 and was dismayed to see Jerry Hein's call condemning a resident for flying a Confederate flag. This is a prime example of how we like to selectively interpret our nation's history.

First and foremost, calling out the Confederate flag as "offensive" is almost hypocritical. The flag of the United States (in various forms) flew over slavery for almost 90 years. The flag of the Confederacy represented a slave-holding body for about five years. Our flag is just as bloodstained and guilty as any other.

Second, the citizens and soldiers of the Confederacy were just as American as any American citizen today. Like us, they fought to uphold what they considered right, and they fought with determination, skill and bravery. As a certain Ulysses S. Grant said, "The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again."

Some of what they fought for may have been wrong, but their attitudes toward patriotism and the conviction with which they fought is still an incredible example of American spirit. These men fought and lived the concept of Americans.

Anyone who wants to fly a flag to remember the men (on both sides) who fought the bloodiest war on American soil — a conflict that defined our nation — should be able to do so without fear of criticism.

I have no qualms with those of color, nor arguments as to whether or not slavery was wrong. That is undisputed. I would merely suggest that we remember history in full.

These men were Americans, and we massacred each other for five years. None of us is any more righteous than another.

Christopher Thulien,
Appleton

 

Nation’s Historians Speak Out Against Proposed Gettysburg Casino

June 30, 2010

To mark the 147th anniversary of the bloodiest battle in American history, 272 American historians, including some of the country’s most respected academics, today sent a letter to Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board chairman Gregory Fajt, urging the rejection of the application for the Mason-Dixon Gaming Resort.  If approved, the proposed gambling hall will be located just one-half mile from America’s most hallowed battleground.

Although many individual historians have previously voiced opposition to the casino proposal, such a large and diverse group uniting in this cause demonstrates Gettysburg’s unique place in our nation’s heritage.  Among the signers are some of the most prominent historians in America, including James McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom; Garry Wills, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America; Carol Reardon, director of graduate studies in history at Pennsylvania State University; Jeffery C. Wert, author of the acclaimed Gettysburg, Day Three; and Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.

In part, their message states that as professional historians, they “feel strongly that Gettysburg is a unique historic and cultural treasure deserving of our protection.  Gettysburg belongs to all Americans equally—future generations no less than those of us alive today,” before concluding that “there are many places in Pennsylvania to build a casino, but there’s only one Gettysburg.”

Beyond the individual signatories, the message and its sentiment has received the endorsement and support of the American Historical Association, National Coalition for History, National Council on Public History, Organization of American Historians, Society for Military History and Southern Historical Association.

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought July 1–3, 1863, was the largest and bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.  Commonly called the “high water mark of the Confederacy,” the battle saw nearly 160,000 Americans locked in mortal combat; more than 50,000 became casualties.  Historians concur that the engagement was the greatest of Civil War battles, but its place in history was further cemented four months later, when President Abraham Lincoln travelled to the small Pennsylvania farm town to help dedicate a national cemetery for those who died.  Lincoln’s “few appropriate remarks” for the occasion, popularly known as the Gettysburg Address, have become one of the world’s most recognized speeches.

Although the proposed casino site along the Emmitsburg Road lies outside the current administrative boundaries of Gettysburg National Military Park, it would be on land identified as historically sensitive by the American Battlefield Protection Program, an arm of the National Park Service.  The application before the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board would retrofit an existing family-friendly hotel complex into a gambling resort with an initial 600 slot machines in addition to table games.

According to Princeton University professor emeritus and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson, “The proposed site of the casino lies athwart the advance of Union cavalry toward what became known as South Cavalry Field, which saw substantial fighting on the afternoon of July 3, 1863.  This ground is as hallowed as any other part of the Gettysburg battlefield, and the idea of a casino near the fields and woods where men of both North and South gave the last full measure of devotion is simply outrageous.”

This assessment of the importance of this part of the battlefield is shared by Eric Wittenberg, the author of numerous books on cavalry during the Gettysburg Campaign, including the only volume specifically dedicated to the actions that took place on South Cavalry Field.  In response to casino proponents who have tried to minimize the significance of actions fought nearby, Wittenberg said, “This was a protracted and ferocious fight.  American soldiers died on that ground, and to suggest otherwise only underscores the disregard these misguided investors have for our national treasure.”

In addition to the inappropriate juxtaposition, historians also fear negative indirect impacts on their efforts to interpret the battlefield and share their knowledge with students and heritage tourists.  Gettysburg resident and director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at West Virginia’s Shepherd University, Dr. Mark Snell is extremely concerned about the increased traffic and certain commercialization with which visitors and guides will have to contend should the casino be approved..

“As someone who has tried to give a tour to my students at South Cavalry Field — within easy walking distance of the proposed casino,” said Snell, “I personally can attest that the last thing that is needed on the Emmitsburg Road, where that fight took place, is any increased traffic.  It wouldn’t just be noisy, it would be dangerous.”

In 2006, when a previous proposal to bring gambling to the fringes of the Gettysburg Battlefield was under consideration, a group of prominent historians similarly spoke out against the ill-advised project.  Such thorough and widespread public opposition was among the reasons explicitly cited by the Gaming Control Board in its rejection of the application.

One of those at the forefront of that effort was Ed Bearss, chief historian emeritus of the National Park Service and America’s foremost battlefield guide.  A former historian at Vicksburg National Battlefield, who feels that site was irreparably damaged by the emergence of gaming nearby, his opposition to this newer proposal has not diminished in the least.  Over the course of his storied career, Bearss has spent many thousands of hours leading tours of the Gettysburg Battlefield.

“Gettysburg, if it embraces the casino, is forfeiting that which has undeniable national and international significance,” said Bearss.  “Do you want the most iconic battlefield in America and the site of Abraham Lincoln’s immortal Gettysburg Address, or do want just another slots parlor?”

The letter was circulated among the historian community by a coalition of preservation groups which have opposed both efforts to bring gambling to Gettysburg.  The Civil War Preservation Trust, National Parks Conservation Association, National Trust for Historic Preservation and Preservation Pennsylvania have consistently emphasized that their opposition stems from the direct threat posed to the battlefield by the site’s proximity and potential for increasing traffic and development pressures on the park, as opposed to any objection to gaming.  Spurred by the passionate involvement of so many individual members, member groups of the National Coalition for History also lent their institutional weight to the effort.

On The Web:   http://civilwarinteractive.com/Newswire/?p=8591

 

Group Claims Discrimination In Plans To Celebrate Confederate Statue

June 29, 2010

REIDSVILLE, N.C. --
A 26-foot-tall statue honoring Confederate soldiers stands in the heart of downtown Reidsville.

The group Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy on Tuesday evening is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the statue’s unveiling, but representatives from the group said city officials made planning the event difficult.

Group spokesman Jerry Hobbs said at first the city welcomed the celebration with open arms, but later ruled out any march in the streets and are not allowing guns to be fired in honor of those killed in the war. Hobbs said the city finally pulled out of the event entirely.

Hobbs said he feels the city is discriminating against the group.

Reidsville events manager Teresa Scoble said no one has complained about the proposed celebrations, and the city pulling out of the event was neither political nor racial.

She said the reason she's been unable to offer assistance is because she's been too busy working on the grand opening of a downtown business and the paving of a nearby parking lot.

Copyright 2010 by WXII12.com.

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Civil War authors misfired on war's cause

7/2/2010

Op-eds in the June 27 Viewpoints section ("One Rebel state ") discussed the cause of the War Against Southern Independence. The answer is very simple. The war was caused by Abraham Lincoln ordering the Union Army to invade Virginia and the Confederate states. The Confederate states did not want war.

Abraham Lincoln would have invaded the South even if there had been not one person enslaved.

Lincoln was concerned with the taxes he would lose from the seceding states and intended to set up revenue ships off the Confederate ports to collect same. Taxes from the South funded the federal government.

I cannot understand what people don't understand about the meaning of sovereign states.

Ted Humphries
Stafford


 

South Carolina wants to leave Confederate flag issue alone
 
By John O'Connor
The State

A decade after striking the compromise that removed the Confederate battle flag from the State House dome, South Carolina political leaders said they have no interest in revisiting the debate despite lingering objections to its display.

Thursday marks 10 years since the flag was moved from the dome and raised next to a Civil War soldier monument in a plaza on the north side of the State House. The flag has long been a flashpoint in state politics, dividing those who see it as a symbol of state history, culture and heritage and those who view it as a symbol of a slave-owning, racist past.

Some flag supporters and Southern-heritage groups think the flag should never have been removed, and have called on the Legislature to let state residents vote on where the flag is flown. The decision to allow the flag to remain flying on State House grounds sparked the NAACP to call for a state tourism boycott. It has been in effect for a decade.

The flag question becomes a political pitfall every four years for every Republican and Democratic presidential candidate during the state’s key early primaries. Anger about the flag was also a factor in former Gov. David Beasley's re-election loss in 1998 after the Republican proposed removing the flag from the dome.

But many of the lawmakers who brokered the compromise think it has served the state well, preventing the flag debate from smoldering while other issues were ignored.

"The mainstream of South Carolina on all sides has embraced it," said Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, one of the strongest supporters of preserving the state's Civil War history. Allowing the debate to resurface again and again "would not have been good for the long-term health of the state."

Rep. David Weeks, D-Sumter and chairman of the S.C. Black Caucus, said compromise, by definition, will leave some people unhappy.

Though lawmakers have introduced bills nearly every year that would remove the flag, Weeks said the debate seldom gets any further because of more pressing issues.

"They want the flag removed," Weeks said of voters he has spoken with. "But the flag is a much lesser concern than trying to get people back to work."

Copyright 2010 Miami Herald Media Co

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Battlefield group zeroes in on next targets

Negotiations are active for houses, businesses near Civil War-era site of cotton gin

By Kevin Walters
THE TENNESSEAN
June 27, 2010

FRANKLIN — Months of negotiations. Commitments of more than $590,000 in grant money. Cooperation among strangers spread across three states.

Creating a new Battle of Franklin park hasn't been simple or cheap. Yet the seemingly disparate pieces of Franklin's next major battlefield park appear to be slowly fitting together.

Franklin's Charge, a local nonprofit battlefield preservation group, is closer to its goal of buying its next piece of property — the house and land at 111 Cleburne St. Nearby, they're continuing to make inroads on buying the Domino's Pizza restaurant at 1225 Columbia Ave. as well as adjacent retail property. The land is near the Carter House historic site.

"It's ongoing," said Ernie Bacon, Franklin's Charge president, describing the negotiations for the commercial property. "It is clearly an active process."

The sites of the houses and pizza place have national historical importance. They are on the location where Union and Confederate troops blasted each other in close quarters on Nov. 30, 1864, near a former cotton gin.

The Battle of Franklin claimed thousands of lives and limbs before it ended in just a few hours' time. Commemorating the land's importance is what principals say is unifying them in the hopes of creating a battlefield park in time for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

"One would like to think that the Battle of Franklin was more important than pizza," said Paul Hawke, chief of the Washington, D.C.-based American Battlefield Protection Program. "If you can restore the scene (of the battle) you can at least commemorate what happened there."

History of the project

If Franklin's Charge can complete the purchases, it would represent a major step in Franklin's years-long effort to add more open space in a city where much of its Civil War past was once thought lost.

The momentum to create a Columbia Avenue battlefield park dates back to 2005. That's when the city of Franklin spent $300,000 to buy a Pizza Hut restaurant at 1259 Columbia Ave. That restaurant, which once sat at the intersection of Columbia Avenue and Cleburne Street, drew national attention as part of a National Geographic magazine feature on America's lost Civil War battlefields. Eventually, the city converted the roughly quarter of an acre into a small park.

Since then, plans for the park have expanded.

"Our goal is to have that property restored to a battlefield park and a replica of the cotton gin built in time or ahead of the sesquicentennial in 2014," Bacon said.

Despite the bloodshed on the land, it was eventually the site of homes and businesses. For years, evidence of the land's history was just a few feet under the soil.

Sarah Faye Fudge, 64, grew up in the stone house at 111 Cleburne St. owned by her parents, Jamie and Celia Locke, both of whom are deceased.

Fudge, who now lives in Katy, Texas, remembers her father tilling his garden and taking scores of old bullets — minié balls — from the soil. He kept the bullets for her friends.

"When kids would come for a visit, he would give them a souvenir," Fudge said. "The horrible irony of that is they were all given away."

Grants help buy land

Fudge plans to sell the house and land to Franklin's Charge for $199,000. To help pay for the purchase, Franklin's Charge is set to get a $99,500 national grant from the battlefield protection program.

In May, Franklin aldermen agreed to be the pass-through entity to receive grants to help Franklin's Charge make its purchases. In addition to money for the Fudge House, the group is also slated to get a $492,000 grant to help recoup costs of buying the Holt House in 2008 for $950,000.

While grant money for the purchases has been designated, Hawke could not say when release of the grant money would get final approval. The American Battlefield Protection Program is a division of the U.S. National Park Service.

"I would say it's highly likely, but I can't guarantee it yet," Hawke said. "Until it's signed, sealed and delivered, anything can happen."

Bacon estimated the Locke house sale to close within the next 60 to 90 days. And he said Franklin's Charge plans to relocate the Locke house and the Holt House rather than have them demolished.

Though the decision to sell her childhood home was one that Fudge agonized over, she's made peace with the decision.

"It's a very sad thing to think about it not being there," Fudge said about her home. "However, because the Civil War preservation was a really neat idea and very important, I think that makes it OK. It's kind of like going back to the ground from whence it came."

Next slice of the park

The next piece of the project — or slice — is next door at the Domino's Pizza restaurant and the adjacent retail property.

If the Domino's restaurant is eventually sold to Franklin's Charge by owner and developer Don Cameron, it would be the second pizza restaurant to be bought as part of Franklin's push to recapture the land.

Cameron would say little about the possible sale of the land, referring questions to Bacon. The properties from 1221 to 1225 Columbia Ave. have a total market appraisal value of $500,300, county records show.

Cameron, who has longtime ties to Franklin, said the businesses would not close but would be relocated to property he owns on Downs Boulevard.

"We would never run people out like that," Cameron said. "My family built the first home in Franklin," he said, referring to the home Ewing Cameron built on Second Avenue in the 1700s.

On The Web:   http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201006270210/WILLIAMSON01/6270319

 

Let the confederate soldier statue stand in front of the Chatham courthouse

By Ed Williams
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Pittsboro, NC - I saw on News14 a brief report on the community forum held about the restoration of the Chatham County Courthouse. I was not able to be present at the forum, but I believe the courthouse can and should be restored to look as it did before the fire, though not necessarily to house the same offices as before.

News14 showed some woman named Valerie making a comment that had nothing to do with the restoration. She wants the statue of the Confederate soldier to be removed from in front of the courthouse because, in her opinion, it is "not appropriate" to be there. I wonder where Valerie is from.

As an alumnus of UNC-Chapel Hill, I am familiar with the efforts, every couple of years, by some student group (Socialists of UNC, Karl Marx Society, or something like that) to force UNC to take down the statue of "Silent Sam", the Confederate soldier standing on the front lawn of the campus facing Franklin Street. Sam is still there, and I hope our local Confederate soldier will not be removed.

There is absolutely no good reason to remove it.
 

Happy Secession Day

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Perhaps the best evidence of how American history was rewritten, Soviet style, in the post-1865 era is the fact that most Americans seem to be unaware that "Independence Day" was originally intended to be a celebration of the colonists’ secession from the British empire. Indeed, the word secession is not even a part of the vocabulary of most Americans, who more often than not confuse it with "succession." The Revolutionary War was America’s first war of secession.

America’s most prominent secessionist, Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration, was very clear about what he was saying: Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and whenever that consent is withdrawn, it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" that government and "to institute a new government." The word "secession" was not a part of the American language at that time, so Jefferson used the word "separation" instead to describe the intentions of the American colonial secessionists.

The Declaration is also a states’ rights document (not surprisingly, since Jefferson was the intellectual inspiration for the American states’ rights political tradition). This, too, is foreign to most Americans. But read the final paragraph of the Declaration which states:

That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other things which independent states may of right do (emphasis in original).

Each colony was considered to be a free and independent state, or nation, in and of itself. There was no such thing as "the United States of America" in the minds of the founders. The independent colonies were simply united for a particular cause: seceding from the British empire. Each individual state was assumed to possess all the rights that any state possesses, even to wage war and conclude peace. Indeed, when King George III finally signed a peace treaty he signed it with all the individual American states, named one by one, and not something called "The United States of America." The "United States" as a consolidated, monopolistic government is a fiction invented by Lincoln and instituted as a matter of policy at gunpoint and at the expense of some 600,000 American lives during 1861–1865.

Jefferson defended the right of secession in his first inaugural address by declaring, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it." (In sharp contrast, in his first inaugural address, Lincoln promised an "invasion" with massive "bloodshed" (his words) of any state that failed to collect the newly-doubled federal tariff rate by seceding from the union).

Jefferson made numerous statements in defense of the defining principal of the American Revolution: the right of secession. In a January 29, 1804 letter to Dr. Joseph Priestly he wrote:

Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children & descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation [i.e., secession] at some future day, yet I should feel the duty & the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power.

In an August 12, 1803 letter to John C. Breckinridge Jefferson addressed the same issue, in light of the New England Federalists’ secession movement in response to his Louisiana Purchase. If there were a "separation" into two confederacies, he wrote, "God bless them both, & keep them in the union if it be for their good, but separate them, if it be better."

So on July 4 stoke up the grill, enjoy your barbecue, and drink a toast to Mr. Jefferson and his fellow secessionists. (And beware of any Straussian nonsense about how it was really Lincoln, the greatest enemy of states’ rights, including the right of secession, who taught us to "revere" the Declaration of Independence. Nothing could be further from the truth.)

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From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com 
 
I was wondering if anyone has any resource information on the following subjects:
 
1. I was reviewing transcripts of Glenn Beck's "Black Founders" show. He said that when he was at the Museum of the Confederacy that he got a chance to see the original Confederate Constitution and that it had on it, the words, "The Slave Holding Confederate States of America". I have seen reprints of the Constitution, and have never seen or heard of such a thing. I have not, however, seen any photos of the actual, original document. Does anyone know if his claim is true?
 
2. In that same show, both Beck and David Barton claimed that the Confederacy was for slaveholding states only and that free states were not allowed to join. I remember differently. Somewhere I remember reading that the Confederate government or Confederate Congress debated this issue and that the vote, although close, was decided in favor of allowing free states to join if they so chose. I also remember hearing that Alexander Stephens led the fight to allow free states to join. Does anyone happen to have any detailed information on this subject? 
 
Bill Vallante
wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 

No Independence Without Foreign Intervention
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Washington could never have achieved American independence without foreign recognition and military aid, and in 1861 the American Confederacy sought assistance from England and France to achieve independence. This was still a possibility by late 1863, but Lincoln and Seward took advantage of Russian animosity toward England and France by inviting the two-ocean Russian fleet into New York and San Francisco harbors for an extended eight-month stay.  This let Europe know that their merchant fleets would be at risk should they dare to recognize Southern independence.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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No Independence Without Foreign Intervention:
 
“The French had now 36 [ships] of the line – an overpowering force as against the British, even should include a reinforcement of six ships f the line just arrived at New York under Admiral Digby – news which came near sending [French Admiral] de Grasse again to sea in search of the enemy. But the fates were with the allies.
 
It was an incapable British admiral that saved the situation and brought de Grasse back to a position he should never have left. As it was, by September 28 the combined armies [of French and Americans] were in front of Yorktown, partly transported from the headwaters of the Chesapeake by French frigates sent to Annapolis, partly by the ordinary land route; and the loss of Cornwallis with his 7,000 men, and the complete restoration of continental authority in the South had become a certainty. The surrender took place on October 19.
 
The fact that Washington marched south with but 2,000 Continentals and 4,000 French alone shows the supreme importance of the French fleet. Without it there would had been no American independence. There could have been no more complete indication of Washington’s dictum, that “In any operation, and under all circumstances, a decisive naval superiority is to be considered a fundamental principle and the basis upon which every hope of success must depend.”
 
(Sea Power: The Decisive Factor in Our Struggle for Independence, French E. Chadwick, Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1915, AHA, 1917, pp. 186-189)
 

My letter to Glenn Beck
 
From: cscitizen@windstream.net
To: glennbeck@foxnews.com
 
Mr. Beck
            
I am a fan of your show but I would like to take a moment to say that your show needs to learn the facts before spouting out garbage on national television.

There is nothing in the Confederate Constitution about slave owning states not being able to join the Confederate States. The lie of slavery was to justify the war because the north also had slaves. Maybe you should look at some of the tax codes against the southern states vs. the northern states and read some old newspapers leading up to the war. If you will look at the dates of the Emancipation Proclamation it should tell you that Lincoln did not free the slaves until Jan 1st 1863 because the northern army needed the troops. Slavery was a dying institution world wide anyways before the war.  I don't know about you but if I were to go to war I would have a reason and not come up with some crap 3 years after the war had started. If you want to believe the greatest lie then keep believing it because it is your loss. When the south lost their states rights and were carpet bagged after the civil war and put in the poor house for 120 years by the Federal Government no one give a damn in the rest of the U.S.. Now that the whole U.S. is being carpet bagged Wall Street, money manipulation by the Federal Reserve, and taxed to death by the Federal Government you are seeing what the people in the south have seen for years. Lincoln's Government got it's way and has every U.S. dollar being filtered through New York and Washington. Then, if you do save your money the government can keep printing and steal it anyways. So when the south lost it's cause and states rights so did you and every one else in the U.S. which leads us to where we are today in America. Now everyone wants to be "American" and wants everyone to stick together but no one knows what being American means. All being American means is following the U.S. Constitution, nothing more and nothing less. Your Abe Lincoln did away with that in 1860. After I have read some of the documents and diaries from some of the people of the south after the Civil War and watching how people up North still treat people from the south you can take your Government spoon fed history and shove it up your ***. We are doing just fine here now with a better industrial base than the rest of the U.S. due to international money so you want me to give a damn now. HELL NO.
 
William S. Price
                                       
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Pay dirt
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
Doc (head of the SCCAC) brings to my attention an article in the Spartanburg Herald (UGH!) Journal (AGH) obviously triggered by our rally on Saturday:
 
http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/07/01/2282666/compromise-holds-for-now.html
 
The State snoozepaper has been obsessive-compulsive about the flag "issue" for many years, and felt obligated to eructate again today on top of their bigoted coverage the day after the event. But we consider it proof the System is nervous about its criminal record. That is of course me they're quoting in the SCCAC blog.
 
To recap the case: Nobody but the whore politicians and media prostiticians wanted the flag sellout. We the Southern patriots and the NAACP black supremacists told them we'd never accept it -- polls favored the status quo -- but they forced it on us anyway.
 
SINator Glenn McCONnell is a LYING SNAKE here
 
<<<"The mainstream of South Carolina on all sides has embraced it," said Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, one of the strongest supporters of preserving the state's Civil War history. Allowing the debate to resurface again and again "would not have been good for the long-term health of the state.">>>
 
......and that's because HE is the one who MADE SURE the "ISSUE" "RESURFACED" over and over in when it had completely, healthily, rightly DIED!
 
The biggest big lie is that McCon has any interest in saving the South or its history, but the media mavens will repeat it until the day they die.
 
They have a System.
 
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KENTUCKY DIVISION FOLLOW UP TO LYNDON FLAG FLAP
 
Fred
 
I drafted a nice letter to the gentleman and drove over to his house to deliver the letter.  He wasn't home, so I left the letter.  I enclosed info on joining the SCV too.  I can't imagine what folks are complaining about, as he had the CSA battle flag hanging below a U.S. Flag.  They are both suspended from a very high (can't figure out how he got it up there) limb that hangs over his yard.  At the bottom of both flags is a large weight that keep the halyard taut and allows both flags to fly freely.  I'm kind of a stickler for "flag etiquette" and would never display the flag of another country without displaying the U.S. Flag along with it and in the proper position.  Below is the text of the letter that I wrote the man. Hopefully, I'll hear something from him.
 
Bill Hayes
 
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Dear Sir:
 
First of all, on behalf of all the members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans we would like to welcome you to the Louisville area if you are moving here from another city.  We deeply regret that some of your neighbors seem to be upset by your traditional display of the Confederate Battle Flag.  We are always concerned when we see people who only think of the battle flag as a symbol of hate or racism.  The Sons of Confederate Veterans stand ready to assist any citizens who experience a prejudicial encounter because of their Southern heritage and the right to express that heritage in any form that is protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
 
One of the major goals of our organization is to educate the public as to the causes of the secession of the Southern States and the resultant conflict known as the War Between the States, or as it is commonly misnamed, the Civil War.
 
If we can be of any assistance to you in this matter please contact us.  If you are a descendent of a Confederate soldier we would welcome you to join our local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.  I have enclosed a brochure with membership information.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.  Please visit our camp website at:   http://johnhuntmorgan.scv.org
 
Sincerely,
William M. Hayes
Commander, John Hunt Morgan Camp 1342
Sons of Confederate Veterans
502-439-4517
Email: wmhayes@insightbb.com
 

 

ANOTHER JEFFERSON STATEMENT ON SECESSION
 
From: mtgriffith1@yahoo.com
 
The other day I ran across another statement by Thomas Jefferson supporting the right of secession.  It appears in a letter he wrote to Joseph Priestly:
 
"Whether we remain in one confederacy, or break into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children and descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this." (Letter to Joseph Priestly, January 1804, in John Foley, editor, The Jefferson Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of Thomas Jefferson, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1900, p. 895)
 
In a letter to James Madison in 1799, Jefferson, citing "the true principles of our federal compact," suggested that Kentucky and Virginia should secede from the Union if the federal government continued to abuse its power; he argued that the citizens of the two states should "sever ourselves from that union we so much value, rather than give up the rights of self government which we have reserved, and in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness" (in William Sterne Randle, Thomas Jefferson: A Life, New York: Henry Holt, 1993, pp. 534-536; see also Walter Brian Cisco, Taking A Stand, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 2000, p. 18). (Jefferson used the pronoun "ourselves," of course, because we was a citizen of Virginia.)
 
Mike Griffith
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The South -- America's Hope
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
This passage from 1930 asserts that to remain distinctive and true to its heritage culture, the American South should avoid the “neurotic restlessness” and rank commercialism of other sections.
 
Some heeded his prescient advice, but many did not and helped transform Southern towns into Babylon’s of grid-locked, over-commercialized replicas of Northern cities. 
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
 
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The South – America’s Hope:
 
“Count Herman Keyserling, philosopher and psychologist, world traveler and author, writes in the November Atlantic Monthly that the South is the hope of America, and proceeds, from the philosopher’s and ethnologist’s standpoint, to prove his assertion.
 
Count Keyserling sets up the contention that the theory of the North and East is that success comes through dynamics, through working feverishly; that if one only works a little harder, one will be more successful.
 
The Southerner, upon the other hand, fulfills the dictum that man is essentially the child of the earth, even though he rules it; that the Southerner realizes that there is no lasting happiness for man unless he is in harmony with the rhythm of the earth and that the only state that can endure is one which is comparatively static. That is, the restless, feverish dynamic state is apt to fade from the earth.
 
Alexander and Napoleon were vanquished; the Huns died out in a short while; the Normans overran Europe and even England, but the Norman culture was absorbed into the Anglo-Saxon culture of England, and the Angles and Saxons predominate to-day in England. It is not, therefore, the feverish and restless people who predominate in the end, but the more static people. “Speed is not an expression of strength and vitality,” it is an expression “merely of neurotic restlessness.”
 
The Northerner will continue to exist, Count Keyserling grants, but “in days to come he will be recognized as the poorest, the least superior type; he will mean to America at large what the most narrow type of Prussian means within the German nation. The Middle west will in all likelihood continue to represent America’s national foundation. But if a culture develops and the stress is laid on culture, then the hegemony will invariably pass over to the South. There alone can there be a question of an enduring culture.”  Macon Telegraph.
 
In this compliment to the South there is much for sober thought. There is a strong movement to commercialize the South, to create here the same money-seeking atmosphere, to change her distinctiveness into a likeness of other sections, in fact, to destroy those characteristics upon which our “culture” depends. Such effort should be combated and the South should remain distinctive among the sections. In that is distinction and culture and hope for the future.”
 
(“The South –America’s Hope,” Confederate Veteran Magazine, February, 1930, pp. 63-64)
 

Americans Under Siege
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
It is unimaginable today that Americans were under siege some 147 years ago and reduced to eating vermin and insects to survive -- though peace would return if they were willing to surrender their liberty and hard-won political heritage of independence from the Founders. Ironically, the terrorized and starving Americans in Vicksburg finally surrendered to their Northern tormentors on the 4th of July, America’s independence day.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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Americans Under Siege:
 
(This diary of an unknown Union lady, caught in the siege, tells of the hardships and perils that the civilian inhabitants endured)
 
“May 28: Since that day the regular siege has continued. We are utterly cut off from the world, surrounded by a circle of fire. Would it be wise like the scorpion to sting ourselves to death? The fiery shower of shells goes on day and night. People do nothing but eat what they can get, sleep when they can, and dodge the shells. There are three intervals when the shelling stops, either for the guns to cool or for the gunners’ meals…At all the caves I could see from my high perch, people were sitting, eating their poor suppers at the cave doors, ready to plunge in again. I think all the dogs and cats must be killed or starved: we don’t see any more pitiful animals prowling around…”
 
The confinement is dreadful. I am so tired of corn-bread…we are lucky to get a quart of milk daily from a family near who have a cow they hourly expect to be killed. I send five dollars to market each morning, and its buys a small piece of mule-meat. Rice and milk is my main food; I can’t eat the mule-meat. Martha runs the gauntlet to buy the meat and milk once a day in perfect terror. A pair of chimney swallows have built in the parlor chimney. The concussion of the house often sends down parts of their nest, which they patiently pick up and reascend with.
 
June 7: This place has two large underground cisterns of good, cool water…One I had to give up to the soldiers, who swarm about like hungry animals for something to devour.  Poor fellows! My heart bleeds for them. They have nothing but spoiled, greasy bacon, and bread made of musty pea-flour, and but little of that.
 
To-day one crawled on the gallery to lie in the breeze. He looked as if shells had lost their terror for his dumb and famished misery. I’ve taught Martha to make first-rate corn-meal gruel, because I can eat meal easier that way than in hoe-cake, and I fixed him a saucerful, put milk and sugar and nutmeg – I’ve actually got nutmeg! When he ate it the tears ran from his eyes. “Oh, madam, there was never anything so good! I shall get better.”
 
June 25:  A horrible day. We were all in the cellar, when a shell came tearing through the roof, burst up-stairs, tore up that room, and the pieces coming through both floors down into the cellar, one of them tore open the leg of H’s pantaloons.  On the heels of this came Mrs. J. to tell us that young Mrs. P. had had her thigh-bone crushed. When Martha went for the milk she came back horror-stricken to tell us the black girl there had her arm taken off by a shell. Every night I had lain down expecting death, and every morning arose to the same prospect…I might be crippled, and not killed. Life, without all one’s power and limb’s, was a thought that broke down my courage.
 
July 3:  To-day we are down in the cellar again, shells flying as thick as ever; provisions so nearly gone…that a few more days will bring us starvation indeed. Martha says rats are hanging dressed in the market for sale with mule-meat: there is nothing else.” 
 
(A Union Lady Suffers Through the Siege of Vicksburg, The Blue and the Grey, Volume II, Henry Steele Commager, editor, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950, pp. 665-667)
 
 

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From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010
Subject: Re: Don't keep your head in the sand!

Dear Brethren (bcc herein),
 
When I read excellent communiqués as this, they provide me with hope & optimism.
 
However, I wonder if individuals such as this author and those within the 'Tea Party's', are aware that they are ALL espousing Confederate virtues?
 
Day by day the People grow closer to 'connecting that Ultimate dot' of History that, when 'inter-connected' with all others, reveals the total picture as to where & when TODAY'S plight officially began.

The odious & self-sustaining cancerous Root, from which the Federals derive ALL Sustenance & Present-Day Authority, can be directly traced to one time period when it ALL went downhill for America and her People!
 
I agree with this author's assessment in every detail.

He's 90% there but it is that remaining 10% that is most important.
 
He states in his last paragraph "...in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our policies & sensibilities must be radically re-structured ."
 
This is the most prolific point that most are missing TODAY.
 
WHY MUST these policies be Re-Structured?

Obviously because of the HARM they are doing to the People and Country alike as he points out.
 
But WHERE and WHEN did the Federals presume their station to do and create what they have ultimately become & done TODAY ?
 
Simply at the conclusion of The War For Southern Independence when Radical Reconstruction was introduced by the 26th Congress of The Federal Union against a defenseless South & further insured & guaranteed by an Army of Occupation who made sure Washington's edicts and mandates were being carried out despite that which was guaranteed to the Southern States when her Military,&  NOT her Government, surrendered!!!
 
For during those years of RECONSTRUCTION, not only was the former Confederacy being RECONSTRUCTED,  but so too was America being TRANSFORMED .
 
The new Amendments to the US Constitution that were pushed through then, much in the same manner as today's HealthCare 'Bill', created the mantle & foundation for today's Federal tyranny and the ultimate incarnate arrival of one Barack Hussein Obama.  This has been a 145 year work in progress in which America, over 5-generations, was being converted & institutionalized from a Republic into that of a Socialist Democracy.
 
This is what most cannot comprehend or understand.....thanks to the dumbing down process at the hands of the Federal Dept. of Education.  It is this most basic connection of 'Historical Dots' that, when inter-connected with one another over time, reveal the birthplace & time when this country went from a REPUBLIC, INTO THAT WHICH IT HAS BECOME TODAY, a SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY..... and the month and year was April, 1865!
 
Thus, in Total Analysis, ALL Roads do, in fact, Lead Back to 1865 and, 'When The South Lost, So TOO Did This Entire Nation, but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time!'
 
As to whether or not America can be 'salvaged' and the manner in which any necessary 'TRANSITION' for such a 'return' to Sovereignty (personal & national), as was the original intention of the Founding Fathers can be realized, I am afraid that I must agree with our Confederate Brother herein, Jim Higginbotham.....the Despot's web of deceit has been woven about us much too cleverly too hope for any peaceful solutions being attained.  I wish it were otherwise but.....
 
Washington is NO longer 'ours' and has NOT been 'ours' for some time!  It is dead from the head down.
 
145 years have given way to the "we need to pass this Bill now in order to know what's in it" mentality & Oligarchy.  Washington is a Leviathan of Special Interests who write our policies.  It is a State Government orthodoxy whose make-up and design was altered long ago.  Our country is controlled & run by a variety of  Political Zealots who serve a secular mindset every bit the same as those Red Republicans under Lincoln.  Read your History and learn that which has been taken from y'all. 
 
One cannot change the aptitude & purpose of the venomous snake unless its head is cut off.     Washington cast its lot and sold us all out long ago through a vestibule and myriad of deceptive practices whose resultant policies have changed the American landscape forever.
 
One can describe these people and their associations by many political acumens associated with the contemporary.... but that doesn't change in the least their collective resolve and purpose nor this Nations dilemma.
 
I understand our History and I fully understand the resolve of the Beast in Washington.
 
They serve themselves and their associates within their International Cabal & One World, New World Order.  It's always been about Money, Power & Control....just as it was in 1860 and before and culminating in 1865!
 
National American Interests are NOT in THEIR collective Interests as evidenced by their incessant War upon our Freedoms and Individual Liberties.
 
Thus, when ALL is said, done or reviewed there is but one clear decision that needs to understood for there is NO other----If we are to Survive as a People and as The Constitutional Republic we were to have been, we Must Separate!  You can 'dance' around this subject all you like, but at day's end.....this TRUTH is what shall set us Free!
 
It is abundantly clear that the 'American Diagnosis' of ALL it's ill's are those related to it's Socialist policies instituted over time after the American Republic was lost & Reconstructed in 1865!
 
Washington has covered their tracks very well ever since, making illegal that which was once legal.  The States have been forced into becoming the Bastard children of the Federal enclave & subservient to the demagogues & their mob rule known as 'Democracy'.
 
They will NOT let their power-grip & base 'go' simply because of 'personnel' changes in the House, Senate or White House.  The 'Snake' will only die once the head is removed.  Otherwise, it will Regenerate itself or......RECONSTRUCT ITSELF YET AGAIN!
 
If the patient (Country) hopes too survive the 'diagnosis', then the Location of the Ill MUST be found and CUT OUT!
 
WE must go 'Back to the Future' and RESTORE that which was NEVER SURRENDERED and taken from one by another ILLEGALLY and via an unauthorized act of INVASION by one country of another.
 
Until we re-visit that other Time and Place, we will be continuing the Lie of Deception upon which the Mantle of this Federal Government now resides whose evidences will only hasten the collective demise of us ALL!
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865!
For God, Family and The Confederacy,
Craig Maus
president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations
Staunch Supporters of the RESTORATION of the Legal Government of the South- The Confederate States of America!
ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL!
So Goes the South....so WILL Go This Nation!
www.deovindice.org

 

From: Jim Higginbotham
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Howdy.

Hell yeah this fellow is RIGHT.

Only i am NOT so sure the Revolution will be PEACEFUL.

Seems to me WE THE PEOPLE have been TO PEACEFUL, and i am reminded of one of my Heros, Thomas Jefferson, who said the Tree of Liberty needs watering about every 10 to 20 years with the BLOOD of TYRANTS AND PATRIOTS.

Semper Fi
Jim.                    

From: Coyote19363@aol.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010

Subject: Don't keep your head in the sand

A friend of mine received this email. He wasn’t sure if it was for real so he went to Snopes and they had no reference to it, so he emailed  this guy, Gary Hubbell, to see if he wrote it.  Here is his reply.

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Yes, indeed, I did write that. Thanks for your compliments.
                    
Regards,
                    
Gary Hubbell, Broker/Owner
United Country Colorado Brokers
Hotchkiss, CO 81419
email: grandviewranch@gmail.com
web: www.uccoloradobrokers.com
web: www.aspenranchrealestate.com

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Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly
February 2010

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America .

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
 

From: Gary Adams - Southron_98@cox.net
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010
Subject: Fw: Nat Turner Blvd. Newport News, Virginia

Take a minute and write the city

I tried to enlighten the cities offices naming our roads but was unsuccessful, does Newport News want to be known for naming one of our roads Nat Turner Blvd?
 
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What Nat Turner engaged in below was in no way “insurrection,” it was premeditated and heinous murder of defenseless Americans.

The following is a bit graphic and long, but an excellent reminder of what drove the lower South to secession. A question to ask today is why were the Northern abolitionists silent on practical and peaceful solutions for the eradication of African slavery, and why was it only bloody race war that they advocated?

By Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Well known researcher and historian
Cape Fear Historical Institute

The most successful plantations were operated avocationally by professional men, doctors and lawyers, since the plantation represented the aspiration of everyone. In the same way, many of the plantation-conscious farmers supplemented their agricultural incomes by working as artisans in small enterprises. Such a man was Joseph Travis, the honest coachmaker.

He had apprenticed to him a sixteen-year-old boy, who shared the bedroom of Mr. Travis’ foster son, Putnam Moore. Mrs. Travis, whose first husband had died, had a baby by Joseph Travis. This small family had no house servants as such. The few colored families of slaves lived in a single cluster of buildings around the farmyard and there was no distinction between house people and field hands. There the whites and blacks, working together and virtually living together, shared an hourly and constant companionship, and knew one another with the casual intimacy of members of the same family. Though everybody worked hard, the slaves were held to a fairly rigid schedule.

Working five days a week from roughly sunup until sundown, they had Saturday afternoons and Sundays off. They were encouraged to grow garden crops for themselves on allotted plots of ground, either to fill out their diets according to personal tastes or for use in trade or barter. Skills were taught them and, as in other families like the Travises, who could not afford to free their lifetime investment, sometimes a Negro worked out his freedom at a trade.

Great attention was given to their religious education. They went to the whites’ churches, where the Methodist and Baptist preachers of the peoples’ religion evoked fiery and wondrous images, and they developed their own preachers, who supplanted the whites’. Such a Negro preacher acted as Joseph Travis’ “overseer.”

The overseer of this little family plantation, bearing not even unintentional similarity to Simon Legree, merely acted for the owner with the few Negroes who worked on the farm. With Joseph Travis busy at his coachmaking, somebody had to be in charge of the work, though The Preacher extended his leadership over the total lives of the three families in the Travis farmyard, and exerted considerable influence over other Negroes in the scattered community.

He always said that Mr. Travis was a very kind man, maybe even too indulgent with his people, and Mr. Travis regarded The Preacher as something of a privileged character. He had been born in the county of an African mother and a slave father, who ran away when The Preacher was a child. He had been raised by his grandmother, who worked on his religious education, and by his mother, who was deeply impressed with the child’s gift of second sight.

When the owners’ attention was called to his precociousness, they encouraged him to read and gave him a Bible. He culled the Bible for predictions and prophesies which he used to impose his visions on his fellow slaves. He found portents in the sun and moon, portentous hieroglyphics in leaves and suchlike, and in general created of himself a mysterious figure of supernatural gifts.

The Preacher did not regard himself as a humbug in imposing on his fellows. He actually believed he could read signs in the sky. “Behold me in the heavens,” the Holy Spirit said to him, and he beheld and he knew. He knew the signs were directing him toward a holy mission. In the spring of 1828, he heard a loud noise in the heavens and, he said, “The spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it in and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be the last and the last should be free.”

The twenty-first of August was a Sunday, in the season when the white people spent the day away at camp meetings. In The Preacher’s cabin, his wife was fixing Sunday dinner for their child. In the woods below the fields, six of The Preacher’s disciples were gathered in the glen, where to a Sunday feast they added some of the apple brandy which was always handy to acquire. Only one of them belonged to Mr. Travis – Hark Travis, a magnificently and powerfully built black man. Two others, Sam and the ferocious Will Francis, belonged to one of Mrs. Travis’ brothers. As farms were relatively few in the sparsely settled and wooded country, all the Negroes were intimately acquainted.

The Preacher, after his custom of keeping himself aloof, joined the frolic in the middle of the afternoon, when several hours of feasting and drinking had his followers in receptive humor. From then until full night he coached them in the details of his predestined mission in which they were to be allowed to participate.

At ten o’clock they left the woods and silently approached the dark farmyard of the Travis house. All lights were out in the house where the family, tired from their trip to the camp-meeting, were asleep. In the farmyard stood a Negro named Austin, who joined them, and brought The Preacher’s band to eight.

The seven followers went to the unlocked cider press while The Preacher studied the situation. When the silent man returned, The Preacher directed Hark, the Apollo, to set a tall ladder against an upper story window sill. The Preacher climbed the ladder, stepped through the open window, and tiptoed through the familiar house down to the front door. When he opened it, his disciples crept in. The fearsome Will Francis held a broadax and one of the men gave The Preacher a hatchet. Without any other weapons, the eight men crept into the master bedroom, where Mr. & Mrs. Travis were asleep.

When The Preacher stood over them, he paused, looking on the face of the kindly man who had given him so many privileges. The other Negroes told him the leader must strike the first blow. After another pause, The Preacher struck suddenly and awkwardly down at the sleeping man.

The hatchet glanced off, giving a blow to the side of the head. Mr. Travis, startled into wakefulness, struggled out of bed, sleepily calling for his wife. When his bare feet touched the floor, Will Francis, with no confusion of purpose, brought the broadax down on his head in a single long stroke. Without another sound, Mr. Travis fell dead to the floor. Whirling, Will came down with the broadax again, and Mrs. Travis died in her bed without ever coming fully awake.

The sounds had not aroused the two sixteen-year-old boys – Mrs. Travis’ son, Putnam Moore, and the apprentice, Joel Westbrook – asleep in the same bed in a room in another part of the house. They were killed before they were awakened.

Last, The Preacher went into the baby’s room. He had often played with the child and fondled it, and the baby smiled at him when he woke up. The Preacher backed out, unable to touch the child, and sent in Will and another follower to knock the baby’s brains out against the brick fireplace.

With the house theirs, they took four shotguns, several muskets, powder and shot, and exchanged their clothes for garments of the dead men. To give a dash to their new costumes, they got some of the red cloth with which the top of the gig was lined and tore that into sashes to go around their waists and shoulders. The material gave out and they made other strips from sheets, which they dyed in the freely flowing blood. The Preacher felt that this unit was now ready to serve as the nucleus around which all the slaves of the county would rally.

With some of the force mounted on Travis’ horses, they went to the small farm owned by Mrs. Travis’ brother, who was also the brother of the owner of Sam and Will. This younger Mr. Francis, a bachelor who lived with his one slave in a single-room house, came to the door when Will and Sam called to him that they had a message from his brother.

When he opened the door they grabbed him. He was a strong man and he fought, calling to his loyal slave for his gun. One of The Preacher’s men shot Mr. Francis’s slave, Nelson, who managed to stagger to the back door and escape in the darkness to the woods. He started out to give the alarm to his master’s brother, the owner of Will and Sam, but he didn’t make it that far. Mr. Francis was finished off before Nelson had reached the woods, going down under repeated blows from the hatchet.

From there The Preacher’s band walked on through the night to the home of Mrs. Harris, a widow with several children and grandchildren. Unbeknownst to themselves as they slept, this family was spared through the agency of their slave, Joe, who joined The Preacher on the condition that his people be spared.

With their first recruit, the band descended on the home of the widow Reese, whose front door was unlocked. They killed her in her sleep, her son as he awakened, caught the white farm manager who tried to escape in the darkness. He got off with his life by feigning death, though he was forever after crippled.

By then other slaves, too frightened to defend the whites but unwilling to join the insurgents, had fled before the band, and nearby plantations were warned. Not willing to risk losing any of his eight followers, The Preacher changed his course.

At sunrise on Monday morning they reached the substantial home of the widow Turner…Mrs. Turner’s manager was already at work at the distillery beside the lane to the house. He was shot and stripped, his clothes going to the last recruit, the Joe who had saved his own people. Mrs. Turner and a kinswoman were awakened by the shot and came downstairs to bolt the door. The fearsome will battered the door down with several strokes of his ax, and the two women were grabbed in the hallway.

While they pleaded for their lives, Will went about his skillful work of execution on Mrs. Turner, and The Preacher pulled Mrs. Newsom, trembling violently, out of the door. He kept striking her over the head with a sword he had acquired. The edge was too blunt to kill the screaming woman and Will, turning from the corpse of Mrs. Turner, methodically finished off The Preacher’s victim with his ax.

They got silver there and more decoration for their costumes, and when they left the silent plantation at full daylight their number had spread to fifteen. They divided, those on foot under The Preacher swinging by the Bryants’, where they paused to kill the couple, their child, and Mrs. Bryant’s mother, before joining the mounted force at the pleasant establishment of Mrs. Whitehead.

When The Preacher’s force got there, Mrs. Whitehead’s grown son had already been hacked to death in a cotton patch while his own slaves looked on. Inside the house three daughters and a child, being bathed by his grandmother were dead. Will was dragging the mother of the family out into the yard, where he decapitated her, and a young girl who had hidden was running for the woods. The Preacher caught her and, his sword failing him again, beat her to death with a fence rail. Another daughter, the only member of the family to survive, had made it to the woods where she was hidden by a house slave.

When they left the seven dead and mutilated bodies at the Whiteheads’, The Preacher’s band had grown and acquired more weapons and horses. They had also drunk more cider and brandy, and they moved boldly ahead to continue the massacre although they knew that the alarm was out by then. Several of the next small plantations in their line of march were deserted. The band divided again, with Will the executioner leading the mounted force toward the house of his own master, Nathaniel Francis, the brother of The Preacher’s Mrs. Travis and of the bachelor whose slave, Nelson, had been among the first to give the warning.

Though the warning had not reached the Francis plantation, a Negro boy had told Mr. Francis a wild tale of the slaughter of his sister’s family. Having heard nothing of The Preacher’s band, Mr. Francis and his mother were on their way to investigate the grisly scene awaiting them at the Travis household.

Two of Mr. Francis’ nephews, eight- and three year-old boys, were playing in the lane as the Negroes rode silently toward them. The three-year-old, seeing the familiar Will, asked for a ride as he had many times before. Will picked him up on the horse, cut off his head, and dropped the body in the lane. The other boy screamed and tried to hide, but they were too fast for him.

Henry Doyle, the overseer, seeing this, ran to warn Mrs. Francis. He was shot dead in the doorway of the house, but not before he had warned Mrs. Francis. A house slave hid her between the plastering and the roof in one of the “jump” rooms, and kept The Preacher’s band away from her hiding place by pretending to hunt for her. When the Negroes had gone on, the house slave of necessity among them, Mrs. Francis came down to find the other house women dividing her clothes, including her wedding dress. One attacked her with a dirk and another defended her. She escaped to join her husband and be taken to safety.

When the band left the Francis plantation, the alarm by then was general and the Negroes were beginning to get drunk. They headed for the road to the county seat. They found more deserted houses, where faithful slaves had left to hide their masters, and met other slaves who had waited to join the insurrectionists. At young Captain Barrow’s the warning had been received and the overseer had escaped, but Mrs. Barrow, a woman of beauty, had delayed to arrange her toilet before appearing abroad. She tarried so long that the Negroes reached the house before she left. Her husband called to her to run out the back door while he fought from the front.

In leaving, Mrs. Barrow had the same experience with her house slaves as had Mrs. Francis. A younger one tried to hold her for the mob, while an older one freed her and held the young Negro woman while her mistress escaped. In front, Captain Barrow emptied a pistol, a single-shot rifle, and a shotgun, and fought with the butt of the gun across the porch, through the hall, and into the front room. He was holding them off when a Negro on the outside reached through the window sill and, from behind, sliced his throat with a razor.

The Preacher’s men had great respect for Captain Barrow’s bravery. They drank his blood and spared his corpse mutilation. Instead, they laid him out in a bedquilt and placed a plug of tobacco on his breast.

It was ten o’clock Monday morning when they left there, and the two bands soon converged. They then numbered about fifty. The Preacher’s vision of a mass insurrection was coming true. White men were trying to form a force ahead of the band but some of the men, on seeing the bleeding and mutilated bodies of women, hurried back to their farms to hide their own wives and children. Hundreds of women and children were gathering in the county seat at Jerusalem, unaware that the band’s winding course was directed there.

On the way The Preacher’s formidable force passed more deserted places, but got its biggest haul at Walker’s country corner. A children’s boarding school was there and a large distillery, a blacksmith shop, and the wheelwright, and it had taken some time to gather all the people in the neighborhood. Before they could start for Jerusalem, the Negroes were on them. Some escaped to the screams of those being chased and butchered. More than ten were killed there, mostly children.

From the Walker massacre, the band headed directly for Jerusalem. By then eighteen white men had gathered with arms at some distance from the town, where four hundred unarmed people had collected. The Preacher’s band of sixty would have reached the town first except that his lieutenants overruled him when they passed the famous brandy cellar at Parker’s deserted plantation, three miles from town. They tarried there to quench their thirsts.

The eighteen white men came on them in Parker’s field and opened fire. In a short, pitched battle the boldest Negroes, leading a charge, fell, and most of the insurrectionists fled. The Preacher escaped with twenty of his most faithful followers, and headed for the Carolina border.

He was seeking new recruits then. They were slow coming in and victims were getting scarce. Late in the afternoon The Preacher, still supported by the Apollo-like Hark and Will with his broadax, allowed a single armed planter to hold off his band from a lady with two children. That planter’s family had already escaped to safety.

[After camping that night]…at dawn, The Preacher started for the large and handsome home of Dr. Blunt, one of the county’s few plantations of the legend, and on the edge of the district of yesterday’s triumph. Not seeking victims then, The Preacher wanted fresh supplies and recruits to put heart and strength back into the insurrection.

He reached the Blunts’ yard fence just before daylight. A precautionary shot was fired to see if the darkened house was deserted, as expected. Then the powerful Hark broke down the gate, and the group advanced toward the house, looking for salves to join them. The band was within twenty yards of the house when firing broke out from the front porch. Hark Travis, one of the original conspirators…fell wounded in the first volley. When The Preacher, shaken but grown desperate, tried to rally his force for an attack, another volley dropped two more. His men broke. At that moment, Dr. Blunt’s slaves came swarming out of hiding places, armed with grub hoes, and rushed the insurrectionists. The Preacher fled with his men, Dr. Blunt’s slaves rounded up several prisoners, including the wounded Hark, crawling toward a cotton patch.

Dr. Blunt, his fifteen-year-old son, and his manager had done the firing, while the women loaded single-shot rifles and shotguns. Before The Preacher’s men arrived, Dr. Blunt had given his own slaves the choice of fighting with his family or leaving. They chose unanimously to fight.

More in desperation than purpose [The Preacher] led the dozen remaining followers to retrace their triumphant steps of the day before. At the first plantation the Greenville County cavalry militia rode them down. They killed will, the ax-executioner, and killed or captured all except The Preacher and two others. The insurrection was over then, though the alarmed neighbors did not know it.

Following the Greenville cavalry, other militia units poured into the county during the next two days, and US Marines from Norfolk. The two men who had escaped with The Preacher were captured. Many who had followed the leader during the successful stages of Monday had returned to their homes. They were hunted down, some killed and others taken to jail. But The Preacher eluded them until the beginning of October.

While changing hiding places on another Sunday, he encountered a poor farmer in some woods. Like his neighbors, this Mr. Phipps was carrying a gun when he came upon the ragged, emaciated, and wretched-looking Preacher, who immediately surrendered.

No demonstration was made against The Preacher when he was brought to jail or when he and fifty-two others were brought to trial. Of these, seventeen were hanged and twelve transported. Of five free Negroes among them, one was acquitted, the others went to Superior Court, where one more was acquitted and three convicted. The Preacher confessed fully to his leadership and to the details of the murder of more than fifty white people.

With The Preacher’s execution, the case was closed and entered the record books as Nat Turner’s Rebellion.

In history, the unelaborated reference to “Nat Turner’s Rebellion” has been made so casually for so long that the tag has no association with the terror and horror of mass murder. Also, to the population of the United States today the slave insurrection in Haiti is a remote thing, part of the inevitable and the just march of events. But to the South, where white refugees had fled – at least one to Southampton County – the Haiti massacre was the dread reminder of what could happen to them. With Nat Turner, it had happened. The deep fear of the blacks’ uprising against them had been implemented. It was never to leave.
 

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Systematic Attacks of the Yankee Investor
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Robert E. Lee was not alone in seeing the true reasons for the war prosecuted by the North, and the opportunity the latter saw in reducing the American South to a politically-weak economic colony.  The bounty-enriched foreign mercenaries and displaced slaves used to fight its war of conquest were expendable tools for the task, and later employed to eradicate Indians in the way of progress and profit.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net 
 
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Systematic Attacks of the Yankee Investor:
 
“Certainly he must have sensed that in the future “those people,” as he called his Northern adversaries, were determined to push aside “his people” with their aristocratic prerogatives and privileges. Despite his determination to stay out of politics both during and after the war, Lee could see the handwriting on the wall as plain as anyone, and plainer than most.
 
He understood that in addition to the sharp odor of gunpowder, there was the sweet smell of profits in the balmy spring air. Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, visiting New York earlier that spring, had noted that many people there paid more attention to the stock market than to the casualty reports. To this a New York editor added: “Real or professed patriotism may be made to cover a multitude of sins. Gallantry in battle may be regarded as a substitute for all the duties of the Decalogue.”
 
In the Northern States, the rapid transformation from a conglomeration of farmers to a nation of industrialists had been hastened by the war. The exclusion of Southern planters from the halls of government made the change considerably easier. Astronomical profits on wartime speculation and gouging encouraged rapid expansion. While the brave boys in [blue] shed blood on the battlefields, the crafty made profits back home.
 
If the drama of collapse and surrender centered in the South, the drama of growth and expansion focused on the West. Hundreds of millions of dollars would go there; the receding frontier would be whittled down by systematic attacks of the Yankee investor. The Federal government would help by showering the railroads and settlers with land and services. Mines, cattle and farming would boom. Where bayonet had never been, the dollar would invade and conquer.”
 
(Lee After the War, Marshall W. Fishwick, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963, pp. 39-40)
 

Laborers, Slave versus English
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“Nor in the class of laborers do I mean to withhold from the comparison that portion whose color has condemned them, in certain parts of our Union, to a subjection to the will of others. Even these are better fed in these States, warmer clothed, and labor less than the journeymen or day-laborers of England. They have the comfort, too, of numerous families, in the midst of whom the live without want, or fear of it; a solace which few of the laborers of England possess.
 
They are subject, it is true, to bodily coercion; but are not the hundreds of thousands of British soldiers and seamen subject to the same, without seeing, at the end of their career, when age and accident shall have rendered them unequal to labor, the certainty, which the other has, that he will never want?  And has not the British seamen, as much as the African, been reduced to this bondage by force, in flagrant violation of his own consent, and of his natural right in his own person?
 
And with the laborers of England generally, does not the moral coercion of want subject their will as despotically to that of their employer, as the physical constraint does the soldier, the seaman or the slave? But do not mistake me. I am not advocating slavery. I am not justifying the wrongs we have committed on a foreign people, by the example of another nation committing equal wrongs on their own subjects. On the contrary, there is nothing I would not sacrifice to a practicable plan of abolishing every vestige of this moral and political depravity.
 
I am, at present, comparing the condition and degree of suffering to which oppression has reduced the man of one color, with the condition and degree of suffering to which oppression has reduced the man of another color; equally condemning both.”
 
(Jefferson letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814, Jefferson Cyclopedia, John P. Foley, editor, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900, page 461)



 

Yet another book.....
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
Everyone these days is out to find a new way to make the South look like it was Satan's spawn or that the "Lost Cause" was a post-war fabrication created by Southerners to make themselves look good while distancing themselves from the "sin" of slavery. Here is yet another book, by a contemporary historian, trying desparately to find a new angle on that subject. http://futurity.org/society-culture/did-women-and-slaves-drive-dixie-down/
 
When I was an undergraduate some 40 years ago and majoring in history, historians came up with different interpretations of the same event and then proceeded to argue with one another. Those differing interpretations and the resulting arguments were what actually constituted "the study of history"! Today it seems that historians are in perfect agreement and harmony..... the study of history is far more peaceful today than it once was..... it is the "peace" of the hive. Time to shake that hive up!
 
Bill Vallante
Commack NY
 
http://futurity.org/society-culture/did-women-and-slaves-drive-dixie-down/comment-page-1/#comment-13599
 
Well whoopdee doo! It’s another book about the Southern Confederacy as the “Evil Empire.” How novel. Somebody pass me my “No-Doz” before I slip into a wackademic -induced coma.
 
“What the secessionists set out to build was something entirely new in the history of nations,” – Really? I guess Stephanie McCurry never heard of ancient Athens or hundreds of other political sovereignties throughout history who built civilizations using slavery?
 
And yeah, we know, we know - half a million slaves went running off to join da’ Union army and sum o’ dem fights wid Massa Linkhum’s boys. Problem is, that still leaves over 3 million slaves back on the farm, or in some cases, marching with the Rebel army under their own power. Maybe the next time someone writes one of these books and claims that “the slaves freed themselves,” they could perhaps elaborate on how many slaves were actually CARRIED OFF by Union troops against their will as opposed to going voluntarily?
 
“What the Yankees didn't take they wasted and set fire to it…. They done one more thing too. They put any colored man in the front where he would get killed first and they stayed sorter behind in the back lines…….. When they come along they try to get the colored men to go with them and that's the way they got treated.”  (Liney Chambers, Arkansas, The Slave Narratives)
 
“The….nig***s, as a general thing, preferred to stay at home, particularly after they found out that we wanted only the able-bodied men, and to tell the truth, the youngest and best looking women. Sometimes we took them off by way of repaying influential secessionist. But a part of these we soon managed to lose, sometimes in crossing rivers, sometimes in other ways.” – (Thomas J. Myers, Lieutenant, U.S.A., February 26, 1865)
 
Southern women brought down the war effort because they were sore about being second class citizens? Poor Stephanie - either she doesn’t get out much or she’s never met a Southern woman. She also ignores the fact that the women of the north faced the same kind of thing. Colonel Arthur Freemantle, who, unlike Stephanie, actually visited the South during the war, had this to say about Southern women….
 
“…no Confederate soldier is given his discharge from the army, however badly he may be wounded; but he is employed at such labor in the public service as he may be capable of performing, and his place in the ranks is taken by a sound man hitherto exempted. The slightly wounded are cured as quickly as possible, and are sent back at once to their regiments. THEIR WOMEN TAKE CARE OF THIS…..” (“Three Months in the Southern States,” Colonel Arthur Freemantle, copyright, 1991, University of Nebraska Press, Page 306)
 
The attitudes of the Southern women that I know mirror that of the woman whose fiancé declined on volunteering for the army. She sent him a package of women’s underwear with a note which read, “Wear these or volunteer!” Needless to say, he volunteered. (“The Quarterly Review”, “The American War”, London, January – April, 1863, vol. 113, pp. 322 – 353)
 
Freemantle, an English officer and subject who himself opposed slavery, had this to say about the motivation of the Southern people and what they were fighting for as well as against. My guess is that he would take issue with contentions of the sort that are advanced in books like this one.
 
“But the mass of respectable Northerners, though they may be willing to pay, do not very naturally feel themselves called upon to give their blood in a war of aggression, ambition and conquest. For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South; but the more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate Sates of the devotion of the whole population, the more I feel inclined to say with General Polk – “How can you subjugate a people such as this?”” (“Three Months in the Southern States,” Colonel Arthur Freemantle, copyright, 1991, University of Nebraska Press, pp 308-309)
 
And while it has become all the rage among hack-ademics these days to “prove” that it was the South and the (allegedly) shabby cause for which it was fighting that caused its downfall and not the overwhelming size and power of the Union army, one cannot escape the fact that the North had 4 times the South’s manpower and 10 times its industrial capacity. No, you can’t escape it no matter how many theses you write about how flawed the South was. You can’t escape it because even the South’s opponents noticed it themselves and spoke openly about it.
 
“Look at the opposing armies and you will see two striking truths. First, the Northern men are superior in numbers, virtue, intelligence, bodily strength, and real pluck; and yet on the whole they have been outgeneraled and badly beaten. Second, the Northern army is better equipped, better clad, fed and lodged; and is in a far more comfortable condition, not only than the Southern army, but any other in the world; and yet, if the pay were stopped in both, the Northern army would probably mutiny at once, or crumble rapidly; while the Southern army would probably hold together for a long time, in some shape, if their cause seemed to demand it. The animating spirit of the Southern soldier is rather moral than pecuniary; of the Northern soldier it is rather pecuniary than moral.”  (Gen. Samuel Howe, US Army, February 20, 1862, Confederate Veteran Magazine, July, 1930, page 251)
 
Y’all will pardon me if I don’t wet my pants with excitement over the debut of this book. There are 3 things that the world today has far too many of: Sensitivity Training Courses, Adam Sandler movies, and books like this one.
 

Re: Take Down The Flag
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
 
Chuck,
 
My response at the website though it may well not be posted. Frankly, websites like this are a waste of time. Obviously they have no pretence at objectivity, so our responses only goad them to greater depths of ignorance.
 
Val

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There is an old saying, or actually two: truth will out and murder will out. Those who fight for Southern symbols are proof of both.
 
It is not those flying the battle flag or trying to preserve the ACTUAL history of the War of Secession who are "delusional", but those who "think" that they know what actually happened when all they "know" is the result of 150 years of propaganda. Does it matter at this point in time? Yes, first because nothing of worth can be built on lies and secondly because today's out of control federal government is a direct consequence of the South's defeat.
 
It is not an accident that Karl Marx heartily approved of Lincoln and his efforts to consolidate power in Washington.
 

Nikki Haley Runs the Gauntlet, Declares the Civil War was a Fight between Tradition and Change
Take Down The Flag
http://takedowntheflag.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/nikki-haley-runs-the-gauntlet/
 
 

Dissertation Help
 
From: K. Steven Monk
 
Thought I would pass this along to y'all in case there's any of you who might want to volunteer a few minutes of your time to helping this ole chap.
 
Stonewall
 
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CONFEDERATE AMERICAN PRIDE
Dedicated to Americans who are proud of their Confederate heritage
http://www.ConfederateAmericanPride.com

From: gs388@cam.ac.uk
To: ConfederateSon1949@yahoo.com
 
Hi there,
 
My name is Greg Styger, and I am currently a second year geographer at the University of Cambridge in Britain. Part of my course for my final year involves researching and writing a unique dissertation piece, and my topic of choice involves looking at civil war monuments in various parts of the United States.
 
I was therefore wondering if yourself or a few others within your society would be willing to be interviewed on the topic of civil war monuments during the summer? Questions would likely involve opinions on the planning processes behind, the need for, the current status of and future of civil war monuments in the United States, and all interviews should be less than forty five minutes.
 
I would be traveling through the South between the 18th and 25th September. Any help or other suggestions about who to contact would be greatly appreciated. Please reply to me on this email: gs388@cam.ac.uk
 
Best wishes,
 
Greg Styger
 

Sheridan Instructs Bismarck on Total War
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Bismarck’s Reich supported Lincoln in his war against the American South as the German consolidator promoted Northern war bonds to his countrymen. Though Bismarck might have been ruthless while fighting foreigners, Sherman and Sheridan were fighting ruthlessly to deny Americans self-government.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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Sheridan Instructs Bismarck on Total War:
 
“The discipline which during the summer had forced the German troops to respect civilian property was gradually relaxed. “At first we were forbidden, with the severest of penalties, to burn vine-posts in bivouacs, and woe to him who used un-threshed corn for his palliasse. Child-like innocence! Now no one asks whether you are using garden fencing or the doors of houses or wagons for fuel…no Frenchman can any longer lay claim to property or means of livelihood.”  Thus throughout the autumn and winter of 1870 the terrorism of the [French partisan] francs-tireurs and the reprisals of the Germans spiraled down to new depths of savagery. If the French refused to admit military defeat, then other means must be used to break their will.
 
The same problem had confronted the United States in dealing with the Confederacy six years earlier, and [General] Sherman had solved it by his relentless march through the South.  [Chief of Prussian General Staff] Moltke had believed war to consist in the movement of armies; but General [Philip] Sheridan, who was observing the war from German headquarters, pointed out that this was only the first requirement of victory.
 
“The proper strategy [he declared after Sedan] consists of inflicting as telling blows as possible on the enemy’s army, and then in causing the inhabitants so much suffering that they must long for peace, and force the government to demand it. The people must be left nothing but their eyes to weep with over the war.”
 
Bismarck took this advice more seriously than did Moltke. The more Frenchmen who suffered from the war, he pointed out, the greater would be the number who would long for peace at any price. “It will come to this, that we will shoot down every male inhabitant.” Every village, he demanded, in which an act of treachery had been committed, should be burned to the ground and all male inhabitants hanged. To show mercy was “culpable laziness in killing.” [Bismarck’s wife suggested] that all Frenchmen should be “shot and stabbed to death, down to the little babies,” and the German press abounded in similar ideas.
 
Nor did the French lag behind in urging suitable torments for the invaders. Each nation came to believe that it was upholding civilization against a race of barbarians which could only be bullied into submission by brute force.”
 
The Franco-Prussian War, Michael Howard, Routledge Press, 1961, pp. 380-381)
 
 

The Return of 180 Degrees True South
 
From: connie_ward@cox.net
 
Chuck,
 
Please let everyone know about "The Return of 180 Degrees True South" -- as a blog.
 
http://one80dts.blogspot.com/
 
Would love to get comments from your readers and contributors.
 
Connie Ward
 

Vanishing South GA.
 
From: tandpam@shawneelink.net
 
Chuck Sir, and all the SHNV family, especially those that love GA!!!
 
I would like to take a moment and let y'all know about a wonderful site I ran across.  It is titled Vanishing South GA., and it is absolutely filled with some of the most beautiful and stirring  photographs I have seen bar none.  http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.wordpress.com/

The site is maintained by a gentleman named  Brian Brown and they are all his photos. For anyone who truly loves and preciates the South (not just us lovers of GA) please take time to visit and I am sure Brian would preciate a kind word left in the comment section about his work.
 
The man has in my opinion truly captured forever  in photos a most wondrous time in the South, a time mostly  past and one that vanishes more each and every day. So look while you can.
 
In the bonds of the Old South
 
T. Warren
 

Bricks for Beauvoir
Unofficial status report
June 9, 2010
 
Gentlemen, we need to dramatically increase sales of Bricks for Beauvoir. Many Compatriots have the mistaken notion that, since Beauvoir House has reopened and the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library is being built, that Beauvoir is out of the woods and in fantastic financial shape.
 
Nothing could be further from the truth.
 
Beauvoir survives on gate receipts, and tourism is way, way down across the Gulf Coast. To break even, the facility needs 200 paying guests a day. Far fewer than this number are coming to see the last home of our only Confederate President, so the facility is working at a deficit every day.
 
We need to help Beauvoir with every ounce of our resources and faith.  If you haven't joined the Friends of Beauvoir, please do so today. See http://www.beauvoir.org/friends.html for details. Beauvoir is asking that every Compatriot in the Division join at the $100 annual rate. Sadly, fewer than 100 Compatriots have joined at this rate to date. Join in honor of your ancestor today. "It'll do you good, and help you, too!"
 
Another way you can help sustain this gem in our Divisional crown is to purchase a Brick for Beauvoir today. Most of the $50 cost of each brick goes toward desperately needed operating funds for Beauvoir. The remainder of the money goes for the brick itself, the setting of same around the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, and a wonderful enhancement to the Tomb area. See http://www.humphreys1625.com/Brochure.pdf for a downloadable order form and brochure.
 
Some 800 bricks have been purchased to date, but many more are needed in order to help Beauvoir continue to fulfill its mission to honor Pres. Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Soldier.
 
Of the most recent 458 orders for Bricks for Beauvoir (with many orders being for more than one brick), purchasers (with number of orders in parenthesis) have been from:
 
Alabama (38)
Arizona (1)
Arkansas (8)
California (11)
Connecticut (1)
Florida (27)
Georgia (25)
Hawaii (1)
Illinois (1)
Indiana (3)
Kansas (2)
Kentucky (4)
Louisiana (16)
Maine (1)
Maryland (5)
Massachusetts (1)
Minnesota (1)
Mississippi (142)
Missouri (12)
Nevada (3)
New Hampshire (1)
New Jersey (1)
New Mexico (1)
New York (3)
North Carolina (10)
Oklahoma (3)
Oregon (1)
Pennsylvania (5)
South Carolina (19)
Tennessee (30)
Texas (49)
Virginia (15)
Washington (state) (5)
West Virginia (2)
Columbia (country) (2)
 
I am proud to say that, of the 142 Mississippi purchases listed above, my Camp (the Gainesville Vols) has purchased 34 bricks.
 
However, if you do the math, you can clearly see that only about 100 other purchases of bricks by Mississippians have been made. Of these ca. 100 purchases, many have been made by UDC/OCR ladies, meaning that the vast majority of the Mississippi Division's 1300 or so Compatriots have not purchased Bricks for Beauvoir.
 
If you are among this majority of non-purchasing Mississippi Compatriots, I urge you to go to http://www.humphreys1625.com/Brochure.pdf today and purchase a Brick for Beauvoir.
 
Beauvoir is ours, and it's up to us to preserve and maintain her! If she reverts to the State of Mississippi (and no one's saying there's any immediate danger of that), do you think that she will continue to be the showplace of Confederate Heritage that she is today?

Please remember that bricks can be purchased for individual CS soldiers, CS officers, CS generals, CS companies, CS regiments, CS political personalities, CS ships, and CS installations (forts, etc.).
 
Consider purchasing a brick in honor of all of your Camp's deceased members' CS ancestors. (The Gainesville Vols have done this; we'd have purchased more bricks in this fashion, but people just aren't dying fast enough! Owww! I think I just felt another artery clog up!)
 
Consider having your Camp purchase a brick for each of its living members' CS ancestors (as at least one MS Camp is in the process of doing).
 
Consider purchasing a brick for the CS ancestor you joined the SCV under, as well as other CS ancestors you have. MS Div. Comdr. Atkinson (whom I hope will pardon me for so saying) has purchased a brick for each of his seven CS ancestors/relations!

Consider a Camp project to purchase a brick for every CS company raised in your Camp's county/counties. The Gainesville Vols have done this for every CS company raised in Hancock and Marion Counties (the two counties from which our own Pearl River County was formed).
 
Consider rewarding speakers with the purchase of a brick in honor of either that person's ancestor or the Confederate of their choice.
 
Does your Camp have great officers? Reward their service by purchasing a brick in honor of their ancestors!
 
If you have strong supporters in your community who aren't members of the SCV, consider rewarding them with a brick in honor of their CS ancestor or the Confederate of their choice.
 
The bottom line is: we need your help in order to help Beauvoir.
 
Please purchase a Brick for Beauvoir today.
 
Please email me if you have any questions regarding how to order a brick or how to fit your text onto a brick.
 
God bless the South! -- Jim Huffman, Bricks for Beauvoir Comm. (huffman1234@bellsouth.net)
 
PS:  In mentioning my own Camp so often in the above report, I am in no wise trying to brag.  I am simply trying to show other Camps what is possible under the guidelines of the Bricks for Beauvoir program.  Nothing would make me happier than to have every Camp in the Division beat the pants off of us in purchasing bricks and to show us even more creative ways/projects/programs to increase brick sales.
 
 

From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Sun, Jun 27, 2010
To: Potholeontheroad@aol.com

Dear Brethren (bcc herein),
 
I am most proud to be forwarding this e-mail to you from our Confederate Brother, Bill Patterson (CSA Gov).

Please read it as Bill, like most Confederates, are wise and knowledgeable of our Confederate History---- unlike those Spawn of the Invader who take 'license' to demonize us & smear our History any chance they get.
 
Excellent comment Bill & may we always remain Un-Reconstructed from those, who because of their Station Over Us at present , are provided with such license realized from Their Spoils Of War, who can 'inform'
the un-informed,  of THEIR version of the War as they perceive them!
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865!
Craig Maus
president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations,
Staunch Supporters for the RESTORATION of the Legal Government of the South- The Confederate States of America!
Will YOU Join Us Now?--- (www.deovindice.org)
'When The South Lost, This Entire Nation Lost...but Only We Confederates Knew it at the TIME!'
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Potholeontheroad@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010

Glenn Beck's South-Bashing
Stonewall
 
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=5594

I try not to watch the MSM very often, but today I tuned into Glenn Beck for his “Founders Friday” program. Sadly, it turned out to be nothing more than a pitch to the multiculturalists where he praised the efforts of black Americans throughout history, particularly in the War for Independence. Beck and his guest David Barton were groveling at the feet of those who demand that history should be studied from month to month, each month honoring some ethnic minority wronged by evil white males, past and present. Nothing new.

I certainly wasn’t surprised by any of this, but what really got under my skin was the fact that Beck and Barton both made time in this program to bash the South replete with very glaring historical inaccuracies. Beck prides himself on “rediscovering” historical narratives which differ greatly from the Establishment’s verion, yet today he revealed himself to be thoroughly hypocritical and inconsistent. I was never a huge fan of Beck before all of this, but he now has zero integrity as far as I’m concerned.

At one point during the program, Beck told a story of how he supposedly visited the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond and asked to see a copy of the Confederacy’s Constitution. It was at that moment that Beck and Barton jumped on the Establishment bandwagon by bashing the Confederate cause, saying that the cause of the war had only to do with slavery and not state sovereignty. In particular, Beck and Barton made three blatantly inaccurate claims about the Confederacy:

1. The Confederate Constitution explicitly addresses the constituent states as “slaveholding” states in the title of the document.

2. The aforementioned document prohibits non-slave states from joining the Confederacy.

3. It also prohibits member states from abolishing slavery.

It had been awhile since I actually looked at the Confederate Constitution, so I read it over again and found that not one of these assertions was accurate in the least. I even read the Provisional Constitution that was in force before the final version was ratified and also found nothing of the sort. Beck isn’t a professional historian and neither is Barton, the latter being nothing more than a Republican hack who has spent his career keeping conservative Christians in slavish adherence to the GOP.

And as we all know, being a good Republican means deifying Abraham Lincoln. Beck and Barton join the other neocons in their Lincoln-worship coupled with a thorough bashing of the South. It’s laughable that Beck constantly harps on Woodrow Wilson for being a racist but completely ignores the white supremacist rhetoric of Lincoln. No consistency whatsoever, but what do you expect from the MSM? I cringe every time Beck refers to himself as a “libertarian” because he’s really just a closet neocon.

To be fair, it’s a good thing that Beck has criticized Wilson and the “Progressive” Movement by presenting a more balanced view of history. However, America’s problems didn’t start with Wilson. For that matter, they didn’t even start with Lincoln. Beck has praised Thomas Jefferson in the past, but does anyone seriously think that Jefferson would have sided with Lincoln in 1861? Go read the Kentucky Resolution of 1798 and decide for yourself. Beck has a hobby-horse of attacking modern “Progressives,” but has gone no further.

At the end of the day, Glenn Beck is a joke and shouldn’t be taken seriously at all. The same is true about David Barton. Both these men (and others in “conservative media”) are intellectually lazy and dishonest. Beck is a professional entertainer, not a historian or a political philosopher. I’m probably preaching to the choir by writing this entry, but I had to write this response for the sake of history. And I’m done watching anything featuring Beck.

 

THE SOUTHERN LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER
eU P D A T E
TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010
Published electronically by the Southern Legal Resource Center
P.O. Box 1235
Black Mountain, NC 28711
(828)669-5189
www.slrc-csa.org

McCLAREN CASE DIES FOR LACK OF FUNDING

After two and a half years of preparation and preliminary sparring, the case of Paul McClaren, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member who was fired from his job for displaying a state-issued Mississippi SCV license tag on his vehicle, has had to be abandoned due to lack of funding to cover going forward, the SLRC revealed Tuesday.

The fate of the case was sealed when the SCV’s General Executive Counsel, apparently by a one-vote margin, refused a request to help underwrite the case at the national level.  The request sought $5,000 from SCV National, to be matched by equal amounts from the Tennessee and Mississippi SCV Divisions, who were acting as co-sponsors of the case.

McClaren, a resident of Olive Branch, MS, worked across the river in Memphis, TN, as a counselor at Compass Intervention Center in Memphis.  Through the SLRC, he filed suit against his employer and its parent company in October of 2008, a year after his dismissal.  The intervening year had been spent researching McClaren’s grounds for action and in responding to legal maneuvering by the defendant’s attorneys, as well as in
seeking to build a war chest to support the case.  Some SCV camps, including the N.B. Forrest Camp and McClaren’s camp in Memphis, contributed directly as did several individuals, and the Mississippi and Tennessee SCV Divisions agreed to share costs of the case since McClaren was a Mississippi resident
(and a Mississippi SCV license tag was involved) but was a Tennessee SCV member.  In dollar-and-cent terms, the Mississippi Division bore most of the costs associated with pursuing the case.

As anticipated, a lower Tennessee court dismissed McClaren’s reataliatory discharge suit in January, on grounds that Tennessee’s right-to-work laws trumped McClaren’s claim of wrongful dismissal.   The SLRC, together with local counsel Tarry Beasley, immediately filed notice of appeal to the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the request for funding the appeal was made to the General Executive Counsel.

By a vote of 8 to 7, the GEC decided not to fund further action in the McClaren case.  Among those voting against the measure were Judge Advocate-in-Chief Simon B. (Chip) Buckner, IV, who had been an outspoken
critic of the case in terms of its viability, and SCV Commander-in-Chief Chuck McMichael.

“Nearly every significant heritage defense case the Confederate community has won, including SCV license plate cases, has initially been lost at the lower court level and won on appeal,” said SLRC Chief Trial Counsel
Kirk Lyons.  "This case was a lot bigger than Paul McClaren and deserving of our best shot.”

“This was unconscionable,” a grim SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie, himself a Past SCV Chief of Heritage Defense not known for mincing words, said of the decision.  “We aren’t talking about a kid and a t-shirt here; we’re talking about one of our own – an SCV member and a professional man who got caught in the
crossfire of political correctness for defending an SCV issued tag.  Abandoning his case after three years of work sends a message to big business and the PC crowd, on the eve of the [WBTS] sesquicentennial, that we can rattle our saber all we want to but in the end we don’t intend to draw it.”

IRS GIVES SLRC CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH

After seven months of combing through the SLRC’s financial records and peering into every nook and cranny of its corporate operations, the Internal Revenue Service has concluded that the SLRC is functioning in
compliance with Federal guidelines and as such will retain its status as a bona fide public charity.

“Our examination … disclosed that your organization continues to qualify for exemption from Federal income tax,” Exempt Organizations Director Nanette M. Downing said in a half-page letter to the SLRC dated June 17,
exactly seven months after Field Agent Russell Gagnon began an investigation of the SLRC that was undertaken at the request of an unnamed individual.

Although privacy laws prohibit the IRS from revealing the identity of the party seeking the investigation, it is obliged to disclose the nature of the allegations made by that party to the company under investigation.
Based on this information, the SLRC “has a pretty good idea of who was seeking to hassle us,” Chief Trial Counsel Kirk D. Lyons said.  “This was an act of pure malice designed to inconvenience and embarrass us, and to undermine our credibility, which is the most harmful thing you can do to a public charity.  Well, it backfired.”

“Being investigated by the IRS, even if you’re squeaky clean, is pretty stressful,” said Executive Director Roger McCredie, “but being vindicated is a good feeling.  People who send their hard-earned money to a
nonprofit need to be reassured that it’s being used correctly.  So actually, whoever intended us such harm has actually done us a tremendous favor.  ‘He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it,’ “  McCredie said,
quoting Ecclesiates.
 

North Carolina Governor Welcomes Confederate Veterans
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“In his address of welcome to the United Confederate Veterans, in reunion at Charlotte, N.C., Gov. O. Max Gardner told the story of the rebuilding of the South by its own men and women, saying:
 
“This is a proud day for North Carolina. This occasion has deeply touched the hearts of our people. I, therefore, speaking in the name of my people, bring you more than their word of welcome; I bring you assurance of their love and devotion.  For more than sixty years you have been fighting gallantly with us and for us. You have sacrificed much and risked all. Your lives have been an inspiration to our children and a benediction upon our efforts to rebuild that which was destroyed by war.  We not only, in gratitude, welcome you, but in proud affection we here to-day claim you for our own.
 
Sixty years ago, the South was beaten and prostrate. Our material wealth had been consumed or destroyed; most of our men had been killed or incapacitated in battle; our spirit was apparently broken. Anarchy and terror seemed imminent. It was the twilight of our Southern civilization, and despair settled over our land.  Then began the greatest struggle of all, which I call the second phase of the War Between the States.
 
But at this critical junction of affairs, the men and women of the South joined battle with their own doubts and fears. They gathered for a last desperate charge upon the somber battlements of despair…they hurled at the force of lawlessness, poverty, and ignorance which was threatening our very heritage of civilization a defiant challenge. Plows were started, schools reopened, elections held. It was a long and bitter struggle, and by the end of the century hope had returned and victory was well in sight. And this story of the rebuilding of the South, carried on in the face of almost heartbreaking difficulties forms one of the most glorious chapters in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race. And our victory was essentially a victory of spirit.
 
It is my proud privilege to welcome you to North Carolina. To us here it seems indeed that you have just come home; that somehow we must convey to you the thought which to-day is close to the hearts of our people that we not only honor you as we honor our own fathers and mothers, but that we love you and shall be happy if you feel that you have made our home your home.
 
I recall at this moment the inscription on the Confederate monument at Arlington, and here repeat the tribute: “Not for fame or reward, not for place or power, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died.”
 
“Rebuilding the South,” Confederate Veteran Magazine, July 1929, pp. 249-250)

 

No Southern Patriotic Uprisings Allowed
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Antebellum Americans who exported revolution and supplied exiled patriots with money and weaponry caused great concern on the other side of the Atlantic, and the 1861 war between North and South had Europe scratching their heads. Now the patriotic uprising was on American soil and the Lincoln regime would accept no official recognition of the new American Confederacy by any European country. 
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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No Southern Patriotic Uprisings Allowed:
 
“Finally, concerning the recognition of the seceded [American] States…no clear action was contemplated…but if that conflict were protracted and the separation became fait accompli, the French government naturally would follow the course which would serve her own best interests.
 
What places the United States in an extremely awkward position as far as Europe is concerned is that her action is a contradiction of her own traditional policy. Every revolutionary movement in Europe has been applauded here. The Americans are not content merely with giving ovations to Kossuth, Kinkel and other demagogues; they supply them with money for the express purpose of inspiring new disorders.
 
The Secretary of State (William Seward] requests European powers not to recognize the representative of the seceded States, but he seems to forget that hardly five years ago the President of the United States [James Buchanan] officially recognized the Minister of the Nicaraguan Republic, accredited by the government after the famous Walker filibuster. Finally, at the very moment they clamor for the extermination of the Southern rebels, the New York newspapers call the disorders which have recently broken out at Narsorie patriotic uprisings, and accuse us of cruelty for having suppressed them.”
 
(Lincoln and the Russians, Albert A. Woldman, World Publishing Company, 1952, page 91)
 

Did Women and Slaves Drive Dixie Down?
 
From: jordanwolf@bellsouth.net
To: mccurry@sas.upenn.edu
 
http://futurity.org/society-culture/did-women-and-slaves-drive-dixie-down/
 
Dr. McCurry,
   
I just read this article and find your opinions amazing.  Slavery existed in both the North and South.  Women and Blacks did not vote anywhere in the USA.  Lincoln's father-in-law and Ulysses S. Grant's wife were both slaveowners. 
  
The Southern states exercised the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.  They left the Union after their state legislatures voted for secession.  This country has never been run on a purely popular vote.
   
The most absurd quote was:  "What the secessionists set out to build was something entirely new in the history of nations, a modern proslavery and antidemocratic state dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal."  This describes most of the countries on Earth at sometime in their history.  Slavery was still legal in the Sudan when I lived there. 
   
You might be interested to know that thousands of free Black men fought in the Confederate Army and were paid the same as whites.  Black men in the Union Army were paid less than whites.
    
I should read your book but doubt you would enjoy my review of it.
 
Joe Jordan
Deep in Dixie
 

The Southern Legal Resource Center
eU P D A T E
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Published electronically by the Southern Legal Resource Center
P.O. Box 1235
Black Mountain, NC 28711
(828)669-5189
www.slrc-csa.org

SPECIAL HARVARD CONFEDERATE UPDATE

(Ed. Note:  In March, the SLRC announced that it would be assisting several concerned Harvard alumni in investigating why there is no on-campus memorial to Harvard’s 71 alumni who died fighting for the Confederacy, although the University’s Union dead are impressively memorialized along with its dead of all other wars, including a couple of foreign alumni who subsequently returned to their homelands and fought against the United States (see below).  This effort has since morphed into a full-scale project, spearheaded by the SLRC, to raise public awareness of this situation and to attempt, with the help of all Southerners and especially those who are Harvard alumni themselves, to obtain recognition for the Harvard Confederate dead.  Following is a brief report on where matters stand at the moment.

The idea of a possible Confederate memorial at Harvard was floated by some alumni and sympathetic faculty as early as 1988, but was shelved after being vigorously opposed by the Harvard Black Students’ Association, Harvard’s daily newspaper, the Crimson, and ultimately the then-President of the University.  Interestingly, Harvard’s two principal Ivy League rivals, Yale and Princeton, have on-campus memorials to their Confederate dead.)

WHITE HOUSE AIDE FLEES QUESTION ABOUT MEMORIALIZING CONFEDERATE DEAD AT PRESIDENT’S LAW SCHOOL ALMA MATER

WASHINGTON – On June 1, the day after Memorial Day, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs appeared for what he no doubt expected would be a routine White House press corps briefing.  And so it was until Les Kinsolving, talk show host, World News Daily White House Correspondent and third-ranking member among White House Beat reporters, raised his hand and announced he had “a two-part question” relating to Memorial Day observances. 

Kinsolving began, “As a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, the President has never protested – “

Gibbs immediately interrupted.  “He didn't graduate from Harvard, Lester. He graduated from Harvard Law School, but he graduated from Columbia undergrad," Gibbs stated.

“I’m sorry; I correct that.  Thank you very much,” said Kinsolving.  Then he resumed, “The president has never protested the memorials to Harvard's war dead in World War I and II, which include the names of Harvard alumni designated as 'enemy' because they were soldiers of the Kaiser and of the Fuhrer. Has he – he's never protested that, has he?"

"I honestly don't have – I don't have any knowledge," Gibbs said.

Then Kinsolving threw the bomb.

"Does the president believe it is right for Harvard to have memorials mentioning these three German enemies, but no memorial at all to 71 Harvard alumni who died in the Confederate army?" he asked.

Gibbs uttered the single word “Wow” and abruptly left the room.

DEAFENING SILENCE GREETS SLRC’S APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FROM HARVARD CLERGYMAN WHO ONCE ENDORSED CSA ALUMNI MEMORIAL

The Rev. Peter J. Gomes is a leading biblical scholar and rector of Harvard’s Memorial Church, a position which carries with it a considerable amount of on-campus clout.  He is of Cape Verdean parentage and his ethnicity is part Portugese, part West African.  So he engendered surprise in some quarters at Harvard and anger in others when he put himself on record as favoring recognition of Harvard’s Confederate dead.

Harvard’s Union dead are memorialized on tablets that adorn the walls of Memorial Church.  Gomes proposed taking the opportunity of 1995 renovations to the church to erect similar monuments to the Confederate dead.  (Approximately one in three Harvard alumni who were Civil War casualties wore gray.)

When the Confederate memorial idea was subsequently shouted down, Gomes remarked he hoped for the day when Harvard would be “secure enough in its shared ideals” to support a Confederate memorial.

Accordingly, in April of this year, SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie sent Gomes a personal letter asking whether the Rector would be willing, based on his endorsement of 15 years ago, to assist in a renewed Confederate memorial effort.  To date, Gomes has not replied.

McCredie noted that Gomes had been a lifelong Republican – he had led prayers at the inaugurations of both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush – but that in 2006, nine years after his pro-Confederate remarks, he had switched parties and become a Democrat in order to support the campaign of Deval Patrick, the first Black Governor of Massachusetts.  In 2008, two years after Gomes’ party switch, Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates – of White House “Beer Summit” fame – spotlighted Gomes in a documentary Gates produced for PBS.

“Whether all that signals a change in Dr. Gomes’ outlook since 1995 is uncertain,” McCredie said.  “It may be that we haven’t heard from him because he’s simply been busy.  If he is willing to help us in our efforts, we’ll be appreciative.  If he’s not, he’s not.”

McCredie’s letter to Gomes is reprinted below.

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April 23, 2010

 
The Rev. Dr. Peter J. Gomes
Rector
The Memorial Church
One Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-6500

RE:  Honoring Harvard’s Confederate Dead

Dear Dr. Gomes:

The Southern Legal Resource Center recently agreed to be of whatever assistance we could to several Harvard alumni seeking to revisit the issue of an on-campus memorial for Harvard men who died in the service of the Confederacy.  During our initial research, we learned of your compassionate and courageous advocacy of this project when it was first proposed in the mid-1990’s.  When the idea was shelved following vigorous objections led by the Black Law Students’ Association and the undergraduate Black Students’ Association, you were quoted as saying you hoped that, in the near future, “Harvard will be secure enough in its shared ideals to sustain a memorial to those of its sons who remind us of painful past divisions.” We are writing to inquire whether, if the idea of memorializing Harvard’s Confederate dead were to be reintroduced, either through the alumni association or from some other appropriate quarter, you would be willing once again to support it.

In the 15 years since a Confederate memorial was last proposed at Harvard, the  demonization of anything Confederate has hardened from an attitude into an agenda, spearheaded by opportunistic politicians, self-serving special interest groups, a hostile and cynical communications industry, and, apparently, the nation’s entire academic edifice.  Now we are on the cusp of the sesquicentennial observance of America’s most tragic war, and if the initial rhetoric is any indication, what ought to be a time for collective remembrance and solemn reflection will instead be a shallow and hypocritical morality play, with the South as slaveholding traitors and the North as noble liberators.  Deviation from this official party line will be viewed with suspicion or even opprobrium.  Please know, therefore, that in asking you to re-endorse this project (in whatever manner you may deem appropriate) we are acutely aware that we are asking you to risk exposure to this same sort of disapproval and its possible consequences. We would not presume to approach you if we did not believe your integrity and sense of fairness would override any such consideration.

As for us, The Southern Legal Resource Center is undertaking a public awareness program, the Harvard Confederate Memorial Initiative, which  involves circulating background information about the memorial issue through our newsletter and our Internet outlets.  We also plan to contact certain local Harvard alumni chapters, urging members to support our Initiative individually, as well as by and through the Harvard Alumni Association at large.   We do not postulate the form or location of a Confederate memorial; that, of course, is Harvard’s business (although the 1995 suggestion of tablets similar to the Union ones in Memorial Church certainly has symmetry in its favor).

As Harvard’s late Professor Emeritus Mason Hammond wrote in 1988, “Harvard’s dead on the Confederate side gave their lives for a cause in which they selflessly believed.”   Their concept of “Veritas” may not have jibed with that of their Union counterparts, but they acted on it in good faith and paid a soldier’s price for doing so.  As Yeats put it, “We know their dream enough/to know they dreamed, and are dead.”   Harvard could go a long way towards healing some long-held bitterness by giving its Confederate dead equal recognition.  They deserve no less.  We ask no more.

Yours very truly,



Roger W. McCredie
Executive Director 

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SLRC LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR HARVARD CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL INITIATIVE (HCMI)

The Harvard Confederate Memorial Initiative (HCMI) is the name the SLRC has given to the project it has undertaken (see “Ed. Note”, above) to raise support among Harvard alumni, undergraduates, parents, friends and the general public for the installation of a non-campus memorial to Harvard’s Confederate dead. Contacting and working with members of this projected core support source will, of course, require funding since the chronically strapped SLRC is in no position to undertake such a public relations campaign out of its own shallow pockets.

We have designed a full-color logo for the HCMI, which we hope will find use as the unifying campaign symbol.  (You’ll find it on the SLRC website (www.slrc-csa.org ). We hope it will be picked up and displayed by those with Harvard connections, including alumni chapters and individuals, who commit to supporting  a memorial to Harvard’s Confederate fallen. We will also be making HCMI  lapel pins and blazer badges available as thank-you premiums for those who want to donate a portion of a contribution to the SLRC to help fund the HCMI, or to make a contribution entirely to the HCMI itself.  Please watch our website, our Facebook page and our eUpdates for details.

 

Northerner's View of Slavery in 1911
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dr. Charles E. Stowe spoke at Fisk University in Nashville in 1911. Though he stated that the Northern and Southern States were equally responsible for African slavery here, he must have been aware that slavery was a British colonial labor system, a system both sections inherited after secession and independence from England. He would also be aware that previous to Massachusetts tinkerer Whitney’s invention, cotton was a laborious and unprofitable crop on a large scale, and that New England mills profited greatly from this invention, slave-produced cotton and a slave trade their brethren would not cease.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
 
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Northerner’s View of Slavery in 1911:
 
“This much must be conceded, that the Northern States were just as responsible for the existence of slavery as were the Southern States…and it grew stronger in the Southern States after the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, simply because it was enormously profitable, and property and slaves correspondingly valuable.
 
Sometimes the question is asked, “Were not the slaves better off under slavery than they are now under freedom?” I think a candid answer to that question demands us to say than some were better off under slavery than they are under freedom.  The abolition of slavery acted on the colored race like a wedge, forcing some down and some up. Those who were fit for freedom, prepared to embrace and make the most of the opportunities offered them as free man, rose. But some were not fit for freedom. Now that is no reflection upon the colored race. We have a very large proportion of the white race that are not fit for freedom.  We have innumerable numbers of men and women that we are compelled to confine in institutions and keep as wards of the State, or they destroy themselves and everybody else.
 
If slavery was an utterly evil institution, with no alleviating features, how are we to account for the fact that when the Confederate soldiers were at the front fighting, as they thought, for their independence, the Negroes on the plantations took care of the women and children and old people, and nothing like an act of violence was ever known among them?
 
I have seen at Charleston, S.C., a monument erected by former slaveholders and their descendants in grateful acknowledgment of the fidelity of those slaves who remained upon the plantations and cared for their women and children while they were at the front, and I understand that the Confederate veterans are also to erect another such monument. Certainly such kindly feeling between master and slave shows that there must have been something good in the institution of slavery. So we should not look back at the institution of slavery as a reign of unalleviated wickedness and horror, but remember that it had within itself, in spite of its many abuses and intolerable horrors, much that was good.
 
A letter from President Taft was also read by Dr. Stowe:
 
The White House, Washington, D.C.
 
“I am not one of those who believe that it is well to educate that mass of Negroes with academic or university education. On the contrary, I am firmly convinced that the hope of the Negro is in his industrial education throughout the South and in teaching him to be a better farmer, a better carpenter, a better machinist, and a better blacksmith than he is now, and to make more blacksmiths and more good farmers than there now are among the Negroes.”
 
(Honest Confession Good for the Country, Son of Harriet Beecher Stowe Makes Address at Fisk University, Nashville. Confederate Veteran, July, 1911, pp. 326-327)
 

Relic Room
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
To: meivey1@bellsouth.net
 
Dear Ms. Ivey,
 
I have discovered (living in New York all my life) that the more one becomes dependent upon any government to do anything, the less government will care about “serving” you and the worse you will be treated. Why? Because they know that you are dependent and therefore you will continue to serve them rather than the other way round in hopes of getting some small pittance in return.
 
For years I’ve read and heard many Southrons bemoaning the lack of help that Southern history and heritage gets “from government” - even local government. Gee! What a surprise! The drum beat of cultural genocide against the South begun in the 1950s and ever accelerating through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and now into the new Millennium has been led by politicians catering to political correctness and very vocal minority advocacy and liberal groups. To expect government to help preserve that heritage is akin to expecting an across-the-board tax amnesty from the IRS.
 
If Southerners wish to preserve their heritage in whatever form, then they must take charge and do the job themselves – and, yes, that is possible if everyone works together and folks are willing to sacrifice for what is important. They must seek out whatever and whomever necessary to deal with each individual situation whether it is a matter of preserving relics or defending Confederate symbols in newspapers, magazines, television, radio or the internet. If you don’t care enough to do that, then the day will dawn when there is nothing left to protect and, within a generation or two, no one to care about what has been lost.
 
To realize that even those who believe that they are “self sufficient” and against government “interference” still look to government for the kind of help you mention in your appeal speaks volumes about how very dependent we have all become. It should also be a “wake up call” as to why our present federal tyranny has felt complacent and assured enough to move so boldly towards total control of just about everything and everyone. Oh, they hear our rage but consider that we are impotent because in the end, we’re all going to come crawling to some government entity to take care of us and our needs. Until we prove that we can – and more importantly WILL - do it ourselves, we are going to be ignored and dismissed by all levels of “government”.
 
Deo Vindice
 
Valerie Protopapas
 

Rebuttal needed!
 
From: connie_ward@cox.net
 
Chuck,
 
I'd love to see some of our Southern war scholars tear into this: "The Civil War as Revenge of the Nerds."  This fellow, Coates, writes some of the most illogical stuff I've encountered in a long time.  I guess he thinks arguing against the opinion of some little woman in Louisiana makes some sort of case against the Confederate Army and CSA government.  His attempt to be supercilious about, and insulting toward, the Confederacy is rather pathetic.  Not everybody can do supercilious really well; it takes either a very high intelligence or keen wit to pull it off. 
 
http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/06/the-civil-war-as-revenge-of-the-nerds/58086/
 
Connie Ward
http://conniechastain.com/
 

In Government Schools Soviet Flags Are In While Confederate Flags Are Out

By Al Benson Jr.

According to The Detroit News for June 9th, there is another interesting flag issue unfolding in a government school in New Boston, Michigan. It seems that a student has been commanded to remove a Confederate flag from his truck while it is in the school parking lot. This is typical for government schools all around the country. They slather themselves in political correctness by trying to banish what the educrats don’t like. It seems that, in this case, Confederate flags offend their tender sensibilities, but the fact that a teacher in the same school has a Soviet flag in his classroom, and has had it there for years, somehow doesn’t bother them at all.

The student’s father recently told a school board meeting that they displayed a double standard in this situation. To the father’s untrained eye that would seem to be correct. To those who really comprehend the government school system it isn’t. Supposedly the educrats don’t like Confederate flags because they represent the KKK and “racism.” The Soviet flag probably represents the millions slaughtered by the Communists in their seventy-year reign of terror in Russia and other places, but, hey, that’s okay. Some will probably say that it’s okay because the Soviet flag is hanging next to an American flag, but that begs the issue. Communist flags seemingly don’t belong in American classrooms--now wait a minute, maybe on the other hand they really are more appropriate than they seem there.

If you understand the history of the government school system you might be able to understand where a Communist flag fits in there. Back in the late 1830s Unitarian Horace Mann worked to implement state-run education in Massachusetts because he didn’t like the children being under the influence of all those church-run schools. As a Unitarian, Mann had nothing but contempt for real Christian education and so he labored to reduce its effects. Sadly, most Christians in that era helped him do it. Along came the socialists, men like Robert Owen and Robert Dale Owen, his son. They taught that man’s problems were caused by his environment not his sinful nature and so if you could just put the kids in the proper environment you would cure such problems as crime, poverty, etc. Well, the government school system has been trying for 150 years plus now. Do you think we are any better off? If anything things have gotten worse. Seems like the more money you spend for government education the worse things get. Maybe there’s a lesson there.

By the late 1840s Karl Marx had come along and written the Communist Manifesto, in which he advocated “Free education for all children in public schools…” Of course it was never really “free” but then Marx, like our current politicians, lied about so much else why should be believe him here?

Marx was very much in favor of government-run education (all the better to brainwash you with my dear).

For the Unitarians and socialists, government education became the redemptive messiah for all the world’s ills. Years ago the late Presbyterian theologian Rousas J. Rushdoony wrote a book about this called “The Messianic Character of American Education.” If you can still get a copy it’s worth a read. You’ll learn a lot about government education that Wikipedia will never tell you.

As the decades passed, the socialists developed even more their possibilities for promoting their own worldview as part of the government school curriculum. Atheist socialist John Dewey has been called “the father of modern education.” According to Dr. Gregory Thompson’s book “Giving Aid and Comfort To The Enemy” page 34 tells us of Dewey that “He is the co-author of the ‘Humanist Manifesto’ and was cited as belonging to fifteen Marxist-front organizations by the Committee on Un-American Activities. Do the words ‘the father of modern education’ now take on new meaning? “

Dewey didn’t like students that were not under the control of the government system. Of them he noted: “Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming…” Dr. Thompson’s book also noted the comments of Rosalie Gordon, who wrote a book “What’s Happened to Our Schools.” In that she noted that: “The Progressive system has reached all the way down to the lowest grades to prepare the children of America for their role as the collectivists of the future.” Isn’t that nice? Does it give you the warm fuzzies? Your children are to be the collectivists of the future. Do you wonder why Obama has given the schools so much attention?

Dr. Thompson’s book also observes: “Today there are over 10,000 openly Marxist professors and thousands of Humanist professors controlling the State Universities  and Colleges that produce America’s teachers and other professionals. Varying forms of Marxist-Humanism are the predominant philosophies of the educational establishment; yet we repeatedly send our most precious gift (our children) off the THEM for ‘education.’ ..Basically, we are letting the Devil educate our children.” And we wonder why we’re having problems!

So to sum up, just maybe the Soviet flag really is what ought to be in classrooms in government schools. Just maybe Confederate flags don’t really belong in such establishments--and neither do the kids that wear or fly them. Those kids would be much better off in private, preferably Christian schools or being taught at home. In fact, all Christian kids would be better off being out of government schools. If the socialists want them for their children, that’s fine. Let them have them. But since education is inescapably religious in nature to begin with, and many Confederate flags are based on Christian symbols, it might be better if those families that have no problem with Christian and Confederate symbols were not under the authority of a socialist-dominated government school system.

Those kids could then be taught to think like individuals and not part of the socialist collective--and that would really have old John Dewey spinning in his grave!

Content ©2010  Al Benson Jr.

On The Web:   http://www.cakewalkblogs.com/antiestablishmenthistory/government-schools-soviet-flags-while.aspx

 

Taking the Tenth: The Last Hope

Fred Reed

Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. It spends American money and American lives to fight remote wars for which it cannot provide a plausible reason. It determines what our children will be taught, who we can hire and fire, to whom we can sell our houses, whether we can defend ourselves, even what names we can call each other. The feds read our email and track the web sites we visit, make us hop around barefoot in airports at the command of surly unaccountable rentacops. They search us at random in train stations without even a pretense of probable cause. We have no influence over them, no way of resisting.

Except, perhaps, to ignore them.

Washington has learned to insulate itself from interference by the population. Huge impenetrable bureaucracies beyond public control make regulations that amount to laws, spending God knows how much money to do God knows what for the benefit of the interest groups that run the government. These bureaucrats cannot be fired and usually cannot be named. Congress, like the bureaucracies, serves not the United States but the big lobbies. The looters of Wall Street wreck the lives of millions, and get millions in bonuses for doing it instead of the end of a rope.

Further, the federal government simply doesn’t work. It is clogged up, constipated, gridlocked, using antiquated technology to do badly things it ought to do and things it oughtn’t. In large part this is because federal hiring rests on the desires of racist and feminist lobbies instead of suitability for the work to be done. Whole departments—HUD, Education—do much harm and little good. IRS is ruthless, incompetent, and unaccountable, the tax laws burdensome and crafted for the benefit of special interests and of Washington. I can change my address with my bank online in five minutes and know that it has been done; IRS requires a paper form and six to eight weeks to effect the change, and you don’t know whether it has been done. The goons of TSA leer at our daughters with their porno=scanners. The VA can easily take six months to provide a veteran’s records, when it could be done online in five seconds. The Pentagon spends a trillion a year, precious little of which has anything to do with defending America, but can’t defeat a small group of badly outnumbered men armed with rifles and RPGs; the intelligence agencies were unable to warn them of the prospect.

The government doesn’t work. It is broken. It can’t be fixed. It can’t be fixed because only those within it could, and their interest lies in not fixing it.

The only remedy short of armed rebellion is civil disobedience at the level of the states. Clear constitutional justification for refusal to obey Washington lies in the Tenth Amendment:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

A great many states now begin to do a great many things counter to Washington’s wishes. I think it wise to keep resistance within the framework of the Constitution, but the entire question comes down to a blunt truth: No law extends beyond the lawmaker’s power to enforce it. Congress can pass a law against gravitation, but can’t prevent things from falling when released from a height. The federal government made alcohol illegal but, in the face of massive public disregard, couldn’t make it stick.

What happens if, as may happen, California legalizes marijuana—not just for contrived medical purposes, but legalizes it, period? I search in vain for the Marijuana Clause in the Constitution. The feds do not have the manpower to enforce federal laws within California without the help of the police of California. What happens if a state passes a law saying that its citizens cannot be forced to buy health insurance? What can Washington do? It can persecute individuals, but a state, or thirty states, are another thing. The FBI can arrest any one person, but it cannot arrest Wyoming.

Much depends on how sick people really are of the ever-growing thicket of laws, regulation, imposed political correctness, surveillance, and having to live according to the dictates of remote elites with whom they have nothing in common.

At bottom, Washington’s power is economic. The feds rely for control on taxing money from the states and giving some of it back in exchange for obedience. They cannot arrest Wyoming, but they can deny it federal highway funds. This technique provides de facto control over everything from kindergarten to MIT.

Now, if Idaho passes a law (I’m making this up) saying that no restrictions on the ownership of guns will be enforced within the state, Washington might choose discretion over valor and ignore it. Legalizing marijuana, however, or refusing to accept compulsory medical care, would be a direct if not necessarily intentional challenge to the power of the central government. The feds could not afford to let either of these things slide. The danger of the precedent to the grip of the governing classes would be too great. A deadly serious confrontation would ensue.

What could, or would, the federal government do in response to defiance? Send the Marines to occupy Sacramento? Or the FBI to arrest Arnold and the legislature of California?

Or cut off California’s financial water? No bailout for the state’s tottering economy, no more fat subsidies to the universities, and so on?

The question is how ugly might things get. Washington may be able to make the states back down. It may not. The peril for the feds is that it might occur to the states that, while they get their money from Washington, Washington gets its money from the states. The central government depends absolutely on the states, whereas the states would get along swimmingly without the current central government.

How tired are Americans of a dysfunctional, oppressive Washington, unconcerned for its citizens, unaccountable and tending fast toward the totalitarian, that sprawls across the continent like an armed leech of malign intent? That is the question. The first time a populous states says “No,” if such a state ever does, we will get the answer. The United States has been free, prosperous, and reasonably well governed for a long time. It no longer is. Things go downward, within and without.

Nothing lasts, change comes, and things break. We shall see. Give it five years.

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Copyright © 2010 Southern National Congress

On The Web:   http://southernnationalcongress.org/truths/whtt_20100412_thelasthope_redd.shtml

 

The rally approaches
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
The 26th is coming, and that means it's only two weeks until the next great Confederate Flag Rally at the SC state house. I've just sent a top League of the South man the following message:
 
Greetings, Robert. Carter and I are getting a Flag rally together for the 26th at the state house. We need everybody there regardless of affiliation. Can you come? Does the League have any meetings coming up at which I could come and invite folks?
 
A new governor is coming and that could be deadly. The system needs to know we're still not only alive but kicking.
 
THANKS -- /\/
 
http://southernaction.blogspot.com/

 

Treason Committed by the Invader
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Once arbitrary interpretation of the US Constitution by Northern radicals became the norm after 1861, even the definition of treason became nonsensical. In the Founders’ constitutional understanding of treason, it was the levying of war against a State, which is precisely what the Northern government in Washington was doing in Tennessee and other States. The grand jury had Northern bayonets pressed against their backs -- Forrest’s allegiance was to his State and defending Tennessee from invasion was expected of him as an American.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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Treason Committed by the Invader:
 
“But perhaps the most sincere tribute to the effectiveness of his operations came from the other side, when the grand jury of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West Tennessee, meeting in Memphis for the September 1864 term, returned an indictment against Nathan B. Forrest for treason.
 
Reciting the existence of “an open and public rebellion, insurrection and war with force of arms…against the government and laws of the United States of America by divers persons…styling themselves “the Confederate States of America,” one of the persons being Nathan B. Forrest, “late of said District aforesaid, “ the grand jurors declared that he, on the twenty-first day of August, 1864, “and on divers other days and times as well as before that day…not weighing the duty of his said allegiance but wickedly devising the and intending the peace and tranquility of the said the United States of America to disturb, and to stir, move, excite, aid and assist in said Rebellion, insurrection and war…with force and arms unlawfully, falsely, maliciously and traitorously did raise and levy war…with a great multitude of persons whose names to the grand jurors aforesaid are unknown…armed and arrayed in a warlike manner…with guns, swords, pistols, and other warlike weapons as well offensive as defensive…did…in a hostile and warlike manner array and dispose themselves against the United States of America…most wickedly and maliciously and traitorously did ordain, prepare and levy war against the said the United States of America, contrary to the duty of the allegiance and fidelity of the said Nathan B. Forrest…” and so on and on.
 
To all of which the Marshall of the United States Court, in whose hands there was placed the capias for the arrest of “the said Nathan B. Forrest,” made return with unintentional humor – “Defendant not to be found in my district.”
 
(“First With the Most,” Forrest, Robert Selph Henry, Mallard Press, 1991, pp. 343-344)
 
 

6/7/2010

Letter: Thanks for proper flag on grave

EDITOR:

I want to thank whoever put the Confederate Flag on Wm. G. Shook's grave in the Pioneer Home Cemetery for Memorial Day. With the origin of Memorial Day being a remembrance of those who died in the Civil War, it is fitting to mark the graves of those who fought for the Confederacy with a Confederate flag.

Since my Great-Great Uncle Billy did fight for the South in the Civil War, I used to put a Confederate flag on his grave until I started having trouble finding places that sold them.

I am assuming that who ever did the decorating must have found William Shook's Confederate service records. This may give me the incentive to try and find the records for our family.
 

My dad and I do appreciate your taking the time to honor William Shook and the other two Confederate soldiers with flags on Memorial Day.

Janet Travis
Prescott

 

How H.K. Edgerton spent Memorial Day

by H.K.Edgerton in Vol. 16 / Iss. 46 on 06/09/2010

On Saturday morning, May 29, I would don the uniform of the Southern soldier and station myself at the corner of Main Street in the beautiful city of Black Mountain, North Carolina. I had been there for an hour or so basking in the love of those who passed by waving, blowing their car horns, shouting out my name, and bringing me libations as I stood there with the Southern Cross in hand when suddenly I was approached by an angry middle age white man.

Nigger, he would retort. Why are you standing there with that Confederate flag. Didn't we win that war? You'se should be ashamed of yourself, he continued. I should take that flag from you and whip you with it.

I hope that God forgives me, because as he came closer as if to carry out this proposed threat. I hit him right across his mouth with the bamboo pole that supported my flag. As blood gushed from his mouth, he again cursed me, and threatened to call the police and have me arrested. Proclaiming that he had a First Amendment right to say what he pleased to me, and that I had no right to strike him. I told him that the police station was less than 100 yards behind me and that two mighty fine police officers had just left after giving me a hand salute. He stormed off still cursing. I would remain for several more hours without incident as the spirit of my Southern family appeared so uplifted by my presence.

On Monday, Memorial Day, May 31, I would once again don the uniform of the Southern soldier and attend the Asheville-Buncombe Memorial Day Ceremony at Veterans stadium in the City of Asheville, North Carolina. I was overwhelmed by the more than gracious reception I received by not only the many citizens who had come but by the Cub and Boy Scouts and their commander who fussed over me as he insisted that I partake of the water that he offered me, and the young Cub Scout Mark, who stood by my side for most of the program and recanted the love that he had for his grandfather who had passed away not long ago, and who was in the military. And the hand salute that I received by the Navy Admiral Vasilik who would give the keynote speech.

While the mayor would pass less than two feet from where I stood with not even a glance in my direction, I would shake the hand of the county commission chair, the chief of police, and many of his men, the Chair of the Committee for Veterans Affairs, and nearly all the veterans in attendance. I was so pleased when I heard a stanza of Dixie played on a recording of military music, and even more so as so many participants like the lady who came before me with tears in her eyes, thanking me for posting the Confederate Battle Flag .

I would leave the ceremony and station myself on the bridge over Interstate 40. It would suddenly began to rain, but I could not leave the arena where I was receiving so much love. Not even as thunder and lighting began in earnest on this day would I leave. I could only think about how God had protected me on so many occasions while out with my flag. I just didn't think that he would let lightning strike me on this day. And while it continued to rain, the sun would come out and a rainbow would appear on the horizon. It had been a great day in Dixie. May God bless all the soldiers of today and the past.

— H.K. Edgerton
Asheville

On The Web:   http://www.mountainx.com/opinion/2010/how_h.k._edgerton_spent_memorial_day

June 09. 2010

New Boston schools rethink policy after Confederate flag flap
Parent upset Soviet colors OK but not those of Confederacy
Steve Pardo / The Detroit News

New Boston -- School board members promised to review their policy on self-expression following a controversy featuring the unlikely pairing of the flags of the Confederacy and the former Soviet Union.

Edward Huntington told board members Monday they displayed a double standard when they ordered his son, Jake, a student, to take down a Confederate flag flying from his vehicle in the school parking lot last week. All the while, a teacher -- a former hockey coach -- has for years displayed a Soviet flag in his classroom next to the American flag.

Jake's mother, Lori, hails from Alabama. Her son, an Eagle Scout candidate, was simply displaying his Southern roots with the display, she said.

"I find it ridiculous. I'm sickened," she told board members. "I'm proud that some of our family is from the South."

Edward Huntington said he feels individuals should have the right to express themselves with a flag outside of the classroom. Inside the classroom is another matter, he said.

"The only two flags that I feel have the right to hang in the classroom are the state of Michigan and the Stars and Stripes," he said.

He acknowledges racist groups such as the KKK frequently display the Confederate flag.

"There is a small group of people who fly that flag in a hateful way -- I don't agree with it. I think it's despicable," he said. "They've also hijacked the Christian cross. If I see a cross, am I supposed to think that person is a member of the KKK?"

Another student, Nick Grzesik, was ordered to leave school early on the last full day of school last Wednesday because of the Confederate flag that was painted on the window of his truck on Memorial Day.

Grzesik missed the traditional video montage the seniors experience on the last day. He addressed board members at Monday's meeting, sarcastically thanking them for "kicking him out."

"I didn't think it would be a problem," Grzesik said.

Some board members expressed sympathy for the students who displayed the stars and bars.

"In Congress, when you go down South, the Confederate flag is literally flying everywhere," said Richard Zavodsky, a board member.

Board members took the comments under advisement.

"The board needs time to think about the decision. We'll review the policy," said Coleen Lazere, board president.

© Copyright 2010 The Detroit News.

On The Web:   http://www.detnews.com/article/20100609/SCHOOLS/6090329/1026/New-Boston-schools-rethink-policy-after-Confederate-flag-flap

Nathan Bedford Forrest's Redemption
By Shane Kastler
List Price:  $23.00
SHNV:  $15.52 
http://astore.amazon.com/souhernewvie-20/detail/1589808347
 
Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest remains a controversial figure in American history. From Forrest's childhood through his involvement in the Civil War and the Ku Klux Klan to his conversion to Christianity, this spiritual biography follows the general on his journey to salvation.
 
Twelve chapters detail Forrest's days as a slave trader and recalls his escapades in the Civil War, including such battles as Sand Mountain, Okolona, and the Fort Pillow massacre, which cemented his reputation as a relentless and victorious warrior. Revealing an unfamiliar side of the feared Civil War general, the book details Forrest's meeting and marriage to a pious Presbyterian who likely influenced his later devotion to faith.
 
He briefly served as a leader in the Ku Klux Klan but eventually called for its disbandment. Afterwards, he became an advocate for African Americans. In a famous speech made to the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers, the forerunner of the NAACP, Forrest declared that he was with them "heart and hand" and pledged his support. His radical transformation from a dedicated Confederate general to a meek man may alter common conceptions.

 

The never-ending yankee/fedgov war on Dixie
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
Two "random" issues have again polluted my inbox that further indict the Permanent Regime in Washington and the millions of fools who love its bullying, plutocratic, South-hating totalitarianism.
 
One is well familiar to all -- the Gulf of Mexico crisis. America's Chernobyl. The post-Katrina treason revisited. Its implications in the War in question should be obvious: the South is a maritime country and (indeed as with the post-Katrina treason) the District of Corruption is not merely indifferent and sluggish re its well-being, I say it actively abets catastrophes without letup on us. Katrina didn't ruin New Orleans -- it's well-documented that decades of criminal neglect by fed-friendly scalawag politicians and the Army Corps of Engineers did.
 
The other item is a subtle killer of souls and bodies, unnoticed by most people, which also just happens to drastically impact Southern working folks. Buried in the following brilliant, depressing video is a statement that import mania is wrecking the Southern seafood industry. Beyond that it cures me of ever again touching seafood of whose history I can't be sure until things get straightened out..... somehow, someday.
 
From: Brasscheck TV - news@brasschecktv.com
Subject: Brasscheck TV: What it means to lose the Gulf
 
Thanks to BP and the White House and Congress. this will be your source of seafood for the next ten to twenty years (or longer.)
 
What it means that the Gulf of Mexico fishery is being destroyed.
 
Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/835.html
 

South Needs Immigrant Labor
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The antebellum North received the bulk of immigrants from Europe. The immigrants avoided the South as blacks trained (by white craftsmen) in skills and trades dominated the labor force. All this changed after the war as the black labor force mistook freedom for indolence and vagrancy, and Southern white farmers sought more dependable labor from abroad.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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South Needs Immigrant Labor:
 
“Since the first settlement of this country the great need of the South has been men. We want settlers, honest, industrious, home-seeking immigrants, and I do not believe any country can offer inducements greater than those presented by the South. We expect hundreds of thousands in the next few years from less favored sections of the Union, but we want also high-class foreigners. The Negro in the South has been our chief reliance for hired labor, but they are yearly becoming more uncertain and unreliable and worthless.
 
Slavery was the greatest manual, moral and intellectual training school for a weak and depraved race that history has ever known. Before the war the Negro was the main agricultural laborer. There were four million slaves, probably half of them laborers. At the same time were engaged in agricultural labor 803,052 white laborers and 215,968 white laborers in the other occupations of the South.
 
The Negro in slavery was kindly treated. His great pecuniary value, rising from $1000 to $1,800 just before the war, was in itself a bond for the “best moral and material care” and he was devoted to his master. History presents no parallel to his fidelity during the Civil War, as it was necessary for the enemy actually to occupy our territory before the slaves could be persuaded t