The Harsh Reality of Federal Supremacy

James Ronald Kennedy

California, Arizona, & Louisiana

We the people of the once sovereign states live in the shadow of Federal tyranny. For example; when the people of California expressed their sovereign will in an open plebiscite a Federal judge nullified the will of the people; when the elected legislature of Arizona passed a law to defend the people of that once sovereign state against armed criminal invasion originating from a foreign country, the Federal President filed a suit in the Federal court to prevent Arizona from executing its inalienable right of self-defense; and when the elected governor of Louisiana attempted to protect his state from a man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico the Federal bureaucracy stepped in and halted his efforts—the central theme of all of these examples is the fact of the harsh, oppressive, and unconstitutional reality of America’s current system of Federal supremacy.

At the Federal level in contemporary America there is a great divide between the unrepresented taxpaying class and the Federally represented (and Federally protected) tax consuming class. Those tax consumers who support the political status quo in Washington, D. C. and their political hirelings find nothing unusual, and actually celebrate the outcomes of the three examples above. The perks, privileges, and powers that are derived from the status quo, or the close connections they enjoy with the status quo, benefits the tax consuming class and they therefore find great incentive to encourage the expansion of Federal supremacy. Politicians such as Peter Stark who recently declared that the Federal government could do anything it wanted; or Nancy Pelosi who declared that questions regarding constitutional authority for congressional actions were “not a serious question;” or President Obama’s declaration while running for office that the Federal government had a right to redistribute Joe the Plumber’s wealth demonstrate a thorough repudiation of the Constitution. Whereas our founding fathers created a limited Federal government, today’s “status quo” politicians see only unlimited power to promote their socialists agenda. In their very words and by their actions Stark, Pelosi, and Obama demonstrate the pervasive acceptance by America’s political status quo of the notion that the Constitution, as an instrument to limit Federal powers and protect individual rights reserved to we the people of once sovereign states, is no longer relevant in modern America.

The concept of Federal supremacy is not new; it did not originate with the Obama administration or with the Democratic Party, but is something that began early in America’s constitutional history. The adoption and enthusiastic acceptance of Federal supremacy by the political status quo reflects a strategic shift in the manner in which American liberty is defined. Prior to Appomattox, even in many Northern States, it was accepted as a tenant of American political faith that the States created the Federal government and that we the people of the sovereign states were the final judge as to the constitutionality of the actions of our agent—the Federal government. But as Governor Yates of Illinois noted in 1865 the War for Southern Independence had “tended, more than any other event in the history of the country, to militate against the Jeffersonian idea that the best government is that which governs least.”

Too many modern day “conservatives” take great hope in the upcoming November elections—seeing the possibility of Republicans reclaiming control of Congress as a solution to the harsh reality of Federal supremacy. Unfortunately this is a false hope! As in a military campaign mere tactical victories may be impressive but they do not procure final victory. The heroic victory of Manassas (that’s Bull Run for those schooled in mere Yankee history) did not stave off the final sad reality of Appomattox—tactical victories regardless of how exciting are no substitute for a strategic victory. Yet one more false promise of a Republican “Contract for America” will produce nothing more than possibly one more exciting “conservative” tactical victory—at the end of the day, however, the political status quo in Washington, D.C. and Federal supremacy will remain intact and ready to be harshly applied when next called upon. We the people of the sovereign states do not need tactical victories we need a strategic victory—a victory that permanently deprives the power elite of the unconstitutional perks, privileges, and powers inherent in their system of Federal supremacy!

The only way to gain a strategic victory over the current system of Federal supremacy is to pass a constitutional amendment acknowledging the inalienable right of we the people within our sovereign state to nullify acts of our agent, the Federal government which we judge to be beyond its constitutional authority. How many more times will the we the people of once sovereign states allow our agent, i.e., the Federal government, to act as our master rather than our servant? How much more liberty will we allow the agents of the status quo to trample upon before we demand a REAL change in how we are governed? Going to Washington, D.C., hat in hand, every four years and imploring our masters to “play nice according to the rules of the game” will never defend, let alone reclaim, our liberty. Real state’s rights including the right of nullification and/or secession are the only remedies an otherwise unresponsive Federal government will respond too. For a full explanation of how this can be done, see Nullification: Why and How. A free copy of this book can be downloaded at www.kennedytwins.com
 
Copyright © 2010 Southern National Congress

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Taking the South Out of the Kids

By Al Benson Jr.

It seems to me that there is a deliberate attempt in many schools around the country to “take the South” out of Southern young people.

You can look at such things as courses at some colleges that are designed to help Southern students lose their “Southern accents.” A Southern accent is perceived by many as a terrible liability to making it in the “real world” and so the kids need to be encouraged to dispose of their Y’alls and all the rest of the language that makes the South such a colorful place to live and converse in. Do I consider this a form of discrimination? Absolutely!

Have the folks that are so anxious to rid the world of Southern accents ever taken the time to listen to someone from New Jersey talk? If not they should. Or someone from Maine or certain parts of Massachusetts? I grew up in the northeast and so had a golden opportunity to listen to a variety of accents there, and believe me, when push comes to shove, I will take a good Mississippi drawl anytime over what passes for the English language in Hoboken.

Some northeastern accents are verifiably horrendous, and yet no one bothers to sponsor courses in colleges that will enable New Jersey students rid themselves of their accents. I remember one time, years ago, I was riding with a friend from New Jersey (he spoke respectable English) and we chanced to give a ride to someone else from New Jersey. When he got into the car he noticed the New Jersey tags on my friend’s  car and he said “Is youse guys from Joisey?” At least that’s what it sounded like he said. Since most of it seemed to come through his nose I was never completely sure. I have often thought, since that time, that some of the folks from Jersey could use a college course or two to teach them a better brand of English, but there don’t seem to be any such around. Such courses only seem to exist for Southern kids. Besides which, you all is grammatically correct when referring to more than one person. “Youse guys” is not.

And it seems to be the object of many schools, even in the South, to make kids ashamed of being Southerners. The kids are harangued about the evils of slavery, as though the white South were the only place in the world that slavery ever existed. Well, I have news for some of these self-righteous Northern professors--you had slavery up there too, you just got rid of it a little earlier that’s all. There are places on the Internet where you can check out information about slavery in the North.

I realize there are many good Northern folks that have no idea that slavery ever existed in their part of the country, but all the original thirteen colonies had slavery at one time or another. Lots of New England ship owners got wealthy off the slave trade. If you want to read a little about it I would recommend The Myths of American Slavery by Walter D. Kennedy  (Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, Louisiana 2003). Another bigger book comes to mind also, but this is an excellent place to start.

Young folks from other areas are taught to be proud of their heritage. Southern kids are taught to be ashamed of theirs. I’m sorry, but speaking as a Northerner who now lives in the South, that’s just not right.

The Southern kids have every bit as much right to be proud, and thankful, for their heritage as anyone else does. Slavery was not the sole product of evil Southerners and secession in 1861 was not treason, no matter how much some professors and uninformed newspaper columnists spout that it was. Those people that carry on about the South only seceding so she could keep her slaves do little except betray their abysmal lack of historical knowledge.

Sadly, many uninformed Christians go along with this foolishness. There is even a blog spot out there, run by someone who claims to be a Christian, which advertises a “Burn the Confederate Flag Day” for September 12th, to coincide with the upcoming Tea Party rallies. The Southern Heritage News & Views blog spot has noted that: “he manages to cram Confederate heritage, the Tea Party platform and racism into a single muddled object of his sophomoric jeering.” Yes, folks, thanks to our government school educations, there are some folks out there who honestly don’t know the difference. Actually, I’d like to see some Confederate flags out there at the Tea Party rallies, waving along side all those Gadsden flags. They do, after all, complement one another.

What we need, rather than cutting young folks off from their Southern heritage, are some schools that will teach it without apology. And we need informed Christian young people that will realize the biblical basis for their culture rather than back down at the false charge of “racism” because they’ve been taught not to “offend” anyone.

Content ©2010  Al Benson Jr.

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From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010

Dear Brethren (hundreds bcc herein),
 
PLEASE read the contents herein & below as it is a HISTORY lesson that you have never or ever will be exposed to in the American 'classroom'.  As you can see, and unlike a Federal whose 'custom' it is too SLAM THE DOOR in your face, we Confederates go OUT OF OUR WAY TO EXPLAIN in detail our position.  We present our position based upon FACT & HISTORICAL ACCORD & NOT on heresy & hear-say designed to keep you polarized & segregated from your Freedom and Independence.  Yet our enemies, who have now 'invaded' you just as they did too us long ago, continuously & constantly attempt to portray us as a bunch of incoherent yahoo's or rebels incapable of any worthwhile thought.
 
Now why do y'all suppose that is ???
 
Do you still believe that---  in light of what we continue to present you with?  When have you ever seen anything remotely COMPARABLE to that which we send you other than what you have become accustomed to such as some of their lofty political phrases like--- 'Hope & Change'?  Do you still believe what THEY (Federals) have told you about us or, hopefully, are you finally beginning to see and hear OUR side of the story that they have withheld from you?
 
These many communiqués you have been receiving are the result of those Confederates who have replied to one Leon Puissegur's column regarding myself & we Confederates in general.  He posted his original comments in 'reply' to my communiqué entitled  "Pass & Review"  that was posted on the North Carolina Partisan Rangers 'site' noted above.  Unlike Mr. Puissegur who has displayed a constant habit of belittling us and attempting to portray our endeavors as narrow-minded and 'yahooish' with fancy words and empty diatribe intended to polarize and alienate,  we Confederates reply NOT in the same, BUT with FACTS that underscore the merit of our position.
 
The North Carolina Partisan Rangers is a Member of our Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations.  And unlike our enemy's who would NOT give us the time of day if our lives depended on it, we Confederates nevertheless, will continue to post even 'their comments' as we do NOT hide from anyone.  I would invite YOU to contact the North Carolina Partisan Rangers and ask that your e-mail address be put on their list so y'all can begin to receive their posts.
 
Communications and information sharing between us is essential. It is part of the development of OUR Confederate Communications Network that serves OUR Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations.
I sincerely HOPE & PRAY that y'all are beginning to see & understand the Dynamics of that which has been in play,  & that which we have been working on 'behind the scenes' for SOME time.  The inter-action of ALL organizations who have joined the Confederate Alliance has proved immeasurable and has created the basis for the Confederate juggernaut that is underway.
 
There have been many like Mr. Puissegur who would have you believe that we are an incompetent lot with delusional thoughts accompanied by a starry eyed imagination.  NOTHING could be further from the truth as evidenced by the substance and contents of those replies to him, as that herein, which clearly suggest otherwise.  We are NO different than those Confederates of yesteryear who died fighting for a Justified Cause that this Federal Government, over time has portrayed and demonized in order to save their sorry backsides at the expense of yours and this country overall.
 
If you believe the likes of Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Forrest, Davis, Madison, Henry, Jefferson and countless other Patriots were delusional with eccentric imaginations, THEN WE PLEAD GUILTY AS CHARGED, because we are NO DIFFERENT THAN THEY.
 
That folks is the bottom line as History has once again re-asserted itself, as it had too be, as the plague that was released upon an un-suspecting Nation more than 150 years ago has come full circle for ALL to see
once and for all.
 
Thanks to our Confederate Brother from Tennessee, James Everett, for this fine piece of rebuttal !
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865- the beginning of the end !
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!
www.deovindice.org
PS- So Goes the Southern Republic, so WILL Go This Nation!

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On 9/5/2010, writer522@juno.com wrote:

Mr. Maus,

I do enjoy your "FICTIONAL" account of the Confederacy coming to rise again. I call it fiction not to be mean, but because that is just what it is.

I must once again ask, just where are those who are now on retirement supposed to go? Where are the disabled Veterans supposed to go? Where are the people on Disability supposed to go? Where is the money for the Confederacy going to come from? Where will the seat of this "New" government be? How are the elections to be done? How is the Confederacy going to raise money? How is the Confederacy going to classify the people? How are people going to make a living? Where are the companies going to come from? You just present one idea, and that one brings more questions to bear then I could ever list here.

Your idea would be great if it were not JUST an idea, if it were at all possible, it would be great. But when all is said and done, you ONLY state that the Confederacy is a nation. That would be fine and dandy if it were just that simple, but you never seem to answer any questions as to where will the Confederacy get its money to start from, who is going to support the Confederacy and once again the list of questions go on and on and yet you seem only to state that the Confederacy is still a nation, yet you fail to show anything that is clear and concise as to how it is going to function or how it will become just what you state it is.

I guess that those who legitimately depend upon the "Federal" government will have to leave the South because the Confederacy does not yet have any plans for them!

I am sorry, but your idea of the Confederacy coming into its own once again sound like that of a mad man, not that of a person whom knows what goes on outside his door each day.

While it is true that the United States faces a hard row to hoe, it can be done, but with people such as yourself sitting on the sidelines yelling for others to do something while they look at something that has no way or means to come about, it would not take a rocket scientist to figure out that you and others are barking up the proverbial wrong tree!

The United States is not lost, the Confederacy for all intents and purpose is, bthe people of the United States can revive the Constitutional ideas that made this nation great and that brought the Confederacy into being.ut  We as a people need to elect the proper people into office whom will honor the Constitution as it is. This is what the Confederacy was about anyway, to honor the Constitution so to ensure we elect people that honor the Constitution, we will also be honoring the Confederacy, because it was all the Confederacy wanted anyway, to HONOR the Constitution.

Leon Puissegur 

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----- Original Message -----
From: James Everett
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Mr. Puissegur,
 
You say " We as a people need to elect the proper people into office whom will honor the Constitution as it is."
 
"The Constitution as it is" is not the same system of government that the founders established. What you propose  " We as a people need to elect the proper people into office whom will honor the constitution as it is." Will never bring about what the Founders constitutional system was intended to do, I wonder, Mr Puissegur, if you know what the Founders system was meant to do ?  You can find that intent in, The Articles of Confederation Article III. "The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever".
 
Notice here Mr. Puissegur,  That the Sovereign States through this agreement entered into a LEAGUE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH EACH OTHER, FOR THEIR COMMON DEFENSE AND THE SECURITY OF THEIR LIBERTIES. A league of friendship is not BY FORCE !!!!  You also said that the people could revive the "Constitutional ideas that made this nation great."  Could you please show me where the Constitution says anything about establishing a Nation ?
 
Further Mr. Puissegur, You question, Where is the money for the Confederacy going to come from? That money will come from each State and the industry of a FREE people !  Once the Foreign occupation ends and your Puppet representatives vacate each of our State Houses, then Sir, our rightfully elected Confederate representatives will take their RIGHTFUL seats, and do just what our citizens give it the power to do, and nothing more. Our markets and our citizens will provide revenue for our Confederate governments to function.
Mr. Puissegur, How have those  States held captive by the former Communist Soviet Union managed to function since their people managed to be lifted of their yoke of tyranny ?  Your idea of   "We as a people need to elect the proper people into office whom will honor the Constitution as it is " WILL NEVER HAPPEN !!  Its the same old tired worn out mantra.
 
Mr.  Puissegur, here is how the Founders system was intended to function..... "To the States, respectively, or to the people" have been reserved "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States."
 
Each State is a complete sovereignty within the sphere of its reserved powers. The Government of the Union, acting within the sphere of its delegated authority, is also a complete sovereignty. While the General Government should abstain from the exercise of authority not clearly delegated to it, the States should be equally careful that in the maintenance of their rights they do not overstep the limits of powers reserved to them." .....James K Polk.
 
Under the " Constitution as is " The States are no longer a part of the Equation that brings about the founders system, the 17th amendment made sure of that as the final nail in the coffin of  the States, which by the way are now nothing more than provinces under the dominion of a single Federal sovereign Empire.
 
Mr Madison said concerning the purpose of the senate during the Constitutional debates Federalist # 62 that the senate was to be  " an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty " of the States. He also said in # 62 "Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of the Senate is, the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence, first, of a majority of the people, and then, of a majority of the States." " The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions."
 
Mr Madison also said of the senate in # 62 "It is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the State governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government as must secure the authority of the former, and may form a convenient link between the two systems.".
 
In short Mr. Puissegur, The Senate was the voice of the States and a check against Federal Tyranny under the founders original system. It exists no more under your "Constitution as is".
 
Here is the short of it Mr. Puissegur, Your Idea will never accomplish what the founders intended as the purpose of government, even if it had a chance to do that, ( which it does not ) it would take generations to accomplish, it has already wasted several. Our restoration will accomplish what yours never will upon the re-seating of our Confederate government.
 
I tell you what, Mr. Puissegur, You get your government to end the occupation of our Confederacy, and we will see which government prospers and which falters into a third world Tyranny. I venture, your Citizenry will be attempting to breach our boarders in search of Liberty in droves beyond the wildest dreams of the illegal alien exodus from Mexico.
 
James Everett,  A CONFEDERATE CITIZEN OF TENNESSEE...
 

From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Sun, Sep 5, 2010

Dear Brethren (hundreds bcc herein),
 
I am now what is referred to as a 'senior' citizen.  I suppose that constitutes some meaning with respect to age.
 
But if age is the associated aggregate, then it is also equally true that with time comes the ability to see more clearly....if one has the design to do so.
 
Obama and many of the Washington despots are many years my junior now.  I have seen them come.....and I have seen them go.
 
And with each (with the small exception of a few here and there), and ever since the 1960's in particular, they and their spawn have grown worse.  Sadly, many Americans continue to 'buy into' the failed allegiance scenario of standing with 'one party' or the other and blaming the other for the ill-forgotten woes of this country.
It is a blind allegiance that has allowed both party's to BLEED us all dry.... and our country as well.
 
And with each 'election' , we hope that the principles that made America strong will somehow miraculously renew themselves via the 'contemporary position' that one party or the other is 'championing' at the time.
 
It NEVER happens.
 
Age will educate each & everyone to that hard but unfortunate fact of life as everyone will ultimately see & learn for themselves.  As times change, the two-party system that has DESTROYED America will remain consistent in their endeavors.  Changing times will always 'suit' their contemporary position & 'arguments' as a means by which they will only continue to 'divide & conquer' this great land until nothing will remain but they, and the political power base they created for themselves.
 
Time serves as a 'Pass & Review' to reflect upon that which once was as opposed to that which has become!
 
I have been fighting for the Confederate Cause for 17 years now.  I came to understand & identify what the suffering of those Confederates must have been like long ago.... when they too had too 'Pass & Review'.
 
To see what once was, and what was to be NO more is beyond the ability for most to imagine much less describe in words.
 
To see a Republic being dissolved, Reconstructed & Transformed before your very eyes and held powerless like a man with two hands tied behind his back while you're being beaten unmercifully, is beyond the power of common man to articulate.
 
And, as they grew older, the Cause for which they fought and were reminded of with each passing day and year, only grew louder and louder until their days of 'Pass & Review' came to an end.
 
I have a deep regard and undying respect for this land called home.  I am my fathers son and my pride resonates within those humble teachings learned many years ago when simplicity, humility, respect and esteem were once the norm within this country when their were NO excuses for bad behaviour and understanding good from bad and right from wrong required NO special teachings.... and when we knew who and what this country was about...or so we thought.
 
My folks, like most, worked hard & long and never complained nary a bit although they had more woes & headaches than most today and long before Prozac became the Nation's remedy.  They sacrificed and bled and never got to see the house with the 'white picket' fence they had hoped for.  Today, that house is wantonly given away by the Federals because it has become a Social entitlement as hard work, the once paramount benchmark as the remedy for success, does NOT even enter into the equation any longer.  Today it is a Federal come one, come all philosophy that strips the land & country of its purpose & identity via Special Interests whose creation has culminated in vast voting blocks who care NOT about the nation, but rather, that party who will nany-sit them and provide them with that which most others are still seeking to achieve....or were never to have realized through NO fault of their own!
 
The Federals had NO trouble in taking my parents' money and YOURS in their 'march to the sea of oblivion.'
While they were working hard and long, however, the Federals were continuing to Reconstruct this country in THEIR image.
 
Social entitlement was  becoming the conduit though which the 'golden goose' (John Doe Taxpayer) and the public treasury were being ripped off and stripped of their intended purpose.  It became a means toward the Federal ends and government was GROWING itself at a rate faster than most could ever comprehend.
 
Of course, that 'March' of theirs was but the continuation of that same one undertaken long ago, in which they embarked upon during their so-called Civil War.
 
I was growing up during their 'modern-day' times.
......(Modern-day, hmmm- remember the air-raid sirens when y'all had to hide beneath your desks in the public classroom for fear of a nuclear strike?).....
 
As I watched my parents struggle, I was also watching the Federals at a very young age.  I watched them in action and I was always attracted to the political pages of the newspapers as we didn't have TV back then.
 
And even then, some things to this writer who has become a Diehard Confederate, simply didn't make sense.
And you know what they say-  'If it doesn't make sense, its usually NOT true.'
 
I had many discussions with my Pop about the government.  I was always 'curious'.
 
I didn't do all that well in school but there was always two subjects in which I constantly excelled-  American History and English.  I read much about the Civil War back then.  It (Civil War) never received the appropriate time it deserved even back then and, sadly,  far less today.
 
After all was said and done, the ONE THING THAT NEVER MADE SENSE TO ME THEN, OR EVER, was why so many Confederates would fight for something they had NO involvement or interest in- SLAVERY!
 
As the years passed and as the Federal government was GROWING & GROWING with more and more money being taken from everyone, that which I remembered as a boy and that which was my passion in school (American History) began to intertwine.  You might say a 'connection' was made.
 
I suppose the catalyst for this was when the Federals took my parents land and home for a Dam project in the early 1970's.  My Dad was dying of cancer when a Federal assessor 'marched' through our house without any dignity or respect for us or him to judge what it was 'worth'.  Months later a Federal Marshall presented me with Court-Issued documents informing me that they (home & land) were both being taking via Eminent Domain...the result of me telling the Feds to shove their 'offer' where the sun has never shined!  And nearly 25 years after they SEIZED the property for the 'good of others'  along the River, the Dam project was CANCELLED and ALL land turned over to the National Park Service.
 
By this time, the Federal pattern had become more than painfully clear to me--- politically, culturally, socially and economically.
 
Like most people, I was always taught to give the 'benefit of doubt' to another.  That belief can carry with it extreme & negative consequences...particularly when the 'other' is NOT playing by the same rules as you thought they were supposed to.
 
Throughout this time I was continuing to research even more extensively the 'Civil War' as I believed there was a connection to 'today' (then) and the present..
 
And finally, after many long years ago of research, God was gracious enough to allow me to make the connection as to what 'it was all about'....the Civil War was ALL about political change & an ideology THAT WOULD USE A SOCIAL STRUCTURE to alter the face and purpose of this country while advancing the Growth and Power Base of the Federal Establishment.
 
I had difficulty at first because I did not know if my contempt for them resulting from my personal experiences was influencing me.  That 'benefit of doubt' thing again.
 
It wasn't!  God has strange ways of evoking an awakening in each of us.  Often times, it comes in the form of exposure & experience years earlier when one is not aware.
 
Over the last 17 years in which I have been involved in the Confederate Cause while seeking the RESTORATION of our Legal Government here in the South, I have come to meet MANY fine people- Confederates all from all across this country and many from 'above' the Mason-Dixon line.  ALL are coming to their 'realization'.
 
Each shares the same passion and each has had similar experiences.  This cannot be coincidence but an act of providence in the hopes of reversing the ugly tide that has been cast down upon this Nation by an unforgiving and uncaring Federal Government.  A Federal Government who has taken God from us, stripped the people of their identity, culture, history and heritage while systematically exposing them to an international cabal of money looters who could care less about us or America in the name and guise of International Expansion.  The pollution they have created, in collaboration with the entity in NY called the United Nations, has been the un-doing of America!
 
It has been an on-going process ever since 1865 and accelerated at key & varying points in our History providing the Federals with their current mantle & domain upon which they now seat.  The 1960's only enhanced that posture & domain over us by allowing them to extend their web of control & deceit through various Federally created authorities such as: The Department of 'Education', Department of Housing; Department of Energy; Department of Transportation and so on.  This & more is now the tangled web, enhanced by corruption, that most people within America are feeling and experiencing in one form or another.
 
During this time, 'political correctness' became the vehicle through which each of these entities created by the demagogue would excel- and at an immeasurable cost to one and all and this country overall.
 
Political Correctness folks is a euphemism for Cultural Marxism.
 
BOTH parties are complicit in its creation- the Republic Rats!  Remember, the Republicans gave us Lincoln & the Democrats gave us FDR...and now Barack Hussein Obama!
 
The country was being altered as it was planned and as it was intended.
 
Y'all are realizing this today, up close and personal, via Obama and his Transformation of America and Transfer of Wealth agendas.  His political doctrines have taken away more of your liberties and freedoms in his guise which is simply an EXTENSION of all else that has preceded him and his ilk.  Remember, Lincoln created Reconstruction and the bastard offspring of Reconstruction, is Obama's "Transformation." disguised as 'Hope & Change'.  Its NOT you imagination!
 
The hardships that is running rampant across this Nation are the end result of Brer Fox having lived in the peoples chicken coop for 145 years.
 
How can anyone in their right mind trust the Federals, who CLAIM to have YOUR best interests in mind, when they won't even respect God while throwing one of our own States (Arizona) to the International Wolves?
Does anyone seriously believe that THEY (Federals) who have created this 'platform' wherein they can NOW DO THIS, will serve them as an Individual?
 
I CANNOT even begin to remotely imagine how those Christian Confederates of 150 years ago felt when they were forced to live under this realization when it was so apparent and so obvious to them.
 
Having to have fought as long and as hard as they did and to live and see the Republic for which they stood, dissolve before their very eyes while an Army of Occupation at the point of a bayonet, forced them into submission while keeping them silenced for over 10 years of Federal Reconstruction until the 'Federal purpose' of  Reconstruction was firmly in place in the South, and supported by the illegal passage of several Amendments that not only 'justified' their illegal invasion, but created the foundation for the mantle they currently sit upon!
 
I will continue to oppose them to the best of my God-given ability.  I am a Confederate.  I believe in fairness and in State Sovereignty as I believe in the Republic and NOT this Beast of a Government which has altered and stolen the Republic from me who resides in Washington, DC.  I will remain un-Reconstructed as those who went before me and I will continue to advance the Confederate Cause wherever & however possible.
 
I believe the Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations to be the natural conduit through which the Restoration process of our Legal Confederate Government will be realized.
 
Lastly, and matter of factly, the Restoration process that will re-seat both houses of the Confederate Congress and establish the basis for national elections that will determine our Second President, is the ONLY means through which Constitutional Sovereignty & the resurrection of this Republic can be realized and attained.
 
WE MUST separate though restoration if we are too survive the political landscape & nightmare that the Federals have created in THEIR image!  This was NEVER the intention of that which was created and set forth by the Founding Fathers.
 
Let them go their way.  Let them delight in their visions as they believe them to be.  Let them apply to their constituents that which they believe to be the end-all, be all solution that will lead them to their 'ivory shores'.
As General Robert E. Lee said, "let THOSE People do what they want.....but leave us out of IT!"
 
One day, the passion of right and wrong will be 'seated' along side each of you as well....and on that day I can only hope and pray that y'all will be able to 'Pass & Review' this time & these events in our History wherein America returned to her roots and proud identity?
 
God Bless and may God Save the South....for so Goes the South, So WILL Go this NATION.  Deo Vindice!
 
'When the South Lost, so Too did this Entire Nation...but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time!'
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865- the beginning of the end!
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!
www.deovindice.org
PS-    Will you join us now and become a member of the Society?
PPS- Please visit www.CSAGov.org for more information on the Restoration process and what is required...its closer & more real than you might imagine.
 
Permission to Forward.
 

Monday, August 30, 2010

Sarah Palin at Beck's "Love Leviathan" rally

Yesterday, I wrote that Beck's rally at the Lincoln shrine was a snare and delusion; instead of a call to restore liberty by downsizing the central government, it cheered on the aggressive, unrestrained use of force at home and abroad under the fig leaf of promoting civil rights.

Sarah Palin's speech at that rally confirms my view. Here's a partial transcript:

There in the distance stands the monument to the Father of Our Country. And behind me, the towering presence of the Great Emancipator -- he secured our union at the moment of its most perilous time and freed those whose captivity was our greatest shame.

And over these grounds where we are so honored to stand today, we feel the spirit of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He, who on this very day two score and seven years ago, gave voice to a dream that would challenge us to honor the sacred charters of our liberty that all men are created equal.

Now in honoring these giants, these giants who are linked by a solid rock foundation of faith in the one true God of justice - in honoring them, we must not forget the ordinary men and women on whose shoulders they stood. The ordinary called for extraordinary bravery. I'm speaking, of course, of America's finest, our men and women in uniform, a force for good in this country and that is nothing to apologize for.

Abraham Lincoln once spoke of the mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land. And for over two hundred years, those mystic chords have bound us in gratitude to those who are willing to sacrifice, to restrain evil, to protect God-given liberty, to sacrifice all in defense of our country.

They fought for its freedom at Bunker Hill, they fought for its survival at Gettysburg and for the ideals on which it stands - liberty and justice for all - on a thousand battlefields far from home.

"Fought for its survival at Gettysburg"? H. L. Mencken debunked that lie decades ago.

In other words, if we are to believe the Beck-Palin view of history, Leviathan is the source of all good, and those who oppose it deserve to be crushed. If you're a patriotic American in the Beck-Palin mold, you understand that citizen surveillance, reconstruction at home, and militarism abroad are noble endeavors we must support with our blood and treasure.

I'm calling game, set, and match.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

On The Web:   http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2010/08/sarah-palin-at-becks-love-leviathan.html

 

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Glenn Beck is unclear on the concept

87,000 showed up at the Lincoln Memorial for Beck's rally:

Forty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech,” Fox News host Glenn Beck stood Saturday close to the spot at the Lincoln Memorial where the civil rights leader called for racial equality, urging the nation to return to "faith, hope and charity."

Now let me get this straight -- Beck stands at a monument that deifies the man who transformed the voluntary union of States into a centralized behemoth, and invokes the legacy of a man tied closely to communists -- for the purpose of restoring liberty and small government?

One of us is realllllly missing something.

On The Web:   http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2010/08/glenn-beck-is-unclear-on-concept.html

 

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
When America was God’s Country

By Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.,
Speaker and Author of the book “When America Stood for God, Family and Country.” cjohnson1861@bellsouth.net

The United States of America is a vast melting pot of many people of different origins and religions….And, thank God, we are still free to worship at the church, synagogue or mosque of our choice as our nation celebrates her 234th birthday as an American-Christian Republic.

But, today, some folks are questioning the wisdom, or lack of, in building a Mosque and Islamic Center near “Ground Zero” the sacred site where the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists on September 11, 2001. This is sacred-honored ground that some compare to the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii where thousands were also senselessly killed.

Is this the same America of forty-five “45” years ago, when our nation celebrated the Civil War Centennial or over two-hundred “200” years ago, when our founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence? Are children still taught the words to the Declaration of Independence or Bill of Rights?

Why do some of our Washington representatives, who are sworn to defend the Constitution and American people, criticize the State of Arizona for upholding the Constitution and protecting their people?

If only we had the values of the 1960s when….

Mothers, Fathers, Grandmas and Grandpas shared stories and words of wisdom with their children. The young folks were encouraged to live more constructive and fruitful lives by avoiding cigarettes, alcohol and drugs and obeying the laws of God—that are the Ten Commandments and the laws of man.

During 1961-65, America remembered the men of the Union Blue and Confederate Gray of the War Between the States and….

In 1965 people enjoyed quality time at the drive-in or in-door picture show to see such great movies as: “Shenandoah” starring James Stewart, “A High Wind in Jamaica” starring Anthony Quinn, “Von Ryan’s Express” starring Frank Sinatra, “The Sons of Katie Elder” starring John Wayne and the academy award winner “The Sound of Music” starring Julie Andrews. Veteran Movie Director Henry Koster was still making family film classics like: Dear Brigitte starring James Stewart and Glynis Johns.

Television shows during the autumn of 1965 were magnificently transcending from black and white to color, that included such shows as: “The Lawrence Welk Show” on ABC, “Daniel Boone” staring Fess Parker on NBC and “The Andy Griffith Show” also starring Don Knotts on CBS.

During the 1960s, presidents hardly ever apologized for America, the family attended church on Sunday and streets were safer even though firearms were easier to purchase.

The music scene of 1965 exploited with excitement with such entertainers as: the Beatles, the Supremes, the Dixie Cups, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Louis Armstrong, Tennessee Ernie Ford, George Jones and Loretta Lynn—to name a few.

In 1965, a Mother could safely leave her front door unlocked to go the store, school bands still played “Dixie” and everyone respected the fireman, policeman, paramedic, school teacher and soldier.

America has never been perfect but Capitalism, not Communism, has endured the test of time. When I was growing up, no one quoted former Communist or Socialist leaders. Americans quoted from great men like: George Washington, Sir Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.

The world looks toward America as the last hope for the free world. But, are we still the land of the free and home of the brave and is our motto still “In God We Trust?”

On The Web:   http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-america-was-gods-country.html

 

Trial Likely For Fredericksburg Confederate Monument Case
By Scott C. Boyd
(September 2010 Civil War News)

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Barring out-of-court negotiations, which have been unsuccessful so far, a Fredericksburg Circuit Court judge has cleared the way for a trial over the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ (SCV) lawsuit to prevent the city from moving a monument to a cemetery for 51 Confederate soldiers.

At an Aug. 9 hearing, Judge Gordon F. Willis rejected the city’s June 16 motion for summary judgment, which sought to dismiss the suit. No trial date was set.

At issue is a 3.5-foot-high granite stone topped with a bronze plaque listing the 51 Confederate soldiers buried nearby in the unmarked cemetery along Barton Street in front of the former Maury School.

The Confederate monument sits on one corner of a large traffic island where the Fredericksburg Area War Memorial was dedicated in 2008. That memorial honors the dead from the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries.

According to Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp 1722, they placed the monument on April 16, 2009, at a location designated by city zoning and building officials. The city disputes that the camp was authorized to place the monument.

Two days later the camp hosted a dedication ceremony to which the seven city council members were invited. (See article in June 2009 CWN.)

At the request of the Fredericksburg Area Veterans’ Council (FAVC), which sponsored the war monument, the city council voted in September 2009 to approve a memorandum of understanding with the veterans’ group that included relocating the Confederate monument to an unspecified location.

Camp 1722 was not consulted. The city council’s vote prompted the lawsuit filed last Nov. 19.

The complaint filed by the SCV’s attorney, Patrick M. McSweeney (with McSweeney, Crump, Childress & Temple in Richmond, Va.), stated that the monument was covered by Virginia Code Section 15.2-1812, which protects war monuments from being disturbed once they have been erected. He said it could not be moved by city council vote.

At the recent hearing, City Attorney Kathleen Dooley argued that the power to “authorize and permit” the erection of war monuments in Section 15.2-1812 was a “non-delegable legislative duty.” The city council had to authorize the Confederate monument, which it did not, she said.

Dooley said there were no “issues of genuine fact” in dispute. She asked Judge Willis for a summary judgment, or decision without a trial.

McSweeney said there were material facts in dispute over the delegation of authority by city council to city officials. The function of approving monuments can be delegated by the governing authority, such as the city council, to city officials, and was applicable in this case, the SCV’s lawyer said.

He noted the council did not approve a monument to the 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment’s amphibious assault across the Rappahannock River during the Battle of Fredericksburg. It was erected in 2003 on the city easement on National Park Service property along the river.

He added that the city council did not approve a historical marker placed on the same traffic island in January 2010 that refers to nearby sites, including the Liberty Town African-American neighborhood, the Potter’s Field graveyard and the unmarked Barton Street Confederate cemetery.

Judge Willis questioned McSweeney about the building permit signed by Camp 1722 monument project leader Roy B. Perry Jr. as “authorized agent.” According to McSweeney city officials prepared the building application and advised Perry to sign it.

If the locality can delegate the authority to its officials, who can authorize local officials to authorize a local citizen, like Perry, to act as an agent for the city, Willis asked McSweeney.

“No one has told the building official [who advised Perry] that he broke the law,” McSweeney said.

“Does it require council approval to erect anything on city property?” Willis asked Dooley. She did not respond.

“Can it be done without direct action by city council, or can it be delegated?” Willis asked.

Dooley said that council has authorized Public Works to put up things like stop signs as well as temporary traffic signs. She said she was not familiar with the 7th Michigan monument, having been handed an affidavit about it minutes before the hearing.

Judge Willis asked Dooley whether two city officials, senior planner Erik F. Nelson and his boss, zoning administrator Raymond P. Ocel Jr., had the authority to authorize Perry to seek the building permit for the monument.

Dooley said they did not have the authority to do what they did. “Perry’s building permit is invalid,” she said.

“It is disputed whether Mr. Perry was authorized by the city to build. I think that is a material fact to be determined,” Willis said, denying the city’s motion for a summary judgment.

He added, “Just because the permit was issued doesn’t make it valid.” He said that such a determination was up to the finder-of-fact at a trial.

The judge reminded the parties that at their last court session in March he recommended they use Virginia’s Judicial Settlement Conference Program, where retired judges help parties negotiate cases outside of court.

McSweeney asked if the negotiations were voluntary. Willis said they were, “I’d be happy if it was ordered,” McSweeney replied.

In informal negotiations the city proposed, and Camp 1722 rejected, two alternate locations for the Confederate monument, both much farther from the cemetery it memorializes.

Billing information obtained by Civil War News indicates that the city paid outside attorney Jennifer Parrish, who is assisting Dooley, $14,253.50 for the period March through July 2010. The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star in an Aug. 15 editorial questioned whether the legal cost is money well spent and urged the city to let the Confederate monument remain where it is.

On The Web:   http://www.civilwarnews.com/archive/articles/2010/sept/fburgconfed_091006.html

 

GOP says graphics firm's error led to use of Confederate image in handout

Saturday, August 28, 2010

By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – Democrats this election season like to argue that Republicans want to take the country back to bad days, and, in Texas, they poke fun at Gov. Rick Perry for flirting with secession.

So the Texas GOP made itself a target when it handed reporters a document using an image of Texas' Confederate-era state constitution at a Thursday event designed to raise questions about state House Democratic leader Jim Dunnam. A party spokesman said the flub was unintentional, the result of in-house miscues and a graphic arts contractor's "laziness."

"No, categorically no," Republican Party spokesman Bryan Preston said, when asked if secessionist views permeate Perry's party.

At the Thursday event in Waco, state Republican Chairman Steve Munisteri charged that Dunnam doesn't live in his district and should step down. Munisteri spoke after Preston gave out a 47-page press packet with photos and real estate records on Dunnam's two Waco-area homes.

The packet included a graphic showing language in the current state constitution, ratified in 1876, about qualifications for state representatives. The text was linked to an image of the cover of the state's Confederate constitution, adopted shortly before the Civil War broke out in 1861.

Dunnam – who insists he has been and still is an eligible candidate, although his children attend school outside his district – called the cover's inclusion "bizarre." Dunnam will face Republican Marva Beck on the November ballot.

Asked if he thought the use of the Confederate image was intentional, Dunnam said, "Frankly, these days the GOP continues to talk about secession and going back to 'the way it used to be,' so heck if I know."

Preston, however, said it was anything but.

"The graphic artist made a big old screw-up," he said, describing a decision Monday not to show the constitutional qualifications, just the photos and maps, set up on easels at Munisteri's press conference. In Thursday's rush of preparations, no one noticed the artist included the graphic – or noticed the Confederate charter's cover, Preston said.

"Dunnam has spent years in deceit and even bought a house to game the electoral system," he said. "We had one graphic that was just a dumb mistake." Still, Preston blamed himself for "letting one get past the goalie."

As for the graphic arts firm, he said: "They're not going to get hired again."

© 2010, The Dallas Morning News, Inc.

On The Web:   http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-dunnam_28tex.ART.State.Edition1.358ba6d.html

 

Confederate Flag. Racism or Heritage? (poll)
News Type: Opinion
Tue Aug 3, 2010

I've never been a big "flag waving" kinda guy. But it is my position that the Confederate Flag is not racist.

Sure it has a spotted history and some of the worse sort of people wave it. But, to an overwhelming majority today, it is more pop culture than social statement. I don't see it any different then an Italian flag in Little Italy or a Mexican flag in New Mexico.

When I see it painted huge on a pickup-truck...well, ok I don't quite understand that either; it looks ridiculous. But, when I see it on TV or flying in somebodies front yard I think of a much more specific home than I do when I see the American Flag. It reminds me of family and friends and southern cooking.

Also, it is kind of a bad boy thing to do for "Good Ole' Boys". Seeing a rebel flag bumper sticker; the thoughts that pop in my head are: Hunting, Fishing, NASCAR and Beer. It would be the equivalent of wearing your favorite teams jersey out. People would look at you think: "I agree". Or they might think: "What a jackass." (I'm looking at you, Cowboy fans).

I'm sure there are other reasons people display it, to be honest I'm not a very good southern boy, but I don't think it's about race. I think it is about regional pride. Ask a New Yorker how great New York is or ask a Texan about Texas. We all have it.

© 2005-2010 Newsvine, Inc.

On The web:   http://consider-it.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/03/4806102-confederate-flag-racism-or-heritage-poll

 

CELEBRATE THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFEDERACY! 
 
Compatriots!
 
It is time to mark your calender for the SCV Sesquicentennial Event to be held in Montgomery, AL on Saturday February 19, 2011. This event will feature a parade up Dexter Avenue to the Alabama State Capitol Building, a reenactment of the swearing in of President Jefferson Davis and a selection of speakers at the Capitol Building. Just like was done for the Flag Rally in 2000 in Columbia, South Carolina and for the Hunley Funeral in Charleston in 2004 - it is IMPERATIVE that this event be well attended. We must show the world that we will not permit the History and Heritage of the Confederacy to be forgotten and unobserved during the Sesquicentennial.
It is up to us to see that this history is remembered and portrayed in the right way so start planning your vist to Montgomery - organize vans and buses - so we can show the world we remember our Confederate Heroes.
 
Basic information: 
 
Host Hotel:

Embassy Suites - downtown Montgomery, AL. The SCV has a block of rooms reserved for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Single and doubles $116.00 per night, triple $126.00, and quads for $136.00 per night. The SCV reservation code will be availabe and posted early next week. (Note: If you end up staying at a different hotel, The Renaissance has shown itself to Confederate non-friendly)
 
Vendors : Friday, February 18th, 2011 and Saturday the 19th vendors will be setup in the hotel.
 
Reception: Friday evening the Alabma Division will have a meet and greet with entertainment from 7pm to 9pm at the host hotel.
 
Saturday Events:

Confederate Parade on Dexter Avenue - 12 Noon - details to be announced shortly. Cannons are also need for a firing of a salute on the grounds of the State Capitol.  

Swearing in of President Jefferson Davis will take place after the parade on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol Building. 

Re-enactment of the raising of the first Confederate Flag
 
Saturday evening a banquet will be held with a guest speaker. Cost: $75.00 per couple or $50.00 for an individual.
 
More details soon - look for posts to the Telegraph and check http://www.confederate150.com/2011.html for event details.


 

National Gun Rights Champion Larry Pratt to Address the Third Southern National Congress
 
Floyd, Virginia – Thomas Moore, Chairman of the Southern National Congress, announced today that Mr. Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Own ers of America, will be the keynote speaker at the Third Southern National Congress (SNC), which will convene November 12-14, 2010, at Montgomery Bell State Park near Dickson, Tennessee. His address to the SNC Delegates will be “America in Crisis: a Southern Solution.” He will focus the traditional Southern principles of state sovereignty, nullification, and interposition as the only practical and peaceful solution to Federal encroachments on our liberties.
 
Thomas Moore said, “We’re deeply honored to have Larry Pratt as our keynote speaker at the Third Congress. He has made Gun Owners of America into the most effective and steadfast protector of the Second Amendment rights of Americans, which is the one right that guarantees all the others. GOA is highly resp ected for its principled and uncompromising defense of the right to keep and bear arms. GOA is smaller than some better-known gun rights groups, but thanks to Larry Pratt it is a hundred times more effective. However, Larry Pratt is much more than an expert on gun freedoms. He is a nationally respected leader in the growing effort to restore limited government and the rule of law, which, along with our firearms, safeguards all our freedoms.”
 
GOA is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue and is not satisfied with defending the status quo. Americans have lost many gun rights, and the GOA has taken on the mission to win them back. This is why GOA is considered the "no compromise" gun lobby. From state legislatures and city councils to the United States Congress and the White House, GOA represents the views of gun owners whenever their rights are threatened.
 
The Southern National Congress is the only representative assembly of Southern citizens that provides an alternative forum to voice their grievances and to restore liberty, justice, and prosperity in the Southern states. It offers Southerners a platform to act in their interests in ways no longer possible in today’s corrupt political process. 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 servant, not the master, of the sovereign people acting through their respective states. These principles have been consistently violated by the Federal Government. Decent, honorable people who love liberty must exercise their sovereignty and create alternative institutions which speak and act for them. This is the principle behind the SNC.
 
The First Congress, the “Seed Corn Congress,” met in North Carolina in December 2008 with 100 Delegates. T he Second Congress, the “Congress of the Covenant,” met in Alabama in September 2009 with 150 Delegates.
 
Chairman Moore noted, “New Delegate applications are pouring in daily, and we expect 300 Delegates at the Third Congress in Dickson, Tennessee. We also expect a number of non-Delegate guests to the banquet to hear Larry Pratt, including legislators who sponsored Tennessee’s recent state sovereignty resolution, leaders of various pro-freedom groups like the Campaign for Liberty and Tea Party, local gun-owners, and news media representatives.”
 
Represented States are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Residents of these States who possess good character are invited to apply to become Delegates, without regard to race, sex, or creed. Potential applicants may apply online via this link: http://southernnationalcongress.org/delegateapplication.php .
 
Those interested in learning more about the SNC should visit the website at www.southernnationalcongress.org . There they will find the various resolutions adopted at the two previous sessions, the Southern National Covenant, and the SNC’s powerful new film, “America in Crisis: a Southern Solution.” http://sncspan.tv/AIC_video_fp.php
 
News media representatives wishing to cover the event should contact Mr. D.R. “Doc” Smith of Tennessee at pr@southernnationalcongress.org . Other queries about the SNC may be directed to Chairman Thomas Moore at: chairman@southernnationalcongress.org

 

Confederate Heritage Rally 2011
 
Reminder and updates
 
The General Organization of the SCV will be holding a nation heritage Rally each year of the Sesquicentennial of the War for Southern Independence. Below are the locations for each year
 
Details will be posted as they become available.

2010 - Charleston, SC- December 2010
 
The Confederate Heritage Trust, in partnership with the South Carolina Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, is currently in the planning stages for what will be a grand and memorable Secession play and Ball. This event will commemorate and celebrate the state of South Carolina for the second time becoming an independent nation on December 20th 1860. The evening will begin with a theatrical play recreating the Convention and the men that cast their votes to remove South Carolina from the union know as These United States. Many of the actors will be local and State celebrities and personalities.
 
Immediately following the play a grand ball and reception will follow with a joyous night of music, dancing, food and drink. The Charleston Gaillard auditorium will be our venue for both events. As an added bonus The State Archives and History Department will have the original Ordinance of Secession available for all to see and enjoy.
 
The Confederate Heritage Trust and the South Carolina Division would like to personally invite you to attend this once in a lifetime event! Please purchase tickets and sponsorships now while space is available and we look forward to seeing you there. Remember all tickets and sponsorships are tax deductable.
 
http://www.scsecessiongala.org/index.html

2011 - Montgomery, AL-February 19, 2011
 
It is time to mark your calender for the SCV Sesquicentennial Event to be held in Montgomery, AL on Saturday February 19, 2011. This event will feature a parade up Dexter Avenue to the Alabama State Capitol Building, a reenactment of the swearing in of President Jefferson Davis and a selection of speakers at the Capitol Building. Just like was done for the Flag Rally in 2000 in Columbia, South Carolina and for the Hunley Funeral in Charleston in 2004 - it is IMPERATIVE that this event be well attended. We must show the world that we will not permit the History and Heritage of the Confederacy to be forgotten and unobserved during the Sesquicentennial.
 
It is up to us to see that this history is remembered and portrayed in the right way so start planning your vist to Montgomery - organize vans and buses - so we can show the world we remember our Confederate Heroes.
 
http://www.confederate150.com/2011.html

2012 - Richmond, VA
 
2013 - Jackson, MS
 
2014 - Atlanta (Marietta/Kennesaw), GA
 
2015 - Shreveport, LA
 

IV. “The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause” (continued) 
 
Rebels Without a Cause?
 
By Bill Vallante
wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com 
 
260,000 Southern fighting men fell in that war, along with nearly 50,000 Southern civilians. Until recently, their struggle, albeit a losing one, was admired world-wide …. 
 
“The Southerners have shown every characteristic that can mark an independent people. They have made the costliest sacrifices that men can make to assure their freedom from foreign rule, and they have fought for it with a gallantry that has not been surpassed in all the wars of liberation the world has seen….” (“The Quarterly Review,” “The Confederate Struggle,” London, July – October, 1862, vol. 112, pp. 535 – 564) 
 
Go to Amazon.com, type in “U.S. Civil War,” scan the thousands of book titles and you will be hard pressed to find anyone holding an opinion like the Quarterly Review’s. Among the more contemporary ones are books which maintain that the planters led the South into war but they let the poor man do the fighting, that the women of the South complained bitterly of the war and urged their men to desert, that the Confederate soldier was a frequent deserter and that he often times donned blue to fight for the Union, and that the South’s population did not have its heart in the fight. The author of one such book even claimed that Southern women were against the war because they were tired of being “second class citizens.” [20] 
 
There is even a book on “The Free State of Jones,” a county in Mississippi which allegedly revolted against the Confederate government, and which was the subject of a very old movie called “Tap Roots.” As I said in the beginning of this paper, if they keep increasing the number of Southerners who fought for the Union, there will be no Southerners left to fight for the Confederacy, and eventually people will begin to wonder who it was that put those 360,000 Yankees into the “Southern dust?” 
 
Yes, the Confederate army was plagued by desertions late in the war. Of course, late in the war there was this fellow named Sherman, whose army was pillaging its way through Georgia and South Carolina virtually unopposed, targeting civilians as it went. What would you do if you were a Georgian, or a South Carolinian soldier in front of Petersburg and you knew that your family was in the path of these thugs? Tough call, isn’t it?! 
 
Desertions plagued both sides actually. No one wants to come home maimed, or worse, in a body bag and sometimes men simply decided that they had had enough and could take no more. It does appear however, desertions aside, that there were more than enough Confederates left to shoot down hordes of Yankees – a cursory look at the casualty figures late in the war would be enough to tell you that! 
 
And while it has become all the rage among wack-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 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. 
 
Union General Samuel Howe, in February 1862 made the following observations: “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.” [21]  
 
Yes, Howe was a Union general. But respect for one’s enemy was not at all unheard of in those days. In a Memorial Day, 1884 speech, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., himself a union veteran said, “We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win…But we equally believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred convictions that were the opposite of ours, and we respected them as every man must respect those who give all for their belief…” [22] 
 
Visiting British Colonel Arthur Freemantle, in his 1863 tour of the Southern states, might take issue with the contentions of our mythologists. After seeing first hand the determination of both the Southern soldier and civilian he remarked, “but the more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, 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?”” [23] 
 
Southern women brought down the war effort because they were sore about being second class citizens? The bimbo who wrote this either 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 “second class citizenship.” Colonel Arthur Freemantle, who, unlike the author, 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…..” [24] 
 
Indeed, 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. [25] 
 
And as far as the planters and the old “rich man’s war, poor man’s fight” hooey is concerned, it is common knowledge that the ranks of the South’s aristocracy provided, for the most part, the bulk of the leadership in the Confederate army, and that most of the time these men led from the front. It was the planters who had the most to lose in the South’s bid for freedom and lose they did. They lost their fortunes, they lost their way of life, and oftentimes, they lost life itself. Their words have indeed been recorded and they are in the history books if you’re not too lazy to look for them: 
 
After leading a charge at Gettysburg and falling at the head of his troops, mortally wounded General William Barksdale, a wealthy planter by the way, asked his Yankee captors to give his wife a message as he lay dying - “Tell my wife I am shot, but we fought like hell!” [26] 
 
17 year old David O. Dodd, a rich man’s son, was executed for being a spy by Union troops on  January 8, 1864, and was eulogized by one of his captors - “His quiet and heroic bearing stamped him as not only one of the bravest of the brave, but not one of us doubted that he met his fate with the same lofty feeling of patriotism that sustained, in his last hours, Nathan Hale, the immortal spy of the Revolution.” [27] 
 
Colonel William Peleg Rogers of the 2nd Texas Infantry, a planter’ son, who fell at the battle at Battery Robinette, Corinth Miss., 1862, was eulogized by none other than Union General Rosecrans - “He was one of the bravest men that ever led a charge. Bury him with military honors and mark his grave so his friends can claim him. The time will come when there will be a monument here to commemorate his bravery.” [28] (I wonder how General Rosecrans might respond to the current craze of tearing down Confederate monuments?) 
 
Private Charlie Jackson, a young teenager, barely 16 and a rich man’s son killed, April, 1862,
 
His dying words to his father - “…Father, tell the boys when you get back how I died – just as a soldier ought to! Tell them to fight the Yankees as long as there is one left in the country, and never give up! Whenever you fill up the company with new men, let them know that besides their country there’s a little boy in heaven who will watch them and pray for them as they go into battle!” [29] 
 
I could go on and on in this vein. I could also ask why it is that our myth busters seem to focus heavily on Southern discontent but ignore the same, if not greater discontent that existed in the North. In November 1864, with the war going heavily in the North’s favor, 1.8 million out of 4 million northern voters were courageous enough to go to the polls and vote against Lincoln. I say “courageous” because in those days you did not go into a booth, close the curtain and vote in secret. You marked a ballot in front of everyone. Everyone knew how you voted, including the Union government which had, to that point, imprisoned thousands of its own citizens for speaking out against the war. Any perceived opposition to the war or to the government and its policies could easily earn you a trip to jail (minus any writ of habeas corpus) or an unpleasant home visit from “The Loyal League.”  Where are our myth busters on the subject of Northern discontent I wonder? And why is it that all the myths busted are Southern ones? 
 
There was a time when historians were less partisan than they are now and I’m old enough to remember such times. One particular historian, very well respected in his day was Bruce Catton, certainly no Lost Cause apologist by any stretch of the imagination. I’ll close this section with his words on the subject of the Confederate soldier: 
 
“There is no legend quite like that of the Confederate fighting man.  He reached the end of his haunted road long ago. He fought for a star-crossed cause and in the end he was beaten, but as he carried his slashed red battle flag into the dusty twilight of the Lost Cause, he walked straight into a legend that will last as long as the American people care to remember anything about the American past.” Bruce Catton 
 
(to be continued)
 
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[20] http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/did-women-and-slaves-drive-dixie-down/ 
 
[21] Gen. Samuel Howe, US Army, February 20, 1862, Confederate Veteran Magazine, July, 1930, page 251 
 
[22] “Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Behind the Dying Words of Confederate Warriors,” By Daniel W. Barefoot, Copyright 2005, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Preface, page x 
 
[23] “Three Months in the Southern States,” Colonel Arthur Freemantle, copyright, 1991, University of Nebraska Press, pp 308-309 
 
[24] “Three Months in the Southern States,” Colonel Arthur Freemantle, copyright, 1991, University of Nebraska Press, Page 306 
 
[25] “The Quarterly Review”, “The American War”, London, January – April, 1863, vol. 113, pp. 322 – 353 
 
[26] “Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Behind the Dying Words of Confederate Warriors,” By Daniel W. Barefoot, Copyright 2005, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina p. 116 
 
[27] “Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Behind the Dying Words of Confederate Warriors,” By Daniel W. Barefoot, Copyright 2005, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina p. 171 
 
[28] “Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Behind the Dying Words of Confederate Warriors,” By Daniel W. Barefoot, Copyright 2005, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina p. 61 
 
[29] “Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Behind the Dying Words of Confederate Warriors,” By Daniel W. Barefoot, Copyright 2005, John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina p. 23
 
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I. “The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause”
Myth? What Myth?
By Bill Vallante
SHNV
http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-myth-of-myth-of-lost-cause.html
 

II. “The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause” (continued)
About Slavery as a Political Issue in ante-bellum America
By Bill Vallante
SHNV
http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/08/ii-myth-of-myth-of-lost-cause-continued.html
 

III. “The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause” (continued)
“The Slaves Set Themselves Free!”
By Bill Vallante
SHNV
http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/08/iii-myth-of-myth-of-lost-cause.html
 

 

From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010
Subject: Re: Citizenship, YOU, and the Fall of America!
To: Chris Case - calypso24@bellsouth.net

Dear Brethren (hundreds bcc herein),

Please note the date of this communiqué (below & herein)- 14 AUGUST 2009- 2009.  It was sent to me by the Confederate Society of America's Florida representative- Chris Case.

PLEASE read it and learn more of that History that the Federal's have Denied & Hidden from YOU.

Perhaps the day is finally arriving wherein MANY will come to their senses and realize why they, theirs and this country, is in the most dangerous dilemma it has ever been in?  It has been taken from YOU by the very Federal Government that YOU have blindly given YOUR allegiance to.

As I have stated for sometime, THEIR (Federals) subterfuge officially began after April, 1865 when the then only hope for the perpetuation of a Constitutional Republic was defeated- The Confederate States of America.  Since then, the Federal's have have re-invented themselves and re-cast this country in THEIR image using THEIR ideology, the public treasury & social entitlement to create the foundation for the lofty mantle they now sit upon.

They 'Reconstructed' this entire country, beginning with the South, and continuously "Transforming" it ever since into the Socialist Democracy it has become today.

Anyone believing or hoping that the current two-party system (Republic rats) can or will 'Return' us to a Constitutional Republic is living a pipe dream.

As EVIDENCED below, it's OVER, and has been OVER, sadly, for sometime.

But it is NOT too late.

The Constitutional Republic of the South and her former Confederate Government were NEVER surrendered by the then sitting government.  Therein lies our ONLY hope for a return to that which we once were and so desperately seek again.

Despite the Federal subterfuge of these last 145 years since they invaded and over-ran us, and despite the many intentional and convoluted Laws they have passed whose design was to shield and hide them from their illegal atrocities waged upon us, our former Colonial & Constitutional Laws STILL EXIST.

Thus, we CAN and MUST, RE-SEAT the Legal Government of the South through that remaining Legal doorway STILL available to us- its called RESTORATION & NOT ESTABLISHMENT.  Federal Might does NOT & WILL never make RIGHT that which was ILLEGAL of long ago.  EACH of YOU MUST know this and understand what CAN & MUST be undertaken if YOU really what YOUR country back!

And this is NOT a pipe dream as the Federal's would have YOU believe.  Hell, most of them don't have a clue as to what in the hell is going on much less understand their Constitution.  How can they when they don't even write the legislation much less read it.

They would have YOU believe that what I speak of is unattainable & totally impossible.  I, like those MANY Confederates THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY, with whom I am PROUD to be associated with,  understand full well what I am talking about.  And just like those same Confederates of long ago who fought the Zealot Invader in PROTECTION of THEIR Sovereign Country's & Legal Government, know this is entirely DOABLE!

You have been hustled folk's, clear and simple.  Your plight is the net result of 145 years of Federal skullduggery that has morphed into the Beast who now resides in Washington.  It has been many years in the making and tonite, their chief overseer, Barack Hussein Obama, will try to snow YOU yet again with more 'Good News' regarding Iraq......the same guy who along with his co-conspirator, Joe Biden, once tried to suspend support for the troops and told Y'all that the War was NOT winnable.

It will continue this way until Y'all decide to STOP it and SEPARATE from them!

It's just more of the same old from the same old group.  IT WILL NEVER GET ANY BETTER NOR WILL IT EVER CHANGE.

If YOU want YOUR country back, then YOU will have to realize that which we Confederates saw coming long before 1860 when our first State seceded- WE MUST SEPARATE & RESTORE that which was ILLEGALLY TAKE FROM US IF Y'ALL want the American Way to survive & continue.

Barack Hussein Obama just got Elena Kagan appointed to the Supreme Court.  She is nothing more than a Harvard Law Professor who has NEVER tried a single case.  She will now sit on the highest court in the land.

WILL SHE APPLY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OR WILL SHE BE JUST ANOTHER FEDERAL STOOGE THAT ENFORCES THEIR LAWS?

Here's what she had to say not long ago BEFORE her appointment:

" We must use law to silence 'hate speech' ."  - A sad commentary on the First Amendment.

" We live in a society marred by racial & gender inequality (the lesbian tilt- shake hands with Barney Frank)); certain reforms of speech perpetuate & promote in-equality. The disappearance of such speech would be cause for GREAT elation." - By whom, her lesbian friends? She also supports indefinite detention without trial. Hmmmm, guess there is something to those FEMA camps after all.....and there GOES HABEAS CORPUS, AN AMERICAN RIGHT SINCE 1798 RIGHT DOWN THE TOILET!

" Our Law is the foundation of our DEMOCRACY." - She doesn't even know that America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!

Kagan will NOT support the Constitution; she has an agenda that will be demonstrated in judicial activism as expressed in the concept of a "living Constitution" & open to the whims & interpretation of ANY Supreme Court Justice.  THANK YOU BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!!

There are many parallels between Obama and her.

> Obama's mother was a practicing atheist & both of her parents were practicing Communists. ( and remember the church in who Barack attended for more than 20 years- Jeremiah Wright's- a practicing Black racist. I suggest you read his book's- Dreams of My Father & Audacity of Hope and perhaps y'all will come to see the light )

> Like Obama, she has NEVER practiced Law but will NOW become YOUR ultimate judge.  Still think we Confederates are crazy?

Maybe she will emulate & follow the practices of her namesake, Lazar Kaganovich- Stalin's deputy in charge of the Ukrainian Holocaust that murdered over 3 MILLION Christian Ukrainians; or her legal mentor, Thurgood Marshall, who she clerked for and probably the worst person ever appointed to the Supreme Court.

Y'all keep on believing that these Federal's have YOUR best interests in mind.....and after YOU read below that which once was, perhaps you will understand what General Robert E. Lee meant when he refused the Union Command and said: " I will NOT raise my sword against my beloved country.' - (meaning Virginia, his Sovereign)

Better make up your minds because there is NOT much time remaining folks.

'When the South Lost, so Too did this Entire Nation, but Only WE Confederates Knew it at the Time'

ALL Roads Lead to 1865- the Beginning of the End!
Craig Maus,
president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations.
Staunch Supporters of the LEGAL Government of the South- The Confederate States of America- A Constitutional Republic!
www.deovindice.org
PS- Will YOU join us Now and become a Society Member- the life you save may be your own ?
PPS- Suggest you visit www.CSAGov.org for more information on the RESTORATION PROCESS of the Confederate Government.
God Help Us All!
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From: "Chris Case"   calypso24@bellsouth.net
To: "Craig Maus"   csacommand@windstream.net
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009
Subject: Citizenship

A "citizen" is one who gives their allegiance to a particular body  politic in return for protection.

The U.S. Supreme Court has been pretty consistent in stating that the United States is not obligated to protect a "citizen".  Not only that, but the United States has been conducting biological experiments on Americans
without our knowledge or consent.  Check out Title 50 USC, chapter 32, section 1520, or go to; www.all-natural.com/bio-chem.html

Also the so-called 14th. Amendment was never ratified, it was rejected  by 17 states for being
blatantly unconstitutional, but was forced upon America at the barrel  of a gun.  The Marxist
so-called 14th. Amendment nationalizes "citizenship" and creates the fiction called; U.S. citizen/
federal person.  See;  www.pacinlaw.org

The United States of America is NOT a country, but a FEDERATION OF COUNTRIES of which Florida
is one. The definition of the word state, is COUNTRY, the state you  were born in IS YOUR COUNTRY.

The once voluntary association of these American Republics was known  as the united states of America,
or the states united of America.

The so-called "civil" war was NOT a "civil" war, but an INTERNATIONAL WAR, between different countries,
of which Lincoln had NO AUTHORITY to invade or occupy.

A "civil" war is one fought within the borders of a particular state/ country by it's own nationals.

The states were forced to give up their sovereignty when they were  forced to adopt the so-called 14th. Amendment.  The whole political "system" that Americans suffer under today is  based entirely on this so-called "Amendment".

Lincoln stated; " I have destroyed the Republic to save the union"   these "united" states are not a voluntary association as they were before the so-called "civil" war, but a coercive  subjugation by the corporation called the UNITED STATES which is controlled by the FEDERAL RESERVE which is controlled by the INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS who are of the tribe of the TALMUD, who used to be known as the PHARISEES.

These are NOT the ancient Israelites of the tribe of Judea, or the ancient religion of YAHWEH, but the cult of the pagan Babylonian book known as the TALMUD.

See;  www.revisionisthistory.org

Our enemy has been identified and our duty is clear, educate yourself, empower yourself with the knowledge to defeat our foe!

CC

 

GOPer dope

From: torpenhow@charter.net

RE: Republicans Reject Confederate History Month
http://www.southernwarroom.info/post?id=4855747

/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS: I do hope readers will send this modest-looking but earth-shaking link out to people and keep it handy for when somebody tries to put forth that the Republicans are our saviors. I've just stashed it in the Nationalist Times print newspaper's online discussion forum

https://anu.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=823&PN=1&TPN=3

........though I'd really like to hire 10,000 planes to tow 10,000 banners across the country trumpeting this SHNV inclusion.

Not that the Evil Party is any better. It's worse, but when every institution is trying to win the pure-evil contest, that doesn't even begin to exonerate Stupid Party cultists from their crimes.

Oddly enough, there's a new organization called Republican Majority Coalition that's showing signs of an IQ above 80, but I think the name must be purely strategic.

Truly the two-party duopoly is a curse from hell. And the fact that John McCain got the Stupid Party nomination in AZ again over a true patriot shows, I fear, that ameriKa will never grow beyond that mental complex.

Forgive my fatefulness, dear people, but if the patient won't take its medicine, it will never get well.
 

Confederate Fascists?

From: jordanwolf@bellsouth.net
To: gvasselli@thesunnews.com

Ms. Vasselli:

One school in South Carolina enrolls students in JROTC and you put a Hitler Youth poster in front of your article?  You call the school program the work of Confederate Fascists?  The Confederacy is no longer in existence thanks to Obergrupenfuhrer Wilhelm Sherman and his Yankee Waffen SS who murdered, raped, burned, and robbed their way across South Carolina during the War of Northern Aggression.

If it's fascism you are concerned about, take a good look at the current leadership of this country.  They are far more of a threat to your liberty than a bunch of school kids.  I was led to believe that the Sun News was a libertarian publication.  There is a big difference between a libertarian and a drooling idiot liberal.

Joe Jordan
Atlanta
 

I. “The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause”

From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com

It has always been my intent to write a paper refuting the contentions of people who claim that the “Lost Cause” was some kind of elaborate myth. A group of facebook posts which a friend recently pointed out to me and which were written by such people was, I think, the spark I needed to finally tackle this project.

The following paper, which I've entitled "The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause," is an attempt to address some of the contentions of “those people” in detail and to hopefully provide some useful points of information for those of us who still think that there is more truth than myth in the "Lost Cause." I have tied together some points that
I’ve made in other papers and added some new ones and I have included references and footnotes. As the paper itself is so long, I have divided it into 6 installments, the first of which appears below. The remaining
installments will appear one at a time in the upcoming issues of Southern Heritage News and Views.

If anyone reading this has a website and feels that there would be some benefit obtained by publishing this on their website, please feel free to contact me.

Bill Vallante, wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com

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I. “The Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause”

Myth? What Myth?

If you like “Civil War” history but haven’t been paying attention these last 20 years or so, the “Lost Cause”, has now become a “Myth” – at least according to most contemporary historians and self-proclaimed experts. Ever since Alan Nolan’s 1991 book, “The Myth of the Lost Cause” the historical literary field has witnessed an avalanche of similar books, each desperately trying to be unique in its own way, and each seeking to prove that the cause for which the South claimed to have fought and indeed, the heroic struggle itself that most people, until the last 20 years, believed that the South put up, are nothing more than myths.

Wikipedia, not known to be the best and most reliable of sources, nonetheless defines accurately what I am getting at and what is the target of this paper:

“The Lost Cause is the name commonly given to a literary and intellectual movement that sought to reconcile the traditional white society of the Southern United States to the defeat of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War of 1861–1865.[1] Those who contributed to the movement tended to portray the Confederacy's cause as noble and most of the Confederacy's leaders as exemplars of old-fashioned chivalry, defeated by the Union armies not through superior military skill, but by overwhelming force. They also tended to condemn Reconstruction.”

So then, the “Lost Cause” has become a myth – so sayeth the “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologists.” Why do I refer to them as such? Because in destroying one myth or what they claim is a myth they haven’t done much more than replace it with another myth, and a particularly bad myth at that!

A more detailed look at what the “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologists” contend:

- They contend that: Slavery was the real cause of the war. The South fought for the right to keep others in bondage and anything else is a lie or distortion perpetrated in the post war period by former Confederates who were ashamed of their actions and who were trying to make themselves look good, or, by neo-Confederates today seeking to whitewash the Confederate cause and who themselves are most probably racists.

-They contend that: After the war Southern writers wrote the history of the war and brainwashed Americans, north and south into believing that the South really fought for states rights and not slavery, and that it lost its heroic fight only because it was overwhelmed by superior numbers.

-They contend that: After the war, Southern writers convinced America that before the Yankee attack everything was moonlight and magnolias in the South and that all the slaves were happy.

-They contend that: Southern generals weren’t really as good or as noble as everyone says they were. This myth was invented by Southern writers to steal the glory from Yankee generals, who, led by Massa Linkhorn and
company, gave us “a new nation,” for which we should all be eternally thankful. (even though the cost of creating that “new nation” was nearly 700000 dead and nearly  half a million maimed),

- Most mythologists contend that the Southern soldier was one or more of the following: overrated, ignorant, misled, apathetic, a frequent deserter, a poor soldier, and that his heart was not really in the fight. If he did, at times, show enthusiasm for his cause, it was only because he hoped one day to hit the lottery and be able to afford to buy a gaggle of slaves – thus, even if he did not own slaves, he was fighting for the hope that one day he would.

-They contend that: 50000 Southerners fought bravely for the North…err, well, they used to say 50000 but a few years ago they upped the figure to 100,000, and more recently, that figure has climbed to 300,000. (soon
the numbers will reach a point where it will appear that there were more Southerners in the Union army than there were males in the entire South.)

-They contend that: Southern writers wrote out the black man’s participation in the war on the Union side in order to promote “white supremacy.” To correct this injustice, “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologists” now inform us that the black man was actually instrumental in winning the war for the Union, that slaves ran away in vast hordes to
the Union lines, that “the slaves freed themselves”, and that those who could not make it to the Union lines worked feverishly to subvert the Southern war effort. (There is no mention of any black participation on
the Southern side as “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologists” do not believe in such things any more than they believe in little green men.  Well, actually, a lot of them do believe in little green men but not in black men supporting the South.)

-They contend that: The Planters, who were slave owners and werry werry bad men, dragged the rest of the South into seceding and into a war that it really did not want. This resulted in a lack of enthusiasm for the
war that was reflected in the attitude of the Southern civilian population, whose women begged their men to desert and who frequently rioted because they were sick of the war and sick of not having any food.

-They contend that: Reconstruction was a wonderful time of social progress and of wonderful “interracial democracies,” snuffed out by those evil Southern white supremacists and that Reconstruction was a
great idea, but it did not go far enough. (stick the word “interracial in front of anything these days and it is automatically a good thing. I wonder if an “interracial” case of cholera is a good thing?).

But it’s all ok now, because the “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologists” are going to make it all better and fix America’s collective memory.  Like the Union army before them, they will go “trampling through the vintage” to stomp out the “grapes of wrath.” The Republican-led Union army gave America a new nation, whether America wanted it or not, and the “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologist” will give America a new “memory” - whether it wants it or not.

Glory, Glory Halleluiah.

About those Post War Southern Writers

There was no subversive plot on the part of Southern post-war writers to steal America’s historical “memory.” In 1865 the South recognized that its bid for independence had failed. It laid down its arms, and its citizens agreed to return to the Union and be good citizens of that political entity. They and their descendents have been faithful to their word, as evidenced by the fact that ever since 1865, whenever America has needed volunteers to go off and get killed in some far off hellhole, it is always Southerners who are the first to volunteer. Ann Coulter
referred to them as “America’s Warrior Class.”

Nowhere in the terms of surrender however, did it specify that Southerners had to grovel and to humbly beg for forgiveness. Nowhere did it say that they had to admit to wrongdoing and then accept slander or insults. Nowhere was it written that they could not defend themselves.  Self-defense, whether against physical or verbal attack, was and still is everyone’s right. In the post war period Northern writers took it upon themselves to cast the South as the proverbial villain in some kind of demented passion play. Southern writers responded and that’s all there is to it. And if they wrote better and presented a better argument than their northern counterparts, well, maybe, just maybe, it’s possible that they indeed had the better argument, and that in a day and age that
had yet to see mass brainwashing in either the public schools or the national parks or, had yet to encounter the most nauseating of popular terms, “the teachable moment,” maybe, just maybe, an American public that was still able to think independently, logically and critically, actually bought those arguments - because those arguments actually had something to offer!

About Slavery as some kind of sin or high crime

Yes, the South had slavery. So what? It was in America for 240 years before Sumter was fired upon, it had been practiced worldwide since the dawn of recorded history by nearly every people on the planet, it was legal and protected by the Constitution, and the Yankees had no problem with it until they stopped making a profit from it and, until they began a determined campaign to secure a majority in Congress in order to be able to pass legislation favorable to their states – legislation I might add that also happened to be detrimental to the Southern states.  Further, I don’t see anyone making demands for apologies or expressions of regret on other countries that have practiced slavery. The only one I see getting hit with demands is America, specifically white America and specifically the American South. And I do not see those today who whine about slavery of the past doing anything about it where it exists in the present (in Africa, and in a manner far more brutal than any 19th
century white planter could have conceived of). I can’t say exactly what the reason for this might be except to postulate, as someone else did, that slavery of the past is remunerable for reparations in the present,
while slavery of the present is not.

Whatever the reasons, I will not jump on the insanity bandwagon and start apologizing on behalf of past peoples for doing what was common and quite the norm in their time. As I’ve said before, more and more I grow convinced that for the past 20 or 30 years, someone has been putting “stupid pills” in America’s water supply. When I majored in history as an undergraduate 40 years ago, such moralizing, sermonizing, and apologizing were not to be found, and judging past peoples by using contemporary standards was considered to be the province of the fool. A student majoring in history who displayed such behavior would have been told by his professors to find another major. Today, the professors do it!

Newsflash – those who demand such apologies and expressions of regret are the demagogues, the race baiters and those who have something to gain by issuing such demands. Those who comply with such demands are the cowards, the fools, the idiots, those who are afflicted with self-loathing and those who have something to gain by demonstrating abasement. I refuse to play in this game. Charley Reese, former
journalist for the Orlando Sentinel, once said that “the people of the past don’t owe anyone an apology. They, like us, fell out of the womb into a society that, like all societies, had pre-existing customs and mores. They played the cards that God dealt them the best way they knew how and that’s all that you can expect of them. It’s our play now, and the pot is the future.” I stand with Mr. Reese on this one. And I will not budge for anyone. I don’t do apologies, I don’t do sorry, I don’t do “reconciliation” (another word that has been battered to death in recent
times), and I don’t do “stupid pills” either.

About Slavery as the “Cause” of the War

The war itself was not caused by slavery. The war was caused by the invasion of 11 states who sought the same right as their forefathers sought – the right to be governed by something which had the consent of
those that it governed. Those states, not counting 2 others, Maryland and Missouri, who were prevented by military force from even discussing secession, had determined that they were not safe in the Union and
therefore had decided to pursue their own course independent of their northern neighbors. Those northern neighbors, governed as they were by a relatively new political party bent on consolidation of the American
system, could not find it in their hearts to part with those states, and so, launched an invasion of them. That’s your cause of the war in a nutshell.

I would say that the South had plenty of reason not to feel safe. Some Northern idealists had cheered 30 years earlier when Nat Turner mutilated and murdered 61 white men, women and children. Even greater numbers of sanctimonious reformers proclaimed John Brown, whose plans, if successful, would have made Turner’s exploits look like a church picnic, to be a saint. Brown’s expedition was financed by 6 well-heeled and wealthy northerners, all belonging to a party that, in the words of one prominent Republican, Wendell Phillips, was a “party of the North pledged against the South.” [1]

If anyone wanted war, it wasn’t the South. “All we ask is to be left alone.” It was a cry echoed by numerous Southerners throughout Dixie between 1861 and 1865, from the highest official and general, to the lowest private and civilian. It was heard coming from the mouths of Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Patrick Cleburne, Mary Chestnut, Judah Benjamin and countless others. Had the North left the south alone
to go its own way, there would have been no war, no nearly 700000 dead and no nearly half a million maimed.

To you “Myth of the Lost Cause Mythologists”, I say flat out – if you want to know what the cause of the war was, look into the mirror and you’ll see it staring back at you. It was caused by the invasion of sovereign states by a bunch of boobs like you who just couldn’t leave well enough alone. The desperate fight that the South put up was a noble one and a courageous one, and until recently that fact was acknowledged by anyone with a modicum of common sense and a passing amount of literacy. And though it failed, I have no doubt that those who conducted the defense against that invasion would say that despite its failure, it was well worth the effort to try and rid themselves of meddling, petty tyrants like yourselves.

(to be continued)

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[1] “The “Secession, State and Liberty,” David Gordon, Editor, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, (U.S.A. and London (U.K.), Copyright, 1999, 4th Paperback Printing, 2009, page 27

 

Who’s Really Running This Show? (Subtle hint: it ain’t the president)

By Al Benson Jr.

Have you ever had the impression that, in politics, what you see isn’t really what you get? Ever get the feeling that whoever the current occupant of the White House is, no matter which party he’s from, he’s little more than a talking head? He may not have an original thought of his own but there is someone behind the scenes passing him an agenda they want enacted and telling him “Okay Dim Bulb, this is what we want done. Get it done for us and you’ll be okay. Mess up and you’re in big trouble.”

All you have to do is look at our last two or three presidents and you have to realize this scenario is more and more a strong possibility.

Ever look at the media, even the so-called “conservative” media, and feel you re not quite getting the whole story? I remember, years ago, reading a book called “I was an NKVD Agent.” It was written by a former Soviet secret policeman who had been dropped behind allied lines during the Second World War to gain information. He was to give the appearance of a refugee from Communism and to do that he had to say some things about how bad it was in the Soviet Union. He was told by his handlers before he came over that he could criticize his country for its poor people--every country has them. He could criticize it for its prisons--everyone has those, too, but the minute he criticized the principles of Marxism/Leninism and they found out, they would come and get him. And so he told enough truth to get by, but by no means all of it.

After reading that book I watched all the so-called refugees from the Soviet Union that I heard about in the news to see just what they said. Most of them told us how bad it was over there, how corrupt the government was, and all the rest, but very few ever contradicted the principles of Marxism. That told me something.

We have the same situation in this country now with much of our “conservative” media. Oh, they will rant about how bad Obama is and how bad his health care program is and they will even take an occasional pot shot at the New World Order. That’s all good as far as it goes, but what are their solutions to the problems we face? Some of them say, we need to elect more Republicans to Congress. That was tried in the mid-1990s and it didn’t work. All we got then were Newt Gingrich and a whole batch of other phony conservatives who did nothing to slow down the socialist trend in Washington. Oh they talked a good fight but the action didn’t match the rhetoric. They’d learned long ago that you could fool people with the right words and they’d never pay attention to what you did. So they talked the talk and didn’t walk the walk.

Over the years, I watched William F. Buckley and Rush Limbaugh do their thing. They both gave you a certain amount of truth, but it seemed to me that they stopped way short of where you really needed to go and their solutions to the country’s problems were rather truncated. There were certain areas they never dealt with. What’s more, they discouraged others from dealing in them. One was groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and other such groups. Most conservative commentators today won’t deal with such groups. You have to wonder why. They certainly have to be aware of them, yet they ignore them. Yet these groups have, over the decades, played a monumental role in the governing of this country. How many cabinet positions in the administrations of the last 3 or 4 presidents we’ve had have been filled by CFR retreads? More than you want to know about. If you don’t know about the CFR you might be tempted to wonder why your favorite conservative talk show host hasn’t bothered to mention it. It is one of the foremost engines for world government in this hemisphere. It’s been around since about 1919. Check it out on the Internet.  How many people in the media, education, politics, entertainment and other areas have been and are in the CFR? How many religious leaders?

Recently, James Perloff, author of the book “Shadows of Power” was interviewed on an Internet radio show. Someone called in with a question for him and asked: “I was curious if Fox News is owned by the Council on Foreign Relations.” Mr. Perloff’s answer was “Any major media organ that is allowed to reach the public’s ear is under control of the CFR and its allies.” A sobering thought for the devotees of Fox News.

In the interview it was noted that Glenn Beck, on Fox News, has slammed world government, and Mr. Perloff was asked how he reconciled that fact to his comments. Perloff replied: “Over the years they (Illuminati) have recognized that they need to control every stripe of oppositions, and therefore they have channeled money into anarchist publications, into conservative publications, and certainly William F. Buckley was their white collar conservative, he was a member of the CFR, a member of the Yale skull and bones fraternity. William F. Buckley was sort  of given to conservatives, so they can think they have a voice within the media… and I sort of look of Rush Limbaugh, to a certain extent…as their blue collar conservative…” Mr. Perloff’s thoughts in that area echoed mine. And in case you don’t know who the Illuminati that he mentioned were, they were a group of world government advocates back in the 1800s and before, that hired a lazy, shiftless hack writer named Karl Marx to write “The Communist Manifesto.” If you chance to get to look at a copy of the first edition of that document you will note that Marx’s name is not even on it. It was their agenda, not his, but they let him put his name on the later editions. So you see we are not dealing with a new problem here. The Marxist Obama may be a major problem, but he’s not our first major problem. In this country, one of our first major problems in government was Abraham Lincoln (unless you go all the way back to Alexander Hamilton).

Many astute observers have noted that the Illuminati--the One World government freaks--have long ago recognized that Bible believing Christians and genuine patriotic conservatives have desired to have a voice in national affairs that we think represents our side of the story. So, in order that we not have a real voice of reason for our position, they promote and finance what we call “false flags”--people who will give us a little of the truth but will give us false solutions to the problems we face so that we are sidetracked from real solutions. This is one reason the establishment will promote phony conservatives like Gingrich, Mitt Romney, John McCain and others of like stripe and will studiously avoid people like Ron Paul, or if they do mention him, they will paint him as some sort of extremist.

They recognize that Christians want conservative voices to be raised and so they give us people like Richard Land, one of the main officers in the Southern Baptist Convention--who just happens to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the man who is telling everyone that Christians really want amnesty for all the illegal aliens in this country when actually the opposite is mostly true. The vast majority of the Christians I talk to are opposed to amnesty for those people. So, instead of promoting pastors like Chuck Baldwin, who tells people the truth about what is going on, they try to ignore him and promote “conservatives” like Richard Land who will say what they want us to hear.

We need to be much more discerning about the so-called “conservatives” we listen to and support. If they rant about One World Government then we should ask them for specifics--who controls these One World efforts? What can they tell us about the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberger group and others. Will they be willing to expose members of these groups that serve currently and have served in government in the past and tell us about some of their leftist connections? If they refuse to deal with these kinds of issues then we have reason to question just where they are really coming from.

If they rant about Obama’s Marxist connections (and there are many) ask them about Jimmy Carter’s Rockefeller connections and where the Rockefellers are in relation to One World Government.

I have been supportive of the Tea Party Movement, but these folks need to start doing some homework. When they do, they will find out that we have had the problems they protest against for decades. This is not new with Obama. He’s just the tip of the collectivist-socialist iceberg.

If you want a little background in these areas try to get hold of two books by Gary Allen, (now deceased) called “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” and ‘The Rockefeller File.” These were originally published back in the 1970s but I think some of the material in them may be on line. Check it out and do a little homework.

Content ©2010  Al Benson Jr.

On The Web:   http://www.cakewalkblogs.com/antiestablishmenthistory/whos-really-running-show-subtle-hint-aint.aspx

 

The Mendacious Yankee Culture

Al Benson Jr.
24 August 2010

Last year about this time there was a great fuss over Obamacare. Our current Marxist-in-Chief was working mightily to ram it through Congress and the socialists in that august body lusted after its passage also. Then came the August vacation and congress people went back to their home states for the usual round of town meetings, supposedly to hear what their constituents wanted them to do.

The vast majority of their constituents wanted them to vote against Obamacare and they made their wishes very plain at town meetings all across the country. Not even the tooth fairy could have mistaken the wishes of the folks back home—they didn’t want Obamacare and that was that. Guess what? These same people all went back to Sodom on the Potomac and voted for it anyway. People were shocked. They just couldn’t believe their elected representatives would stiff them that way.

Folks, you need to learn a lesson from this. Those people in Washington don’t give a hoot for what you want. They are going to do what they (and their puppet masters) want. Your desires will be the very first thing ignored. You pay the fat salaries of those people in Washington but they do not represent you in any way, shape or form. They have a socialist agenda to enact and that is their first and only priority. They couldn’t care less what you and I want. Those people are prime examples of the mendacious Yankee/Marxist culture that has taken over the federal government and this kind of thing has been going on for over 150 years now. It’s not new—it’s just that it has never been so blatant before. Get used to it—it’s going to get worse.

The mendacity of Yankee culture (and I’m not talking about all Northern folks here) was obvious to some as early as 1860.

In his excellent book Blood Money: The Civil War and The Federal Reserve (Pelican Publishing Co, 2006), author John Remington Graham has made some very astute observations which most people in the Southern Heritage Movement probably never think about. I know I didn’t. He maintains that the War of Northern Aggression was promoted and then financed by the big banking houses on Wall Street because they knew it would be a big money maker for them. As far as the lives lost and ruined, both North and South, who cared? There was a profit to be made and everybody knows you gotta crack some eggs if you want to make an omelet. He noted, on page 49, that: “A new regime of taxation, including not only higher tariffs but income taxes, was enacted to sustain this enterprise profitable to the large banking houses…The institutions included central reserve banks on Wall Street, which insured and nourished the whole system of institutions growing up from financing the American Civil War. The cunning sophistication that planned, incited, and financed the brutal conquest of the Southern states was utterly beyond the comprehension of most people then living in the region. ” He observed the quiet, agrarian, traditional lifestyle of the average Southerner, writing that most Southern folks were “sober, plain and religious, even tending toward the mystical.” Their view of life was a simple one of chivalry and honor and that was how they planned to fight this war, with chivalry and honor, however, Mr. Graham noted “But such a war was not what had been engineered by high finance, and the Southern people were wholly unprepared to resist the juggernaut which has been ruthlessly bought to march against them.”

Southern folks, from Jefferson Davis on down, never really grasped the true mendacity of the Yankee culture, how false and devious it was. Southern delegations sent to Washington were always the victims of one-upsmanship because they tried to deal honestly with the questions at hand, while Lincoln and Seward and the rest had no intention of doing such. The Southerners could not grasp the idea of how honorable men could do what these Yankees did. They failed to comprehend the truth that they were not dealing with honorable men. By the time they learned this it was too late. There was truly a difference between Southern culture and Yankee (not all Northern) culture and for the most part, the Southerners never became “wise as serpents” while in the North, the Yankees had taught the serpents.

John B. Jones, author of A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary was a Southerner who had lived in the North and had observed the Yankee culture firsthand while there. Before the War started he fled back south and in conversation with Governor Wise of Virginia, he said:

The greatest statesmen of the South have no conception of the real purposes of the men now in power in the United States. They cannot be made to believe that the Government at Washington are going to wage war immediately.” The governor didn’t even believe him when he told him that Lincoln had called out 70,000 men. Jones continued: “Nevertheless, when I told him these 70,000 were designed to be merely the videttes and outposts of an army of 700,000, he was quite incredulous. He had not witnessed the Wide-Awake gatherings the preceding fall as I had done, and listened to the pledges they made to subjugate the South, free the Negroes and hang Gov. Wise. I next told him they would blockade our ports and endeavor to cut off our supplies…He said it would be contrary to the law of nations, as had been decided in the Courts of Admiralty and moreover would be a violation of the Constitution…Laws and courts and constitutions would not be impediments in the way of Yankees resolved upon our subjugation. Presuming upon their superior numbers, and under the pretext of saving the Union and annihilating slavery, they would invade us like the army-worm…The real object was to enjoy our soil and climate by means of confiscation.

Jones said of the Governor “He had no idea that the Yankees would dare to enter upon such enterprises in the face of an enlightened world. But I know them better.”  If we have studied history at all, we know what happened. The Yankees did indeed do all those uncivilized things that Southerners felt they would never do because the Southerners themselves would not have done them. And so, in the main, they misunderstood their enemy. They were honorable and they expected the Yankees would be also. They weren’t.

They won the war and pillaged the South with “reconstruction” and when they found out how well that worked they began incrementally to “reconstruct” the rest of the country. They’re still doing it. Cultural Marxism is a major part of it, as is political correctness. And still people don’t get it! They think because they oppose what the feds do the feds will back down. Don’t bet the farm on that anymore. In some instances they may appear to back down, temporarily, but all the while they are looking for a convenient back door through which to promote their socialism without you being fully aware of it.

Comrade Obama and the socialist thugs in Congress plan on giving us some brand of Marxism no matter how many of us don’t want it. We’d better start to realize where those people in Washington are really at and we’d better start working through our states to begin to nullify what they are trying to do to us because they are not about to quit just because we don’t like it. More people and state governments need to begin to think nullification and they need to do it now.

 

The Dustin Inman Society and the Southern Poverty Law Center

August 24, 2010

Greetings!

The SPLC and the National Lawyers Guild have filed suit to defame at least two Cobb Police officers and to try to kill 287(g). Their press release HERE.  News story below from the AJC.
 
My favorite quote ( there are many great ones) about the Southern Poverty Law Center, and its real agenda of anything un-American -for- a buck comes from a former business partner of the SPLC founder, Morris Dees. "He's the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement...though I don't mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye..." Millard Farmer says of Dees, his former associate...HERE.
 
My next favorite quote on SPLC: From the Fairfax Journal editorial Lump of Coal December 2003: "...a bunch of slick, parasitic hucksters who live high on the hog by raising money on behalf of needy people who never see a dime of it."More HERE.
 
You can see a photo tour of Morris Dees personal poverty home HERE.
 
You can read about the National Lawyers Guild and their anti-enforcement, open borders " National Immigration Project" HERE
 
The local "civil rights" attorney, Brian Spears HERE.  Warning: IF you take the time to understand these shameless creatures, you will likely feel the need to take a shower very quickly.
 
Dustin Inman HERE.
Lawsuit against Cobb police alleges racial profiling
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The program, known as 287(g), is a local-federal partnership that trains deputies to identify inmates who are in the country illegally and hand them over to ...

Aubrey Sosebee
Victim's family angry that hit-run driver still in US
Atlanta Journal Constitution
.Now that Gwinnett has adopted 287g, Campo-Duartes will be handed over to federal immigration officials once this case is resolved. ...

Sincerely,


D.A. King
The Dustin Inman Society

 

From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2010
Subject: Fw: Confederate Patriotism !

Dear Brethren (hundreds bcc herein),
 
The attachment herein & above is but a 2- minute read.  I believe it will be more than worthwhile for you to read it.
 
Afterwards and for many, I sincerely hope, you will come to realize how YOUR Constitutional Republic was literally stolen from you by Washington.
 
Read it, pause and absorb its message, and understand what was truly lost in 1865 when our Confederate Military was ultimately defeated by an invasionary force 4 times its size.  Many of us have been trying desperately to educate one and all as to what has been going on ever since.
 
Learn what resulted from Reconstruction and what Reconstruction's DESIRED INTENT was really all about.  Understand what the eventual consequences of Reconstruction were and the impact it had upon this entire Nation, and not just the South as it has been made out to be within the Federal school system.
 
Perhaps, and I do hope and pray, that y'all will comprehend what we Confederates are trying to do -RESTORE WHAT WAS ILLEGALLY TAKEN FROM US AS OPPOSED TO WHAT SOME ARE CALLING FOR- RE-ESTABLISHING A NEW SOUTH---- an IMPOSSIBILITY under Federal Law resulting from their Reconstruction laws & policies following 1865.
 
You can't make Legal that which the victor has declared Illegal by virtue of their NEW LAWS, but you can force the victor to deal with those Laws & Conscripts that existed before their illegal invasion, as those Laws represented those of the once Constitutional Republic that we all shared long ago.  Those Laws of old are 'still on the books'.
 
In this manner, we can cut to the chase by going 'Back to the Future' and raising the many essential & key questions that have never been asked!
 
Perhaps you can now understand the significance & importance regarding President Davis' refusal to surrender the Confederate Government.  Had he done so, it would have been over for all of us....but he left the door open!
 
Therein lays the Big Picture the Federals have denied, hidden & taken from YOU.
 
Current events and Earlier Ones, ever since 1865, are but the extension of their chicanery and corruption as it relates to this nations political, economic and social profiles.  All this & MORE has either been compromised, altered, changed or prostituted by these Federals while 'Transforming' us from the Constitutional Republic we once were, into their demonic Socialist Democracy that we are today and should have never been.
 
The Confederate States of America and her legal Government folks, is the Last Bridge to Freedom and Independence.  Understand your History and you will understand your Country.  Understand & Knowing your Country & what once was, and that which Can BE Again, will Save You & Yours!
 
Otherwise, things will only worsen and continue to deteriorate as Washington no longer seats the Peoples government.
 
'When the South Lost, so too did this Entire Nation, but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time!'
 
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 for the RESTORATION of the Legal Government of the South- The Confederate States of America.
www.deovindice.org
PS- Will you join us Now & become a Member of the Society?
 
PPS- Thanks to Scott Fox for re-sending!

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
----- Original Message -----
From: safoxsr@peoplepc.com
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010
Subject: Confederate Patriotism

Fellow Confederates,
 
This attachment should have reached most of you a year ago, July/August 2009. Nevertheless, I wish to send this again to you all for your careful attention and perusal.

Your Country calls upon all of you to carefully consider the times that we are in, what is at stake, and what we can partially give attentions to as Confederate Patriots. Contact Information is at bottom of attached Flyer.Thank you so very much in your attentions in this most important matter.
 
P.S. Please feel free to Cc myself in any Email inquiries to Contact Person, so as I can be abreast of any responses. It would be most appreciated. Thank you again.
 
At your service,
Scott Fox
Liaison- Confederate States of America
safoxsr@peoplepc.com   (618) 372-4960
www.CSAgov.org


So You Want To Secede

 

Illustrating Little Regard for the Union
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Any serious student of the causes of the War Between the States is left with many unanswered questions. If the war was truly fought over the secession of States from the voluntary union, who or what caused that secession to take place, and who resisted compromise to hold the union together?  As suggested below, why did the North sign on to the Compromise of 1850 when it had no intentions of abiding by it?
 
If the African slavery they once had among them in the North (and their New England slave trade) was so evil, what prevented Northern agitators and their financiers from finding a peaceful and effective solution to slavery in the South? If slavery’s demise was desired by the philanthropic British and New England abolitionists, why didn’t they press peaceful solutions as they did for themselves? Why was fratricidal war and the loss of a million lives necessary?
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
****************************************************************************
 
Illustrating Little Regard for the Union:
 
“In the North, sincere if fanatical abolitionists and opportunists alike used the slavery issue for political advancement. In the South, the voices…grew more passionate in their crusades for independence. Northern agitators gave them the ammunition. When the Southern States had adopted the Compromise of 1850, the Georgia legislature summarized the attitude of them all. Serving notice that the preservation of the Union depended on the Northern States’ faithfully abiding by the terms of the Compromise, the Georgia delegates stressed its particular application to the federal laws regarding fugitive slaves.
 
This was a very real issue to the planters, and nothing so impressed the individual Southerner with Northern hostility as the protection given runaways in the North and the actual attacks on federal officials trying to enforce the laws on stolen property. On this last point, the Georgians stated, “It is the deliberate opinion of this convention that upon the faithful execution of the fugitive-slave bill depends the preservation of our much-loved Union.”
 
Yet in the North, many people continued to repudiate and defy the fugitive slave laws, which constituted about the only thing the South got out of the Compromise. To the Southerners trying to promote secession, this breach of faith served to illustrate the little regard in which the North held Union. Then Northern literature erupted into what amounted to an anti-Southern propaganda mill. In 1851 appeared Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that inflammable work of the imagination, to start the decade in a spirit of recriminations. With the pamphlets and literature which took up where Mrs. Stowe left off, newspapers joined in the denunciations of their fellow Americans. To support the fictional pictures of the benighted Southerners, the New York Tribune stated flatly that plantations were “little else than Negro harems,” and that, of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Tyler (who was still living) “hardly one has failed to leave his mulatto children.”
 
Even Virginia, which produced these Presidents, had been brought to ruin by “pride and folly and…[Negro] concubinage…” while south Carolina, with its “chivalry-ridden inhabitants,” like the other States, “is a full thousand years behind the North in civilization.” Emerson and Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, the new literary pillars of that civilization, conjured up pictures of the vileness of their Southern neighbors.”
 
(The Land They Fought For, The Story of the South as the Confederacy, 1832-1865, Clifford Dowdey, Doubleday and Company, 1955, pp. 44-45)
 
 

THIS  ABOUT THE  AMERICAN  CIVIL WAR ( aka )  THE  WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE !
 
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To: news@glennbeck.com
 
GLENN  BECK
 
DEAR  GLENN
 
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SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVIAypsnh8&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgFqyl3p00&feature=related
 
http://www.csahps.com/black_confederate_soldier_history_sc_naacp.html
 

The Reason
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
 
In an article at http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=108683, Karen Gardner remarked “African Americans may have fought for the Confederacy to protect their families from invading Yankees.”
 
That is the reason that EVERY Confederate fought!
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon
 

Re: A Response to a Yankee
 
From: btzoumas@bellsouth.net
 
I am a child of the reconstructionist South. Though I was not heavily invested towards hating my Southern heritage, I was, nevertheless, encouraged to hide who I was. Thus, if when someone new came to my hometown of Pahokee Fla., along the SE coast of Lake Okeechobee, and by way of meeting me, thusly remarked, "You don't sound like you are from there", I most likely replied something in the affirmative. So I hated who I was (a Southerner), and where I was from (the South), without really knowing why.
 
It was with great pride I received the remark that I did not sound like I was from there. Conversely, I would have received with great shame the comment "I sounded like I WAS from there".
 
That was then, this is now. I was a young, ignorant teen then, I am a grown, mature man now. Now, I embrace and proclaim my Southern heritage with MUCH justifiable pride. I champion the cause of the South as the cause of us all.  I Am The South!!  It would do well for us all to so proclaim. I AM THE SOUTH!!!
 
Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
 

 

The 1861 Magnolia Flag

August 17, 2010

Last week, I noted that the Mississippi NAACP will ask the Southeastern Conference to rule out Pearl as a host site for their annual baseball tournament because of the state flag. Rep. Greg Snowden wrote about the issue on his Clarion-Ledger blog yesterday, and I strongly recommend you check it out.

He makes this very valid point about the 2001 flag vote: “It is my personal opinion that the ‘new’ flag proposed in 2001 was rejected so handily not because Mississippians necessarily are so wedded to the 1894 flag, but because we have a real sense of our history and heritage. We can spot the genuine from the fake, as it were. If you want to replace the old flag, don’t just create an artificial alternative from scratch; rather, find something real from our past to embrace and build upon.”

His solution? How about a return to the ‘Magnolia Flag,’ which was established in 1861, and was the state flag until 1894 when the state adopted the current flag. His point is two-fold: despite being created by a Confederate convention, it does not contain the emblem offensive to the NAACP, but it also has history tied in with- as opposed to the 2001 proposal which was a joke.
 

From what I have seen, groups who oppose the battle flag don’t seem to have the same concern about less recognizable Confederate flags (even the Confederate national flag). The current Georgia flag is based entirely off of the first national flag of the Confederacy, with the only addition being the state seal in the canton of the flag. This replaced the miserable two-year run of this flag, which actually makes Mississippi’s 2001 flag proposal look decent. Previous to that, the 1956 Georgia flag prominently displayed the battle flag (and somehow Atlanta still got the Olympics in 1996).

As for the politics of this, it’s tough to predict the future, but I don’t see too many Mississippi politicians delving into this issue. The memory of Ronnie Musgrove is still there- and fresh in their minds. Simply put: its political suicide. Will that change? Like I said, it’s tough to predict the future. We have seen the consequences in Mississippi, but the same exact story lines played out in Georgia as well. In 2002, Gov. Roy Barnes (D-GA) was defeated by Sonny Perdue who became the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction. By 2004, Republicans had taken over control of the state legislature in the Peach State.

But as Snowden says, the NAACP can’t do a whole lot about the situation, and the truth is they probably turn more people toward the flag just because of their polarizing nature. If and when Mississippians want a new flag, they will get it.

On The Web:   http://majorityinms.com/2010/08/17/the-1861-magnolia-flag/

 

South rebel flag to remain

By Bill Christian
August 16, 2010

Students at Sullivan South High School will be allowed to fly the rebel flag during football games and other sporting events this year. After numerous complaints to Sullivan County schools, a committee was formed to look at the concerns.

"We felt like that our school has a perception issue that other people from other areas might perceive that flag in a way different from how our kids perceive it," said Greg Harvey, Sullivan South Principal.

The committee determined that banning the rebel flag would create even more issues, like so they came up with a compromise. New flags, called spirit flags will be flown along side the rebel flag.

"Our main goal is to try and get the perception changed from how people maybe view that flag and our school," Harvey said.

The new flags include the Bonnie Blue, and four others. So far they are a hit with students.

"I like them, they are really cool, they have our school colors in them," said Heath Haden, student.

But will this solution to the problem be enough to quiet critics of the flag?

"I can't speak for everybody, but I feel this is the best for our students," Harvey said.

©2010 Media General Communications Holdings, LLC.

On The Web:   http://www2.tricities.com/news/2010/aug/16/south-rebel-flag-remain-ar-456875/

Why Texas Joined the Confederacy

August 16th, 2010
Wick Allison

Julia Barton at the Texas Observer has a fascinating post about a little-known incident (at least to me) that pushed Texas into the Confederate column. In 1858, Texas had elected a pro-Union slate of officials, including the venerable Sam Houston. Two years later, mass hysteria swept the state about a possible abolitionist plot. Known as the “Texas Troubles,” it led to slave lynchings and pushed the state firmly to the rebel side. Here’s how it started:

“…a drought and heat wave scorched much of the South in the summer of 1860, exacerbating the tense political atmosphere. Water wells dried up and crops withered in the fields as temperatures reached above 100 degrees for days on end. On July 8, most of Dallas’s 678 residents were sweating out their siestas indoors when a fire broke out at Wallace Peak’s drugstore downtown. The townspeople could do little but run outdoors as hot winds blew the flames from one dry wooden building to the next. By the time the fire burned out, half the town’s business district was destroyed.”

Above 100 degrees for days on end? Sounds familiar. And it gets even more familiar:

Similar fires happened at almost the same time in Denton and the hamlet of Pilot Point. The excitable editor of the (burned-down) Dallas Herald, Charles Pryor, sent letters to several newspapers about an alleged abolitionist plot afoot in Texas that aimed to burn the state down.

(Terror babies, anyone?)

On The Web:   http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2010/08/16/why-texas-joined-the-confederacy/

 

Saturday, August 14, 2010

No more SPLC for me!

That's what this ex-supporter said after defending his local Tea Party:

I have attended eight meetings of the Kingston/Rhinebeck Tea Party near my home town as well as one or two in my home town of Olive, New York. I did not detect a single instance of racism. There is more racism on the CUNY faculty than in the Kingston/Rhinebeck Tea Party. I very much doubt that Professor Tabb or the NAACP have done any research as to whether there is actual racism. I am a former contributer to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which made similar kinds of irresponsible allegations. I voiced my concerns to Morris Dees, the founder, directly, and have ceased any involvement with that organization.

Let's hope this is a trend!

On The Web:   http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2010/08/no-more-splc-for-me.html

 

Saturday, August 14, 2010

FAIR Exposes Unscrupulous Tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Finally! Now this is a job that needed to be done! Hats off to FAIR for putting this together:

The Media Department at the Federation for American Immigration Reform has just published a "Guide to Understanding the Tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Immigration Debate." The guide was designed to help journalists better understand the unscrupulous methods used by the SPLC to discredit organizations, like FAIR, and to attack the American people who support enforcing the immigration laws already on the books and oppose efforts to pass a mass-amnesty for illegal aliens.

On The Web:   http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2010/08/fair-exposes-unscrupulous-tactics-of.html

 

Monday, August 16, 2010

Growing up Southern

How did we survive without the nanny state? And what kept us from degenerating into anarchy without strict government supervision? Fred Reed was alive and on the move in those days, and knows the answer:

In today’s world of over-policing by militarized hostile cops, of metal-detectors and police in schools and compulsory anger-management classes and enforced ingestion of Ritalin or Prozac, King George sounds, well, dangerous. I mean, how can you let kids run around as they like, with…with….guns, (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!) and beer, and unregistered canoes without supervision by a caring adult, and…?

The answer of course is that we supervised ourselves. Within limits, anyway. I do remember lying on the roof of my father’s station wagon and looking up at the brake pedal because I hadn’t taken that unbanked downhill S-turn on Indian Town Road quite as well as I had planned.

But, being Southern kids, we boys knew how to handle guns, and the girls knew how to handle us, and though the country boys were physically tough from doing real work (consult a history book), we were not crazy in the head, as the phrase was. To the extent that adolescents are willing to be, I guess we were happy. We just didn’t know it.

The wretechedness we see today – the kid who shoots ten classmates to death, the alleged students strung out on crystal meth, the suicides, the frequent pregnancies – just didn’t happen. Why? Because (I strongly suspect) we were left the hell alone. The boys were allowed to be boys and the girls, girls. We grew like weeds, as our natures directed, and so did not have anorexia or bulimia or the sullen smoldering anger that comes of being a guy kid forced to be a girl or androgyne or flower.

Yes, we had guns. Remember in "Red Dawn," when Cuban and Russian paratroopers took over a small Colorado town, a group of kids (led by Patrick Swayze) armed themselves and fought as guerillas under the name of "The Wolverines"? Well, if our high school had been invaded, we wouldn't have had to go home to arm ourselves; we would only have had to retrieve our deer hunting rifles from the parking lot. Lots of us boys carried pocket knives in class. And guess how many shootings and stabbings we had? Zero. It would've been unthinkable. As Reed says, we supervised ourselves.

Richard Weaver had a name for the social mechanism that keeps us orderly, polite, and disdainful of external controls. He called it the tyrannizing image, and by that, he meant an internalized cultural ideal that provides a model for individual behavior. Think of Robert E. Lee and the ideal of the Southern fighting man as a role model for young people. Then ask yourself what's replaced them -- 50 Cent and Lady Gaga.

That's what the managerial state has taken from today's young people. By depriving young people of a stabilizing culture, our handlers are destroying our capacity for self-control and self-government, which creates more dependence on the government.

Think about that the next time you read an hysterical attack on Robert E. Lee or any other Southern hero. The target of such attacks isn't a hero of a vanished age -- the target is you.

On The Web:   http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2010/08/growing-up-southern.html

 

Thursday, 12 August 2010

A Convenient Doctrine

Out of Power, the Republicans Suddenly Discover States' Rights

By Paul E. Gottfried

A young libertarian friend of mine Thomas Woods is, no doubt, making a fortune on his latest book, Nullification: How to Resist Tyranny in the 21st Century, recently published by the Republican-affiliated Regnery Press. Those who are promoting this work are for the most part GOP publicists and FOX-news celebrities. The relevant historical part can be summed up as follows. At the time of the founding, such statesmen as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison believed that states retained residual powers beyond those specified in the Constitution. Among these non-enunciated powers was the right of state legislatures to interpose themselves between the people and a federal law they believed to be improper. The interposing legislature could then nullify what it considered to be an arbitrary assertion of federal power.

Not all of our early leaders believed in such a right; and advocates of a strong federal union such as Washington, Hamilton, and Adams clearly opposed the nullification doctrine. Still it persisted -- and not only in the slave-holding South but even more conspicuously in New England. There the pro-English Federalists, once having lost power to the Jeffersonian Democrats in 1800, warmed to the idea of greater state power, and particularly after the Democrats propelled Americans into the (at least in New England) unpopular War of 1812. Those who appeal to the nullification doctrine have generally been regions or groups that have lost in their bid for control over the federal government, and that generalization is as true now as it was in the past.

Although I personally wish there were more power-sharing among levels of government, I consider the current appeal to nullification to be a childish ploy. Unlike the early Democrats, the GOP has never been a states-rights party.  It became a national force for decades as the party that crushed Southern secession in the Civil War, and then it pushed the federal government toward overseas expansion, high tariffs, and Prohibition. I can’t think of any Republican president in my lifetime who worked to increase state power at the expense of the federal government, due allowance being made for toothless tax-sharing gimmicks put forth by some Republican presidents. Now we have a Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, who invokes the Tenth Amendment and who speaks about state power that should never have been ceded to the federal union. But Thomas’s presence on the court is not the result of his predilection for the Tenth Amendment. He is there because George Bush Sr. wished to appoint a Black who would not be on the judicial left.

Thomas is therefore not in his position because Republicans have consistently embraced a states right position. Until Obama became president, they probably didn’t even know they were going to move in this direction. But once the healthcare plan passed, the GOP suddenly rediscovered Jefferson and other anti-Federalists of the 1790s. If the GOP is out of power long enough, it may even rediscover the virtues of the Holy Roman Empire. But if the GOP succeeds in taking back federal power, then Tom’s book may land up as a strictly libertarian reading choice.

What makes the current appeal to nullification sound particularly ridiculous is the condition of the state governments that are being encouraged to demand independence. Most states have become wards of the federal government, which deal with their cost overruns by taking federal largess. Not only have these states happily yielded their power to the federal government. They solicit federal grants for their unwieldy public sectors and deeply indebted counties, while also milking state taxpayers. Among the GOP dignitaries I hear preaching states rights is the governor of Texas Rick Perry. While his friend George W. Bush was the chief executive, Perry showed no particular concern about the power that the feds were grabbing. His administration has fallen into the hole (with an 18 billion dollar shortfall). Like Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, the Texas governor has not effectively controlled the public sector. But with Obama and the Democrats ruling the roost, Perry has become a second Thomas Jefferson, demanding that we shackle federal politicians and restore rule to the states.

Now let’s turn to New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who is taking on public sector unions with a vengeance. My grandson, who attends school in West Orange, tells me that unionized teachers hate the new governor, who ran as a Republican in Name Only. Teachers rail against him for insisting on slashing the pensions of public employees. This controversial figure, who looks like an extra from the Sopranos, is exactly the kind of chief executive New Jersey needs. And he persists in his course although his popularity is plummeting in a very leftist state, in which he may be a one-term governor. In sum, Christie is a principled opponent of a bloated, arrogant public sector. And I doubt that he’s heard of that eighteenth-century doctrine his fellow-Republicans are rediscovering while out of power.

© Copyright 2010 AlternativeRight.com

On The Web:   http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/district-of-corruption/a-convenient-docrtine/

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Community and Heritage

by David Ware

“The South was always proud and independent and believed with the Founding Fathers, that centralized and powerful government invariably slides into tyranny. But the North, less proud, less conscious of national tradition, less independent, less manly in many ways, craves the dictator’s hand, the tyrants force, for many of its people have come from nations whose people were subjected to and dependent on government. It may be, in the future, that it will be the South who will prevent, for many long decades, the collapse of American Freedom into Caesarism.” Taylor Caldwell, from “Captains and the Kings”

It has been said that the Southerner is the last of America’s people to know who they are and where they come from. This is because the people of the South have a deep and devout attachment to their heritage and community. They are able to trace their ancestry back to the War to Prevent Southern Independence, the Revolutionary War and beyond. Their parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great-great grandparents and great-great-great grandparents knew one another. They loved their land and home place. Names were given to the homes of Southerners: My family had Windsor, Sunnyside, Hard Bargain, Plumsite, Lombardy, Pinewoods, Bellevue and others. These were the places where our ancestors raised their families with other like minded people to be self responsible, productive members of a cohesive community.

This relationship is a complex connection between people, their land and nature. All neighbors are included in an intense personal bond to ancestors, the self, family, the land and its inhabitants. Arts to the Southern people more to do with hospitality, hunting, fishing, conversation and vegetable gardening than with rock concerts and the signing bonuses of professional athletes . Their definition of “mind your own business” is forged by a mutual respect for the rights and property of the individual.

Tied to the love of the dollar, the Yankees are Nomads wandering to advance “careers” and to always position themselves to make as much and spend as little money as possible. They typically have no heritage that they know of, bluster on about forgetting the past and “planning” for the future. They are self proclaimed soothsayers who predict their future based on government programs, laws and bailouts. To them, a community is complete because they are in it. They believe that the tyrannical forces of planning, zoning, building regulations, taxes and laws perpetuate true community. They prefer to live in a subdivision with a guard at the gate craving the “dictators hand” of homeowners associations , their idea of connection to nature has to do with lawn care and walking the dog. Freedom, to the Yankee mentality, is the elimination of self responsibility and worry and a plethora of fast food choices, Costcos and WalMarts.

Their mindset wants cell phones with no cell towers, electricity with no generating plants, gasoline with no oil refineries, airplanes with no airports and less taxes with more government spending. This makes perfect sense to their culture that teaches that you spend to save, borrow to get out of debt and kill for peace.

We Southern people must cure ourselves of Republican and Democrat Part thinking. We have no friends in either major party. We do our ancestors a disservice to pay homage to these people as they and their policies run counter to everything our ancestors stood for. We need to pay more attention to our complete heritage starting with the hospitality of Pocahontas, the brilliance of Jefferson, the example of Washington, the perseverance of Calhoun, the chivalry of Lee, the determination and valor of Jackson and most of all to the idea that we are descended from the heirs of limited government, individual freedom and personal responsibility.

We should cease supporting wars of foreign aggression. Our ancestors fought to be left alone and we, of all people, should respect that desire when it unfolds against our military and political presence. We are descended from people that knew the pain and dismay of having our homes and families devastated by an unprincipled aggressor. How can we support efforts to bend foreign countries under the heavy foot of the U. S. might while lamenting the same thing when it was done by the same mentality against our people?

On The Web:   http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/08/community-and-heritage.html

 

Confederate American Pride update - 18 August 2010
 
From: confederateson1949@yahoo.com
 
Greetings my fellow Confederate patriots,
 
I am pleased to announce the addition of two new pages to the Confederate American Pride website.
 
The first one is a page that has been long overdue at the website -- a photo page.  On it you will find pictures that I have taken and collected through the years of my Confederate heritage activism.  Being that this is a new page, the collection is small at present, but please bear with me and bookmark the page as this is a work in progress.  There are more pictures coming in the nearby future.  You can access the page at this link:
 
Confederate American Pride Photo Page
http://www.ConfederateAmericanPride.com/photos.html
 
You might say that the second page has come about by popular request.  For a long while now I have been getting inquiries from some of my visitors about advertising on Confederate American Pride.  Well, now you can have your banner placed on the homepage of Confederate American Pride while supporting the work that I do.  You can find complete details by clicking on the link below:
 
Advertising on ConfederateAmericanPride.com
http://www.ConfederateAmericanPride.com/advertise.html
 
Thank you all for the interest and support you have shown my site over the years.
 
For a free South,
 
K. Steven Monk
www.ConfederateAmericanPride.com

 

Black Trump Card
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Though heavily utilized by postwar Radical Republicans in order to maintain political power in the South at all costs, black bloc-voting had raised concerns in New York in the 1820’s. In that case, New York’s legislature raised the property-owning minimum to effectively disenfranchise black voters.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
********************************************************************
 
Black Trump Card:
 
“For…whites determined to hold on to power or to challenge it, the rump African-American vote remained a temptation and, not infrequently, a trump card. “The greatest danger that threatens Democratic [party] supremacy in the South,” a leading white newspaper warned in 1883, “is that the “out” faction always gravitates toward the Negro and secures his aid to rout the “ins.”  With the economic downturn beginning in the late 1880’s, this situation had become volatile, with hardscrabble white people mobilizing behind Populist candidates and formerly quiescent black people awakening to their new balance-of-power opportunities.”
 
(WEB DuBois, 1868-1919, David L. Lewis, Henry Holt & Company, 1993, page 260)
 

 

SOLDIERS' HOME VIDEO - Of Confederate Soldiers on Grounds of R. E. Lee Camp
 
To members of Friends of the Confederate War Memorial - Pelham Chapel
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78512393195

RECENTLY, one of the Members of our Face Book Group: Friends of the Confederate War Memorial - Pelham Chapel, took an old VHS Taped that was played for Visitors at the Chapel and has converted to Digital Video. Because it is a Video of Seldom Seen Confederate Soldiers in a Video Image, it is a priceless artifact of great historical significance. I invite you to click on this link and view the Video of the Pelham Chapel and the Soldiers' Home Confederate Veterans.
 
http://www.myfamily.com/share?s=Bt3tX8iL_ck8idnNKa0dVw
 
This New Video is Very Powerful, and I recommend that you share it with your friends. Also, I would like for you to join the My Family Group, which has been around for awhile and provides a different format for Historical Groups that Come Together for Similar Interests.
 
http://www.myfamily.com/group/confederatechapelcampno1
 
Please Click on the Join This Group Link in the Top Right Corner, and I will Generate an Automatic Invitation.
 
Please Let Me know what you think of the Old Confederate Soldiers Video - There are not many around.
 
Bobby Edwards
 

A picture worth 1000 words
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: Confederate flag used in Japanese protest
http://www.southernwarroom.info/post?id=4846068
 
Somebody comments at the above page
 
<<<I'm not sure what possible connection could exist between the mass murder of 220,000 Japanese women and children by the awful and evil Truman and the Confederate flag. However, this man used the Confederate symbol to protest the US government's nuking of civilians. If he wants an apology, he's got it from me for what it's worth - and it's worth nothing since I wasn't alive then and didn't do it. However, I do agree with him that was an inexcusable thing to do. His use of our symbol to protest a bombing that took place 85 years after the Confederacy was brutally conquered by the same government that nuked his people though is also inexcusable. Use the Fed rag next time, Japanese protesters.
 
http://www.panorientnews.com/en/photo_cartoon.php?k=280
 
PS Can anyone read Japanese and tell me what exactly the sign says?
 
>>>
 
/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS -- ONE       MAN'S OPINION: Number one, I'm thrilled to see a comment here nailing FDR as the genocidal maniac he truly was. Number two, I'm sure no translation is needed and these Japanese are simply telling the yankee fedgov they want no part of it!
 
The C-flag is the international symbol of freedom and self-determination. That's what it is and I say so at the drop of a hat -- best summary I've been able to come up with. And I'm thrilled, absolutely thrilled to see it used in Japan. The more foreigners show the C-flag it at such junctures, the better -- like a million dollars of free advertising for our Cause, whether they mean it or know it or not.
 
I beg you, dear compatriots, whenever you see or hear mention of such usage, report it here. The ideal would be for every oppressed people or captive nation to wave Dixie and throw off the chains declaring solidarity with our Confederate ancestors. Everybody loves them except the self-appointed thought police, and they needed to be instructed to hate it as part of a mass brainwashing/re-education program.
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Hail Missouri
 
More magnificent news is coming out of the Show Me State. I've logged three breakthroughs here
 
http://www.anu.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=622&PN=1
 
in the Nationalist Times print newspaper's online discussion forum -- the 6/29 and 8/16 items on decency, the heath Obamination, and demographics. Don't be too surprised if this great Southern state ends up leading ameriKa out of Babylon. Maybe we should all target MO as the next "exodus" destination? I would appreciate people there commenting me directly on the climate and environment there.
 

 

Secession and Readmission
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
In the following mid-1864 letter to Charles Sumner, General Gantt of Arkansas questions the revolutionary logic of the radical Republicans in Congress which claimed sovereign States had become mere territories after unsuccessfully seeking political independence.  Radicals like Sumner had forgotten that the States created the limited government, and the latter had absolutely no authority to question a solemn decision of a State’s electorate.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
 
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Secession and Readmission; Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner from Gen. E. W. Gantt, of Arkansas.
FIFTH-AVENUE HOTEL, June 1, 1864.

 
Hon. Chas. Sumner:
 
SIR: But for your resolution and action in reference to Arkansas politics, I feel sure that I should not have appeared before the public again. The subject which calls forth this letter being entirely of a public character, induces me to address you through the columns of the New-York TIMES.
 
Upon the application of the State of Arkansas to resume her relations -- temporarily disturbed -- with the National Government, by sending her constitutionally-chosen representatives for that purpose, you have seen fit to introduce the following resolution, to wit:
 
Resolved, That a State pretending to secede from the Union, and battling against the National Government to maintain their position, must be regarded as a rebel State, subject to military occupation, and without representation on this floor, until it has been readmitted by a vote of both Houses of Congress; and the Senate will decline to entertain any application from any such rebel State until after such a vote of both Houses.
 
From this I infer that you intend to oppose our peace offering, and to break up, if possible, our loyal State organization, effected as it has been at immense personal hazard, and wonderful exertions and determination upon the part of our loyal people.
 
When you say that a "State pretending to secede" must be "readmitted" by a vote of both Houses of Congress, what are we to understand you to mean? Do you mean that the State really did secede? That is, that it got out of the "compact?" If that be so does it not occur to you that it went out as a State and became a separate sovereignty? If this be so, "readmission," it strikes me, is a legal impossibility. The Sovereign Government of Arkansas should apply for "annexation" and not "readmission." But do you mean that it only pretended it was out, while in point of fact it was in the Union? Then how could you "readmit" that which never was out? It would place the Government in the awkward attitude, it seems to me, of fighting against the people of a State because they "pretended to secede," and yet had not, and at the same time declaring that they did go out and must be "readmitted."
 
But do you mean that the secession ordinances passed by certain legislatures and conventions reduced the States in which the same were passed to Territories? If so, how? If the ordinances referred to put the States out, why they went out as States. It won't do to say they had just enough sovereignty to scramble out of the Government, and that then they rumbled into Territories. The sovereignty reserved that could take them out, could hold them up as States. As such, they could form compacts with other Governments, or new combinations of their own. They could not possibly work their way out of the Government, and being out, fall back to the Government as a part of its territory -- no more than they could merge into the Russian possessions. A doctrine so dangerous might destroy the Government in a month. Secession ordinances passed by twenty States, reducing them to Territories, would stop the wheels of Government.
 
But you may intend this as a punishment because our State "pretended to secede." If so, we are already punished enough. But why discriminate? Missouri pretended to secede, and so did Kentucky. There was no question raised over them. And Mr. BOULINEY, of Louisiana, remained in the Congress of the United States more than one year after Louisiana pretended to secede.
 
But, then, your opposition may arise from want of regularity in the reorganization. That it was without precedent I admit. That the people, groaning under anarchy, oppression and despair, wrought out a government from the wreck around them, with no beaten path to follow, is true.”
 
(New York Times, June 3, 1864)
 
 

Ladies' Memorial Associations
 
From: evergreen@pgtc.com
 
In a recent issue of the SHNV there was an announcement about a book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, by Caroline Janney.
 
The book explores the role of women in this noble cause from 1865 to 1915.  Someone now needs to write a "sequel" to this and document all the ladies' memorial associations from 1915 to 2010.  How many are still in existence?  I know of two which are still alive and well, one in Montgomery, Alabama (Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery) and one in Arkansas (Southern Memorial Association of Washington County). 
 
The one with which I am most familiar is the Southern Memorial Association of which I am currently the president.  The Southern Memorial Association of Washington County was begun in 1872 and has had a continuous membership since then.  According to the Arkansas History Commission, the Southern Memorial Association of Washington County is the oldest known, continuous association formed by women in the state of Arkansas.
 
Maybe readers of this newsletter know of other ladies' memorial associations founded back in the 1800s and still in existence?  If so, please send me the contact information as I would like to start compiling a list.  evergreen@pgtc.com
 
For information about the two ladies' memorial associations mentioned above, visit their websites:
 
Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery, Alabama:
http://www.theladiesmemorialassociationofmontgomery.com/contact.php
 
Southern Memorial Association of Washington County, Arkansas:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arsma/index.html
 
Deo Vindice,
Mrs. Donna Schwieder
Arkansas
 

Chamber of Compost
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: Myrtle Beach bows to threat of flag boycott 
Myrtle Beach Sun News
http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/08/15/1635657/mb-bows-to-threat-of-flag-boycott.html

 
/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS: It seems to say that the Chamber of Communism in Myrtle Beach is "profiling" sports events -- nixing them in advance "because of concerns raised by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." So, a bunch of thugs tell you they don't like your face and you start slashing it for them?
 
These knuckleheads who are supposedly in the business in improving the economy and bringing loot to their community are in fact a bunch of rootless bureaucrats gaily caving in to political vandalism and extortion. It's not actually politics or even a conflict, but theater (you can't rape the willing). The NAACP and CoC are always in bed together so when the former says jump and the latter says how high, it's pillow talk. The masses get the message of the immorality play before them and proceed to ape and regurgitate the sick "values" thus imprinted on them. Parents know that if they speak up against the gagging BS of it all, their kids may say something they shouldn't in school and somebody get sent for psychological evaluation.
 
None of this would be happening if it weren't for freaks from the BIzarro anti-world running the media bully pulpit, and Bizarro lawyers pushing against normalcy and sanity from the other direction. That's how every last bit of political correctness gets enforced and ingrained -- these things don't just happen. Anybody half paying attention will know who I'm really referring to.
 
Will all red-blooded Southern patriots please make a permanent note that Chambers of Commerce are actually Charnel Houses of Communism? This is equal parts stupid and evil. The article bleats that the CoC opted to stiff the opportunity "for fear an NAACP boycott on South Carolina will hurt its chances at attracting the event"!??!? I thought President Russiavelt proclaimed that we are supposed to enjoy "freedom from fear" in this country? The truth is that they simply love the NAACP, hate the South, and the fear is a fig-leaf for the red-hot passion of institutional adultery.
 
A C T I O N   N E E D E D !  CALL the Myrtle Beach Area CoC at 843-626-7444 and ask why they simply caved without at least giving it a try. Tell them you're disgusted and will never vacation in MB as long as it's in the grip of PC -- or whatever you feel like saying. Doesn't matter where you live -- they need to hear from people anywhere in the world.
       
I just did call and they took my number for somebody to call when they're out of their (yeah, right) meeting. The perky birdy answering the phone chirped that she wasn't sure they would choose to comment since they're not pursuing this great opportunity for the townspeople. If you're with a periodical or organization, say so. If you're not an officer of it, tell them you'll be reporting it to those who are. Please, I beg you, JUST DO IT. The munchkins' contact page:
http://www.myrtlebeachareachamber.com/about/contact.html
 

Information, please
 
From: kbachand@juno.com
 
An argument in support of secession by President James Buchanan's attorney general, Judge Jeremiah Black, is found in a book entitled A DEFENSE OF THE SOUTH.  Here is that argument:
 
Judge Black on secession and the Constitution

 
The leading men of the South were so devoted to the Union and so reluctant to withdraw from it that, even after the triumph of the distinctly sectional party at the polls and the election of a President avowedly hostile to Southern institutions and interests, they would not have seceded if they could have obtained any satisfactory assurance that the Constitution would continue to be recognized as the law of the land and that the government would continue to be administered in accordance with its plain provisions. This assurance they vainly tried to get. The testimony of Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, given in an open letter to the Hon. Charles Francis Adams, which was published in the Galaxy for January 1874, not only confirms this statement, but throws a flood of light on the whole situation.
 
After stating the general belief at Washington that Mr. Seward would be “the Wolsey” of the new administration, with 'Law in his voice and honor in his hand,' while others would be subordinate and the President himself little more than a figurehead," Judge Black said: "When the troubles were at their worst, certain Southern gentlemen, through Judge Campbell, of the Supreme Court, requested me to meet Mr. Seward and see if he would not give them some ground on which they could stand with safety inside of the Union. I consented, and we met at the State Department. . . . Many propositions were discussed and rejected as being either impracticable or likely to prove useless before I told him what I felt perfectly sure would stop all controversy at once and forever. I proposed that he should simply pledge himself and the incoming administration to govern according to the Constitution, and upon every disputed point of constitutional law to accept that exposition of it which had been or might be given by the judicial authorities. He started at this, became excited, and violently declared he would do no such thing. 'That,' said he, 'is treason; that would make me agree to the Dred Scott case.'
 
In vain I told him that he was not required to admit the correctness of any particular case, but merely to submit to it [the Constitution] as the decision of the highest tribunal, from which there could be no appeal except to the sword. . . . I had never before heard that treason was obedience to the Constitution as construed by the courts; but this prepared me to learn, as I did some time afterwards, that the correlative virtue of loyalty consisted in trampling the laws under foot.
 
Thus the recognized leader of the Republican party, who was expected to dictate the policy of the incoming administration, emphatically refused to give the Southern leaders that assurance of safety within the Union which would have settled all the trouble, and declared that it would be treason to pledge himself and his party to govern according to the Constitution as it had been or might be expounded by the highest judicial tribunal in the country.
 
When the reins of government were placed in the hands of men who thus emphatically refused to pledge themselves to govern according to the Constitution as construed by the judiciary; when the administration of the country's affairs was given to a party that was organized on a distinctly sectional basis and, in the words of a Northern historian, "Constitution and Union and all public and personal rights and privileges dependent upon them, in the North as well as in the South, stood in immediate and imminent danger of utter overthrow," Southern statesmen felt that, if they would preserve the government inherited from their fathers and hand it down as a heritage to their children, they must withdraw from the Union and establish a Confederacy of their own.
 
I want to use this selection in a pamphlet I am publishing but need more information about the book.  And so i will appreciate it if anyone can give me the name of the author (or editor) and the publisher.
 
Kenneth Bachand
Hendersonville, NC
 
 

Union Convention in Florida
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The Founders never envisioned the federal agent waging war upon the States, nor conquering armies from other States forming new governments as they advanced. These conquering armies would have the inhabitants swear loyalty not to the Founders Constitution, but to a new entity called the “United States,” a nationalist consolidation of the former sovereign States. This revolution was prompted by several States seeking political independence outside the old Union, thus “forfeiting their sovereignty” and justifying invasion.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net 
 
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Union Convention in Florida:
 
“The loyal people of Florida, to the number of several hundred voters, met a few days since pursuant to a call for that purpose, in convention at Jacksonville, and nominated delegates to the Baltimore Convention. C.L. ROBINSON, Esq., of Jacksonville, was chosen President, and J.C. SNOWBALL as Secretary.
 
Delegates were chosen from all parts of the State.
 
John H. Price, I.N. Rutland, Judge Latta, C.L. Robinson and D.R. Dunham were chosen as a committee to prepare a memorial to the President.
 
J.W. Price, Judge Latta, I.N. Rutland, Charles Stagar and Wm. S. Dalk were appointed a Committee on Resolutions. They reported a series, of which the following were part:
 
Whereas, A call has been signed by the National Union Committee for the assembling of a National Union Convention at Baltimore on the 7th day of June next for the purpose of putting in nomination candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States; and,
 
Whereas, An area of country in extent exceeding any of the New-England States is now within the military lines of the forces of the United States, and within which reside and have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States, more than the number required by the Proclamation of the President for the formation of a State Government; and,
 
Whereas, It is our purpose to at once take steps for the reestablishment of a State Government, under which we can again enjoy the happiness and prosperity so long denied us; therefore,
 
Resolved, That we, as loyal citizens of the State of Florida, are entitled to a voice in the councils of the nation of which we are a part; and that if it is hold that our State has forfeited its sovereignty as one of the States of the Union, that we, as citizens of the United States, are none the less entitled to a voice in the National Convention.
 
Resolved, That we are unswerving in our loyalty to the United States, subject to no condition, and unchangeable in our determination; and that, come weal or come woe, our attachment to and confidence in the Government shall remain unalterable.
 
Resolved, That we most earnestly solicit the protection of the Government of the United States, in reestablishing our State Government and authority not only over the territory within the Federal lines, but throughout the whole State.
 
A resolution was also adopted indorsing Mr. LINCOLN for re-nomination.
 
The following gentlemen were appointed a Union Executive Committee of the State of Florida, with full power to take all necessary action and measures to organize a State Government, for the said State of Florida:
 
John W. Price. Isaac N. Rutland, Jr., J.M. Latta C.L. Robinson. D.R. Dunham.
 
Spirited speeches were made by various members of the convention, and at its close, three rousing cheers were given for the Union.”
 
(The New York Times, June 4, 1864)
 
 

Re: Antebellum Slavery: An Orthodox Christian View
 
From: tmanning1@triad.rr.com
 
Dear SHNV Friends,
 
Bill Vallante has it exactly right.
 
Sometimes I respond. "OK., and now what is your point?" They are so self-delusional that they think we are promoting slavery or American (Yankee) Native racism.  They are being insulting and we should respond appropriately. Of course, the law no longer permits us to do this. Dueling is no longer legal.
 
Sometimes I have asked, when arguing with an idiot, "Where in this conversation was there something said that led you to believe I was promoting slavery? or racism?"  "Oh, it must be your anti-Southern prejudice at work." BUT, education should focus on Southern peoples. It isn't our job to make other nations think well of us or American yankee's and Marxists for that matter. Once you chase their bogus arguments down one rat hole they reappear to put us on the defensive again to get us to chase them down another rat hole, and we oblige then by actually biting the hook and chasing their bogus rat down another illogical rat hole.
 
I have watched this on the evening news so many times that I no longer consider CNN and the others even slightly credible. People like Wolfe Blitzer get out of breath trying to pose another argument before you are finished saying what you have to say. They are simply rude, arrogant and ignorant. They never apologise when exposed or admit they were misinformed or acting insulting toward us. Nothing is too extreme or evil that may not be assumed about how Southerners think and act. (This is the Eric Phoner of Columbia University's approach to the South in the years following World War II.) The only good will in these conversations is on our part. We should just write or call their employers and ask that these ignorant insulting bas....s be fired, or worse.  Unfortunately they are so incurably anti-intellectual that the only thing they will understand is the "or worse."
 
They cannot be redeemed. Such people were referred to in ancient times as having their "cup of iniquity" full, and all that was left for them was God's judgement upon a wicked people which was death at the hands of some foreign enemies. Christian men in the USA have become so feminised that such thinking is no longer a part of their pseudo Christian "celebration."
 
It is our duty to just do the right thing and please our God. Educating Yankee's, agnostics and other Marxists and rationalists is rarely successful. If they become "convinced" about some history point on which they are wrong, they will not recognise the fault in their knowledge or personality structure. The have been reconstructed/brainwashed and put through the process of "yankeefication." In the end we have just had an experience that amounted to little more than a polite exercise in cursing the darkness.
 
The great historian Ludwell Johnson at the College of William and Mary has a great section in his book "North Against South" that tells of the targeted reconstruction after the War to Prevent Southern Independence of the northern Democrat States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, and the Republican (but not radical Republican) State of New Jersey.  We are living in the New World Order of the USA following this genocidal war against Southern Christian people, and some of us are pledging to their flag and trying to prove that we really are the most faithful and responsible citizens of this New World Order, after all, they say "had the South won the war Hitler and the Nazi's would be ruling the world." This is brain-dead nonsense. This historical lack of knowledge is such a shallow view of World War II that it isn't worth an argument.
 
Aggressive Marxist nations generally only understand arguments that are traveling so many feet per second out of the muzzle of an AK-47.  The socialists have been working in western cultures for over 400 years. American socialists really do not differ from German Nazi's or Russian communists. Blacks have taught us correctly that American northern Maxists only understand things when their businesses are looted or burned to the ground, and then they just relocate to some other white community. Southern Gentlemen do not have a history of doing that sort of thing. We just want them to leave us alone and stop trying to control how we think and live.
 
We try being nice. When that fails, we compromise because we mistakenly want others to like us and not call us names. But, they never stop no matter how much we have compromised. We start telling them how many black friends we have and how many "Negroes" fought in the Confederate armies or served as support personnel. We mean well when we do this, but we are failing entirely to understand our adversaries. Much of what we do in such great sincerity actually becomes part of the perpetuation of the great American social and political dilemma. There, no doubt, will be a great price to pay to stop this abuse of ourselves, our women and our children.
 
Deo Vindice.
 
Timothy D. Manning
Executive Director
The Southern Partisan Reader
www.TheSouthernPartisan.com

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South Carolina's Reserved Rights
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
In a dispute between the States and the federal agent, the proper course of action of a State is to appeal to a convention of all the States for arbitration of the matter. The federal agent was never  empowered by the Founders to coerce a State, nor was the small standing army placed at its restricted disposal intended to be used against one of the creators of the agent. The same applied in early 1861 as the federal agent again prepared for war against a State.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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South Carolina’s Reserved Rights:


 
“The South Carolina Legislature convened on the 27th of November [1832]. Governor [James] Hamilton’s message stated the account between the State and the United States.  The latter claimed a further sum of sixty thousand dollars interest. Reviewing briefly the action of the Congress, he said that the die had been at last cast, and South Carolina had at length appealed to her ultimate sovereignty as a member of the confederacy, and planted herself upon her reserved rights.
 
He defined the measure of legislation which they had to employ at the crisis to be, “the precise amount of such enactments as may be necessary to render it utterly impossible to collect within our limits the duties imposed by protective tariffs thus nullified.”  He refrained from suggesting details, but proposed that the Governor be authorized to issue certificates of clearance to vessels outward bound in case the [federal] collectors refused to do so. 
 
Noticing the rumors that coercion might be resorted to, he remarked that such threats were once “officially promulged,” and that “we must prepare for this alternative.” He therefore recommended a revision of the militia laws, the details of a volunteer system, and provisions for mounting heavy ordnance; for a quartermaster service, and that the President be requested to vacate the citadel at Charleston, occupied at the joint instance of the city and the State, in order to make room for State troops and munitions.
 
“I cannot, however, but think,” he said, in conclusion, “that in a calm and dispassionate review by Congress…that the arbitration by a call of a convention of all the States, which we sincerely and anxiously seek and desire, will be accorded to us. To resort to force is at once to prefer a dissolution to its preservation.”
 
(A History of Sectional Struggle, Cicero Willis Harris, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902, pp. 236-237)
 

Accidental bigotry
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
A message to a great Algore buster and its response........
 
<<<
TO: Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
monckton@mail.com
 
Greetings, Sir. A fellow Christian apologist/activist has sent this link:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zOXmJ4jd-8&feature=channel
Updated with Slides - Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul
 
It's great to know of your existence and work. In today's toxic intellectual climate it's almost unbelievable that a scholar like you -- a peer, no less -- is lecturing on the fraud of global warming with free refence to the true Faith. But I fear you've fallen into a common trap in effectively equating Algore with "Southern" and "stupid" (or "evil") in your presentation. This is quite common with non-Southerners. It may get good laughs, but I'd like to point out if I may that it's off-base and very wrong.
 
Algore may be Southern-born and -bred but he is no Southerner and doesn't actually talk Southern. Indeed he is one of the most un-Southern and anti-Southern people ever to hit the big time. I'm not sure where you got the notion that he has a Southern accent. His speech sounds more like Ohio or Pennsylvania than Tennessee:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bMDaX14PQ&feature=fvst
 
He does not use, for instance, the long-I sound you pillory -- "Ah" for "I" etc. It's simply not there. "I can't do his dreadful accent", you say. Do you so blithely spit in the face of millions who do speak as you indicate? Apparently you're not aware of it, but the fact is the South is historically the fertile ground for your kind of ideas, .i.e. politically incorrect truth. The North by contrast happens to be the world headquarters of political correctness.
 
It appears you're speaking before something called the Minnesota Free Market Institute in this footage. I'm shocked to know such an anomalously-named thing exists, because the cold northlands of the world have historically and characteristically been the source of the world's ugliest socio-political developments, not least communism (PC's literal, direct, original source) and the geopolitical rape laughably misnamed the "American Civil War".* I have tallied the freedom organizations around the USA and found most headquartered in Dixie by a good margin. Is any of this a surprise to you? I assume you are creationist -- and aware that the "Scopes Monkey Trial", in which evolutionism got its original black eye, took place in Tennessee -- not Massachusetts or New York.
 
We who love the South and want to save it from the PC wrecking ball are forever insulted, ridiculed, disenfranchised, and in some cases shot and killed for standing up for ourselves. Or this is done to us strictly for fun and amusement without any imagined provocation. We don't appreciate it. Are you by chance among those still laboring under the misapprehension that the South is or ever was all about racism, bigotry and slavery? This is one of the biggest of all big lies. I (and thousands of others worldwide who will read this message) will be happy to prove otherwise. By the way, when you put words in Algore's mouth like "Ah jes' done made it all up", you're mocking idioms traditionally ascribed to illiterate Southern blacks, almost a criminal offense in today's ameriKa when deliberate.
 
"The truth alone is worthy of our entire devotion" -- CMW3VMoB. Amen!
 
Randolph Nelson Waller M.Mus.
Anderson, S.C.
Confederate States of America
 
*But I repeat myself -- the yankees' invasion was fully communist and was personally cheered on by Karl Marx.
>>>
 
THE VISCOUNT REPLIES:
 
Dear Mr. Waller, - You make an entirely fair point. Actually I love the Southern accent, and recently had the privilege of speaking at a Tea Party in North Houston. So you can be sure that your point has been well taken at this end, and I shall amend future presentations accordingly. - Monckton of Brenchley
 
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Carie, Rannoch, Scotland, PH17 2QJ
monckton@mail.com
 
 

Ignorance in my hometown
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
My guess is that the editor of the Providence Journal never figured he would hear from someone who would not only scoff at his pretensions but who could cite sources and, lay claim to knowing something about Rhode Island’s history because he grew up there. Yes, Providence is the land of my birth. I must say that when I was growing up there were far fewer idiots in residence there than there are now. 
 
It would appear that my initial letter struck a nerve with one such idiot, given his terse responses. That idiot is the editor of the Providence Journal. Folks have been telling me for some time now that people in the north these days are blissfully ignorant of the North's involvement in slavery. I found this difficult to believe, because when I was growing up in Providence everybody who'd ever read a history book knew of it. Even my mom, who never graduated high school, knew of it.  
 
Today it seems, ignorance has been raised to the level of a fine art. And nowhere is that more evident than in the reaction of the editor of Rhode Island's number one newspaper. 
 
Re: http://www.projo.com/opinion/editorials/content/ED_confed5_08-05-10_FVI3JOL_v109.2984ec5.html 
 
To: letters@projo.com
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com 
 
The Providence Journal, the primo newspaper in a state whose biggest income producing industry at the time of the Constitutional Convention was the slave trade, sermonizing about slavery, the cause of the “Civil War” and civil rights? What a hoot!  Now, I for one don’t believe anyone owes anyone any apology for slavery, be it a northern state for its involvement in the slave trade, or the Rhode Island mills and factories profiting from cotton grown with slave labor, or for that matter, Southerners for their use of an agrarian slave labor system, but I suspect that you sermonizers at the Journal feel that such expressions of regret are indeed owed. If you do indeed feel this way, I suggest, Mr. Editor, that you look to your own back yard before pointing your finger southward to find the “mote in your brother’s eye.” 
 
A few points: 
 
**Elaine Kagan – You will pardon some of us who recoil at the idea of black robed deities retiring into their chambers to commune with the gods of law and then emerging to turn society on its head and America into something that it was not intended to be. Some Americans are in love with this prospect, others of us loathe it. Kagan has shown indications that she is cast in this mold and many of us out here are saying that we’ve had quite enough of it, thank you. If you folks at the Journal think we are so bad, then maybe it’s time that people like you and people like us each go our own way. There is, after all, NOTHING which proves that secession is illegal or not viable, except that the last time it was attempted, it was crushed by northern force of arms. And in case y’all haven’t heard, “might does not make right!” 
 
**Civil Rights – Yeah, Thurgood Marshall, blah blah blah…. Civil Rights, blah blah blah…. What? I am not falling on my knees gushing with reverence and abasement when such people or such things are mentioned? What kind of person must I be? I am the kind of person who still is able to think critically. Just because you wrap yourself in the cloak of civil rights does not mean that you are honest, that you are without fault or without the natural human vices that drive all of us to some degree, or that you are not out to promote yourself while denigrating me. It does not mean that you don’t have an agenda, or that you get to determine what is good for the rest of us, and it does not make you automatically right in all things. The sheer number of demagogues and race baiters who have couched themselves in this oh-so-holy mantle over the last 50 years should be enough to convince anyone who hasn’t gone blind that this is indeed so. I for one will not fall on my knees or cower in fear when someone shakes the holy icon of civil rights in my face.  
 
And yes, Marshall lawyered for the folks who did the Brown vs. Board of Education thing. And no, I’m not going to fall on my knees repeating his name in prayer either. The decision itself said that a child could no longer be denied admission to a public school based on his race. However, less than 10 years later, social engineers, (backed by black robed federal deities), saw fit to mandate that parents put their kids on busses and ship them to schools in neighborhoods where you would only feel safe if you were sitting in an armored car. It was called “bussing” and I’m old enough to remember it. It was here in Rhode Island in the 60s and so was I, as I grew up in Providence. Parents at that time resented it bitterly and they had every right to. Here’s a thought for you socially conscious moralizers at the Journal – do an article which shows conclusively that the Constitution of the United States gives the federal government the power to tell parents where they must send their children to school or where in that document it gives government the right to adjust the racial makeup in schools to please the social engineers and the civil rights demagogues? We both know you can’t, because the Constitution makes no such decree. 
 
**Further, off the cuff comparisons of Confederates to Nazis don’t hold water. They only serve to highlight your ignorance. For one thing, unlike the Nazis, the Southerners did not perpetrate a holocaust. In 1800 the black population of America numbered 1 million, by 1860 it numbered 4 million, by 1895 it was up to 8 million and today it is 40 million. Numbers don’t lie and these are not “holocaust numbers.” The Nazis sent their armies crashing over their neighbors’ borders in an attempt to subjugate them. The South did no such thing. In fact, as I recall, it was the North which acted in this manner! Numerous Southerners, Jeff Davis, Judah Benjamin, Pat Cleburne, Mary Chestnut and others repeatedly made the same plea – “all we ask is to be left alone.” That plea has a very un-Nazi-like ring to it, wouldn’t you agree? Finally, 500 Confederates are buried in Arlington National Cemetery. They are officially recognized as being American Veterans (Public law 85-425) by the government they fought against. No, no Nazis here. Perhaps you could do another article in which you enlighten us poor schmucks as to how you came up with this analogy? 
 
Finally, as to why the Confederacy was founded, the answer is relatively simple. 
 
The Confederacy was not founded so that Southerners could freely indulge in “torture and rape” as you so colorfully put it. Such things did occur but were not the norm and the perpetrators were not looked favorably upon by their fellow slave owners. How do I know such things? Well, for one thing, I read the Federal Writer’s Project “Slave Narratives” in their entirety (a project which took almost a year) and listened to the words of those who themselves had been slaves. Have you read the Narratives? I think not. Your implication that torture and rape were commonplace needs some citations I think. Can you give us such citations? My money says you can’t. 
 
The Confederacy was not founded so that Southerners could spread slavery from sea to shining sea either. There was much more to the 'slavery in the territories' issue than a simple issue of good vs bad. Like most issues, both in the past and in modern times, the political conflicts over this issue had to do more with money and power than any real moral issue. How do I know this? By reading the very public words of a Senator from Mississippi, Jefferson Davis, who in 1860, addressed his northern colleagues in the Senate as follows: 
 
(Spring of 1860) “What do you propose, gentlemen of the free soil party? Do you propose to better the condition of the slave? Not at all. What then do you propose? You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery. Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not at all. What then do you propose? It is not humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country. It is that you may have an opportunity of cheating us that you want to limit slave territory within circumscribed bounds. It is that you may have a majority in the Congress of the United States and convert the government into an engine of Northern aggrandizement. It is that your section may grow in power and prosperity upon treasures unjustly taken from the South, like the vampire bloated and gorged with the blood which it has secretly sucked from its victim. You desire to weaken the political power of the Southern states, - and why? Because you want, by an unjust system of legislation, to promote the industry of the New England States, at the expense of the people of the South and their industry.” (A Constitutional History of Secession, By John Remington Graham, page 232, Pelican Publishing Company, copyright 2005) 
 
I think that Senator Jefferson Davis’ words put a crimp in the belief that it was “all about slavery.” 
 
And it was not the only time that this man or others like him questioned the motives of their northern countrymen either. He and many other Southerners did. But for some reason, their words just don’t seem to make it into the contemporary history books. In 1848, in that very same Senate Chamber, Davis made the following remarks: 
 
"Neither “love for the African” [witness the northern laws against him], nor revulsion from “property in persons” [“No, you imported Africans and sold them as chattels in the slave markets”] motivated the present day agitators," argued Davis. “No sir….the mask is off, the purpose is avowed…It is a struggle for political power." [“Jefferson Davis – Unconquerable Heart”, By Felicity Allen, Page 168,  University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, copyright 1999] 
 
No, it was not “all about slavery.” It was about much much more than that. 
 
It was about the desire of the Southern people to be free. Free from what? For that answer, all you need is to take a good long look in the mirror and you will see the answer staring back at you. It was to be free of people like yourselves. 
 
Bill Vallante
Commack NY
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Associate Member, Camps 3000 & Camp 1506 
 
----------------------------------------------- 
 
The Editor Responds with not one, but two emails, each containing a question or comment: 
 
“Where does it say anywhere that the BIGGEST industry here at the time of the Constutional. Convention was the slave trade.” 
 
And 
 
“Yes –– “left alone’’ to own slaves.” 
 
Unfortunately for him, he stepped into it big time. Unlike him, I've done a bit of reading and research. My response is below 
 
------------------------------------------------------ 
 
Dear Ignoramus, 
 
LOL!  "Left alone to own slaves" - Spare me the moralizing. You should have gathered by now that such remonstrances from people like you move me not. Yes, people owned slaves in the early and mid 19th century. As I said, you will get no apologies from me. It was protected under the Constitution, it was something that had been going on in America for 240 years before Sumter was fired upon and going on world wide since the dawn of recorded history.  And until they ceased to make a profit from the slave trade itself, Rhode Islanders had no problem with it. By the way, you haven’t refuted anything that I said in my original letter. 
 
Shockingly, it does appear, from the tone of your responses, that you are completely unaware of Rhode Island's involvement in the slave trade! Didn't you take history when you were in school? Did you cut classes or did your teachers perhaps, fail to instruct you in how things actually were in your dear little state? 
 
For your information, in the 1950s and 1960s (when I was growing up in Providence), the old "Ma Bell" Providence phone book, had on its first page, the words "Serving Providence and Providence PLANTATIONS" What part of "PLANTATIONS" don't you get? You really did not know that Rhode Island, in colonial times, had plantations? Read a history book. And as for the slave trade in Rhode Island, or its prominence in the late 1700s and early 1800s, just because you've never heard of it does not mean that it did not exist. 
 
I have included some historical references for you below. The first one answers your question about where it says that Rhode Island’s number one industry at the time of the Constitutional Convention was the slave trade. The others clearly demonstrate Rhode Island’s heavy involvement in that trade, as well as the general disregard that the sanctimonious Yankees of that state felt for the black man. Maybe if you ingest the facts I have presented to you it will keep you from releasing more public brain fa**s in the future. 
 
Bill Vallante 
 
"A New Englander commented in 1787 that Rhode Island then held first place in the traffic in African negroes, that the trade constituted one of the colony’s leading activities and was the source of the wealth of the majority of its citizens."(WEB Dubois, "Suppression of the Slave Trade to the United States of America," Russell and Russel Inc, NY, NY, 1965, pp. 34-35) 
 
"It is also noteworthy that, when Rhode Island passed a law providing for the gradual emancipation of slaves, the law was very carefully written to preclude any interference with the ongoing slave trade that was enriching the state." (Edgar McMannus, “Black Bondage in the North.” Syracuse U. Press, Syracuse NY, 1973 page 168)
 
"The deWolf family, one of the more prominent families in Rhode Island, was very much involved in the slave trade. Members of that esteemed family, also slavers, invested their money earned from the slave trade in distilleries and (of all things) in textile mills." (Daniel P. Mannix, Black Cargoes, (The Viking Press, NY, NY, 1962), page 245 ) 
 
"The Brown family, also slavers, invested their money in candle factories, the first cotton mills in American, and an iron furnace and foundry. These were used to provide Washington with many cannons during the revolutionary war. "(Ibid ) 
 
"Although the State (Rhode Island) has been flourishing, it is entirely free from debt, a large majority of the people have, for the last forty years, called loudly on the privileged landholders to give up their exclusive right to voting, and to extend the suffrage to all adult males, in accordance with the system established in all the neighboring States. Their demands did not differ very materially from those which the legislature was willing to concede, except that the democrats claimed the suffrage, not only for every American-born citizen, but also for the new-comers, or the settlers of a few years standing. Both parties agreed to exclude the free blacks.”  (Sir Charles Lyell, Travels in North America in the Years 1841-1842, (New York, 1845), I, pp. 83-84) 
 
"Burrill, an anti-slavery senator from Rhode Island, argued against the entrance of Missouri as a slave state and posed the question - would the “unexplored and almost interminable regions beyond the Mississippi be settled by “free white men” or “by slaves, and blackened with their continually increasing progeny?” The junior senator from Providence left no doubt as to where he stood. “I am not only adverse to a slave population, but also to any population composed of blacks, and of the infinite and motley confusion of colors between the black and white.”  ("Taking a Stand, Portraits from the Southern Secession Movement", Walter Brian Cisco, Page 60, White Main Books, 1998) 
 
"Although its lawmakers took pains in 1774 to decorate its statute books with an act reciting that any slave should immediately become free, they were foresighted enough to tack on as an appendage, a convenient escape clause; namely, that in certain specified instances, emancipation would not be enforced, provided the importer would give bond conditioned to dispose of the slaves beyond the boundaries of the colony. By which happy arrangement the Rhode Islanders salved their consciences and saved their investments."(WEB Dubois, "Suppression of the Slave Trade to the United States of America," Russell and Russel Inc, NY, NY, 1965 pp. 34-35)
 
 

MEXICAN TEXANS IN THE CIVIL WAR.

Secession and the Civil War deeply divided the Mexican Americans  of Texas (Tejanos). Accusations of subversion and disloyalty before the war resulted in a reluctance by many of them to become involved in the conflict. Those who joined militia units in South Texas and on the frontier frequently did so out of a fear of being sent out of the state and away from their families. Some were able to avoid conscription by claiming to be residents of Mexico. Tejano frustrations during the Civil War are exemplified by the case of Capt. Adrián J. Vidal, who joined the Confederacy but deserted and enlisted in the Union Army, only to desert again and join the liberals in Mexico, where he was captured by the French and executed.

At least 2,500 Mexican Texans joined the Confederate Army. The most famous was Santos Benavides, who rose to command the Thirty-third Texas Cavalry as a colonel, and thus became the highest ranking Tejano to serve the Confederacy. Though it was ill equipped, frequently without food, and forced to march across vast expanses of South Texas and northern Mexico, the Thirty-third was never defeated in battle. Colonel Benavides, along with his two brothers, Refugio and Cristóbal, who both became captains in the regiment, compiled a brilliant record of border defense and were widely heralded as heroes throughout the Lone Star State. The Benavides brothers defeated a band of anti-Confederate revolutionaries commanded by Juan N. Cortina at Carrizo (Zapata) in May 1861 and on three separate occasions invaded northern Mexico in retaliation for Unionist-inspired guerilla raids into Texas. The Benavides brothers were also successful in driving off a small Union force that attacked Laredo in March 1864.

Many Tejanos who enlisted in the Confederate Army saw combat far from home. A few who joined Hood's Texas Brigade marched off to Virginia and fought in the battles of Gaines' Mill, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Appomattox Court House. Thirty Tejanos who enlisted from San Antonio, Eagle Pass, and the Fort Clark area joined Trevanion T. Teel's artillery company, and thirty-one more joined Charles L. Pyron's company, both in John R. Baylor's Second Texas Mounted Rifles, which marched across the deserts of West Texas to secure the Mesilla valley. These units were later incorporated into Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley's Confederate Army of New Mexico and fought bravely at the battle of Valverde.

Other Mexican Texans from San Antonio served in the Sixth Texas Infantry and fought in several of the eastern campaigns, including the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and at Franklin and Nashville in John Bell Hood's calamitous invasion of Tennessee. Two of the better known Tejanos in the regiment were Antonio Bustillos and Eugenio Navarro. Others who served the Confederacy included the younger Manuel Yturri, a Kentucky teacher and scholar, who rose to the rank of captain in the Third Texas Infantry; and Lt. Joseph de la Garza, also from San Antonio, who died at Mansfield, Louisiana, in 1864 during the Red River Campaign. More than 300 Texas Mexicans from Refugio and Bexar counties joined the Eighth Texas Infantry. Two companies commanded by Joseph M. Peñaloza and José Ángel Navarro were almost entirely Tejano.

Other Texas Mexicans, resentful of growing non-Hispanic political dominance of their communities, enlisted in federal blue. Many joined the Union Army for the bounty money offered upon enlistment, but some enlisted because they opposed slavery or to satisfy grudges against landowners, attorneys, and politicians who had used the American legal system to take valuable land from Tejanos during the preceding decade. The federal Second Texas Cavalry, commanded by Col. John L. Haynes, a resident of Rio Grande City, was composed almost entirely of Tejanos and Mexican nationals recruited from the small villages along the banks of the Rio Grande. The regiment, which suffered an exceptionally high desertion rate, fought in the Rio Grande valley and later in Louisiana. Company commanders included George Treviño, Clemente Zapata, Cesario Falcón, and Mónico de Abrego. A number of Tejanos, acting as Union consorts, were actively engaged in the Nueces Strip. The most famous of the Union guerillas were Cecilio Balerio and his son Juan, who fought a bloody skirmish with Confederates at Los Patricios, fifty miles southwest of Banquete, on March 13, 1864.

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Women aided Confederates in Civil War

By Johnny Vardeman
vardeman1956@att.net

August 8, 2010  

The American home front is well known for supporting its fighting men and women in its wars. Local organizations in all wars have prepared bandages, food, stationery, shaving and other personal items especially during World Wars I and II. It continued through the Korean and Vietnam wars.

Many individuals and groups back home send "care packages" to American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq today.

The tradition might have started during the Civil War. In the South, though times were tough and provisions scarce, ladies aid societies scrounged together what they could to help Confederate soldiers, especially those wounded in action.

The Southern Confederacy newspaper carried lists of donations from all over Georgia. The Atlanta Hospital Association received gifts and distributed them where needed.

An 1862 edition of the paper noted the "ladies of Hall County" had contributed "one box nicely packed with sheets, shirts, etc., one sack of meal, one sack of flour and one jar of butter."

The county's Ladies' Aid Association had collected $50 from Gen. H.W. Riley, $50 from M.W. Brown and $5 from the Rev. J.R. Rives. In addition, Harvey Hall had donated $25 to the effort to aid the sick and wounded of the war.

Other organizations around the state had sent vegetables, fruit, clothes and eggs.

A Whelchel story from the Civil War:

Valentine Whelchel of New Bridge in northwest Hall County enlisted in the Confederate Army even though his father was one of seven delegates who opposed Georgia's secession from the Union. On June 3, 1863, Valentine was trying to recapture some artillery guarded by the 9th Michigan Cavalry at Brandywine. He got into a sword fight with a Union soldier, Louis Metzger, and was slashed on the head and hand. Though wounded, he eventually was able to capture Metzger and sent him to the rear as a prisoner before getting treated for his injuries.

After the war, Whelchel moved to Texas and was looking for a surveyor to survey his farm. He came across his next door neighbor, who turned out to be Metzger, the former Union soldier whom he had fought with and captured. They became best friends and lived side by side for five years until Whelchel returned to Hall County. He left his Texas farm under the watch of Metzger.

Whelchel told the Atlanta Constitution in July 1892, "The politicians made the war while the jeans and butternuts did the fighting. There are no better friends than those who wore the Blue and Gray from 1861 to 1865 fighting the politicians' battles."

Whelchel said he still had the scars to prove his skirmish with Metzger.

Footnote on Whelchel/Wilkie: Hayne Thomas, a Murrayville area historian, says New Bridge once was a post office at Leather's Ford on the Chestatee River. It was important because it was on the main route to the gold fields of Auraria and Dahlonega.

The Wilkies or Whelchels, he said, once owned most of the land on the east side of the Chestatee from Leather's Ford south to Grant's Ford. His neighbor, the late Jim Brown Wilkie, used to joke that the only difference between the Whelchels and the Wilkies was that the Whelchels were the rich ones.

Thelma Little, 84, who grew up about a mile from Wilkie Bridge said Jim Brown told her father that the Whelchel name sounded "high-falutin'," and he was just a plain old country boy who wanted to be called "Wilkie." The Whelchels and Wilkies fell from the same family tree; it was mostly just a difference in pronunciation of the names.

Mrs. Little remembers playing in the Chestatee River before the original Wilkie Bridge was built. She now lives in Walnut Grove subdivision off Price Road. The subdivision was developed on the former farm where she grew up.

Her two older sisters attended Grange Hall School, but the year she was supposed to attend the school it consolidated with Price School into Murrayville. She is seeking information on the old Grange Hall School.

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Confederate sub Hunley to offer researchers a new view next year

BY BRIAN HICKS
postandcourier.com
Friday, August 6, 2010

CHARLESTON -- Scientists hope to soon see a new side of the Hunley.

The starboard side, that is.

On Friday, officials at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center announced plans to rotate the Civil War-era submarine into an upright position early next year.

That move will allow scientists their first look at an entire flank of the submarine that has remained covered by the lifting straps used to hoist it out of the Atlantic Ocean 10 years ago this weekend. The sub's rotation might help solve the mystery of why the Hunley disappeared in the waning days of the war.

"In its current position, we have no way to access the surface of the submarine," said Paul Mardikian, senior conservator on the project. "This is going to be the moment of truth when we look at the skin of the sub."

The Hunley, which became the first successful combat sub when it sank the USS Housatonic off the coast of Charleston in February 1864, was lost at sea for more than a century. In 1995, it was discovered four miles off the coast by Clive Cussler and his dive team. The Hunley was found five feet beneath the ocean floor, listing at a 45-degree angle. Scientists insisted the sub be raised in that position so the location of artifacts inside the sub would not be disturbed.

It has rested at that angle ever since.

Now the sub has to be removed from its lifting truss so that scientists can begin to remove the concretion -- hardened sand, sediment and shell -- that cocooned the hull in its 136 years under the sea. Removing that concretion is the final step before restoration of the hull begins, using chemicals and electrical currents. But it will be delicate work, and in some places, that shell is stronger than the iron hull beneath it.

"It is like pouring concrete on an egg and then trying to remove it without breaking the egg," Mardikian said.

Rotating the submarine will also be a delicate procedure, one scientists have studied for the past few years. Some parts of the hull are weaker than others and that has concerned scientists and slowed the process. Mardikian and his team has built a model to test the slow rotation process and are now convinced it can be done without damaging the sub.

"People have asked why it has taken 10 years to get to this point," said Sen. Glenn McConnell, chairman of the state Hunley Commission. "Because we get it right."

The rotation is the biggest news out of the Hunley lab in a while, and could potentially lead to important new discoveries. The starboard side of the sub has remained largely unseen, even in Conrad Wise Chapman's painting of the sub, the most detailed contemporary portrait of the Hunley. Officials hope that side of the sub will hold clues to what happened to the sub on Feb. 17, 1864, in the hours after the Hunley sunk a Union blockade ship. Some theories say the sub could have been hit by a ship coming to the aid of the Housatonic. If so, the clues may be hidden on the unseen side of the Hunley.

"There is a good chance they'll find the final pieces of the jigsaw puzzle buried under that concretion," McConnell said.

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Confederate Monument rededicated at Franklin County Courthouse

The monument was destroyed in 2007 when a car slammed into it

Matthew Moran
Web Staff

August 7, 2010

ROCKY MOUNT, Va —

A confederate monument destroyed last year at the Franklin County Courthouse has been re-dedicated.

A ceremony was held outside the courthouse in Rocky Mount Saturday.

The monument was destroyed in June of 2007 when John Ozmore, Jr. crashed into the base. Ozmore was charged initally with DUI, but the charge was reduced to reckless driving.

The monument was originally dedicated in the early 1900s as a tribute to confederate soliders in Franklin County.

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Spartanburg County Confederate soldiers to be honored

By Linda Conley

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Spartanburg County Confederate soldiers will be honored in a ceremony next weekend by their descendants.

The S.C. Division of the Children of the Confederacy and a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans are holding a monument rededication at 5 p.m. Aug. 14 in Duncan Park. If it rains, the event will move to the American Legion on West Park Drive.

Activities include placing a wreath at the 40-foot marker, presenting the history of the monument and reading soldiers’ letters.

“The UDC (United Daughters of Confederacy) places a wreath at the monument every year on Confederate Memorial Day, but it isn’t usually a public event,” said Anne Elliott, a member of the UDC. “Spartanburg has one of the largest Confederate monuments.”

Historical groups are making the program a public event because this is the 100th anniversary of the marker erected in Spartanburg County. In January 1910, city and county leaders joined with business merchants and school children to sign a contract to build it.

Work was completed by summer and the cornerstone laid in August 1910. The structure was located on South Henry Street in the intersection between the post office and Bethel United Methodist Church. The S.C. Division of United Confederate Veterans held a two-day annual reunion in Spartanburg and the marker dedication was done in conjunction with the event.

“People came from around the Carolinas to attend,” said local historian Doyle Boggs. “Three thousand people and 2,500 Confederate veterans attended.”

As the soldiers got older, Boggs said reunions were common. The monument was built 45 years after the Civil War and done at a time when descendants wanted to preserve their memory. Most towns built monuments shortly after the war.

“Spartanburg’s monument is impressive,” Boggs said. “The granite column was originally intended to be used in the Statehouse building in Columbia.”

The monument stood in the heart of South Church Street for 56 years until plans were made to widen the street. One historical account indicates the marker was considered a traffic hazard and moved to its present location in Duncan Park in 1966. The project was done without any fanfare possibly because it came at the height of racial integration and no Confederate soldiers were living.

Honoring Confederate soldiers always creates controversy because of the debates surrounding slavery and the Civil War. Groups involved in the rededication said the event is to honor their heritage and help people learn something about their ancestors who fought in the war.

“Most people don’t know there is a monument and others don’t know where it is,” said Bill Geen, a camp commander in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “If you don’t remind people of their heritage, they will lose it.”

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More liberal double standards?

August 3
Wilmington Conservative Examiner
Kevin Whiteman

In a July 23, 2010 op/ed piece, columnist Leonard Pitts comes out in favor of the controversial mosque that is proposed for construction at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.

As Pitts wrote; (emphasis mine) "... the Constitution does not carry an escape clause. We do not get to jettison our national ideals just because they cause pain or provoke. To the contrary, that is the time they are most severely tested and most desperately in need of defending."

Interestingly enough, less than two months prior, Pitts equates the Confederate flag with a swastika. As Pitts wrote; (emphasis mine) "conservative Southern Republicans fought affirmative action, poverty programs and attempts to ban the American swastika, i.e., the Confederate battle flag, from public lands."

Interesting.

On The Web:   http://www.examiner.com/x-47869-Wilmington-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m8d3-More-liberal-double-standards

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

"Is It Wrong to Display a Picture of Robert E. Lee?" My Response

Back before I went on this extended hiatus (finishing up this new book), I received a question from a reader about whether it was ethical and neighbor-loving to display a picture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. You can read his query here, along with comments from other readers about what he should do. Below are my thoughts on the situation.

Dear Not-a-Neoconfederate,

As I write this, I can see on my wall the flag of my home state of Mississippi, and I'm deeply conflicted about it. The flag represents home for me. I love Christ, church, and family more than Mississippi, but that's about it. Still, the flag makes me wince because emblazoned on it is the Confederate Battle Flag, which was used so often in my home state, and elsewhere, as an emblem of backlash in support of the ugly epoch of Jim Crow. I supported a referendum changing the flag in 2001, but the voters of the state kept the old flag design by a vote of 65 to 35 percent. The more I think of it, the more I believe my conflicted feelings about that flag aren't all that unusual for a Christian.

When it comes to Robert E. Lee, I can't agree with those who would equate this picture with one of Adolf Hitler. Virtually every biography, by his contemporaries and future historians, would commend the General for his personal character and his sacrificial leadership. As biographer Roy Blount Jr. demonstrates Lee's views on race were, in some ways, much more progressive than those of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and other Northerners.

Lee, like many in the army he led, saw himself as fighting, not for slavery, but for home. This doesn't mean they were right, but it does mean that an easy caricature isn't possible. Based on Lee's own writings, he sounds much like an antiwar American who, nonetheless, when drafted, fights for his country.

The question is complicated more by the home for which Lee was fighting. As a localist Agrarian-leaning political type, I agree with a good bit the Vanderbilt scholars of I'll Take My Stand found commendable in some isolated economic/cultural aspects of the antebellum South, especially compared to the whirl of the industrial rootlessness that came after. But the agrarians, right as they were on so much, were still too close, I think, to the Civil War to see the moral enormity of the slavery question.

But the Confederate States of America was constitutionally committed to the continuation, with protections in law, of a great evil.

The idea of a human being attempting to "own" another human being is abhorrent in a Christian view of humanity. That hardly needs to be said these days, thankfully, but we ought to remember just what was at stake. In the Scriptures, humanity is given dominion over created things but he is not given dominion over his fellow image-bearing humans (Gen. 1:27-30). The southern system of chattel slavery was built off of things the Scripture condemns as wicked: "man-stealing" (1 Tim. 1:10), the theft of another's labor, the destroying of family ties, and on and on and on.

In order to prop up this system, a system that benefited the Mammonism mostly of wealthy planters, Southern religion had to carefully weave a counter-biblical theology that could justify it (the spurious "curse of Ham" concept, for instance). The abolitionists were right.

So what should a pro-civil rights son of the Confederacy do with the memory of those who fought for a Lost (in more ways than one) Cause?

Several comments on the original post pointed out how tainted virtually all history is. Yes, Lee fought for slavery, but so did the American Founders, in writing in allowances for it into the American Constitution. Does the picture of Thomas Jefferson I have in my study endorse his theological liberalism and his slave-holding or does it recognize his far-sighted commitments to human dignity and religious liberty? Does the bust of Theodore Roosevelt endorse his Darwnism or his awful views on eugenics?

The problem with a simple view of history is that it leads to a totemic use of historical figures. Some have romanticized, for instance, the American Founders in a way that doesn't allow an honest conversation about the real problems there. Fourth of July sermons that treat Jefferson and Franklin and Adams as exemplars of evangelical Christianity aren't really defending the gospel, nor are they honoring those founders. They are simply not treating persons as persons, turning them into slogan-supporting icons instead. The same thing is true with the cult of the Confederacy that has emerged in the last century, except often in much more malevolent forms. The Confederate dead have become a kind of cultural short-hand for white supremacy and racial resentment. It is a long drop indeed from Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson to George Wallace and David Duke.

The fetishistic use of historical figures is precisely what leads to the kind of "absolute good vs. absolute evil" characterizations we often see among Christians in the way they view current leaders. Why did so many evangelicals send around email forwards with the urban myth that the then-President of the United States had led a little girl to pray to receive Christ on a rope line? It's because so many wanted to think of this political leader as a spiritual leader too.

That's the kind of hagiography that led to George Washington's cherry tree inability to tell a lie. Well, George Washington was a great man, but he was also a liar. And so am I, and so are you. Unless there was a star shining over Washington's birthplace (and there wasn't), then Romans 3:10-19 applies to him as well as to all of us.

But this messy historical ambiguity ought not to surprise those who are being shaped by the Bible. Think of the brutal honesty with which the Scriptures give us the sins and foibles of our fathers in the faith, while honoring them just the same. Think of the very sinful, conniving picture we get of Jacob in Genesis and then think of the fact that he is commended in Hebrews 11 as a man of faith. Think of the genealogy of our Lord Jesus, filled as it is with scoundrels. And we know they were scoundrels because the Bible tells us so.

The Christian isn't called to a rootless, ahistorical existence. We are commanded to show honor to our fathers and mothers (Exod. 20:12). That doesn't mean hagiography. Jesus pointed out that his fathers had died in the folly in the wilderness (Jn. 6:49). Peter pointed out that the revered David was now just a pile of bones, and thus at least one sin short of a Messiah (Acts 2:29-35). This means we have a skeptical honor that recognizes both the good graces God has given to sinful men and women, and the fact that even the best among us is a sinner.

Should you keep up that picture of Lee, with his quote about what it means to be a gentleman? I don't know. I can't tell you one way or the other because what's more important than a single picture is the general ethos of a home. Years ago, I had an African-American civil rights activist friend with a portrait of Lee in his home, and I never questioned whether he might be a Klansman. I have a portrait in my office of Fannie Lou Hamer, who supported the Equal Rights Amendment (I think), but I don't think anyone sees that picture as an apologetic for feminism.

The issue is love of neighbor and the mission of Christ. That's why the Apostle Paul refuses to lay down simple rules about eating vegetables or eating meat (Rom. 14:1-23). If that picture would hinder your being able to show hospitality and love with your brothers and sisters of every background and race, take it down.

But, if you keep it up on the wall, let it be, like every historical portrait, a warning.

I'd like to think that if I'd been born in 1841 Mississippi instead of 1971 Mississippi that I'd have been leading slave escapes. I'd like to think that if I'd been born in 1941 Mississippi that I'd have been singing "We Shall Overcome" at the 1963 March on Washington. And maybe I would have.

But a gentleman as devoted to character as Robert E. Lee, who had thought long and hard about the evils of slavery, was so conditioned by his time that he couldn't see past his blind spot. So what makes me think that I could have escaped a similar blind spot? And what is so common in our culture right now that we can't even see it, as we think we're serving the Lord?

Jesus addresses something of this when he says, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrite! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets'" (Matt. 23:29). Those are chilling words for one whose bloodline has come down from the slave-holding South through the Jim Crow oppression to the present day.

As I look at that Mississippi flag, I can't demonize it. I'm grateful for the people, the family, the place it represents. But I wince at the symbol that was used to enslave the little brothers and sisters of Jesus, to bomb little girls in church buildings, to terrorize preachers of the gospel and their families with burning crosses on front lawns by night.

All that ought not to prompt a pretending that you come from somewhere other than where you've come. That would be ingratitude. It ought instead simply to lead you to say, "I am a man of unclean lips, and I come from a people of unclean lips" (Isa. 6:5).

None of us is free from a sketchy background, and none of our backgrounds are wholly evil. The blood of Jesus has ransomed us all "from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers" (1 Pet. 1:18), whether your forefathers were Yankees, Rebels, Vikings, or whatever. The gospel also then frees us to give honor to whom honor is due (Rom. 13:7), without the pretense that any human being is without sin or dishonor.

Robert E. Lee was a complicated figure, a sinful rebel (in more ways than one) who bore the image of God. And so are we. Lee was gifted in commendable ways even as he used those gifts sometimes in ways that ought to horrify. So do we. We ought to be honest, in both directions, about Lee and about our neighbors and ourselves. And that ought to cause us to search out our own lives for that hidden sin, that secret hatred, that conforming to the pattern of this age that we don't see and don't think to ask about. Ultimately, no matter how we seek to whitewash our heritage or our personal stories, we'll only conquer it all at the resurrection from the dead. Until then, we watch our hearts, pray for wisdom, work for justice, and love our neighbor.

Deep in my heart, I do believe that we shall overcome some day.

Copyright © 2010, Crosswalk.com

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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

CHRB investigating case involving Confederate colors aboard Mute Rudulph

by Larry Stewart

A California caper that could involve racism and, at the very least, involves the misreporting of the carrying of silks in a race spurred an investigation that could lead to license revocations or suspensions following a stewards hearing on the issue August 7.

The controversy involves jockey silks in the colors of the Confederate flag and a two-year-old colt named Mute Rudulph—an admitted play on the name of Television Games on-air personality Ken Rudulph, an African-American.

The horse, owned by Bill Wilbur, Chris Carpenter, and trainer Bill McLean and ridden by jockey Michael Martinez, won his career debut, a $12,5000 maiden claimer on July 15 at the Cal Expo state fair meet in Sacramento. Wilbur had acquired the colt for $4,700 at the 2009 Northern California August yearling sale.

Wilbur’s registered silks are purple with a white “B” on a black and white background, but Mute Rudulph won carrying the silks of Wilbur’s friend, Jim Robinson, who loaned his silks to the colt’s connections because Wilbur had ordered new silks that were not available in time for the race. Robinson’s silks are red with a blue cross that include white stars.

TVG executive producer Tony Allevato complained about the silks to California Horse Racing Board Chairman Keith Brackpool, who assigned senior investigator Carol Nolan to the case.

In his complaint, Allevato alleged that silks custodian Tony Baze “received financial consideration and conspired to aid and abet” with Wilbur to substitute the “Southern Cross” for the horse’s designated colors. The technical issue is that none of the connections reported the change to Clerk of the Course Tina Walker.

Allevato said he and Rudulph could not comment until the stewards hearing.

Wilbur, a longtime Northern California horse owner, also is not talking but his attorney, Pat McCarthy, did comment.

“There was never any intention to connect the silks with the horse or the namesake of the horse,” McCarthy said. “It was a combination of events that are now getting blown way out of proportion.

“Bill is a big supporter of the Sacramento Kings [of the National Basketball Association], and his colors were always the same as the team colors—black, white, and purple. After he and his wife Karen separated, Bill wanted to get new colors.

“He liked the silks used by his friend Jim Robinson and got permission to get something similar.”

McCarthy said that he told Wilbur that Robinson’s silks look like the Confederate flag.

“He wasn’t even aware of the Confederate flag,” said McCarthy, who did acknowledge that the name of the horse comes from the fact that Wilbur does not like Rudulph’s on-air style and that he “always mutes Rudulph” when he comes on the air.

“His race has nothing to do with it,” McCarthy added.

Wilbur ordered new silks in late June from Stephanie Searle, who owns Classic Silks based at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California, and has been in the silks design business for 24 years.

“I told Bill I could do them very similar (to Robinson’s ) but not alike,” Searle said. “We agreed on red, white stars on blue cross sashes front and back with a white B and a W on the back and a red cap. The B and the W is what is different. There was no mention ever made by Bill about a Confederate flag.”

The Classic Silks website promises to make the jockey proud, the owner happy, and racing look its best.

“I would never have gotten involved if I thought this was anything that could be construed as detrimental to racing,” Searle said.

Searle said that after making a deal with Wilbur she never heard back as to when he needed the new silks. McCarthy said Wilbur lost her cell phone number. The new silks had not arrived by July 15, so Wilbur borrowed Robinson’s silks.

The rub is Baze forgot to notify the Clerk of the Course of the change from black, white, and purple silks to red with white stars on blue cross sashes. As for the charge of financial consideration for Baze, McCarthy said Wilbur gave him a routine $20 tip.

In addition to silks considerations, the colt’s name could also end up being of some concern to The Jockey Club, which has strict rules regarding names of Thoroughbreds.

Specifically, The Jockey Club prohibits
• Names of living persons unless written permission to use their name is on file with The Jockey Club;
• Names that are suggestive or have a vulgar or obscene meaning; names considered in poor taste; or names that may be offensive to religious, political or ethnic groups;
• Names that appear to be designed to harass, humiliate or disparage a specific individual, group of individuals or entity

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Staying true to rebel roots

Lynyrd Skynyrd remains defiant with new 'Gods & Guns'

August 06, 2010
By John J. Moser, OF THE MORNING CALL

In an era of the Tea Party movement, southern rock icon Lynyrd Skynyrd is finding a new popularity with a new album that not only rousingly defends the First and Second Amendments, but seems tells President Obama: "You can take your change on down the road."

But don't call the lyrics on "God & Guns" political, Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke says in a recent telephone call.

"I'm an artist that doesn't like to get on the podium and speak politically," Medlock says from a stop in Ontario, Canada, on a tour that brings the band to Bethlehem to headline Musikfest's Riverplace stage Monday. "I use my platform to play guitar and entertain people."

Whatever the songs' motivation, "God & Guns" has given Skynyrd its best-selling disc in 18 years and highest-charting (No. 18 on Billboard) in more than three decades, since 1977's "Street Survivors," with its hits "That Smell" and "What's Your Name?"

Medlocke says "God & Guns" simply states what's on the minds of Skynyrd's members.

"Do we wear our heart on our sleeve? Yes," he says. "Do we believe in doing things a certain way in this country? Yes. I am quite disturbed, maybe, about how relaxed everything has gotten in this country."

But he says, "I don't follow either side as far as being political. I know people would look at me and say I have conservative points and maybe people would look at me and say maybe I even have liberal points. I look at myself as a patriot. I'm for this country."

For example, Medlocke says the band's members "all have spiritual beliefs" and "believe in protecting ourselves with our what our Second Amendment has provided us with in this country."

But he also says, "I don't believe every knucklehead out there should be allowed to have a gun. I don't preach that. It's idiots out here running around with the weapons that should have the background check."

Forthright lyrics should be no surprise to Lynyrd Skynyrd fans. The group's signature song, "Sweet Home Alabama," has lyrics that say, "Watergate does not bother me," and the band still flies the Confederate flag at its concerts.

Medlocke says complaints about the Confederate flag are unfounded.

"We're not racist," says Medlocke, who is two-thirds Native American. "If there was any racism in this band, I'd tell you about it. But there's not."

The flag, he says, is "just about the band starting out that way; as just tradition. The rebel flag was a battle flag, it was nothing else. But now you've got groups that feel like they need to adopt that as their symbol. And those groups, I don't agree with them."

"I guess after all these years, younger people could look at me and go, 'Oh, he's just an old son of a bitch. He doesn't know what he's talking about,'" Medlocke says. "Well, that's OK. You know, I've walked a lot of miles in the moccasins I've got on. Whether you agree with it or not, that's your own choice. We live in a country where we have choices."

Medlocke, 60, says he doesn't foresee an end to Skynyrd, or its independent spirit — especially if it's able to make successful records like "God & Guns."

But he also says it's a surprise the disc, only the band's second album of new material in 10 years, was made at all.

Despite having new songs, the band delayed recording because it was in a dispute with its record company and wanted to wait until its contract ran out, he says.

Then, after Skynyrd signed with a new label and started to record "God & Guns," tragedy struck. Original keyboardist Billy Powell and eight-year bassist Ean Evans died less than four months apart last year — Powell, 56, of a heart attack and Evans, 48, of lung cancer.

That left the band questioning whether it should continue, Medlocke says.

"We were deeply affected," Medlocke says. "It's like a big family. … And if you've lived long enough to lose family members, then you know what it feels like."

Skynyrd, of course, knows exactly what it feels like. At the peak of the band's popularity in 1977, a plane crash killed three of its members — singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and back-up singer Cassie Gaines — and led to a 10-year hiatus before surviving members reunited in 1987 with Van Zant's brother, Johnny, as vocalist.

"There's been so many tragedies this band has faced," Medlock says. "And we really thought about calling it a day."

But he says fans urged them to continue; one e-mail even resulted in the song "Skynyrd Nation."

"Somebody wrote in to the website: 'With Billy passing away, does that mean the Skynyrd Nation won't continue?'" Medlocke says. "And so we felt that was a good idea for a song."

The band decided to finish the record "because those guys had already started working on it with us, and I think they would have been very disappointed in their efforts to help get something out. And we put the record out, and we've been touring on it ever since then."

Similarly, Skynyrd decided to release "Live from Freedom Hall," a CD/DVD of a 2007 concert with both Evans and Powell. "It was the last bit of film footage that we had of Billy and Ean," Medlocke says. "And we really felt strongly we should put it out so fans could see those guys and have an old film of those guys rolling about."

Since the reunion, original Skynyrd bassisr Leon Wilkeson also died in 2001, leaving guitarist Gary Rossington as the only original member of the band.

But Medlocke, who played with the group in its early years before leaving to form the successful group Blackfoot, rejoined in 1996. With his 17 years in the band, he's behind only Rossington and Johnny Van Zant's 23 years for member longevity.

"We're also not stupid; we know that everything comes to an end," Medlocke says. "But look at The Rolling Stones, they're still going. … You got to roll with it and take it as it comes. And then one day when it's time to lay it down, we'll do a farewell tour."

On The Web:   http://articles.mcall.com/2010-08-06/entertainment/mc-musikfest-lynyrd-skynyrd-20100806_1_confederate-flag-battle-flag-rebel-flag

Confederate flag flies briefly at school

Times Staff Reports

Monday, August 9, 2010

Glencoe High School administrators said a Confederate flag that reportedly flew on the school’s flagpole Monday quickly was taken down.

“From my understanding it was not up there but just a few minutes or so,” Principal Charlton Giles said Monday afternoon. “We believe somebody from an opposing school thought it would be funny, so we have taken it down and contacted that school and given them a suspect’s name so they can deal with it.”

Giles declined to name the opposing school he mentioned.

Copyright © 2010 GadsdenTimes.com

On The Web:   http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20100809/NEWS/100809862/-1/SPORTS02?Title=Confederate-flag-flies-briefly-at-school

 

Dispute over marker goes on

Confederate soldiers' memorial feud bound for trial

Date published: 8/10/2010
By CLINT SCHEMMER

Fredericksburg's legal battle over the location of a memorial to Confederate dead can go to trial, a judge decided yesterday.

Circuit Judge Gordon F. Willis rejected the city's motion for summary judgment to dismiss a lawsuit by the Sons of Confederate Veterans' local camp, saying the court must decide some of the facts disputed by both sides.

The City Council wants the SCV's Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp No. 1722 to remove a granite-and-bronze memorial it erected in early 2009 to honor 51 Confederate soldiers who were buried nearby on what is now the Maury Commons condominiums.

The small monument sits on one corner of the grassy triangle at Barton and George streets that's better known as site of the much-larger Fredericksburg Area War Memorial.

Last fall, the City Council said the SCV monument must move. It enacted an ordinance declaring the triangle the exclusive site of the War Memorial, donated by the Fredericksburg Area Veterans Council, that honors local military personnel killed in World War I and later conflicts.

The Maury camp contends that state law bars the city from moving its monument, and that the SCV had city building and zoning officials' permission to put it there on municipal property. It claims that elsewhere on city land, markers and monuments to the Union's Irish Brigade and the 7th Michigan Infantry were recently permitted by the same process.

But City Attorney Kathleen Dooley argued in court yesterday that staff weren't authorized to allow the SCV memorial. Permission must come expressly from the City Council, she said.

The SCV camp obtained a building permit for the monument's base from the city zoning administrator.

Since it has that document and the memorial is built, the council cannot retroactively move or alter the monument, the group's Richmond attorney, Patrick McSweeney, told the court.

"After the fact, the city can't change the rules," McSweeney argued.

Judge Willis said he wants to hear testimony on why Roy B. Perry Jr., the SCV camp's first lieutenant commander--who obtained the building permit--believed he had the city's approval for the monument.

And as he did last spring when the case arrived in his courtroom, Willis urged the two sides to settle the issue out of court, through mediation overseen by a retired judge.

In interviews afterward, Dooley and McSweeney said their clients are open to such an agreement, if they can find common ground.

"If there's a will, it could be worked out," McSweeney said. "The monument could be located where everybody would be satisfied."

But the legal dispute may grow, not go away.

William E. Glover, the local attorney for the Veterans Council, said the group will file a brief asking the court to let it be a party to the case, on the city's side.

The City Council has retained Fredericksburg trial lawyer Jennifer Lee Parrish to assist Dooley in the case.

And while McSweeney and Dooley declined to describe their clients' bargaining positions for a potential deal, it's not clear that the city and the SCV camp are even on the same page.

Ironically, it was the City Council which--in 1861--approved burial of Confederate troops from seven states at what later became the home of Maury School.

Copyright 2010, The Free Lance-Star Publishing Co. of Fredericksburg, Virginia

On The Web:   http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/082010/08102010/567545

Website little more than shameful lies
August 06, 2010

To the editor:

My overall impression of the North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial website is one of political correctness and an unbalanced view of the War of 1861-1865. The website exhibits varying degrees of bias toward the South’s bid for independence and North Carolina’s role in that effort.

Great effort is expended to convince everyone that the four years of bloodshed was a civil war. As pointed out by conservative columnist Walter Williams, among others including economist Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Professor Ludwell H. Johnson, etc., the way of 1861-1865 was not a civil war. Williams correctly asserted that like the Revolutionary War, the so-called Civil War was a war of independence.

The American Hisotrical Association presents the National Park Service determination that enslavement of Africans was the sole cause of the war. The National Park Service deliberately ignores other factors such as high tariffs, adherence to constitutional principles, or fears of political and economic domination by the North that make for a considerably more complex situation.

No mention is made of the fact that before the war, Abraham Lincoln supported the original 13th Amendment that would have barred the federal government from ever interfering with that institution. No mention was made of so-called Black Codes that Northern and Midwestern states adopted to discriminate against blacks before such codes were adopted in the South.

The role of black North Carolinians and other black Southerners who wore the gray was completely ignored. Although not officially sanctioned by the Confederate or state governments, many served willingly because the South was their home too. They performed a variety of tasks including manual labor, artisans and especially teamsters. But the most surprising fact of all is that an estimated 19,000 African-Americans have been identified who bore arms in the Confederate armed forces.

This website is really nothing more than a shameful part of the bright, shining lie that has concealed the true nature of Lincoln’s war of aggression against the South.

Walter L. Adams Jr.
Kinston
 

Civil War, Confederate flag not about slavery

Friday, August 6, 2010

Southern Heritage, what’s the first term that comes to your mind when this is said?

Fried food, large plantation houses, Southern hospitality, friendly people and Confederate flag are some terms that might come to your mind when you think of the term. All educated people associate those with good things in their mind. The less fortunate, uneducated people associate all those words in a good way, except for the Confederate flag.

The uneducated side of this argument will say the Confederate states were racist, egotistic white supremacists. They also believe the Civil War was over slavery. This has to be one of the biggest lies we face today in American history. When Abraham Lincoln addressed Congress over why he wanted to go to war, it had nothing to with ending slavery. He said in context that he wanted a united union and it to be one nation. Confederate states wanted freedom, to separate from the union and had different ideas for an economy. Article 1 Section 1&2 of the Constitution gave them the right to separate from the Union.

The term Civil War is even inaccurate. A civil war is when one part of a country is trying to overthrow the government to create a new government. The Southern states did not want to overthrow the U.S. government; they just fought for their freedom that the Constitution gave them.

Our high schools and colleges today are marking the Confederate flag as a racist symbol. When I was at Greenwood High School two years ago, they said it was a racist symbol. The Southern states might have had slavery but so did Northern states, but the War Between the States was not over slavery.

Today’s classrooms need to teach what is right, not what’s on a political agenda.

Andrew James
Bowling Green

 

England's Half-Naked Barbarians
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Much is said about England’s philanthropy in emancipating its slaves in the 1840’s, though it had more to do with combating the success of France’s commercial success in the West Indies. Strangely enough, the French had been assisted by English slavers providing African laborers for the brutal sugar cane fields.  The author below takes the English to task for its treatment of the “Hindoos” it exploited, all while accepting the accolades for emancipating the Negro.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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England’s Half-Naked Barbarians:
 
“To be sure, the condition of depopulated Ireland is still pitiful to behold. Says a writer on Ireland: “An Irishman has nothing national about him except his rags.” Or another: “Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner and no supper. With such a diet, how much better is he than an Irishman? – a Celt, as he calls him. No, the truth is, that the misery of Ireland is not from the human nature that grows there – it is from England’s perverse legislation, past and present.”  But England is philanthropic, and the Irish are not Negroes, nor are they Slaves!
 
Or let us turn our eyes away from Ireland across the ocean, toward that happy land of emancipation. Says a recent writer: A short term and cupidity strain the lash over the poor Coolie, and he dies; is secreted if he lives, and advantage taken of his ignorance for extended time when once merged with plantation-service, where investigation can be avoided.” But again, the Coolies are no Slaves; they are but hired servants, and England’s philanthropy is safe!
 
We are not through with the Testimony of England, who is always loudest in condemning our Slavery. How closely she watches those poor Hindoos! How effectually she keeps them down, whenever they express any dissatisfaction with the happiness she forces upon them! She has instituted among those “half-naked barbarians” an awful solidarite’, by which the province is responsible for the labor of all its men and women. But still, England is philanthropic!
 
She has carried rails and Bibles, free-schools and steamboats, telegraphs and libraries to India, all for the benefit of those half-naked barbarians. And should telegraphs and Bibles not have the requisite effect of happifying, opium will be administered to them, and to “all the world, and to the rest of mankind”  Now this is decided progress! England is the civilizer and Christianizer of the world!”
 
(The American Question, An Incidental Reply to Mr. H.H. Helper’s Compendium on the Impending Crisis of the South, Elias Peissner, 1861, H.H. Lloyd & Company, pp. 63-65)
 

Ronald Reagan
 
From: timanning1@gmail.com
 
Dear SHNV Readers,
 
Americans are by nature prone to wanting to say that a president that they sincerely agree with "is a Christian." Southern Christians have a way of being especially generous toward others in this way.
 
Contrary to the common structured campaign practices of both major parties, the truth is often far from the campaign rhetoric and hype. I listen to the "written-by-someone-else" campaign speeches, but no longer place much trust in campaign promises, though Democrats often actually do what they have threatened to do while the promises of Republicans to Southerners and Christians usually go unfulfilled. I did trust such things as a teenager, but now I rely solely on a candidates track record. It is often more the case that what a person has done in the past is a reliable guide to what they would do if they could obtain the current office for which they are campaigning.
 
Two of the SHNV readers did not believe me when I wrote that Ronald Reagan was an atheist and not ashamed of his conviction. After the War to Prevent Southern Independence millions believed that because Abraham Lincoln went to church once in a while that he was a believer. I knew the Reagan's. Both of my parents worked in his White House and that of the Clinton's and Bush Sr. and Bush the Younger. At the time I liked what Reagan had to say in his campaign speeches, and I worked in both of his presidential campaigns (which if I had to do over I would not do). His speeches were written by Pat Buchanan, one of my favourite persons. (Later Pat did not do well in his run for the presidency because the press corp discovered he placed Confederate flags on the grave of his great grandfather.) Reagan used such terms as "God Bless" etc. as a political way of wishing people well. The use of such phrases by western non-believers was a common respectful practice for hundreds of years as simply "good public manners" or to court Christian's political support. Only very recently have people felt so free as to publicly express hostility to the Christian faith, its moral standards and people of the Christian faith. Reagan also claimed to love "Southern" people while hating much about their "ways" and their "Christian religion."  The story behind how Reagan got the nomination of the Republican party is very revealing and seldom told.
 
John Wayne (named Marion Robert Morrison at birth), as well, made many political statements that sounded clearly positive about the South to any reasonable listener, but that is not all he said or all that Ronald Reagan said on the topic of "the South." John Wayne was from Iowa and generally and genuinely was conservative for his day (He did claim to be a socialist while in college) and ultimately took many anti-communist positions contrary to most other people in the Hollywood film industry. He joined the John Birch Society and strongly advocated much they stood for. There is some evidence in the documents of the former Soviet Union that Stalin ordered Wayne's assassination. Chairman "K" rescinded  that order before it could be carried out. Wayne's grandfather (his father's father) was a general in the USA military when it fought the CSA during The War to Prevent Southern Independence and fought to defeat and subjugate the Southern States. Wayne was always especially proud of his ancestors war record in support of the South's defeat. He did state some positive things about the South as "standing with the south" usually in referring to his own conservative and anti-communist politics. He vehemently, however, rejected the offer to become the running mate of George Wallace in 1968 and did campaign for Richard Nixon and spoke on opening day for the 1968 RNC Convention.
 
I have liked some things about both men, but not all they expressed about their personal beliefs. It is possible to like and be hospitable to people who do not believe like we wish they would believe. I strongly feel that it is an act of intellectual dishonesty to claim such people are more like us than they really were. Southerners have always had the capacity to work with people diverse from themselves without insisting that they change and become like themselves.
 
I know the Bushes and have eaten meals with them. My parents, however, have spent more time with them than I have seeing them several days a week during their tenure in the White House. While in the White House as President of the USA, the older George Bush openly ridiculed and made jokes about "Southerners" and our ways. I did not know this when I was working for the Bush campaigns. Both Bush presidents were and are members of "Skull and Bones", something that no Christian could do and remain a Christian. Many of our Southern folks actually believe that the "Bushes are Southerners." The were from Connecticut and attended Yale University. You can get a Ph.D. in Religion at Yale without believing in God at all. Things were not always this way.
 
I am opposed to totalitarian (centralised) government wherever it is. I see the U.S. is too big, too powerful and too broken to be fixed. According to a statement by the Pentagon the U.S. military have fought 218 wars since the American Revolution which was not a revolution but more of war of secession. By anyone's definition the U.S. has a long history of being a "welfare-warfare" nation.
 
I do disagree with those who state that "America was established as TWO sister nations totally separate with their own culture and society."  The Founders of the free and independent separate colonies explicitly discussed and rejected the political concept of joining with each other to become a "nation." They saw their governments as federal republics or commonwealths, and formed a loosely knit "compact" between free, sovereign and independent republics and commonwealths. The term "nation" was used by such folks as Lincoln who made the assertion we were a "nation" in his Gettysburg Address. This assertion was very offensive to Southern people who knew the difference between a nation and a [republic. The original compact to establish the united States of America required that only "nine" of the newly independent former colonies were required to form the new union of separate States (republics/commonwealths).
 
Four "States" did not use the term "State", but used the term "Commonwealth" to refer to their "country" as in "The Commonwealth of Virginia," "The Commonwealth of Kentucky," "The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" and "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts." Virginia used the term "Commonwealth" to refer to itself well before ratifying the compact to join a union of the former British colonies.
 
I usually also avoid using the widely used political word "America" which has come to imply many things. The former colonies formed a compact under which they were called the "united States of America." Later the word "united" became capitalised. Writers, in the South particularly, used the word "country" to refer to the State they lived in and not to the conglomerate union they formed together. To the Southerner their "country" was not "America." It was "Virginia", "North Carolina", " Texas", etc. Even most northerners considered themselves as "New Yorkers", "Pennsylvanians", etc. Sadly, how we talk about things in the South has been affected by our being, at least partially, "reconstructed."  I discover new ways, nearly everyday, that the government has been successful in molding how I think about things, and I am trying to disconnect myself from it's dominant secular and tyrannical influences.
 
"Commonwealth" is a traditional term for a political community founded for  "the common good" and it has sometimes been used as synonymous with the term "republic." As a Virginian I was raised using the term "Commonwealth" and taught that "Virginia" was my "country" of origin and birth. (This may alert some to my advanced age.) The old English meaning of "wealth" did not necessarily refer to money, but it was commonly used to refer to ones general "well-being." Generally the term commonwealth has been thought of historically as taking its root meaning from the complex Latin of "res publica" as in our term "republic."
 
In my writing I will sometimes use "terms" that are not strictly denotatively accurate to my understanding of history, but for which the common public understanding is so strong that I use the language for clarity of the understanding of my readers. I work very hard and take much time in efforts to correct "revisionistic" histories that misrepresent my beloved Southland.  The words we use to teach our history and explain things to others have grown very narrow and, at times, vague. The change in the use of terms to describe our Founding has been for purposes of reinterpreting history to suit the centralising of U.S. government authority. Our ancestors were much better and more accurate at this than most of us are.
 
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
 

The “Yankee” Litmus Test
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
To: daves@news-banner.com 
 
Re: http://www.news-banner.com/index/news-app/story.17065 
 
Hey Dave 
 
First, about those "friends in the Southern latitudes" that you claim to have - newsflash - you have no "friends" in those latitudes, so you can take your "Get over it" and stick it up the same orifice that your brains are apparently located in. Oh yeah, and you might want to take a pass on those pretty Southern belles that you seem to like so much. They don't much take to arrogant/pushy guys and a lot of them are also pretty good with guns. Doesn't sound like too healthy a combination for someone with an attitude like yours. 
 
Second, "rebels as heroes" is what the folks in the South do. I'm not really sure why you should care so much about what is done in Georgia, since you live in Indiana? The answer to why you care so much may just be a bit of an education for you. You care because you are a "Yankee," and caring about what other people do and meddling in their affairs is as natural to you as p**ping in a field is to a cow. It's what you do. By the way, in case you still don't get it, when was the last time you heard someone from Georgia telling someone from Indiana what they should or should not be doing? Face it, that sort of thing just doesn't happen. Now when was the last time you heard of someone from Indiana telling someone from Georgia what they should or should not be doing? Actually, you just did exactly that when you wrote your article.   So congratulate yourself. You have just had a history lesson. You have just learned what you are, and you have learned why the South fought - it fought to be free of people just like you.
 
Third - If the idea of "honoring rebels" bothers you so much, consider that America was not founded as a "nation" by the Founding Fathers. In fact, the words "national" or "nation" appeared over 20 times in the original draft of the Constitution but it was removed by the Founders, who felt that what they were creating was NOT a nation. In fact, James Madison, on more than one occasion, reiterated that this was not a "national" government but a "federal" one. And there is a big difference between the two. 
 
America made the transition from a Republic of sovereign states to a nation state as a result of the "civil war." When that war ended, the American Republic ended and American nation began. Whether you consider that a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of personal opinion. What is not opinion is that the America you know, claim to love and live, in was created by the men on both sides who fought each other bitterly over the right of a sovereign state to go its own way. As such, both sides are deserving of your respect. And as far as those who fought for their independence and lost, I will point out that nearly 500 of them are buried in Arlington National Cemetery. They are recognized as American veterans by the very government they fought against. So then, if the government they fought against recognizes and honors them as fellow countrymen, then what the hell is your problem? 
 
Actually, I know the answer - you are a Yankee. That is your problem. The words "Live and let live" have as much meaning to you as "Super-size me" has to an aborigine in the Australian outback, perhaps less. 
 
I leave you with this thought - 4 words which made America great - a four word sentence, which, once upon a time, was in widespread use in this land, but which today has fallen in disfavor and disuse..... 
 
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS 
 
Bill Vallante
Commack NY
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Associate) Camps 3000 & 1506 
 
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The Reply from Shultz: 
 
Every once in a while, when I write a column, I find that there is someone that makes my point for me. You, sir, have done that for me. 
 
All I have to do to illustrate the mindset I wrote about is to show people your letter. I need say nothing else. 
 
Thank you for your correspondence. You have blessed me more than you will ever know. 
 
-- Dave Schultz 
 
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And the Retort from me:
 
It is as I suspected - you really don't understand the meaning of those 4 words -   
 
"MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS" or "Live and Let Live", for that matter 
 
Congratulations - you passed the litmus test. You are indeed, a Yankee. 
 
Bill Vallante
 
 

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Confederate American of The 21st. Century
 
by T. Warren

Each and every morning as he gets out of his bed,
He says a quiet prayer as he humbly bows his head,
Asking for protection for all those that he loves,
Knowing that his words are heard by God above..
 
He always ask for guidance to get him through the day,
To help him be a better man, in each an everyway.
To keep alive the spirit, of those who he comes from,
Sharing truth with honor, keeps his enemy on the run.
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Chorus:
A Confederate American……. of the 21st century
There is more to this soldier, than the little that ya see
He’s a complex individual, and he’s learned from history,
A Confederate American, who wants his Liberty.
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Under fire daily from those who speak in half truths an lies
They can not make him waiver no matter how they try.
He stands his ground firmly, his colors he proudly flies,
Born Confederate American, an he’ll be one till he dies…..
 
They poke fun of him in Hollyweird, because it makes them dollars,
He stands to the Constitution ,as written, an makes the liberals holler,
They don’t want him to speak the truth, his beliefs and morals they shun,
They can only hold their power by keeping him under thumb.
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Chorus:
A Confederate American of the 21st century
There is more to this soldier than the little that ya see,
He’s a complex individual, and he’s learned from history,
A Confederate American, who wants his liberty.
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He knows it’s truly wrong when the illegal have more rights than him,
An try as you may to change it, to him, abortion will always be a sin,
Belief in God gets him through, as does love of country, flag and family,
He’s Confederate American loud and proud, and he’s longin’ to be free.
 
Though many will harass him, and some try to divide the ranks,
He gives his best for the Cause, out of duty with little thanks,
Never lookin’ for fame nor glory, no, that’s simply not his way,
He’s Confederate American stout and true and, waitin’ for his day.
 
Copyright: T. Warren, all rights reserved
 
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Expecting Unending Federal Interference
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
After long consideration, the Confederate Congress authorized the enlistment of black regiments in March 1865 to assist in the war effort. Though Northern States had already been using black slaves for military labor and substitutes for white troops, the South’s action emulated Virginia’s Royal Governor Lord Dunmore’s 1775 emancipation proclamation which freed black slaves who flocked to the colors. Southern leaders like Jefferson Davis resisted the use of black troops thinking it best for them to remain on the farms to feed the armies, and not be used as cannon-fodder.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  
 
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Expecting Unending Federal Interference:
 
“[“Samuel “Sunset”]….Cox concluded once again that the purpose of the war was being perverted; the Union soldiers had been deceived, for “they never went into a crusade for abolition.” He pronounced [The Freedman’s Bureau] bill “sweeping and revolutionary” in its effect since “it begins a policy for this Federal Government of limited and express powers, so latitudinarian that the whole system is changed” into a centralized, unitary government, operating “by edict and bayonet, by sham election and juggling proclamation.” [He said] The way to peace was to “restore the Union through compromise” not by “military governors for rebellious provinces.” 
 
As reports reached Washington that Southerners were freeing their slaves for use in the army, it was clear that the end of slavery would not be a bar to negotiations for a restored Union. So on January 21, 1865, as [Sunset] Cox recorded later, “I fully intended…to cast my vote for the amendment.” He had explained his position at length several weeks earlier.
 
Conceding the power to amend the Constitution to abolish slavery…Cox preferred to leave the question “to the States individually.” He had urged a policy of non-intervention by the government in the slave question ever since “I first came to this Congress.” Slavery “is to me the most repugnant of all human institutions,” but the principle of “self-government” by the States over their own affairs “was even more precious than the end of human bondage,” for, if the federal government could intervene in this matter, then federal interference could be expected  in all domestic matters.
 
Most important of all, however, was the Union. If peace with Union could be achieved “by the abolition of slavery, I would vote for it.” But if abolition “is an obstacle in the way of restoring the Union,” as Cox felt it was at the moment…then he would vote against it.”
 
(“Sunset” Cox, Irrepressible Democrat, David Lindsey, Wayne State University Press, 1959, pp. 91-94)
 

 

Showing My Respect
 
From: william.connery@verizon.net
 
Dear Chuck and Comrades:
 
Here is a piece by a recent high school graduate who grew to respect his Confederate ancestors
through his genealogy work.
 
William Connery
 
P.S. Please contact me if you have a message or critique for Lloyd and I'll forward it
(william.connery@verizon.net).

Showing My Respect
Lloyd Fowler
http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/08/showing-my-respect.html
 

 

RE: "Where Have All the Heroes Gone?"
 
From: johough@swbell.net
To: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
Fabulous!  Truly remarkable!  Marvelous!  The mighty pen of Bill Vallante is in motion again!  His is an absolutely  brilliant analysis  of the propaganda/brainwash spat over the nation by the busy  Lincoln myth creators so anxious to spend all their days patting each others derrieres and collecting prizes from folks for whom Lincoln-worship pays big bucks.
 
There are not sufficient accolades for me to lay on the author of all that follows.
And no, I will not join the Glenn Beck devotees in worship  before the religious shrine to Saint Lincoln. Rather than genuflecting to Marxist Abe, I'd prefer seeing him and all of his silly-stupid worshippers blown sky high.
 
Let vindice be aided by me!
 
Joan Hough
 

From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
To: johnsomp@MUOHIO.EDU, H-CIVWAR@H-NET.MSU.EDU
 
Re: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30155
 
It would appear that Professor James Robertson has joined the ranks of the "Myth of the Lost Cause" Brigade. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30155
 
Sad, very sad..... It seems we have yet another book bent on busting up the Lost Cause with yet another Southerner contributing to it. And for good measure, the reviewer includes a swipe at Governor McDonnell's Confederate History Month proclamation. Hey, can't pass up an opportunity to apologize or express our regrets for slavery, now, can we?
 
“Governor McDonnnell’s ill-prepared proclamation”? Actually, I think he prepared it quite well. His failure occurred, not in its preparation, but in its defense, which was in fact, non-existent, and indeed, apologetic.
 
Like Diogenese, I wander the landscape with a lantern in search of an honest man. In this case I’m looking for a man willing to take a public stand against those who demand apologies, who issue recriminations and who inspire self-loathing in those of us who are in need of self-esteem. I look for that honest man to publicly proclaim that the people who make such demands are nothing more than self-serving demagogues, and to proclaim that those who comply with their demands are nothing more than  fools and cowards…..“Where Have all the Heroes Gone”? Wasn’t that the name of a song a while back?
 
And the “Lost Cause” is not only simply a “myth”, as is now proclaimed by the wackademic community, but a “hackneyed” one as well? These guys do love their "myth busting," it seems. But why is it that all the myths that are busted these days are all on one side? Are there no myths to bust on the other side? I wonder, for example, if any of these alleged historians has a big enough "pair" to go out and thoroughly investigate a potential “myth” like.....
 
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, i.e., how many people actually ran away to the north or to Canada and how much of what is in books on this subject these days is pure hype......or .....perhaps do some research into how so many people who don't know their a** from their elbow and who have never been more than 5 miles from home and who are so superstitious that the darkness inspires absolute terror in them (Read the WPA Slave Narratives if you don’t believe me), can so expertly pick out the north star and navigate by it in the pitch black darkness, for a thousand miles or more.....or.....
 
Do an exhaustive study on exactly what percentage of the vaunted USCT (United States Colored Troops) was there by choice, and what percentage was told to "join or die," and what percentage was there simply because they were told to be there (if you are used to being a slave, more likely than not, you will do what you are told, whether the person telling you wears a blue jacket or a gray one), and what percentage was there because, once you run away you have to do something that will give you food and shelter (or you will die), and the Union army represented one of the few options available to them......How about doing a real life portrayal of the USCT, instead of indulging in the phony baloney pretense that they were 189000 heroic freedom fighters who were just so eager to go out and get themselves shot to pieces? Funny how I don't see many of these "intellectuals" willing to risk their careers pursuing the truth on something like this.... But truth isn’t what matters in academia these days – it is survival that matters. You are swimming in dangerous waters if you hold to historical interpretations deemed inappropriate or outmoded by your colleagues. You need to run with the herd to survive. And if ever there was proof positive that this is so, Professor Robertson proves it to be so by casting his lot with the herd. 
 
History as a field, as it used to be, is gone. There is little or no honesty left in it anymore. If there were, someone would be asking how it is that Southerners could have as much disaffection for the Confederacy, as our “Lost Cause as a Myth” advocates claim, and yet.....THE WAR LASTS FOUR LONG BLOODY YEARS!? If Southerners were so pro-north, anti south, or just plain unmotivated, as is so often claimed by these experts, then who the hell was doing all the fighting and who was responsible for racking up the huge casualty lists??? What did nearly 700000 people die of....food poisoning? Sunstroke? Funny how no one seems to want to ask questions like that.... Indeed, “Where Have All the Heroes Gone?”…..
 
And so, on and on it goes..... a never-ending slew of books which serve no useful purpose, except perhaps to give us some insight into what it is that, on occasion, makes civilized people want to go out and engage in wholesale book burning.
 
Bill Vallante
Commack NY
 

Friday, July 30, 2010

Amos Rucker—A Soldier Remembered

By Calvin E. Johnson, Jr., American History-Writer, Speaker, Author of Book “When America Stood for God, Family and Country and member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

What is your community doing to commemorate the War Between the States Sesquicentennial-150th Anniversary “2011-2015?” See what the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans is doing at: http://www.150wbts.org/

August 10th marks the 105th anniversary of the death of a Southern soldier who was a friend to many--Amos Rucker.

Black Confederates, why haven't we heard more about them? "I don't want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was definitely a tendency that began around 1910"---Ed Bearss, National Park Service Historian.

In 1905, newspapers led with the opening of Woolworth's stores, the Atlanta, Ga. Terminal Railroad Station dedication with the US Army Band playing “Dixie.”.....And on August 10th Atlanta grieved the loss of a beloved soldier and friend.

The movie "Glory" enlightened people of the role played by African-Americans serving in the Union Army during the War Between the States, 1861-1865.

And books like, "Forgotten Confederates---An Anthology about Black Southerners" by Charles Kelly Barrow, J.H. Segars and R.B. Roseburg, have further enlightened us to the role played by African-Americans serving in the Confederate Armed Forces.

Frederick Douglas, abolitionist and former slave, reported, "There are at present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army doing their duty not only as cooks, but also as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets."

Who was Amos Rucker?

Amos Rucker, born in Elbert County, Georgia , was a servant of Alexander "Sandy" Rucker and both of these men joined the 33rd Georgia Regiment of the Confederate Army. Amos got his first taste of battle when a fellow soldier was killed by a Union bullet. Rucker quickly took the dead soldier's rifle and fired back at the enemy.

After the War Between the States, Amos Rucker came back to Atlanta where he met and married Martha and the couple was blessed with many children and grandchildren.

In Atlanta, Amos joined the W.H.T. Walker Camp of the United Confederate Veterans. It was made up of Southern Veterans whose purpose was to remember those who served in the war and help those in need. The meetings were held at 102 Forsyth Street in Atlanta where Amos was responsible for calling the roll of members.

Amos and Martha felt that the members of Walker Camp were like their own family. It is written that Amos would say, "My folks gave me everything I want."

These UCV men helped Amos and his wife buy a house on the west side of Atlanta and John M. Slaton also helped prepare a will for Rucker. Slaton, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, John B. Gordon Camp, would, as governor of Georgia, commute the death sentence of Leo Frank.

Amos Rucker's last words to members of his UCV Camp were, "Give my love to the boys."

His funeral services were conducted by, preacher and former Confederate General Clement A. Evans. Rucker was buried with his Confederate gray uniform and wrapped in his beloved Confederate Battle Flag. Today, some members of the Martin Luther King family are buried near Amos and Martha at Southview Cemetery.

The Reverend T.P. Cleveland led the prayer and when Captain William T. Harrison read the poem, "When Rucker Called The Roll" there was not a dry eye among the crowd of the many Black and White mourners.

The grave of Amos and Martha Rucker was without a marker for many years until 2006, when the Sons of Confederate Veterans remarked it.

"When you eliminate the Black Confederate soldier, you've eliminated the history of the South."---The late Dr. Leonard Haynes, Professor, Southern University

On The Web:   http://shnv.blogspot.com/2010/07/amos-ruckera-soldier-remembered.html

 

Orlin Brommer: Counterfeit Confederate money still big business

By Orlin Brommer
Cochrane, Wis
Posted: Friday, July 30, 2010

As a child, I used the words Confederate and counterfeit money interchangeably. I now have taken the time to do a little research on the relationship of these two words.

I first thought that after the War Between the States, unscrupulous Americans tried to use Confederate money in their daily transactions. Naturally businessmen would not take the valueless money. A few movies were made about unknowing people fighting over the useless money.

Lincoln's employees were smart enough to print counterfeit money that resembled the money of the Southerners. All this funny money printed by Lincoln created chaos and helped make the money of the South even more useless, therefore helping to end the war.

Eventually the South used U.S. money to purchase supplies because nobody in Europe would honor Confederate money. Wouldn't it be grand if our politicians were smart enough to cripple a rogue country by making its money useless?

Oops, the whole world, including rogue countries, uses our money, American money. Although some of my neighbors claim it to be almost worthless, our money is the currency of the world.

The Confederacy was a rather loosely tied organization, so each Southern state printed its own money. States back then had deficit budgets just like we do now, so the state money often was not worth very much both inside and outside that state. As large as is the economy of Califor-nia, I am surprised that Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't tried to print money yet. He could put his wife's photo on the front of a $100 bill and his back side on the $1 bill.

During the Civil War everything was expensive, so some rebel money was printed on only one side. Often the paper was of inferior quality. Because printing money is expensive, often the serial numbers were hand written on the notes. The governor would then sign each piece of money. Numbering and signing took a lot of time, so the governor had aides hired to do the work for him. Everybody was skeptical of these bills with the variety of signatures.

Gov. Francis W. Pickens of South Carolina featured a picture of his wife on money in 1860. Now, 159 years later, I wonder whose picture the present philandering governor of South Carolina would put on state money if he were to print some. I'll let you make your own joke here.

Although it was only 1864, the commonwealth of Virginia goofed and had the year 1888 stamped on some of its money. You can find archive photos of happy smiling slaves depicted on some Confederate money.

We can see how easy it was for counterfeiters to print useless money, but counterfeiting only got started during the war years. About 20 years after the war was over, a guy purchased an old Rebel coin-making machine, next he scraped good U.S. coins and began producing counterfeit coins that he sold as antiques. Many of these counterfeit coins are being passed around yet today.

Counterfeit Confederate money is still big business. If you own Confederate money, the chances of it being counterfeit is pretty high. More counterfeit Confederate money is being made today than ever.

Now the reason for my taking your time: In 1954 General Mills Co. decided to make play Confederate money and put it in boxes of breakfast cereal. Because General Mills sells a lot of cereal, it claims that it produced more money than did all of the Southern states during the entire Confederacy. You can purchase five or six of these bills for about 10 bucks on eBay.

A fellow from Winona contacted me to remind me that there was fake money in Cheerios boxes. He still has some, and a close relative of his swears that it is real Confederate money and keeps it in her safe. All the Cheerios money has the same few serial number (pun intended), so it is easy to distinguish. Each General Mills note has the word "facsimile" somewhere on the back.

Although there is a lot of General Mills money around, there are only a few 1950s cereal boxes that the bills came in, therefore the Cheerios boxes that brought you the funny money are worth more than the counterfeit Confederate money that was inside.

Go figure.

© Copyright 2010, winonadailynews.com

On The Web:   http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/opinion/article_1c50ef84-9bcf-11df-b4c9-001cc4c002e0.html

 

Racism at the Race Track?

Investigation Launched into Jockey's Confederate Flag Jersey

Troy Conhain
FOX40 News
July 28, 2010

SACRAMENTO —

The California Horse Racing Board is investigating a Sacramento horse owner and a "silks custodian", after a jockey was allowed to wear the Confederate flag colors during a July 15th race at Cal Expo.

According to a CHRB complaint, track custodian Tony Baze "received financial consideration and conspired to aid and abet" owner Bill Wilbur to substitute the jockey's regular jersey colors with the colors of the Southern battle cross.

The 2-year-old colt is named "Mute Rudulph", after Ken Rudulph, an African-American host with horse racing network TVG.

Based on a post on a horseracing forum, there may be some history behind this latest incident.

At a race in Southern California, Ken Rudulph took offense at another jockey who wore the battle cross, saying it had no place on the track.

The CHRB stewards at Santa Rosa have scheduled a hearing on August 7th to discuss the complaint.

Copyright © 2010, KTXL-TV

On The Web:   http://www.ctnow.com/news/ktxl-news-horse072810,0,7873307.story

 

Sarasota man gets 10 years in Confederate flag-related shooting

By Anthony Cormier

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

SARASOTA -- A former Sarasota Military Academy student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting a teenager who taunted him with a Confederate flag.

Michael Jordan Mitchell, 19, has pleaded no contest to aggravated battery in the April 2009 shooting of a teen outside the downtown movie theater.

Daniel Azeff, now 19, waved a Confederate flag from the back of his vehicle as he drove down Main Street, leading to a confrontation with Mitchell.

Azeff and a friend yelled “racially disparaging comments” and continued to wave the flag as they parked on Links Avenue, authorities said.

Two teenage girls who were with Mitchell say they asked him to walk away. But Mitchell shot Azeff in the chest with a .22-caliber pistol before running off.

He was captured a short time later.

According to the plea agreement, Mitchell, who did not have a criminal record, will spend 10 years in state prison followed by five years on probation.

Azeff, who was hospitalized after the shooting, has recovered.

Copyright © 2010 HeraldTribune.com

On The web:   http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100728/BREAKING/100729712/2055/NEWS

 

From: Craig Maus
To: Charleston Voice
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010
Subject: Fury Against Tyranny of the Northern Micks- the NYC Draft Riots! I

Dear Brethren (bcc herein),
 
This forward from our friends and ally at The Charleston Voice.  There is so much History y'all were never told or taught and this is probably yet another- the Draft Riots in New York City in July, 1863.  Did you ever hear the expression " A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man's Fight " ?  This is where it came from- these riots!  The Irish, many of whom were fleeing from the British tyranny in Ireland, came here to begin a new life.  And upon arrival, these men were being literally conscripted into the Federal Army right off the boat.
 
And are you aware that if you had $300.00, you could buy your exemption from service in the Federal Army?
" A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man's Fight " !
 

Oh yeah, that War was really fought over a single issue as they have tried to teach you!
 
So many lies and so much deceit that appalling does NOT even remotely begin to describe what this Federal Government has done to this country and continues to do!  'When the South Lost, so Too Did this Entire Nation, but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time !'
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865- the beginning of the end!
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.
www.deovindice.org
PS- Will you help us now by becoming a member in the Society?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
Although not Irish, I celebrate their proud heritage of old, the 1st northern armed civilians to resist America's tyrant - LINCOLN. Violating the US Constitution, Lincoln deployed federal troops against citizens on the streets of NY. What would happen today if our soldiers knew their sworn oath to defend the Constitution also meant the 13th Amendment regarding "involuntary servitude"? Tyrannies have always had to resort to mercenaries and foreign troops to suppress their own people. The US Government today is no different.
New York City Draft Riots
(July 11-13, 1863)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/draftriots.htm

"The nation is at this time in a state of Revolution, North, South, East, and West," wrote the Washington Times during the often violent protests that occurred after Abraham Lincoln issued the March 3, 1863, Enrollment Act of Conscription. Although demonstrations took place in many Northern cities, the riots that broke out in New York City were both the most violent and the most publicized.

With a large and powerful Democratic party operating in the city, a dramatic show of dissent had been long in the making. The state's popular governor, Democrat Horatio Seymour, openly despised Lincoln and his policies. In addition, the Enrollment Act shocked a population already tired of the two-year-old war.

By the time the names of the first draftees were drawn in New York City on July 11, reports about the carnage of Gettysburg had been published in city papers. Lincoln's call for 300,000 more young men to fight a seemingly endless war frightened even those who supported the Union cause. Moreover, the Enrollment Act contained several exemptions, including the payment of a "commutation fee" that allowed wealthier and more influential citizens to buy their way out of service.

Perhaps no group was more resentful of these inequities than the Irish immigrants populating the slums of northeastern cities. Poor and more than a little prejudiced against blacks-with whom they were both unfamiliar and forced to compete for the lowest-paying jobs-the Irish in New York objected to fighting on their behalf.

On Sunday, July 12, the names of the draftees drawn the day before by the Provost Marshall were published in newspapers. Within hours, groups of irate citizens, many of them Irish immigrants, banded together across the city. Eventually numbering some 50,000 people, the mob terrorized neighborhoods on the East Side of New York for three days looting scores of stores. Blacks were the targets of most attacks on citizens; several lynching's and beatings occurred. In addition, a black church and orphanage were burned to the ground.

All in all, the mob caused more than $1.5 million of damage. The number killed or wounded during the riot is unknown, but estimates range from two dozen to nearly 100. Eventually, Lincoln deployed combat troops from the Federal Army of the Potomac to restore order; they remained encamped around the city for several weeks. In the end, the draft raised only about 150,000 troops throughout the North, about three-quarters of them substitutes, amounting to just one-fifth of the total Union force.

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From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010
Subject: Re: Fury, Tyranny, Deceit & MORE- the NYC Draft Riots- a follow up! I
To: Charleston Voice - bilrum@knology.net


Dear Brethren (several hundred bcc herein),
 
I am re-sending each of you this because I believe I may have taken for granted the point I thought each of you would connect with but may have overlooked wherein I stated (below), "Oh yeah, that War was really fought over a single issue as they have tried to teach you! "
 
These Draft Riots occurred because innocent Irishmen were being forcibly conscripted into the Federal Army upon arriving portside in this country. LITERALLY!  Why?  Because the Federal Army, although nearly 4-times the size of our Confederate Military was being beaten to not only a standstill, but were in fact LOSING up to that point.
 
They needed men and many more of them NO matter where they came from or how they got them.
 
Now do y'all think that these poor Irishmen had ANY interest, much less concern about the institution of slavery when they got here?  Hell, they were coming from the same situation from abroad because of British oppression and now they were being forced to fight for a Federal 'Union' whose structure was identical to that from which they were fleeing.
 
It is ABSURD to think or believe what this Federal Government and their lackey's within those Special Interest Groups want you to believe that the Civil War was fought entirely over ONE SINGULAR issue- Slavery!
650,000 men on both sides died, more than ALL other wars combined, not too mention the countless wounded.
More than 90% of the Confederate Military (Our Soldiers) had absolutely NO connection or involvement with Slavery!
 
So why then did they fight?  What was the REAL Reason?
 
For the very same reasons that are confronting US TODAY, were confronting them THEN.... in that the Central Government wanted more power and control from & over the then Sovereign States and would use THEIR power through the passage of legislation (more northern states & representatives than the Southern States), in order to create Laws that would forcibly conscript the Southern States (through Tariffs & Taxes) into paying for their deceit & chicanery in their Federal quest for dominion over this Republic.  The South knew what they were up to and wanted NO part of it.  This was NOT the accord that was struck only 65 years earlier when we kicked the British the hell outa here for the very Same Reasons!
 
Lincoln, additionally, had been bringing into this country throughout this time ALL those European Socialists who were then being thrown out of Europe.  How many I wonder were ever taught that in school?
 
They were given and realized key positions in the Federal Government, Northern State Legislatures and given High-Ranking positions within the 'Union Army'.  Further, and again, since they were being beaten to a standstill, Lincoln also brought in foreign Mercenaries to fight us.
 
Foreign Mercenaries.....I can hear it now.....they didn't exist back then.....
 
Oh yes they did and even earlier- didn't the British do the same during the Revolutionary War in which large numbers of Hessians were brought in to help them suppress us Colonists?  Do y'all remember Washington crossing the Delaware in winter?  Well whose butts do y'all think he kicked when he got to the other side- those very same Hessians!
 
It is just so unbelievable what these Federals have done to this Nation and the LIE of LIE's they have created that the Civil War was fought entirely because of Slavery.
 
And 145 years later an entire culture has been dumbed down and has taken a guilt seat on that foolish & stupid stool of repentance that this Federal Government, along with their Special Interest co-conspirators have collaborated on putting you on, while they have unilaterally stolen your Nation right out from under you- Economically, Politically, Socially, Culturally and Historically.
 
And what's sadder yet- Y'all are paying the BILL for their THEFT of this NATION while others brazenly & continually declare YOU owe them even MORE!
 
'When the South Lost, This Entire Nation Lost....but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time!'
 
God Save the South, For So Goes the South, so WILL Go This Nation,
All Roads Lead to 1865- the beginning of the end!
Craig Maus,
president, The Confederate Society of America
www.deovindice.org
PS- Will You help us now and become a Member of the Society?

 

Southern National Congress Documentary

My fellow Citizens,

Today, The Southern National Congress released our first feature length video documentary: America in Crisis: A Southern Solution.

It is now on our video website: http://SNCspan.tv/AIC_video_fp.php

We hope that you will not only enjoy the documentary but will help us distribute our message by encouraging those who are of like mind to also watch the video.

America in Crisis: A Southern Solution

http://SNCspan.tv/AIC_video_fp.php

We thank you for your interest in the Southern National Congress.

Tom Moore

 

From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010
Subject: Lincoln & the American Genocide known as The Civil War.

Dear Brethren (bcc herein),

I would like to thank The Charleston Voice for sending this to us.  Open it, read it and learn from that which has probably never been taught or told to you.

It is actual, factual and very much Historical.

God Save the South, for So Goes the Southern Confederacy.....so WILL Go This Nation!

All Roads Lead to 1865- the Beginning of the End!
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.
www.deovindice.org
PS- Will you help us by becoming a member?

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12.2 ARCHIVEBradfordHateFear-29p.pdf
 

From: Craig Maus - csacommand@windstream.net
Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010

Dear Brethren (bcc herein),
 
One of the many reasons why most Americans do NOT like any of these Despotic 'acts' of legislation that Obama's 5th column has been pushing and passing, is because the American public is finally awakening to the stark reality that such 'acts' NOT only do NOT serve their interests, but equally, that this Federal Government cannot be trusted!
 
Another act they just passed and rammed down our throats is their Financial Regulation Bill, thanks to Barney Frank (Massachusetts) & his co-conspirator, Chris Dodd (Connecticut), who 'engineered, wrote and sponsored it.  Never mind the fact that both of these high-ranking Obama 'Columnists' are as dirty as the night is long, they are the respective financial chairs within the House & Senate.
 
Like the 'HealthCare Bill' (HA!), in which all the contaminants of that 2,000 + page horror story is beginning to unveil, we now learn that the Financial Regulation Bill ELIMINATES the SEC (Security Exchange Commission) from any public scrutiny whatsoever.  The Freedom of Information Act NO longer applies to THEM (SEC)!
 
In other words, ANY failure or ANYTHING resulting in corporate failure, misrepresentation, etc. in which there are negative consequences to the general public involving Financial Loss, the SEC can hide everything!
They DON'T have to tell YOU or ANYONE anything other than to go and fly a kite!
 
Take the Bernie Madoff case as an example under the new 'Financial Regulation Law as concocted by two of the biggest wheeler & dealers in Congress- Frank & Dodd.... in that case (Madoff) we learned that the SEC simply blew it!  Madoff was given a free pass many times over by the SEC.  Under the old law, that made it possible for the general public to become aware of the shenanigans over at the SEC and that something stunk.  More importantly, that the SEC was in dire need of CHANGE!
 
Under this new LAW, they NOW don't have to tell you squat !
 
Am I personally surprised ? NO!  For this is yet but one more example of many in which lies, treachery, bribes, & deceit have been promulgated upon the unsuspecting American People by a Federal Government and Federal Congress that long ago abdicated itself from Constitutional 'Representation'.  Hide any 'Transparency' (remember that Obama promise) and the Feds can happily continue to hide their failures from one and all!
Oh yeah, this is a Constitutional Republic....., Believe that and I have some great swampland in Florida to sell you.
 
Again, as this Confederate has always attested, the Federal root of malignancy can be traced all the way back to when it ALL officially began- when the South lost and Reconstruction began- in April, 1865.
 
Perhaps the contentions WE have made & asserted for many a year now within the Confederate Society of America and those organizations within the Confederate Alliance is finally beginning  to 'resonate' with most.
 
WE can only hope and pray.
 
OUR heritage, culture, traditions, history and principles have been compromised consistently & regularly over time by these Federals!  These are NOT new assertions by us but ones that we have declared ever since the Society came into being in June, 1992.
 
We were laughed at, ridiculed and demonized and, at some of our conventions and conferences, spit upon and urine thrown at us.
 
Most then were not feeling the hard oppression that we predicted would come, enough to want to hear us or get involved.  But times have changed as we knew they would and the pendulum of time has swung its historic time-piece back the other way.  And, predictably, History is again revealing itself for all the naked and ominous contemporary zealotry the Feds have laid upon us that can NO longer be hidden or denied.  It was bound to repeat itself as our Statesman of old said it would.
 
And thus the hopes and aspirations of countless millions is being replaced with the ultimate ruin of today....the final casualty of any nation of people who have lost their way and have allowed their God to be taken from them!
Once gone,  devastation (social, cultural, economic & political) is what follows.  The end result whereby the general masses become wards of the state for allowing themselves to become Reconstructed & Transformed into prisoners of their own foolishness for not caring or remembering what was given them.  A national cancer has been inflicted upon us by the very people who were supposed to protect us- this Federal Leviathan of Special Interests....but only a Confederate could have known this earlier on as we saw the horrors of their transgressions much earlier when our country (and YOUR's) was taken from us!
 
They have plagiarized EVERY aspect of representation and have re-written the 'rules' under artificial circumstances, largely created by them, and having followed up with those 'circumstances' with precise, manufactured LAWS engineered to perpetuate their fraud upon their own People while advancing their own self permeating expansion under the guise of 'Social Re-Engineering'.
 
Thus, YOU & YOURS have become their wards, unknowingly and over time, incapable of reversing the cholera they have infected y'all with because their Federal Law makes any such reversal either illegal or impossible because Federal Containment of YOU is what now Rules over YOU....and it is referred to as Federal Law!
 
As such, most have been dumbed down over time.  They have 'bought' into this Federal nightmare and contributed to their own demise by accepting a seat upon their foolish Federal Stool of Repentance upon which mis-guided guilt was used as the catalyst to steal this country from you!
 
And just as Arizona is being held out to dry by these same Federal 'representatives' for doing what they are supposed to do but are NOT, they are playing Arizona and attempting to depict them as Latin racists in order to divide and separate them from what they refer to as the American Mainstream. (HA!)
 
In full view, this is what Obama and company is doing as they simultaneously tighten their web of deceit around YOUR necks.
 
Years ago I wrote about "Saturation Immigration" as yet another tool within the Federal Arsenal of deceit & mis-representation to distract us from the real issue of Cultural & National identity as it relates to our American Sovereignty.
 
I was simply a Confederate ahead of this time but that did NOT prevent our enemies from attacking and depicting us a racists & rednecks.  Conquering through Division is an age old tactic, as evidenced most notably by that bearded Socialist, Abe Lincoln.
 
Look at another notable 'piece of legislation that was concocted by an 'earlier' Federal Congress- the Immigration Act of 1965 and what it did to this country and its people.
 
Most will probably NEVER know or understand those who objected to it for WE argued then that it would change America forever and set a ball in motion that would ultimately compromise the Sovereignty of this Nation as it would lead to social, economic and political turmoil.  ( Remember what this Confederate has said continuously- 'First the States were marginalized, and then the people had to be marginalized... although this would take more time and several generations in which to accomplish this.")

The Immigration Act of 1965 did EXACTLY what WE knew it would do- Marginalize the People!
 
This Act was purposely designed to DESTROY the racial, ethnic character of the white American people, the descendants of the early settlers and Founders. It did AWAY with the National Origins Principle, which favored those from northwestern Europe.  It REPLACED them with the non-white masses of the Third World to the tune of 90%!  The Federal Government, then, knew what THEY were doing.  It was a treasononous act and they knew full well the consequences of what a multicultural, multiracial and universalist America would create as it was a necessary prerequisite in the establishment of their New World Order.
 
A nation is only as good as the people who compose it.  If you dilute that most essential ingredient, what do you think will happen?  Why then, would or should a healthy nation possessing a vigorous and productive people alter its basic stock & race, for something unproven and, matter of factly, inferior to their own....unless those at the 'helm' had a far greater realization of that which they would realize at the expense of the majority?????
 
And, some 25 years later, George Bush the 1st would so state the recognition of this One World, New World Order during a brief moment of euphoria after the crushing defeat of Sadaam Hussein after the 1st Persian Gulf War in 1991.
 
As I have said to one and all over these 17 years that I have been involved with The Confederate Movement- LEARN YOUR HISTORY!!!!!!!  Understand what has been STOLEN & TAKEN from YOU!  UNDERSTAND what Political Correctness is ALL about and most importantly, begin to connect those many dots before it is too late for YOU and YOURS.
 
More importantly, begin to understand this: 'When the South Lost, so too Did this Entire Nation, but Only WE Confederates Knew it at the Time!'
 
WE MUST Separate if we are to Survive!  The Federal Leviathan is far too gone and any hope for a return to a Constitutional Republic would require a Federal 'epiphany',  and that is NEVER going too happen!
 
There, in that Confederacy of old, is where our Salvation, Hope and Prayer's lay....for it was NEVER Surrendered and taken from us via illegal invasion and subsequent conquest.
 
WE merely need to re-seat that Government and RESTORE it to its RIGHTFUL place among the Nations of this Earth!
 
Time is growing desperate for we are realizing and living ALL that President Davis predicted because we are now in "that other time and place."
 
For God, Family and the Confederacy,
Craig Maus,
president,
The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations.
www.deovindice.org
All Roads Lead to 1865....the beginning of the end!
 
PS- Will you become a member of our organization Now?
 
 

A Timely Book
 
From: txbrew@itlnet.net
 
A new book that defines exactly what the Tea Party Movement is about—State Sovereignty.
 
Written by Jerry C. Brewer, "Dismantling The Republic" traces the philosophy behind American Independence, the achievement of State sovereignty in 1776, the establishment of a Republic of sovereign States, the establishment of the Second American Republic, the Confederate States, in 1861 and and the dismantling of the both Republics through the 19th century until the present.
 
The principle of which Jefferson Davis spoke when he said, "The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena, and the principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form," is the precise principle for which today's Tea Party movement is contending.
 
The book is 217 pages and include two appendices. The first is a side-by-side comparison of the United States Constitution of 1787 with the Constitution of the Confederate States of 1861 and the second is the secession ordinances of all seceding States in 1860-61 showing Constitutional violations by the federal government, not slavery, precipitated secession.
 
Here is the Author's preface of the book, and a chapter outline, followed by pricing and ordering information.
 
Author’s Preface
 
Constitutional government in America ended April 9, 1865. It ended four years earlier in the United States with Abraham Lincoln’s ascension to the presidency. Within a year of his election, he effectively eliminated Constitutional rights. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus and imprisoned and deported an Ohio Congressman without warrant or due process. He censored telegraphic communications, stopped circulation of newspapers that criticized his autocratic rule and imprisoned many of their editors. He deprived states of representative government, and unilaterally waged war without the consent of Congress by blockading Southern ports and calling for 75,000 volunteers to invade the sovereign States of the South.
 
The last bulwark of State sovereignty and Constitutional rights in North America, the Confederate States, ceased to exist when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. From that day forward, the Republic of Jefferson, Madison, Mason and Franklin was to be no more. Henceforth, the federal government that was created by sovereign States to be their agent would become their master. All that remained was for the new order of government to dismantle the Republic’s remnants.
 
Individual rights, expressed in State sovereignty, undergirded the Republic. The declaration of those rights by American Colonists in 1776 culminated a centuries-long struggle for recognition of individual sovereignty dating back to the Magna Carta. As Thomas Jefferson expressed it, all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and when government fails to protect those rights it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" that government.
 
In late spring, 1787, the greatest minds among the American States gathered in Philadelphia to carve out an instrument to strengthen the weaker Articles of Confederation under which they had united in 1777. What they forged was the American Republic—a voluntary union of sovereign States, created by sovereign individuals, and founded upon the Constitution. When their proceedings ended in September a bystander asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government they had created. He replied, "A republic, if we can keep it." He and the other Founders understood the fragile nature of government—especially their Republic with its delicate balance of powers.
 
None of the Founding Fathers envisioned a democracy. Their new government was a Republic of Sovereign States with carefully diffused constituencies, and Franklin’s uneasiness about keeping it was well founded. Even before the Constitution was in its final form, forces were at work to weaken it and institute a government as autocratic as that of George III.
 
Without surrendering their sovereignty, the States ratified the Constitution, entering into a voluntary compact under it. In so doing, each State reserved for itself the full measure of sovereignty it held before joining the compact, and expressed that in the 10th amendment to the Constitution. State sovereignty meant that any or all of them had the right to freely withdraw from that compact whenever it became destructive of the ends for which it was established.
 
From the Republic’s inception the sovereignty of its member States suffered erosive political attacks that reached their high water mark when Lincoln invaded the South and forced seceded States back into the union at bayonet point. Upon his shoulders rests the responsibility for destroying the Republic. But even before the election of 1860, greedy Northern interests were working to change Franklin’s Republic into a Consolidated, Mercantile Empire. Lincoln’s election culminated those efforts and in the century and a half since his war Lincoln’s heirs have almost finished his work. From 1860 until the present, the Republic has been dismantled to such an extent that the Founders would not recognize it if they returned to 21st century America. Their Republic no longer exists. How that came to pass is the thesis we chronicle in this work. The foundation of the American Republic, created by the Constitution of 1787, was the sovereignty of its creator States. From its very beginning efforts were exerted to dismantle the Republic and replace it with a centralized government by incrementally eroding its foundation of State sovereignty—efforts that achieved their goal, for without State sovereignty, that Republic cannot exist.
 
Governments may control actions, but they cannot control ideas. They may chain a man’s body, but they cannot chain his mind. The Republic that Lincoln destroyed first existed as an idea and it still exists in that form. Jefferson Davis said, "The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena, and the principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." Given the grassroots disaffection for the federal social programs being forced upon the states and the arrogant usurpation of Constitutional authority by the federal government today, it appears that the cause of State Sovereignty still reposes in American hearts. Those voices of dissent in Congressional "Town Hall Meetings" and "Tea Parties" across the land in our time are faint sounds from the stirring wings of the great Phoenix of Davis’ principle rising from the ashes of Lincoln’s war to reassert itself "at another time and in another form."
 
Deo Vindice
 
Jerry C. Brewer
Elk City, Oklahoma
May 18, 2009
 
 
Outline Of Dismantling The Republic
By Jerry C. Brewer
 
Chapter One - "To Alter Or To Abolish"
A. Text of the Declaration of Independence
B. Background of John Locke’s political philosophy
    1. Political sovereignty of the individual as expressed by Locke
    2. Locke’s philosophy in Declaration of Independence
C. Historical uniqueness of Declaration of Independence
D. Colonists’ grievances against George III
    1. Grievances ignored
    2. Colonists’ assertion of Independence based on Locke’s philosophy of sovereignty
 
Chapter Two - "Free, Sovereign And Independent"
A. Sovereign status of each of the thirteen former Colonies as recognized in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
B. Link between Reformation’s assertion of individual spiritual sovereignty and Enlightenment’s assertion of individual political sovereignty.
C. Sovereignty of each of the thirteen former Colonies
D. State sovereignty expressed in The Articles of Confederation
 
Chapter Three - "A More Perfect Union"
A. The Constitutional Convention of 1787
B. Debates relating to the proposed Constitution and concern about retaining State sovereignty.
C. State sovereignty expressed in Constitution and each of three branches of government.
    1. The 10th Amendment
    2. Constituencies of Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches designed to preserve State sovereignty
    3. Early fears expressed regarding federal judiciary and State sovereignty
    4. Non-accountability of Supreme Court justices
 
Chapter Four - Mercantilism And Clashing Cultures
A. Alexander Hamilton’s vision of a Mercantile nation modeled after Britain’s
B. Mercantilism of Puritan North and its threat to State sovereignty.
C. Alien & Sedition Acts of John Adams
    1. Their threat to State sovereignty
2. Madison and Jefferson reply to Alien & Sedition Acts in Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
D. Cultural and religious roots of North/South conflicts
    1. North - English Puritan Industrialists
    2. South - Celtic and Anglican Agrarians
E. North/South conflicts an extension of ancient animosities between English and Celts
 
Chapter Five - Early Sectional Conflicts
A. Beginning of two-party political system that would contribute to demise of Republic
B. Each branch of federal government vying for supremacy at Republic’s beginning
    1. Washington’s suppression of "Whiskey Rebellion" against taxation
    2. Adams’ "Alien and Sedition Acts" to silence administration critics
    3. John Marshall’s assertion of judiciary power in Marbury v. Madison
C. The Tariff of 1828 ("Tariff of Abominations")
    1. South’s reaction to it as eroding State sovereignty
    2. South Carolina’s Nullification Ordinance - nullifying the Tariff in South Carolina
    3. Andrew Jackson’s assertion of federal supremacy over States
D. Modern day efforts in the same vein - Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Montana
E. Compromise tariff act averts crisis.
 
Chapter Six - Sovereignty, Secession and Slavery
A. Struggle between Federalists and Anti Federalists (Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians)
B. State sovereignty and right of secession inseparable.
C. Northern States’ threaten secession in early 1800s
D. Secession taught as political philosophy at West Point in early 19th Century
E. Abolition movements in the North rooted in politics
F. Northern religion turns from spiritual to worldly concern-embraces abolition as social issue
 
Chapter Seven - Toward Final Conflict
A. State sovereignty and economics conjoined
B. Northern, Southern and foreign newspapers understand economic issues of conflict
C. Calhoun’s "Disquisition on Government" accurately describes modern welfare systems
D. Slavery as an issue—not the cause—of the final conflict
 
Chapter Eight - Secession—Exercise of State Sovereignty
A. Background of Lincoln and Whig Party as precursors to Republicans
B. Lincoln’s ties to Northern industrial interests and his political opportunism
C. Lincoln’s aim of consolidated government
D. Election of 1860
E. South’s reaction to Lincoln’s election with only 39 percent of the vote and their immediate secession
F. Lincoln’s chilling First Inaugural Address
G. South Carolina secedes, followed by others - Secession ordinances reclaim State sovereignty
 
Chapter Nine - A Republic Of Sovereign States
A. Formation of Confederate States of America
B. Jefferson Davis’ and Lincoln’s inaugural addresses contrasted
C. The Confederate Constitution
 
Chapter Ten - Lincoln’s War On Northern Sovereignty
A. Lincoln’s abolition of Constitutional liberties in the North
B. Arrest and deportation of Ohio Congressman
C. Censorship of telegraphic communications and newspapers
D. Imposition of martial law in Missouri
 
Chapter Eleven - Lincoln’s War On Southern Sovereignty
A. Lincoln’s treachery - ignores armistice at Fort Pickens - secretly plans to reinforce Pickens and Sumter
B. Goads South into firing first shots at Ft. Sumter
C. R. E. Lee resigns from U. S. Army - Confederates successful in early stages of war.
D. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation after Battle of Sharpsburg. Proclamation worthless.
E. Lincoln plots and wages total war on Southern civilians with backing of Northern religionists
F. Atrocities against Southern civilians - Lincoln’s war costs more lives than any in history
G. Jefferson Davis imprisoned and held for two years without writ of habeas corpus or trial
 
Chapter Twelve - "The Final Solution"
A. Lincoln assassinated - North seeks vengeance on South
B. "Reconstruction" ---Further loss of Southern State sovereignty
C. Fourteenth Amendment is illegal appendage to Constitution
D. Carpetbaggers, abetted by U. S. military, drain Southerners of last meager resources
E. White voters in South disenfranchised
F. Republic ceases to exist
 
Chapter Thirteen - Eliminating The Remnants Of State Sovereignty
A. Lee predicts elimination of sovereignty in correspondence with Lord Acton
B. James A. Garfield’s boast in 1881 that secession was settled by arms
C. Consolidating central power and eliminating State sovereignty
    1. Pacification through the "Pledge of Allegiance"
    2. By imposing direct federal taxes on State citizens
    3. By disarming State militias and occupying the States
    4. By eliminating the States’ voice in federal government with passage of 17th Amendment
 
Chapter Fourteen - In The Valley Of Decision
A. State sovereignty is nearly eliminated
B. The election of 2008 brought Americans to the Valley of Decision by placing a socialist in the White House.
C. States can either knuckle under to federal government or heed the advice of Patrick Henry.
D. Failure to act now by sovereign States will forever seal the doom of our posterity.
E. Can we secede? The signers of the Declaration of Independence did.
 
Book Prices
1 Copy - $16.50, plus $2.50 p&h = $19.00
2 Copies - $33.00, plus $2.90 p&h = $35.90
 
Bulk Rate
10 or more copies - $12.00 each, and We Pay Postage
 
To order yours, send your check or money order to me at
 
Jerry C. Brewer
308 South Okla. Ave.
Elk City, OK 73644
 
Jerry Brewer, Commander
Pvts. Grayson & Brewer Camp, 2118
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Elk City, Oklahoma
 

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Slaveholding for Comfort and Prestige
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
New York’s experience in slaveholding did not end until the late 1820’s and many citizens would sell their chattel to plantations in the South before the deadline rather than lose their investment. The small free-black population which remained found themselves proscribed by Jim Crow laws which erected a minimum $250 property ownership in order to vote, and pertaining only to black New Yorkers.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net 
 
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Slaveholding for Comfort and Prestige:
 
“New York was slow in drawing white settlers until after mid [18th] century, and the shortage of labor led to a considerable use of slaves; indeed it is possible that in the early Dutch days it was slave labor that enabled the colony to survive. Most of the first slaves were not from Africa but were re-imported from Curacao in the Dutch West Indies.
 
It was a profitable system: in the 1640’s it cost only a little more to buy a slave than to pay a free worker’s wage for a year. After the English took control of New Netherland in 1664, a brick and highly profitable trade in skilled slaves was carried on. Most slaveholders in the province were flourishing small farmers or small artisans who, in the absence of an adequate supply of free labor, needed moderately skilled help, and were able to pay the rising prices for slaves.
 
A partial census of 1755 showed a widely diffused slave population, most owners having only one or two slaves, only seven New Yorkers owning ten or more. Among the largest lots held were those of the elder Lewis Morris with 66 slaves on his large estate and the first Frederick Philipse, an affluent landowner, with about 40.  Such men could work gangs of slaves on their manors, but slaves were also sought by other wealthy men for the comfort and prestige a substantial staff of domestic servants would bring. William Smith, for example, was reputed to keep a domestic staff of 12 or more to run his New York City household, and other leading citizens travelled with Negro footmen.
 
From the first the competition of black labor was resented by whites. Competition in the labor market was intensified by the slave owners’ widespread practice of putting out their slaves for hire, under-cutting white laborers who were paid twice the slaves’ wages.
 
Slave controls, reflecting persistent nervousness in the white population, were quite rigid. Aside from private punishments that could be administered by masters, such public controls were meant to put sharp limits on the temptations slaves would face. After 1702, flogging was prescribed if three slaves gathered together on their own time….nor could they engage in trade without their master’s consent.”
 
(America at 1750, a Social Portrait, Richard Hofstadter, Vintage Books, 1973, pp. 99-101)
 

RE: An unCivil War
 
From: tmanning1@triad.rr.com
To: acivilwarjunkie@yahoo.com
 
Dear "Civil War Junkie",
 
I find myself entirely in your camp about nearly every issue you addressed, and like you, have not found myself comfortable with the term Civil War.  However, for the most part, I have entirely stopped using the term "Civil War" even though it is largely an accurate term, but for different reasons than most suppose.
 
I believe that it is an accurate term, because the war resulted from an "Executive/Military Coup" executed illegally and unconstitutionally by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln who quickly and illegally nationalised the State militias. In a sense that makes it a "civil" war, but since so few people commonly understand the context and nature of this "Executive/Military Coup" it is not yet an effective use of the term "Civil War."
 
When there are political differences between large groups, the party that finds itself in position to verbally "frame the issue" has already won 95% of the public debate. Guilt is pre-assigned (a technique that dominate the current media) in the use of the term and one side is immediately attacked by the term and placed on the defensive. It is like the question, "Well, Sir, when did you stop beating your wife?" Guilt is thusly determined before the debate begins.
 
The second reason it was a civil war is that Abraham Lincoln, illegally commanding the U.S. military, of course, invaded 1) the 11 official Southern Confederate States who adopted and filed with the U.S. government Ordinances of Secession (12 when you include the section of Virginia that Lincoln made and called "West" Virginia during the war), 2) the Indian territory of Oklahoma whose people democratically adopted and filed a formal Ordinance of Secession with the U.S. (the "Removed" Five Civilised Tribes of the Cherokee, the Seminole, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek) 3) the Western Indian Territories which included a large portion of New Mexico and Arizona who adopted and filed an Ordinance of Secession, 4) the four "border" States that considered themselves "Southern" and would have seceded and joined the Confederacy had they been permitted by Lincoln, and 5) the U.S. military made war against the seven northern Democrat States beginning in July of 1863 (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan as recently rediscovered in the archival records of these States, an important historical episode that remains unexamined by the court historians).
 
This is also why I have stopped using the term "The Union" when referring to the military forces under the command of Lincoln. The Confederate States of America were invaded, not be some abstraction called the "Union", but by the military forces of the United States of America usurped by Lincoln and under his sole command. Southern peoples of the period loosely used the term "Union" since the U.S. was using the term, but knowing what we know today the use of "Union" can be deceptive and is part of the "framing" of the issues by the U.S. government for propaganda purposes.
 
Because of the massive nature of this conflict and the radical upheaval and distortion of the "general government of the U.S.", the term "Revolutionary War" or "Yankee or U.S. Revolutionary War" or "American Genocidal War" would also be accurate. (I do not say "Second American Revolutionary War" because the British Colonies were not trying to change or take over England in the "American Revolutionary War." The American Revolution was also a war of secession.) The postwar amendments, particularly the 14 Amendment, have been used to entirely restructure the nature (turn it upside down) of the U.S. central federal government, so much so, that our government today is hardly recognisable when compared to the original intentions of the U.S. Founders as seen in both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States of America.
 
The malintentions (however "misinformed" they may be) of defenders of the U.S. invasion of the CSA are very clear when they use the term "Civil War." Their purpose is to place the onus for starting the war entirely on the shoulders and consciences of the still politically unrepentant South. Actually the South is just about the only "repentant" part of the U.S. since it is still largely composed of Christian people, but the South and the Southern States have not and should not apologise for resisting the Lincoln Revolution with its tyranny, genocidal and totalitarian character.
 
Part of the pathology forced on conquered nations is that the defeated nation, in our case "The Republics", must believe they were wrong in resisting the U.S. invasion, because they lost the war. As in nearly all past empires the remaining men of the defeated foes join the victorious military ranks of their conquerors to show that "they are with the program" and deserve citizenship in the New Order. Many Southerners, but not all, resisted this and it took World Wars I and II for the men of the South to follow suit.
 
The pathetic and unspiritual notion that "Might Makes Right" is still an adage of non-Christian peoples that has been forced down the throats of the people of the Southern States through the continuing programs of indoctrination channeled through strict federal control of the states and their laws, through the Fourth Estate (the pseudo-news media) and compulsory government school education of our children. Southerners still believe that "right is right and wrong is wrong", because of a world view (oriented in the Bible) that is higher than the U.S. federal government. To the Southerner, the U.S. Federal Supreme Court is not supreme and the U.S. President is not the Great Decider but a delegated Servant Presider.
 
We (this includes many years of my own compliance to the language of the conquerors of my country of Virginia) must be more forceful and less tolerant of the malindoctrinated idiots who continue to insult us. We must stop being "nice" when they say "Haven't you heard that the war is over? Get over it! You lost!"  Their ignorance, arrogance and totalitarian views of government nearly make the totalitarian Abraham Lincoln look like a "good guy." These poorly informed wretches are not worth the time for thoughtful conversation. There is hardly a Southerner today who does not hold on to the conviction that because their ancestors laid down their arms does not mean that they laid down their beliefs and convictions about what is right. War is not a sport where the highest score wins. The realities of The War to Prevent Southern Independence clearly demonstrate that sovereignty, liberty and freedom were lost in all of the States of the USA and the CSA.
 
Then the United States have the gall to force Southern U.S. military personnel occupying foreign nations to "win the minds and hearts" of the people in the foreign nations we have warred against. As for me and my house they have not "won" our minds or our hearts, and my family members will not be the stooges they can use to do this to other sovereign nations.
 
Some Southerners are armchair "fans" of Southern History (much like Ronald Reagan and John Wayne who detested the "ways of the South") and may vigorously defend what their families did in the past, while they totally reject their ancestors "heritage" and their own historical views and arguments by how they live in the present. They bring nothing of their "heritage" to the table of the present. Such has been the partial success of the poproms of "(De)Reconstruction." (Note: A "pogrom" is an organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group. This is a term well understood in Europe that could well be used by Southerners talking about "Reconstruction.") The northern Democrat States have gone through years of political and social deconstruction as well as has the South.
 
The better educated portion of our growing Southern movements is increasingly becoming conscious that they are in reality "American Dissidents." This is an honourable title and it is an honourable vocation to be an American Dissident.
 
Many other people in the U.S. are as opposed to the egalitarian governmental practices of the USA as are Southerners. The main difference is that most of us in the South still believe that it is more honourable to permit others to be the way they want to be without our intervention, while we are actually still capable of independence and see secession as a legitimate, peaceful and positive alternative to trying to control the lives of others, whether at the level of our federal government or through the use of the military in other sovereign nations. The U.S. has been lost to totalitarian American Fabian socialism on its way to becoming communism and a misguided tolerance of pseudo-diversity.
 
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
 

From: John Waring  -  jbwaring@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010

HK:

You may want to link this page on your website. Good stuff.

JBW

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Liberal Racism

Liberals, who have always claimed to be the authoritative source of progressive attitudes on race, have actually become one of the centers of racist thinking in America over the last quarter century, a period of time in which postwar liberalism itself was being reconfigured by the radical Sixties worldview. Liberal racism began in the last years of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, when organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) radicalized the issue of color in America by focusing on legitimate “black rage” and the “institutional racism” they claimed was embedded in the “DNA” of American society. King was an obstacle in their path; they rejected the gains he had achieved as illusory. This was no mere intellectual disagreement about a strategy for improving race relations in America; it had a bitter personal component. The black radicals and their white supporters derided King as “De Lawd” and “Uncle Martin.”

For web page an article link here
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=162&type=issue

 

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.

Copyright 2010 by WYFF4.com.

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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.

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