Stonewall Jackson’s Commissary
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 

“The battle of Gettysburg will, no doubt, rank as the turning point of the war though perhaps it may better be called the breaking point of the South’s resources. For months our men had been on rations such as no troops ever campaigned on and did a tithe of the work ours were called on to do. Corn meal and damaged bacon were the staples, often so damaged that to live on them inured disease. Medicines, chloroform especially, had got so scarce that small operations as painful as great ones were done without it. Much of that which was used was of such bad quality that it was used as only a choice of evils.
 
Delicacies for the sick were unheard of. They lived on damaged bacon or lean beef or went hungry. Clothes and shoes were scant and insufficient, except for those which were taken from our friends, the enemy. Overcoats would have been almost unknown but for them, though for that matter we would have fared badly for everything but for their contributions. Certainly half our muskets and two-thirds our artillery were forced contributions from them, while [General N. P.] Banks, who commanded United States troops in the [Shenandoah] Valley in 1862, was better known as and better deserved the title of [Stonewall] Jackson’s commissary than as commander of his troops.
 
The state of affairs would appear to give compelling reasons for the much-criticized advance into Pennsylvania. With our railroad lines worn out, our ports blockaded, and the field of operations stripped by both armies, and burned and desolated by the enemy, who at last openly declared that their policy would be, as Sheridan later boasted, to leave the country so that a crow flying over it would have to carry his rations, the capture of arms, clothing, medicine, and even food, which earlier had added to our comfort, now came to be a necessity.
 
It looked easier to go to the enemy’s homes to get it, and to leave our poor people a chance to rest and to gather together the fragments left them.”

 

Response to Response to Timothy Manning ;-)
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: From: missourah_rebel@yahoo.com
 
Timothy,
 
Your "rant," as you put it, is in the very words that many of us use day to day. We are tired of being on the defensive; we are tired of being picked targets, if you will. We are sick of being maligned for what our ancestors did or did not do. We are tired of being tired.

/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS: Excellent thoughts by both gentlemen. Can't disagree with any. I would merely like to remind you all that when you send one-third or more of your blood, sweat and tears to the tax rats every April 15, you are giving the yankee 666-beast its natural fodder and in many ways canceling out the good work you do for the Southern cause all year. The income tax is the rope they hang you with, the shackles they progressively clamp on every aspect of your anatomy. Most strangely, in all the discussion of how oppressed Southerners are, what we're going to do to get free, and how we're going to run our reborn homeland, there's very little said about this whole subject.
 
All this goes for not only the IRS but your state DoR. All state governments across the land are outposts of the Beast. They exist to suck your blood and figure out new ways to peonize and disenfranchise you and your family. Think I'm indulging in hyperbole, poetic license, or stretching things a bit? If you don't know the tax rats for what they are -- admittedly suave, impeccably mannered rats -- I fear you’re still stuck at square one in your liberation process.
 
Quitting is easier than most people have any idea. I haven't paid in over 20 years with little friction. In fact, if folks knew just how essentially Southern tax freedom was, they'd jump for joy and realize all over again IT'S STILL ALL IN OUR FAVOR. One more time, what was the Big Bang of the USA's birth? A tax revolt -- under ridiculously benign conditions compared to today's crushing burdens and oppressive, ubiquitous mind-messing.
 
A blessed few patriots know the simple 100% Biblical and Constitutional truth of tax freedom. When the others get to heaven they're going to learn how good it could have been HERE, NOW, and kick themselves for being too busy earning money to stop and learn how to save money and freedom.
 
There will be no seceding of political jurisdictions until the people secede from the IRS. No threat, no dirge, no jeremiad from the noisy ex-yankee. Plain fact.

 

Take the Lead!
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
To: rick.boswell@gmail.com
 
Well, Rick, if you don’t see the Grand Old Flag flying very much in your little area of southern Alabama, then I guess you’ll have to do what I did – start flying it yourself and take the lead!
 
Of course, I chose the First National rather than the Battle Flag for two reasons: first, it was the first flag of the last Republic on this continent and secondly, it was John Singleton Mosby 43rd Battalion’s flag. Both of those reasons were good enough for me.
 
And given that I live in southern Noo Yawk (Long Island), I am probably takin’ a bigger chance flying The Colors than a good ol’ Alabama boy like yourself! :D
 
Val Protopapas

 

One Man's Opinion
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
 
One Man’s Reply to “Rebel flag should not represent heritage“
East Tennessean Online Edition
 
http://media.www.easttennessean.com/media/storage/paper203/news/2009/10/29/Sports/Rebel.Flag.
Should.Not.Represent.Heritage-3817372.shtml

 
A brief response to your article “Rebel flag should not represent heritage”:
 
Definitions taken from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.; 1981)
 
BIGOTRY: Obstinate and unreasoning attachment to one’s own belief and opinions with intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
 
IGNORANCE: A lack of knowledge, either in general or of a particular point.
 
PREJUDICE: Unreasonable predilection for or objection against something; or an opinion or leaning adverse to anything without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge; or an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics; or an opinion or judgment formed beforehand or without due examination.
 
I am reasoning from the premise that your article was written from your lack of knowledge rather than from deliberate malice, Mr. Smith. I am always glad to impart knowledge, especially upon a subject near and dear to my heart.
 
The correct name for the flag you address in your column is “The Confederate Battle Flag.” (There were many hundreds of unit flags that Confederate units served under, but the “Southern Cross” is the best-known.) It was never the national Flag of the Confederate States of America – it was a soldiers’ flag.
 
“Why are so many Southerners donning the Confederate flag?” you ask. I shall gladly answer that question for myself. I honor the various Confederate Flags because they represent the latest and greatest attempt to return to the form of government begun in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence and continued in 1787 with the United States Constitution: A Federal government as the agent of the State governments, given certain limited powers by the States. I especially honor the Confederate Battle Flag because its design harks back to the Flag of Scotland, whence my ancestors came.
 
To how many Southerners did you put your question before you wrote your article, Mr. Smith?
 
You also ask “Is it acceptable for one person to use a symbol if it has been used - or is being used - to signify hatred?”
 
I call your attention to http://pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm. You will see there thirty-seven pictures of Ku Kluxers with the thirteen-stripe United States Flag. You will also see seven pictures of Ku Kluxers with a cross.
 
Reasoning from the premise that Ku Kluxers practice hatred, I ask you your own question, Mr. Smith: Is it acceptable for one person to use the United States Flag or the cross if it has been used - or is being used - to signify hatred?
 
You appear to have an unreasonable objection against the Confederate Battle Flag, an objection formed without just grounds, before sufficient knowledge, and without due examination; and an irrational attitude of hostility directed against those who display that Flag. Moreover, you appear to have an obstinate and unreasoning attachment to your belief and opinion with intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon
Gilmer (Upshur County) Texas

 

Charging the Cannon's Muzzle
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“When we got close to the enemy’s line, we found a great many men lying down. I saw a stand of colors held upright by a [Yankee] color bearer who was lying flat on his face. I rode to him and jerked it out of his hands. He at once jumped up and demanded them back, saying in reply that he would take them in if the colonel, and he pointed to him lying near, would go on. I rode over to the colonel and punched him in the back with the flag staff. He jumped up, but when I told him to take the colors and lead his men [as prisoners]…he set to shaking as if in a chill, and suddenly broke off in a run to the rear.  I shifted the flag to my left hand and riding up to him, struck him on the head with my sword; but it turned and the flat of it struck him hard enough to knock him to his knees. He cried out but ran on some thirty yards, when he jumped in the air and fell, apparently dead.
 

General Hood…said that he was about to charge the battery which was sweeping the level beyond the ravine, where we had just broken the enemy’s first line, and suggested that I join my men to his right. I did so, and we charged across the plateau about four or five hundred feet. When I got within a few feet of the guns, I marked a gunner fixing his lanyard into the friction primer. I made a run to cut him down before he could fire, but he was too quick. When I was not over ten feet from the muzzle the gun went off. The shot struck my right arm, crushing it and tearing it off at the shoulder. When it hit me, it seemed to knock me up in the air and spin me around two or three times, though I suppose that was imaginary, and then dashed me down with a force than knocked all of the breath out of me.
 
When I came to, I found my arm wrapped around my sword blade in a most remarkable manner. I sat up, but almost immediately everything went dark, and I supposed I was dying. After some time I regained consciousness and unwound the fragments of my arm from my sword blade, which I got back into the scabbard. I succeeded in stuffing my arm into the breast of my coat, got to my feet and started to the rear, using the flagstaff as a support.”
 
(The Haskell Memoirs, Govan and Livingood, editors, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960, pp. 32-34)

 

Undoing the Evils of the New England Slave Trade
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The idea of the “colonization” of free Negroes was not new, for as far back as 1817, the South and the North, both felt it was best for the whole country that they should be colonized. Before the period of Negro servitude had ended in most of the North Atlantic States, societies for the purpose of colonizing them were organized; and in the South in 1817 this plan had the earnest support of W.H. Crawford, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, John Tyler, James Madison, James Monroe, and other leading Southern men, who were slave owners.
 
In 1856, General Tyler wrote: “The citizens of the Southern States since the adoption of the Constitution, have emancipated two hundred fifty thousand Negro slaves. Assuming the average value of these slaves to have been five hundred dollars, the citizens of the Southern States have contributed one hundred and twenty-five million dollars towards emancipation. 
 
“And when we consider that in almost every case of individual emancipation at the South, a sum equal to the value of the slave has been invariably given to him to enable him to purchase a home for himself, and in addition to this the immense sums contributed to the “Colonization Society” by others, we do not exaggerate the sum voluntarily bestowed in this way by the South, when we set it down at two hundred and fifty million.
 
“This immense sum has been paid not by a rich public treasury, but by private families who lived by labor of slaves they surrendered; not with the slightest hope of pecuniary emolument, but from no other possible motive than quiet and conscientious sentiment.”  (DeBow’s Review, December 1856)
 
(Authentic History Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1877, Susan Lawrence Davis, American Library Service, 1924, pp. 292-293)

From: Timothy D. Manning, tmanning1@triad.rr.com
Date: October 29, 2009

Dear SPS Friends,

Often when Chuck Demastus at SHNV posts something I have written I receive emails with helpful and often excellent observations, encouragement and sometimes very thoughtful questions from SHNV readers.  This is very encouraging to me and I am sure it is to others who receive such affirmation and support while they are seeking to correct many of the mistaken notions so many people have about the South, our culture and our Christian faith. Below is a link to SHNV and a message I posted on his site this week. If you subscribe to his service (it's free) you will find that his readers (I call them the email Tigers) are great at supporting and encouraging each other as they seek to educate and go after media sources, schools and politicians who commit gross heritage violations against our South and our culture. If you like this site (no, I am not getting paid for this) send the blurb and link below to your friends.

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There are those times when it becomes tiresome being the sore thumb of the whipping boy who is always being attacked by some northerner or reconstructed Southerner who has bought into the propaganda of our now agnostic socialist empire. We get publicly and professionally injured at times while doing the best we can in our various locales speaking out as the lone voice of a Southern Christian agrarian viewpoint in todays PC socialist society. The sad part is that this society has been growing in its level of hostility toward us and our practice of seeking God's will in our lives and seeking to honour the practices and traditions that have preserved the Christian faith through the centuries. I know that there are others out there who feel like we do but have not wanted to have or start trouble at their schools, jobs, towns or churches by appearing to be intolerant of the evil around them. To some measure all of us succumb to this "to-get-along-go-along" temptation.

During the 1860's the United States sowed the wind and now we are reaping a monstrous whirlwind in the total breakdown of  western civilisation. Even our own Southern folks have been heavily reconstructed and derascinated through mandatory attendance in government schools and the omnipresent, prevalent and dominate media and entertainment industries. Our enemies spend billions of dollars every year in an effort to force this nonsense down our intellectual throats. They go so far as to "test-market" their ability to get us to watch, listen, buy and participate in their life degenerating activities. They obviously have no lives of their own, they just want to influence and control our lives.

Like Jefferson Davis in his defense of secession he stated that the South just wanted "to be let alone."

These efforts have proven so successful that many of us no longer know how to think and act as "free gentlemen and ladies." There are reasons why the common use of terms like "ladies and gentlemen" are largely out of use in the United States; instead, we are all referred to by the Deep North unisex term "guy", even worse is "you's guys." (By the way, I had only just met the woman who was to become my wife when I immediately concluded that she certainly was no "guy.") Guy was a common unisex term in the Deep North when their populations were often referred to as "the land of the long haired men and short haired women", a euphemistic phrase for homosexuals. Southerners used to react with mild amusement to the use of guys and considered the term inappropriate and in poor taste. Can you imagine General Robert E. Lee introducing his staff as "a fine group of guys"? I have seen this term used by Sons of Confederate Veterans camp commanders and at reenactments by well-meaning but partially reconstructed Gentlemen.

Our States no longer enjoy having a working or philosophical paradigm of what a free and independent society even looks like, sounds like and acts like. And, when we vote for one of these self-serving slime-balls it usually only serves to encourage them in their continued destruction of what little remains of a western Christian social and civil order.  And, yes, I do regret the 30 years I spent working for Republican political campaigns. For years I was proud that both my parents worked in the White House from the beginning of the Reagan administration until about five years ago. I have learned to fear the foolishness of any person who promises to change America.  A far finer work would be for them to promise to restore constitutional government as envisioned by the U.S. Founders at the national level.

I have come to believe that "voting does indeed matter", but for different reasons than I had been taught in high school. Our voting is used against us and our convictions about our constitutions. We find ourselves nearly always voting for the lesser of two (three, four or five) evils. Most assuredly I will not vote again for any Republican or Democrat no matter what their promises may sound like. The post-election performance of our "representatives" repeatedly demonstrates that they exercise too much power, too much deceit and too much secrecy, far too little conscience, too little integrity, too little honesty and simply cannot be trusted.

The system is too big, too corrupt and broken beyond repair. It exercises a highly developed and sophisticated form of fascism that is far beyond the fondest dreams of even Mussolini. Government this big and this wealthy never works to preserve or establish American thinking about freedom and liberty.  We must give up our sense of uniquely "American exceptionalism," "American supranationalism", American thinking that "might makes right", American "divine destiny", and that "bigger is better" so we must be united. (Noah entirely failed to be united with his community who could not swim long enough to escape God's reach.)

Nearly every Southerner knows that "union" is not won at the point of bayonets or at the receiving end of cannon fire or established by the might of overwhelming military power. People in our country are now politically successful who campaign against the time honoured and established principles of God's Ten Commandments. We have learned that a great many of the members of American churches did not recognize a communist when they saw one and voted for him.  What would have been a "no brainer" a hundred years ago is now readily accepted as the new political orthodoxy.

I hear such popular "conservatives" as Rush Limbaugh pandering socialist totalitarian solutions to socialist-created political and cultural problems. And, yes, I am regrettably "reconstructed" but I have the timidity to believe that I am growing less so each month. A person cannot help being affected by modernity's wretched egalitarianism after years of indoctrination in their schools, seeing almost nothing but their sick social points of view and demented and immoral practices overtly loaded and paraded into nearly every form of public "entertainment", and having the actions and changes of governmental policies and the subsequent report of the "news" media regarding these changes tainted and poisoned by these Marxist scabs. And, no, I did not intend for this to sound like a rant when I started this note.

SHNV, Chuck and his readers are to be numbered amoung those rare persons who can still hear the faint and distant drums of our fading civilisation and march to its beat instead of the chaotic and deafening clamour ever present around us. I truly do appreciate your encouragement. I know the painful and discouraging experiences which befall so many of us everyday, but I also know God can open new windows when the devil slams doors in our faces. There are very few people who even come close to knowing what you, the new and rising South, know. I cannot help but believe God still has much for all of us to do in this regard. He will help us find a way.

((The above letter is an edited version of a personal letter I wrote to one of our great Southern gentlemen and warriors who works daily to defend Southern history and culture, Gary Walker. Gary writes and lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Keep up the good work Gary!)) Many of SHNV's writers and readers are warriors working and witnessing in an intelligent manner to everyone they can reach.   Many of these folks have paid a severe price for their efforts. Our children are hassled at school and talked down to by their political inferiors.  Our adults are hassled on their jobs and often forced to watch films and go through training and take CEU's (Continuing Education Units) so that they will not offend the offensive egalitarians. I lost a $100,000 a year job as a hospital administrator after I retired from teaching because I would not remove a Virginia SCV license plate from my car after an NAACP activist nurse complained. She registered no complaint about my management or administrative practices.

SHNV is touching the lives of many important people.  The work SHNV writers, phoners, readers and talkers do to promote the truth (spiritual, cultural or political) is very very important. We must not give-in, we must not give-up and we must not compromise on such critical matters as those this site addresses and considers and makes sincere efforts to resolve. We must find ways to not just react to those stupid attacks that are so insulting.  We must find ways to take the battle to those who are an enemy of truth, freedom and liberty.

Keep up the good work!
 
Deo Vindice.

Timothy D. Manning, M.Div.
Executive Director
Palmetto Heritage Foundation
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From: "Craig Maus", csacommand@windstream.net
Date: October 28, 2009

Dear Confederates & Patriots (bcc herein),
 
What is the logical conclusion a people must draw when the Government they elected cannot be trusted beyond another day?
 
Further, what measure's must a people then undertake to remove the cloak of deception that has been wound around them & fashioned much like a 'Jailor's Shroud', that now permits this same Government to advance & elevate  themselves further at the expense of its people?
 
Folk's, today's sad event's at the hands of the Federals are NO less the same than ALL those many 'events' that presented themselves prior to 1860 when the first of our Southern Sovereign's seceded.
 
I hope that y'all can 'connect the dots' between then and now and finally come to the realization of what we Confederates have been saying ALL ALONG-"There is NO difference. The Federal 'Baby' that was officially baptized in 1865 and has grown into the incarnate Beast of today."
 
The South saw it coming LONG AGO and wanted NO part of it!  The manipulative unfairness that the Federal Zealots of that time were posturing for was more recognizable & identifiable, as this nation was fresh out of its infancy culminating in & with our victory over England only 75 years earlier.  In short, the Federals THEN, were unable to pull the 'wool over the eye's' of a young nation, as they have been able to over these last 145 year's.

 
And since the Constitution had YET to be compromised as it has to date, the legal & justified guards that were written into it that allowed ANY SOVEREIGN (STATE) and her State Citizen's (NOT FEDERAL Citizen's as they have made YOU NOW), were able to LEAVE if such a pestilence were to ever visit itself upon this nation!
 
That was this Voluntary Union's 'insurance policy' against deceit, demagoguery and human weakness that the Founding Father's realized when the Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution was written.
That was the 'People's Rider as well as Each State's', should this Government ever exceed its Constitutional authority!
 
That is why 13 State's seceded and for the SAME reasons as today---only the Fed's have legitimized their current standing by manipulating & extending their Legislative Authority which the Judiciary is forced to uphold.
Thus, they have 'insulated' themselves so well over the last 145 years that virtually ALL connections between then and today have either been erased through omission or 'revised' according to their guidelines.
Their Federal 'Department of Education' further insures their perpetuation through the indoctrination of OUR children within their Federal School System....thus resulting, including their teacher's, to believe & teach that the so-called American Civil War was fought entirely over a single issue- SLAVERY!
 
The magnitude of that LIE has allowed the Federal's to go un-challenged while simultaneously taking us all on their march into 'Their Sea of Oblivion'.  Using social re-engineering as THE divisive element within all this, they have built themselves their 'Tower of Babylon',  using the backs of every man, woman and child in this Nation, NO MATTER the race, colour or creed of your being, to accomplish the means though which their ultimate ends would be satisfied & realized.
 
They have applied the tactical maneuver of Conquering through Division and the Amendments that were drafted and written into Law AFTER the Civil-War's conclusion is where the cancerous root of today's origin lay's.
 
And sadly, it has ALL EVOLVED into everything that they are doing to YOU and YOURS today and, AGAIN, in the Name of Social Order & Welfare!
 
Can YOU NOW understand what we have been saying ALL ALONG?   Can YOU NOW understand why we wanted outa of this Hegemony of Demagoguery called Federalization?
 
It was NEVER about Slavery...it was ALL about them becoming the Federal Overseer they have become and the Simplicity of Freedom as it relates to EVERY Individual within this Country... the VERY SAME and identical reasons why we REVOLTED against King George & England- IDENTICAL!!!
 
It has been said that "when Lincoln freed the slaves, he merely made slaves of us all." PerhapsNOW, y'all can 'connect' the relevancy & profoundness of this statement?

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
> I want y'all to ask yourselves a question- Would you vote for ANY individual who said the following NO matter the level of government or office they were seeking (local, state of federal):
 
A) " To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I choose my friends carefully.  The more politically active black students.  The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and the structural feminists & punk-rock performance poets. "      Personally, I would say that the person who said this has an alarming agenda to say the very least and is one that I do NOT share. In fact, I would consider it to represent everything this country does NOT believe in or is about.....but that is my deduction.
 
> Who said it ?  But wait, there is more:
 
B) " ...one of the, I think, tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement was, UM, because the Civil Rights Movement became so court focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political & community organizing... and activities on the ground that ARE able to PUT togetherTHE Actual Coalition of POWERS through which you bring about Redistributive Change. "

Now if I am a hard working guy & struggling to keep a roof over the head of my family and me, I'm thinking that I have elected politician's to PREVENT this warped thinking from ever finding itself into Law that would, in effect, take what little I have and give to whomever.  That is NOT what an elected official should ever be thinking of much less the fact that he or she has NO right to do that! Giving is a personal & Christian thing but it has NO basis or dominion in Law or Government. That kind of thinking is vague & ambiguous but allows for such governmental indiscretion that can only lead to subversion and corruption at the highest level. NO Government, particularly ours, was ever given any license to do that!
 
> Who said it- but wait, there's even more:
 
C) " We are 5 days away from Fundamentally Transforming the U.S.A "  - At this point, personally, if I was 'anyone', I'd be saying what in the hell is going on here? What is all this Transformation and Redistribution stuff, not too mention these Coalition of Powers. Who are these guys? Hell, I'd be running them outa town. What are they running for? Certainly NOT for anything serious in this country!
 
....but that's what I would be asking I suppose if I weren't a Confederate.  But as a Confederate, and having never allowed myself to become Re-Constructed, 'dot-connecting' combined with a passion for accountability & responsibility, as was instilled within me from my parents and their parents before them, I have ALWAYS questioned any kind of Government 'ruling' that would allow them the ability to over-ride my basic rights and freedom's.
 
Questioning is our most inherent and fundamental patriotic right AND duty....but then again, I also began to read the History Books that were denied me in school and 'this guy' who was saying A, B & C,  along with his entire LEGION , was pretty much predicted by those Patriots who said, 'We're the hell outa here'----- you know, the same one's who left peaceably by RIGHT and who realized that TODAY would be the eventual result & consequence should they lose that war----  and that was in 1860!
 
> Most of you have received my many communiqués over the years- the latest of which included my on-going 'Eve of Destruction' series- You know, the ones that dealt with the inter-relationship and design regarding the: Banking Crisis and how this would lead to the 'Stimulus', 'Son of Stimulus',Tarp and the impact it would ALL have on each and every one of us when the 'dollar' is finally compromised. They also included indictments involving the Czar's, Geithner, Van Jones,  Wright's & Mark Lloyd's of the world, and of course ACORN!

There's an entire LEGION  of this ilk who has given life to this bunch through FEDERAL APPOINTMENT.....LIKE------
Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Dodd, Frank, Kerry, Kennedy, Specter, Clinton & Feinstein to name but a FEW- why HELL, there's a whole boat load, ER excuse me, HOUSE & SENATE full of them- The RepublicRats et al !
 
And while we continue to fight their war's, pay their salaries, lavish them with grandiose pensions and excellent private health care through our Tax Dollars, they re-direct our sweat to whomever, wherever and however.... while we receive the residual pittance for our labor much like Charles Dickens's character, 'Oliver', who is remedially scalded for humbly asking, ' a Little MORE, please. '
 
By the Lord Eternal, what in God's name exists that anyone cannot see or deny that which they are doing?
 
Anita Dunn, another appointee intent on " Transforming " this country- you know, the White House's Communication Director, recently said this and in a church NO less-
"....the 3rd lesson & tip comes from 2 of my FAVORITE political 'Philosopher's'- Mao Tse Tung & Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the 2 people that I turn to most... "
 
Folk's, this is the White House's Communication Director saying this!  She considers Mao Tse Tung  to be a 'political philosopher' !!!!!!!  A 'political philosopher' !!!!!  A man who probably was responsible for more deaths than Josef Stalin,  who many agree killed or exterminated more than 24 MILLION PEOPLE!  It is said that Mao did old Joe one better, like 30 million plus!  These 2 men make Hitler look like a piker.
 
She and these many, many others is what is CONTROLLING & INFLUENCING, with your tax money, YOU, YOUR CHILDREN and attacking everything & anything that was once the very under-pinning's and corner-stone's of  The American Republic!     
 
This is what and why the Southern Confederacy LEFT!  They SAW and understood the full potential of what awaited them if the folly & demagoguery of the Federal mindset was allowed to go un-challenged....AND even then, they left LEGALLY & PEACEFULLY as WAS THEIR RIGHT UNDER THE 10th AMENDMENT of the Constitution.

WE did NOT invade them....THEY INVADED us and we fought to protect ourselves and therein, along with current events, et al, is the ENTIRE HISTORY- PAST & PRESENT!
 
Oh yes- who made those above outrageous statements - A, B & C? ......why y'all should know that-  He's none other than the president of YOUR country, the U.S.A-
Barack Hussein Obama!
 
Some 50 million wanted his Change and chose once again to ignore the obvious and decided it was easier to look the other way and vote for him!  Well, you got his change, and more!
 
50 million voted for him?????  The Federal Union, I would submit, is BEYOND repair and hope!  We MUST separate if we hope to survive.
 
Let those who wanted that CHANGE and those who think they can 'GIVE it to THEM', GO THERE WAY and let us go ours.  I have NO doubt that we 'yahoo's' will do just fine.

They are on a Road to Oblivion from which there is NO return!  World History has shown us this.
Its an Un-Holy venture into the Land of Darkness and we need to get the hell outa here......AGAIN!!!
 
A)- Stated in his book- " Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and INHERITANCE! "
B)- Stated on CHICAGO Public Radio, 2001 !
C)- Stated, as noted, right before 'The Beginning of the End'- 5 days before OUR " Transformation Began "........
 
But what do I know, I'm just an old dis-illusioned Confederate, so THEY claim, who is unable to communicate anything other than racism, hate and has NO understanding of anything because I'm nothing more than a Yahoo incapable of any worthwhile substance.....you know, the same whose 'jib' was cut and fashioned after Lee, Jackson, Jefferson, Washington, Forrest, Beauregard, Henry and so many, many other's who my parents said I should fashion myself after!
 
I'm proud to be associated with them and as equally proud NOT  to be associated with the likes of ANY of the current ilk who comprise that Cesspool on the Potomac in Washington, DC.  They remain the DeFacto Government here in the South and once more I will say:
 
God Save The Christian South, For So Goes The Christian South, So WILL Go This Nation!
Deo Vindice!
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865!
For God, Family and The Confederacy,
Craig Maus
humble president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations
Staunch Supporters For The Restoration of the Legal DeJure Government of the South- The Confederate States of America and her Respective State Sovereigns.
 
www.deovindice.org
www.CSAGov.org
 
Will YOU Join Us Now?
 
PS- Because of a computer glitch, some may be receiving these communiqués who may not 'appreciate' them.
If you are among them, advise and you will be deleted.
  
 

The GAR Must Not Be Represented
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“The…celebration of the birth of the American nation---was held in Philadelphia in 1876. An occasion so completely engaging the attention of the country and participated in so widely drew forth much discussion in the South. Some Southern leaders opposed their section taking part; they still felt that the country was not theirs and that it might be less than dignified in themselves, and lacking in respect for their heroic Revolutionary ancestors, to go to Philadelphia and be treated as less than equals in a union which those ancestors had done a major part to found.
 
Former (South Carolina) Governor Benjamin F. Perry saw in the Centennial an effective way to drive home to the country the similarity of principles of the rebellion that became the Revolution, and the rebellion that became the “Lost Cause.” “This Centennial celebration of the rebels of ’76 cannot fail to teach the Northern mind to look with more leniency on Confederate rebels who only attempted to do in the late civil war what the ancestors of the Northern people did do in the American revolution…It shows a want of sense as well as a want of principle, and a want of truth, to call the rebels of 1776 patriots and heroes, and the rebels of 1861, “traitors.”
 
Only one contingency would induce a Virginian not to take part. The Grand Army must not be represented: “It would be the death’s head on the board; the skeleton in the banquet hall.”
 
(The History of the South, Volume VIII, E. Merton Coulter, LSU Press, 1947)

 

Lowest Element of the Plunderers
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“I well remember the night when the news came that Lincoln was probably elected. I with a party other college boys went to Hunt’s Hotel [in Columbia] where several speeches were made. Among the speakers was F.J. Moses, a prominent lawyer from Sumter, who in a most violent secession speech hoped the report of the election was true, as it would sweep away the opposition of the weak-kneed and hesitating, like his valued and timid friend, Wade Hampton.

 
Moses lived to be a prominent member of the infamous carpetbag government that wrecked the State from 1868 to 1876. He was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, while his son, F.J., Jr., was for years the leader in all the worst thievery and corruption, winding up as Governor.
 
Neither father nor son ever went in the army. His “timid” friend, Wade Hampton, entered the war and his history is a large part of that in the next four years. His next appearance was when the State called him in ’76, when the carpetbaggers and their allies were turned out, the Moses, father and son, being among those deposed at that time. Justice Moses rendered honest decisions, which were of great benefit…His son was to the last allied with the lowest element of the plunderers, and led a vigorous fight in their own party against D.H. Chamberlain, who refused to sign the commission of the younger Moses as judge, a position which he sought only for the opportunities it would give him to sell [court] decisions.
 
“[D.H.] Chamberlain, who was [South Carolina’s Reconstruction] governor from 1874 through 1876, took the ground boldly that the younger [F.J.] Moses and W.J. Whipper, both of whom had been elected judge, were unfit and that he would not assent to their being put on the bench to disgrace it. Chamberlain’s course was one of the first steps toward a better state of things, and it was a heavy blow at the Reconstruction party, whose only bond was plunder. It made a most effective break in their party, which cared nothing for success except as it meant free plunder. They considered Chamberlain’s efforts to make their party honest and decent as a blow at the only liberty they valued, License.
 
Chamberlain was one of the few men of character and education who came South after the war. Even they believed that Northern thrift and economy would reap rich harvests from the development of the South’s great natural resources. They did not realize the insuperable difficulties of working with labor which for generations had been irresponsible chattels, whose one idea of freedom was license, whose foresight never looked beyond the needs of the day, and who could not realize that with the power to govern themselves had come the burden of supporting themselves, the helpless children, the old people, who had been cared for as well as controlled.
 
Some of the Northerners thought that they could direct the ignorant, grateful Negro, even making rich profits while elevating the former slave. But they either gave up in despair, losing all they had put in, or went with the crowd and made profit of their intelligence in a division of plunder.” 
 
(The Haskell Memoirs, Govan & Livingood, editors, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960, pp. vi-viii)

 

Gates book on Lincoln'
 
From: regenstein@mindspring.com
 
Here is an interesting review of the book by Obama pal Henry Louis gates, the Harvard Prof, who insulted the policeman who investigated the suspected break in at his home.
 

 
The book observes that Lincoln, Our Greatest President Ever, felt blacks were inferior to whites, wanted to return them to Africa, etc.
 
What if one of us had said that?
 
Lew Regenstein

H-Net Review Publication: 'Hardeman on Lincoln'
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Review&month=0910&week=d&msg=icZL6tR32LSULUBnZXqyfA&user=&pw=

The holy cost of genocide
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
To: Shaun May, <smay@bwfcom.com>
Brotman-Winter-Fried Communications
Re: your mass-mailer "CONGRESSMAN BRAD SHERMAN CONGRATULATES SIKHS FOR JUSTICE ON THEIR JUSTICE CONFERENCE: NOVEMBER 1984 SIKH GENOCIDE"
 
cc. Sikhs for Justice, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10118
support@sikhsforjustice.org
Pannun Law Firm
75-20 Astoria Blvd, Suite 170
Jackson Heights, New York, NY 11370
gpannun@pannunfirm.com
 
Greetings, Shaun. I’m glad to hear that someone in the fedgov is willing to stand up for verified (!) innocent (!)  victims of genocide, but fear Rep. Sherman’s priorities are out of order.
 
On principle I deplore verified (!) instances of genocide everywhere, which for the past century, of course, means most notably communism’s attempt to wipe out humanity and eradicate Christianity. But also on principle I feel every country’s main focus regarding genocide should be on the cases that it itself has perpetrated, either on its own people or others -- and on any actual (!) genocide committed upon itself.
 
In ameriKa’s case, the fedgov is generations behind in giving recognition to the main (!) genocide on its vast, sprawling criminal record: the so-called American Civil War. And until Congress is willing to admit to at least that geopolitical rape/murder and deal meaningfully with its unending legacy of tyranny and violence, I’m afraid neither Brad Sherman or anybody else in government has any business sending a letter like this.
 

 
You laugh? I wouldn’t. A country that treats innocents as the yankees treated the Confederate States of America will do anything to anybody. And the record shows that the “Civil War” was merely target practice for bigger, more mindlessly vast assaults.
 
It’s bad enough that Babylon-on-the-Potomac committed such horrors on its own former citizens in the 1860s, but it’s surely mind-numbing how that entity has continued the abuse on a more limited, better-camouflaged scale since, the evil of it building in a crescendo of global tyranny and brutality for most of the past century – witness its present “wars” on innocent women and children in the Greater Middle East.
 
At least in the “Civil War” Babylon-on-the-Potomac had only 19th-century munitions with which to decimate the South. Now it uses “depleted” uranium to permanently ruin environments and cause miscarriages and ghastly birth defects in them for the rest of time. Now, THAT is genocide – in an age that supposedly avoids nuclear war as the most heinous thing possible on earth!
 
Yes, the War of Northern Aggression is the only genocide or “holocaust” with which Babylon-on-the-Potomac should concern itself until it comes clean and makes such restitution to the South as remains possible. There are other ameriKan genocides waiting in line, from General Sherman’s post-War drive to ethnic-cleanse the plains (a program that lasted via other diabolical means well into the 20th century) through the fedgov’s 1898 assault on peaceful Spain, its 1899 rape of the Philippines, its gross exacerbation of two world wars and perpetration of the so-called Nuremburg Trials, up to (among others) its fomenting of anti-Southern bigotry and dispossession today.
 
These matters all fall under the Genocide Convention itself, but strangely, the “kinder gentler” ameriKa the first President Bush proclaimed has only gotten more murderous, now indeed being sworn to the slashing of world population to a fraction of its present size.
 
I wish the Sikhs well in their informational campaign, but candidly, I don't think they have any business operating in New York City – especially if the justice they seek has anything to do with ameriKan taxpayers.
 
Thank you, Shaun.
 
Nelson Waller, M.Mus.

Atheist activist slams the South
 
From: mikectuggle@att.net
 
Gentlemen,
 
Here's the offending attack:
 
http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/10/27/league-of-the-south-denounces-myself-charles-johnson-for-picking-on-racist/
 
And here's my response:
 
http://www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/10/atheist-activist-slams-south.html
 
Let him have it.
 
Mike

hawthorneheritage.org
 
From: dewey@barberandcompany.com
 
Compatriots,
 

The battle against the discrimination of our Southern children and for freedom of speech is continuing at Hawthorne High/Middle school in Hawthorne, Florida.
 
On August 28, 2009  principal Veita Jackson-Carter unilaterally and without cause imposed a ban on the Confederate Battle Flag at Hawthorne High/Middle School. In doing so, she violated the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and denied freedom of speech to her students.
 
After many emails and phone calls from Southern heritage supporters and various transparent attempts by Veita Jackson-Carter to put a good face on this blatant discrimination, Carter continued her ban of all Confederate symbols at Hawthorne High.
 
Since that time Dixie Outfitters has built and launched a web site dedicated to exposing Veita Jackson-Carter's bigotry to the world. This site will act as a center for all those who oppose Veita Jackson-Carter's ban.
 
We invite you to visit hawthorneheritage.org and join the fight for our Southern children who are proud of their family, ancestors and heritage.
 
Best Regards,
 
Dewey W. Barber
President, Dixie Outfitters

Predicting an Expenditure of Uncounted Millions
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The Washington Peace Conference could be said to have failed because of a lack of compromise. The victorious Northern sectional party, the Republicans, was now in control of the federal machinery and patronage and an ability to dictate terms.  Commodore Stockton (below) was prescient in his prediction of how the Black Republicans would seduce the North into a war of conquest over their sister States to the South.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Predicting an Expenditure of Uncounted Millions:
 
“[Washington Peace Conference] Debate focused mainly on slavery and its extension, and on constitutional arrangements designed to maintain political power. [James B.] Clay [of Kentucky], for example, found “slavery but an incident to the great question of the balance of power between the different sections and different interests.” [James A.] Seddon [of Virginia] talked bluntly of “the acquisitive disposition” of Northerners,  of their greed for land and for office. “The great class of protected interests at the North,” he said, “….joined with the land-seekers to secure power.”
 
The bitter clash between Seddon and [George S.] Boutwell [Massachusetts] on February 18 demonstrated the emotional impact of the argument over slavery and its extension. “We hold our property, yes, our property in slaves…We feel that in…the protection of the African race, we have a mission to perform, and not a mission only but a right and duty…In all this time we have contributed far more to the greatness of the North than to our own. Yet all this time we have been assailed, attacked, vilified and defamed, by the people of the North…Your people thought they were doing God a service in signing a petition…for the mercy to John Brown and his ruffian invaders of our soil. And when these men met the just reward of their crime…they were looked upon as the victims of oppression, as martyrs to a holy and righteous cause.”
 
Boutwell replied…”Massachusetts has made war upon slavery wherever she had the right to do it….The North will never consent to the separation of the States…if the slave States will…faithfully abide by their constitutional obligations, and remain in the Union until their rights are in fact invaded, all will be well. But if they take the responsibility of involving the country in a civil war…but one course remains to those who are true to that Government.
 
“We are earnest in our determination to have our rights under the Constitution defined and guaranteed,” said J. Dixon Roman of Maryland. “Our safety, as well as our self-respect, requires this.”  [Commodore Robert] Stockton [of New Jersey] called upon Republicans by name, urging them to give up the [sectional Republican] Chicago platform “to save your country.” Stockton listed the inducements “with which the Republican leaders would seduce the North into fratricidal war”:  “The expenditure of uncounted millions, the distribution of epaulets and military commissions for an army of half a million of men, the immense patronage involved in the letting of contracts, the inflation of prices and the rise of property which would follow the excessive issue of paper money, made necessary by the lavish expenditure;---these, indeed, are the enormous bribes which the Republican party offers.”
 
Seddon…insisted that “Virginia will not permit coercion”---a position which Lott M. Morrill of Maine interpreted as “an attitude of menace.” “It gives aid and comfort,” he said,” to those who trample upon the laws and defy the authority of this Government.”  At this point Stockton shouted “Silence sir!” and “rushed toward Senator Morrill with violent and angry gesticulations.” “We will not permit our Southern friends to be charged with bad faith…! No black Republican shall…”
 
(Washington Peace Conference, Robert G. Gunderson; Antislavery and Disunion, 1858-1861, J. Jeffery Auer, Editor, Peter Smith, 1968, pp. 385-389)

 

Get the lead out -- let's talk
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: They Can't Push Us Around Forever
Tennessee calls on other states to fight the power.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/cant-push-us-around.html
 
State launches boycott of 'unconstitutional' federal laws
Urges 49 others to join in combating government's 'abuse of authority'
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113606

/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS:  Help me out here, folks.  One hears endlessly about such resolutions and challenges, which at least shows the states'have a pulse once again after 164 years lying cold and prostrate. But so far it's all on paper, correct? I personally haven't heard of any state actually abolishing federal gun dictates yet ---are gun purchasers not in fact being required to fill out those forms and jump through those hoops any longer in (for instance) Montana? Talk is cheap, paper is a penny a sheet.
 
I'm hoping someone will bring news to the contrary -- that the strike is already happening somewhere to some extent.  It's certainly great that a Southern state is now declaring and even leading -- yankees have too often taken the lead on these issues.
 
Let's have some discussion about exactly what is needed to get this job done. I'm assuming that state politicians are showing vital signs because Congress has proven public enemy number one re guns and everything else.  All it would take is a critical mass of states -- more than half, at least -- to start stiffing the feds on their gun dictates, and there would be nothing for the fedgov to do. Of course its next chess move would be to penalize the "ringleaders" of the movement, even the governors, either by quietly killing them or openly jailing them, levying crushing fines etc.
 
The fedgov will stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, to keep its bastard power. But people power, properly ranged, is still the unstoppable force.
 
Comments, news, corrections please. This is a major development which could be the beginning of the beginning for a resurrection of states' rights. Thank God for the politicians in MT, TN etc. who *have* stood up!

 

Another Lincoln Myth bites the Dust/"Was Abraham Lincoln an animal rights advocate?"
 
From: regenstein@mindspring.com
 
You know, it's a funny thing, whenever anyone researches some alleged act of Sainthood by Lincoln, it often turns out to by a myth, or at least, undocumented by any reliable evidence.
 
here is an excellent and very scholarly essay by Mike Hudak,  a respected animal protectionist refuting the myth that Lincoln was a great lover of animals. If only other scholars would objectively research and write about Lincoln, we might have a more accurate historical portrayal of him, instead of the near-deity he has become.
 
--Tom DiLorenzo's book "The Real Lincoln" is a good example, as is a new, thoroughly documented and highly recommended expose of Lincoln's administration, "Lincoln Uber Alles: Dictatorship Comes to America," by John Avery Emison, published by Pelican.
 
I have long appreciated and enjoyed Mike's essays on public land grazing, as I did this expose of Lincoln's alleged humane tendencies, and have written Mike to tell him that
 
"Lincoln is probably the most revered & most misunderstood and overly praised, figure in American history, at least prior to Obama.
 
There are numerous myths about his presidency, some of which you repeat in this essay.
 
For example, Lincoln did not directly ‘free the slaves," though his war did eventually have this result.
 
But in his Emancipation Proclamation, he carefully drafted it  to avoid freeing any slaves, carefully excluding the slaves being held in the North and the border states (whom he could have freed), and applying it only to "the states in rebellion," over which he of course had no authority.
 
Thus, the Proclamation, while an effective PR stunt, did not free the slaves.
 
If you consult Tom DiLorenzo's book, The Real Lincoln," or Emison's "Lincoln Uber Alles," you will see that Lincoln is not quite the  near deity he is invariably portrayed as being.
 
He  rather governed in a somewhat tyrannical fashion, closing down newspapers, jailing editors, expelling from America a Congressman who criticized him, expelling "the Jews as a class" from Union occupied territory, waging war against civilians, burning southern cities, homes, libraries, courthouses (Columbia SC, Athens, ALA, Atlanta, & most everything between it and the Atlantic ocean), destroying agricultural areas like the Shenandoah Valley to cause starvation of civilians, & carrying out a cruel war of near genocide against the Native Americans (the so-called Indian Wars fought against the Plains Indians and other tribes, waged largely against helpless old men, women and children in their villages).
 
You may not have heard of some of these atrocities and war crimes, because they do not  appear in the history books or the Scriptural writings, articles, TV shows, and seminars on Saint Abraham. But I would be happy to refer you to authoritative sources or send you additional information/documentation of these facts.
 
Your essay is very impressive and scholarly, in contrast to the sloppy, worshipful, inaccurate writings that characterize the Lincoln Cult that has constructed out of fabricated "facts" a graven image for us to worship mindlessly.
 
Thank you again for your invaluable work on grazing and public lands, you area true scholar devoted to The Truth.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Lewis Regenstein

**************************************************

Was Abraham Lincoln an animal rights advocate?
 
For several years claims have circulated that Abraham Lincoln (yes, THE Abraham Lincoln) was an advocate for animal rights and a vegetarian. Recently, having examined the evidence for and against these claims, I've reported my findings in the essay:
 
Abraham Lincoln: Vegetarian and Animal Rights Advocate?--A Review of the
Evidence."http://mikehudak.com/Articles/Lincoln_AR_090930.html

 

 

John Larkschar's Porno
 
From: tmanning1@triad.rr.com
 
Dear SHNV Friends,
 
Most of you have, no doubt, by now read the news about John Latschar, the Superintendent of the Gettysburg National Military Park, losing his "top" position but not his salary or job.  A memo was leaked by the Department of the Interior stating, "Latschar viewed 3,456 sexually explicit images while at work." Latschar has admitted guilt but also said some of the Inspector General s conclusions were flawed. The only "flawed" element in the event was that Latschar "got caught."
 
This should not be too surprising since Latschar headed a park that honours a United States military force that officially established houses of prostitution for its military forces at tax-payers expense. The United States Government under orders from Abraham Lincoln pimped for women of the north and the South to provide sexual services for soldiers fighting and occupying our Southern States. The U.S. even provided medical physicians to visually inspect "the whores" twice a week for lesions around their sexual organs that would indicate the presence of VD.  In spite of these precautions U.S. military personnel in some areas experienced VD rates at 25%-50%. There is an excellent book titled (I believe) "Sex and the Civil War" that gives a graphic and most depressing but informative account of this aspect of the conduct of the war by the United States.
 
The Christian heart can take no real joy in the fall, foolishness and stupidity of the wicked. All of mankind have feet of clay, both male and female. The devil rejoices when we do evil as well as when he can get others to know that we have done evil instead of being dedicated to the performance of duty and God's will. By demoting the "public" position of this worm it falsely gives these people the illusion of the Department of Parks and Recreation as taking a stand on higher moral ground.
 
In this case I might be tempted to rejoice if a public evil had been lessened or eliminated or some harm repaired. I am unable to see the downgrading of John Latschar, Supt. of the Gettysburg Battlefield Park, as any kind of a victory for our side.  Likely as not he may well stay at the same pay level. Now, he may only have a more convenient venue for the practice of his private vice.  As a pastor, college/university/hospital chaplain and Professor of Theology for over a period of 40 years I can understand where it might seem that there is some good in this for us.  The real possible good here is that maybe this is an event in Mr. Latschar's life that might turn his face toward the God of all truth, historical and moral; however, he is not manifesting any symptom of repentance at this time.
 
The one thing truly most sad and condemning about agnostic "America" is that after taking out this insensitive and ignorant jerk (Forgive me, but I am doing the best I can in my choice for words here.) is that having taken him out of his position the story told by the park service will not be improved. This may be the real lesson, if there is one, to learn from this experience. The lesson is how degraded a large population of people can be when they universally reject a life of devotion to God and doing His will. Taking out the "Top Dog" (not an inaccurate term for this event) will only reveal that there are others with his same perspective that are yapping at the heels of the leadership of the Department of Parks and Recreation to take his place and promote their sick and specious views and accounts of this period of human misery corporately inflicted by the unbelieving and ungodly on a Christian republic.
 
Deo Vindice.

Timothy D. Manning, M.Div.
Executive Director
Palmetto Heritage Foundation
3018 Charleston Highway
Cayce, South Carolina 29172

 

 

THERE IS A GOD!!!!!
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_13613398?source=email
 
If this isn't an example of "Divine Intervention" I don't know what is?! If you made a list of the top 100 guys who have stuck it to Southerners over the last 20 years, John Latschar, Supt. of the Gettysburg Battlefield Park, would at least have been ranked in the top 50. As superintendent of the most active "Civil War" battlefield park in the country, he has had the opportunity to influence nearly 2 million visitors per year since 1994.
 
He and I have crossed swords several times in the past, most recently, in 2007, when the new Gettysburg Visitor Center opened up. After visiting that center and being overcome with nausea, I wrote a review of my experience and sent it to Latschar. One thing I questioned, and still continue to question, was, how were so many former slaves, largely uneducated, found fit to hold political office and positions of responsibilty? He wrote me back with one or two examples of black men holding office who could actually read and write. I replied to him with a deluge of examples of black men holding public office who clearly could not find their butts with both hands. That was the last I heard from him.
 
Today, a friend of mine who lives in Gettysburg sent me the link to the above newspaper story. Like me, she's a died in the wool Confederate who, unfortunately, happened to be born in the north. Maybe it's "Divine Intervention", or "Divine Retribution", maybe it's simply an example of a guy who's too stupid to realize that if you're going to surf porn sites you'd better do it at home instead of at work?
 
I keep looking at the "Evening Sun" webpage and I keep rubbing my eyes, thinking perhaps that someone is playing a practical joke on me. I have clicked on the link a half dozen times and it still comes through. Guess it's not a joke?! In any case, what goes 'round, comes 'round. Score one for our side. One Yankee down and a whole bunch more to go!
 
Bill Vallante

 

Free Black Antebellum Suffrage
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“In one matter [of antebellum views of democracy] there was a definite reactionary movement. This was the issue of free Negro suffrage. Virginia and North Carolina joined Maryland and Kentucky in taking from the free Negro the ballot he had theretofore possessed. In like manner, all new States of the period, North as well as South, denied suffrage to free Negroes. The action of the old Southern States was paralleled by that of the Northern States. Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania took the ballot from the Negro. And New York in 1821 limited Negro suffrage by requiring that he possess a freehold valued at two hundred and fifty dollars over and above all indebtedness. Hence only five of the Northern States granted equal suffrage to Negroes.
 
Whether or not Jefferson, Mason, and other Revolutionary proponents of natural rights philosophy intended to include Negroes in the statement “all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights” is a debatable question, but in actual practice the American people had decided by their constitutional provisions that Negroes were not included in the political people. From the very day of the Declaration of Independence the race problem had caused the American people to make an exception to the doctrine that “all men are created equal.”
 
(Fletcher M. Green, Democracy in the Old South, paper written for the 1945 Southern Historical Association presidential address. The Pursuit of Southern History, George Brown Tindall, editor, LSU Press, 1964, pp. 186-187)

 

The Hunley II
 
From: frankgillispie671@msn.com
 
Are you familiar with the story of the Hunley II?  I found this story in an unpublished family history by my great uncle Ace Argo  It is Chapter 8 in the book.  I have posted it in the Camp 1526 web page that I am hosting.  Go to http://frankgillispie.com and click on the link to SCVcamp1526.
 
Oh, and enjoy the music
 
Frank Gillispie
Adjutant
Madison County Greys Camp 1526

 

Mississippi State Flag not allowed at Camp Stryker in Iraq
 
From: csaford@hotmail.com
 
Sample of letter sent to both Senators and Congressman Taylor
 
Carl D. Ford
Attorney at Law
P. O. Box 52
Laurel, MS 39440

October 21, 2009
 
Senator Roger Wicker
Washington City
RE: E-Mail Concerning Mississippi Flag
Dear Senator Wicker:
 
Please read the enclosed E-Mail that I received today. Please investigate. If true, what in the hell are you going to do about it? If not, why not. If you say there is nothing you can do, then why in the hell are you up there? AREN’T YOU REPRESENTING THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI?
 
So at the very least, the son of a bitch should be court-martialed.
 
Obviously, the flag contributed by Congressman Childers is the federal flag and not the Mississippi state flag.
 
Sincerely,　
 
Carl D. Ford
CDF/hb
enclosure

Tympel Turner Blansett: Mississippi Flag in Iraq
 
My brother-in-law is a member of the Mississippi National Guard 858th Horizontal Construction Company. He and 150 other local men and women are on active duty in Iraq for a 13 month tour. Barry and his unit just recently began sleeping inside, rather than in tents, as they replaced a Kentucky unit that had occupied the base where they are stationed. It is a very proud moment when these men and women are able to have a small celebration in the ceremony of raising the Mississippi Flag that represents them, as the Kentucky unit's state flag is lowered.
 
I don't know all the details, but some superior, a fellow Mississippian, no less, decided that the Mississippi State Flag is "Racist" and made them take it down. I am not going to go into my opinions of the reasons this is wrong, but I can tell you that this development has made a bad situation even worse and the morale of these guys is pretty low.
 
Please talk about this, tell everyone and anyone you can think of! If the Mississippi men and women who are over there, away from their families and their lives for our country, can't display pride in their home and themselves then just let them come home!
 
Please join the "Support the 858th" facebook groups and show your support for these guys.
 
Here are some posts from other family members and updates as I get them:
 
Today my grandson called me and him and his unit the 858th Engineers from Calhoun City, Ms. They are in Baghdad. Congressman Travis Childers gave them a Mississippi flag that had flown over the White House in Washington to carry to Iraq to fly over their barracks until they came home. Today their sergeant made them take it down. This is not right. They are at Camp Stryker, Iraq and no one else had to remove their flags. They are there to fight for our country and the freedom of us here at home. I am writing to you because this is not right. Their morale was real low today when I talked to my grandson. So while they are half way around the world fighting for us I am here fighting for the 858th Engineers out of Calhoun City Ms. and will continue to fight until they have their flag back where it belongs. The flag of THE GREAT STATE of MISSISSIPPI, will fly over the barracks of the 858th Engineers again. A MAD GRANDMA FROM MISSISSIPPI - Diane Hatfield
 
John Wells: Well I can't speak for everyone but if all of the Mississippi boy's and girl's would all get together we can do great things. Tell them to keep their spirits high, and it will be over soon. The infamous they told us the same thing but we haven't seen them and we fly a MS flag everywhere. Besides they can't stop them from flying it, the flag is a state flag, it flies everywhere and on every active duty post, in every chow hall that I have ever been in.
 
Jennifer Bullard: I like a comment my friend made stating they should move from Mississippi if they do not want to be part of it. This has my support!
 
Tegra Cannon: I can not tell you all how proud I am of not only my husband SSG BARRY CANNON, for putting his (our) life on hold to serve his country and his STATE but also of my sister Tympel who has gone far and beyond what I could ever expect to accomplish with this matter. Thank you to everyone who has put in a phone call, sent an email or just joined the 858th support page.
 
John Wells: Ya'll just tell them CC boys that a Bruce boy said fly it anyway. We do.
 
Jennifer Bullard:
 
Coleman J. LeMaster October 20 at 8:09pm Report
 
Jennifer,
 
Do you have more information about this? Has it been covered by any Mississippi newspapers or anything? If I had more information, I'd certainly consider it as a topic.
 
I'm going to remove the comment from Wednesday's topic only because I don't want it to derail the conversation from the marijuana topic. But it definitely has my attention and I'd like to know more about this.
 
I also wanted you to know where I was coming from so you wouldn't think I was disregarding your topic idea by deleting your post.
 
Let me know if there's additional info out there and I'll try to craft something from that.
 
Thanks for the topic idea!
 
C.J.
 
Thought someone else might want to talk to this guy who knows more than me. He is a WTVA reporter.
 
Tegra Cannon: Jennifer, I talked to Barry this morning, he says thank you for everything everyone has done to help get the flag up. He mentioned that starting tomorrow (today for them) they would start having a flag from each state represented on a weekly basis. This is a start but as we all know it’s not an answer. Fact that should be passed along, 1) it was a ... Read More Virginia unit that was there first, that flag was lowered the MS flag was put up, but shortly after they were told that it needed to come down. (it could have been overruled by headquarters but it was not)
 
2) The flag that Travis Childers presented to our troops during the picnic was not the flag in question; it was the American Flag that flew over the Mississippi Capitol.
 
If we are going to go to the news with this, all facts MUST be correct! I want that flag to fly more than anyone but not at the humiliation of our troops. Facts have got to be straight! I only get to talk to Barry for a few minutes everyday, and my time with him on the phone is spent talking about how he is doing, how his family is back home and such. I will talk to him for a longer period of time during the weekend. Please get the facts if you can't wait to get them from me get them from other sources. But please, please, get them right.
 
Jennifer Bullard: That is why I wanted someone else to talk to him. I don't have any facts. I just stirred up interest and will leave that to someone who knows.
 
Tympel Turner Blansett: Fact is - someone won't let those guys fly OUR flag! There is no good reason for it, regardless of the circumstances. Flying a flag from each state every week? BS!
 
Michael Turner Hatfield: ok the Mississippi flag never flew outside of our headquarters we put it up outside our rooms and it flew for about 15 mins and we was made to take it down we never had any type of ceremony where the flag went up we put our own flag that was bought by a soldier here up and he put it up and was made to take it down and at our headquarters we never have had a flag flying there but i would like to see our flag fly outside there too.

 

Town officials should not object to Confederate flags

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

About two years ago, I was asked by a town representative to remove a confederate flag from the stage where Silver Creek was performing for an Appomattox Cheerz event. Recently, The Southland Band was also asked by yet another Town representative to remove their confederate flag during their performance for the same type event.

Even though both bands complied, I contend the town representative had no right to do this and that I was denied my right to freedom of speech and expression. This is a case of what I consider to be "political correctness" run amok.

It is my understanding that among the many original purposes of these communityevents, is the desire to bring the Appomattox community together and to celebrate our rich history. Some have wrongly promoted the notion that simply displaying the confederate is somehow endorsing and supporting the institution of slavery.

Nothing could be further from the truth and I believe that the actions of the town representative not only denied me my rights, but also perpetuated a myth, which is contrary to history. We all know that Appomattox happened to be in a confederate state and destiny chose us to be the location where the Civil War ended. Will the town next discourage civil war re-enactments and all confederate symbols in and around our historic community? Will confederate flags or other symbols not be allowed to be displayed or flow at our, hopefully, new confederate museum?

It is true that the confederate flag has in some instances been adopted by hate groups, but we will not allow them to redefine the flag of the old south as a symbol of hate, however, it seems that the town representative does not understand the difference. A big part of coming together as a community is also celebrating our heritage and tolerance for each other because we can be offended by whatever we choose.

Mike Scott
Creek Johnson Band
Appomattox 

 

Rock Island Dungeon
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“When we arrived [as Confederate prisoners] at Rock Island, early in December 1863, Col. Rust was in command with a detachment of the Fourth Invalid Corps. He was a kind-hearted old fellow and just to the prisoners; but unfortunately for us the old Colonel was soon removed, and in his place came as inhuman a brute as ever disgraced the uniform of any country, one A.J. Johnson, with his regiment of Negroes for guard duty, leaving the Fourth Invalid men…for light fatigue duty.
 
Men were brutally punished upon the slightest pretext. I saw prisoners tied up to the fence by their thumbs, their toes barely touching the ground in the hot, broiling sun until they would faint, and when cut down by the guards, fall limp and unconscious. While none of us dared approach for they were next to the fence, over the dead line and grinning Negro sentinels stood just above them with ready guns in hand. 
 
[O]ur rations had been gradually reduced to less than half the amount issued to us when we first reached the Rock Island prison. Hunger began to develop the savage instincts that lie dormant in us all; men grew ugly in temper, quarrels and fights were frequent over their scanty rations, yet this was but a foretaste of what was to come.
 
In the summer of 1864…we were informed that the United States government had opened a recruiting office in our prison and that all who would take the oath and join the United States army would be moved into the new pen---calf pen, we called it---furnished good clothing, bountiful rations, paid $100. bounty, the post sutler permitted to bring in whatever they wanted to eat, and that they would not be sent South to fight, but on the frontier to hold the Indians in subjection.
 
Never, since the Son of Man was tempted by the devil was dishonor more cunningly devised or temptingly displayed. Quite a number jumped at the bait, mostly men who were willing to take the oath under any circumstance; but after this came the heroic struggle between patriotism and starvation…But every few days starvation would claim a victory. It was pitiful. Gaunt forms with the glare of wolfish hunger in their eyes, the very pictures of famine could be seen going up to take the oath, tears streaming down their faces and curses on the Yankees from their lips, their poor, shriveled flesh showing beneath fluttering rags…”
 
(Forty Hours In A Dungeon At Rock Island,” B.M. Hord, Nashville, TN.  Confederate Veteran Magazine, August 1904, page 385)

 

Lincula (!) has risen from the grave
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
To: hk.edgerton@gmail.com
 
RE: Historical Re-enactment The Battle of Ft. Sanders
The Stench of Abraham Lincoln
 
/\/.\/\/. REPLIES: We commend you, HK, for taking the time to visit the event and saying the unsayable where it was urgently needed. It shows again who the real racists and haters are. In fact, this is one of the truly priceless moments in Lincolnolatry -- dishonest abe would surely have said the same things.
 
Our job is often to speak the truth and leave any results up to God. Anybody who witnessed either confrontation should have at least gotten a good "hmmm" out of it -- maybe it was some young folks' first critical taste of politically incorrect truth.

 

Grey-Haired Patriots Near Fort Fisher
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“First Bombardment of Fort Fisher:  In the morning we halted at Sugar Loaf. The fleet had been bombarding Fort Fisher, but the enemy had not landed. The Confederate forces under Bragg, outside of Fort Fisher, consisted of a small body of Senior Reserves, ages from 45 to 50, and some little cavalry. It was pitiful to see some of these grey-haired patriots dead in the woods, killed by shells from the fleet. Among those who carried a musket there was Mr. William Pettigrew, brother of the heroic General [James Johnston Pettigrew]---since a venerable minister of the Gospel.”
 
(The Martin-Kirkland Brigade, Charles G. Elliot, North Carolina Regiments, Clark, Volume IV)    

Self-Sacrifice
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“One noteworthy example of the self-sacrifice of our soldiers is remembered with especial pride. On June 15 and 17, 1864, the women and children of Richmond had been suffering for food, and the Thirtieth Virginia sent them one day’s rations of flour, pork, bacon and veal, not from their abundance, but by going without the day’s ration themselves. “Yet,” said a journal of that time, “despatches from General Lee show that nearly every regiment in his army has re-enlisted for the war.”   On April 30th, when we were threatened on every side, and encompassed so perfectly that we could only hope for a miracle to overcome our foes, Mr. Davis’s health declined from loss of sleep so that he forgot to eat, and I resumed the practice of carrying him something at one-o’clock.”
 
Jefferson Davis, Varina Howell Davis, Belford Company, 1890, Vol. II, page 496)

 

Powder to Shoot the Yankee Abolitionists”
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“One of our cotton merchants on the bay related to us yesterday a significant fact, which we must report for the especial benefit of our anti-slavery friends (friends with the “r” out), of the North. The slaves on a cotton plantation, whose master (as is the custom of many of our Georgia planters) allows his people to make a crop for themselves each year in order to furnish themselves with holiday funds and pocket money, a few days since sent their crop, consisting of some 38 bags of cotton to our friend, who is their master’s factor, to be sold.
 
Accompanying the cotton was a letter in which the Negroes all joined, requesting that their cotton be sold for the best price it would bring in the market, and with the additional request that their factor should, if it was necessary, return one-half the amount of proceeds to be appropriated for the purchase of “powder to shoot the Yankee abolitionists.”
 
(Diary of Ada Amelia Costin, Wilmington, North Carolina, Friday, January 18, 1861. Special Collections, Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington)

 

The Approaching Vandals
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“Removal of the Remains of Washington – A correspondent of the Lynchburg “Republican” says: “I was told today that a report having reached…Virginia that the tomb of Gen. Washington was going to be violated by the [Northern] Republicans, his remains and those of his family were promptly removed to a more central spot in the State, where they will be out of harm’s way.
 
If this is true, what a commentary on the North! How strange that coming events should prompt such a move! Surely we live in a singular age.”
 
(Diary of Ada Amelia Costin, Wilmington, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 21, 1861. Special Collections, Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington)

 

Lincoln's Goal, Weitzel's Fear
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Lincoln’s goal in emancipating slaves who would flock to the Northern invader was the same as Royal Governor Lord Dunmore in 1775, and British Admiral Cochrane in 1812: to incite race war and the massacre of the South’s white population.  General Weitzel (below) was no doubt thinking of the fate of white citizens and French troops in the Haitian slave rebellion of the mid-1790’s.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Lincoln’s Goal, Weitzel’s Fear:
 
“Maintaining discipline among the black recruits, who had been in the army for only a few weeks, was a matter of concern. Although some members of the Native Guards had engaged in petty theft while in New Orleans, stealing oranges, chickens, and the like, now they were accused of much worse behavior. An officer in a New Hampshire regiment stationed at Thibodaux reported that “there are endless complaints of burnings, stealing, ravishing and lesser crimes” committed by soldiers from the 1st Regiment. “It is thought that Gen. Banks will have to disband them or put them under iron rule,” he wrote, “or to garrison the black troops at some fort far away from civilization.”  Soldiers from the 2nd Regiment were accused of plundering the countryside and entering homes to steal jewelry and other valuables in the parish of St. John the Baptist.
 
The Union commander in the area was Brigadier General Godfrey Weitzel, a young West Point graduate from Cincinnati and son of German immigrants. Weitzel did not like having black troops under his command. “I cannot command those negro regiments,” he informed [General Benjamin] Butler. “The commanding general knows well my private opinions on this subject.” Weitzel was convinced that the presence of armed blacks would incite a slave uprising in the territory he occupied.
 
[Weitzel wrote:] “Since the arrival of the negro regiments symptoms of servile insurrection are becoming apparent. I could not, without breaking my brigade all up, put a force in every part of the district to keep down such an insurrection….I have no confidence in the organization. Its moral effect on this community, which is stripped of nearly all able-bodied men and will be stripped of a great many of its arms, is terrible. Women and children, and even men are in terror. It is heart-rending, and I cannot make myself responsible for it. I will go anywhere with my own brigade that you see fit to order me, but I beg you therefore to keep the negro brigade directly under your command or place some one over both mine and it.”
 
(Louisiana Native Guards, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., LSU Press, 1995, pp. 36-38)

 

Historical Re-enactment The Battle of Ft. Sanders
The Stench of Abraham Lincoln
 
From:  hk.edgerton@gmail.com
 
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, some of the spectators who had gone into the tent where the Lincoln re-enactor would speak during the Historical re-enactment of the Battle of Ft. Sanders; would come out and come over to the table where I was set up and relate to me that Lincoln had conveyed to them that he would like to see me placed in front of a Union cannon and give the orders to fire. I suppose his comments were based upon my rendition of the Rebel Yell that I shouted out every time a unit of Union soldiers would pass by the encampment where I was stationed.
 
Lincoln's comments bothered me not, nor the fact that he had been paid a healthy honorarium to come to this Southern town and speak . What did bother me and so many other Southerners present was that this war criminal would be allowed to rant on and on spreading his lies and propaganda unchallenged to an unsuspecting public, many of whom were our Southern babies who had no knowledge of the total warfare policy sanctioned by Lincoln on our Southern populous, as his soldiers raped, murdered, starved, and burned the homes of innocent and defenseless old men, women and children, while leaving them helpless. And it is worth to note that some of these war criminals would be reported and even court-martialed, and Lincoln would over turn the rulings and promote them for their actions. (Col. Turchin, Commander of the 19th Illinois) General David Hunter, General Philip Sheridan, and many others to include the devil himself, General William Tecumseh Sherman would be commended by Lincoln for their pulling down and burning of homes, businesses, army supply warehouses, hospitals, churches, everything. 
 
On Sunday morning, October 18, 2009, I like so many others of my Southern family who had complained of Lincoln's rhetoric and presence had  just about enough, and knew it was time to act. I would ask of the gentleman who was serving as the Master of ceremony at a small re-enacted skirmish that had taken place before the major battle as he announced to the crowd of spectators gathered that Lincoln would address them after the skirmish; or you going to let a southerner make comments after Lincoln speaks? He would chide me a tongue lashing that I was shocked to hear. “No! This is our re-enactment. We are one nation now and I am a Southerner.
 
I told him that I failed to see the relevance of his answer. And that this re-enactment was truly ours as he had indicated, and it would not sit well with any true and loyal Southerner to have Lincoln strutting around spitting out his lying propaganda on a battlefield in the Southland of America , while cheering on his Northern troops. Having no other reply, he just ignored me and continued talking to those gathered.
 
I am not just disappointed about what I witnessed at Ft. Sanders and those who would sponsor it,  but also at the hostile judiciary that our babies continue to face, ( Candice Hardwick of Latta, South Carolina, the babies of Blount County High School, young Tommy Defoe of Knoxville, etc. ) with case law  like Tinker vs. the Des Moines, Iowa School Board  having no standing with these spineless Federal Judges to give them due justice as they grant implied immunity to those teachers and school administrators who take away the limited First Amendment Rights of these babies , while stripping young Southern Black babies of any memory of the honor and dignity earned by their ancestors under the Banner of the Southern Cross, and using them against their peers as weapons of choice to justify their criminal behavior.
 
And to include in my disappointment , the gutless poverty pimps like the apparent great grandson of William T. Sherman, "Julian Bond ", who spit their hate filled and traitorous rhetoric against their homeland , while filling their coffers and leaving other unsuspecting Black folks to suffer the consequences of hate triggered by their actions; just as it did during the 12 year period of so called reconstruction that created a divide between a man called master and a man that he called slave and family; who through God's plan had found a love for each other. and had they been left alone in the greatest country in the universe, would have been a shining example for all of mankind to follow.
 
HK Edgerton
www.southernheritage411.com

 

Wyeth's Biography of Forrest
 
From: thedixiediarist@yahoo.com
 
Hello All,
 
After a few delays, we have finally gotten Dr. John Allan Wyeth's "Life of Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest" up for sale. You can purchase this for $17.74 plus shipping in soft cover, or, $1.25 in PDF format. You can look at it here:  http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-life-of-lt-gen-nathan-bedford-forrest/7785422  or visit my lulu.com store front at http://stores.lulu.com/Confederate .
 
Web page description:
"N. Bedford Forrest enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in early 1861. By mid-year he was a Lt. Colonel and by war's end, he was a brevet Lieutenant General. No other man North or South may lay claim to such honor. He struck fear into the hearts of his enemies. With equal degree he was loved by those whom he served and defended against Yankee invasion.
 
"He is much maligned as a man, as a general, and a citizen, but in these pages, you will see a different picture: the picture of a man of honor, of native skill, honesty, courage and above all, patriotism. This is not the General Forrest of popular media today, but the General Forrest we should all know. He is, indeed, a man to look up to in all ages."
 
Enjoy! I hope to have Dabney's "Life and Campaigns of  Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson"  available soon.
 
Have a Dixie Day!
Matt McCune
The Dixie Diarist
http://stores.lulu.com/Confederate

 

Escaped Fiends from the Lower Regions
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“General Sherman was traveling with the Fifteenth Corps on March 8 (1865) when it crossed the line into North Carolina, and that evening both the General and the corps went into camp near Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church, a region his soldiers thought looked “real northern-like. Small farms and nice white, tidy dwellings.”
 
General Sherman, still riding with the Fifteenth Corps, took refuge on the night of March 9 from a “terrible storm of rain” in a little Presbyterian church called Bethel. Refusing a bit of carpet one of his staff had improvised into a bed on the pulpit platform, the General stretched himself out on one of the wooden pews for the night. Not far from Bethel Church, at the meeting hall of the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society, could be found another reminder of Sherman’s visit. J.M. Johnson, secretary of the society, entering in the minutes, April 22, 1865:
 
“After a considerable interruption, caused by the unwelcome visit of Sherman’s thieves, the Society meets again. And, of course, when God’s own house is outraged by the Yankee brutes, temples of morality and science will not be respected.  We find the ornaments of our fair little Hall shattered and ruined; our book shelves empty; the grove strewn with fragments of valuable, precious volumes; the speeches and productions of members who are sleeping in their silent graves, torn and trampled in the mire, “as pearls before the swine.”
 
“Ye illiterate beasts! Ye children of vice! Ye have not yet demoralized us, Today we marshal our little band again; and with three cheers for Temperance and literature, unfurl our triumphant banner to the breeze.”
 
A resident of the village of Philadelphus [Robeson county], after passing through “the ordeal of brutal, inhuman and merciless Yankeeism,” wrote: “They visited us in torrents,” and acted like “escaped fiends from the lower regions…”
 
(The Civil War in North Carolina, John G. Barrett, UNC Press, 1963, pp. 301-302)

 

Prisoners Ready to Slay, Burn and Destroy Again
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The stated reason for prosecuting war against the South was to save the Union, but the armed emissaries of reunification sent by the North would destroy any State not wanting to be saved.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Prisoners Ready to Slay, Burn and Destroy Again:
 
“We understand that a good many of the Yankee prisoners are quite truculent and insulting, declaring that if they ever do get their freedom, they will slay, burn, and destroy in Richmond to their hearts’ content.  The immediate provocation of these dire menaces is that they do not always have sugar in their coffee. They need sweetening no doubt, and if they received their deserts, would have no cause to complain of any deficiency in that particular….We are not much alarmed at the threats of these fine fellows.  They have been breathing blood and thunder against Richmond for the last three years, and it has all ended at Libby [one of the largest tobacco ware-house prisons in Richmond]. 
 
That is the only “On to Richmond” which has been realized yet. We have no doubt that the Yankees will behave a great deal worse hereafter, if that be possible, than they have ever done before. But perhaps we shall behave worse also. There is great room for improvement in our mode of treating these invaders…We are not always going to have our prisoners murdered by inches and our houses burned over our heads without some attempt at retaliation. In the meantime, the sooner the Yankees now here are removed farther South, the better for all parties.”
 
(The Yankee Prisons, Richmond Daily Dispatch, February 17, 1864, page 2)

 

TAKE THE NAACP AND MEDIA TO COURT
 
From: area51news@rock.com
 
Attn: SCV - JOE WILSON/RUSH LIMBAUGH
 
By now you have surely heard that Rush Limbaugh is probably going to file suit against a number of those in the media on the grounds of injuring his REPUTATION and CREDIBILITY.
 
10/14/2009 Fox News (Bill O'Reilly) had a boat load of organizations and people insinuating Rush is a racist. This is going to be great as it develops.
 
Wouldn't this be a great opportunity for the SCV to follow Rush right on in the court room for a little litigation and adjudication WITH THE NAACP AND THE MEDIA??? This seems like one great opportunity if there ever was one, and the timing is ripe.
 
Win or loose - it would go a long way in vindicating the SCV and the heritage, and that would be important.
 
CONFEDERATE FLAG NOT THE PROBLEM by Charley Reese.
http://42ndvirginia.org/reese2.html       

A great read!!!
 
C Parks, CSA  
www.CSAHPS.com   
S.C. CSA LET US VOTE CAMPAIGN

 

Keep Your Hands Out of Our Pockets
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
 
Chuck:
 
I believe Bernhard’s post (just after this one) ANSWERS this one, don’t you? Obviously, the difference had to do with what each section believed was required of the central government by it and of it by the central government. The South wished to be left alone with the federal government doing only such things as were constitutionally prescribed. The North apparently wanted a great deal more from the federal government all the while knowing that the monies used by that government and given to it came – in large part – from the South! So the federal government itself in the end became the means by which money was taken from the South and given to the North.
 
Furthermore, the South could read the handwriting on the wall. With the ever expanding nation, it was clear that the new territories as they became states would side with the North and why not? That was the profitable thing to do!  The South could not expand (albeit Missouri and Oklahoma might have joined forces with that section; maybe Arizona as well. But the vast majority of new states coming into the United States would side with the North and render the South into a permanent minority that would be forced to financially support a much larger majority. The South would become the host for a Northern collectivist, fascistic economic parasite without any hope of reducing the power of the federal entity that acted as a sort of “anti-Robin Hood”,  taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
 
Of course, we now know that the Northern states were misguided in believing that they could empower the central government and maintain their own liberty. In the end, the “means to an end” used by the North became the end itself and now ALL are prostrate under the tyranny of the “federal government”.
 
Valerie

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Keep Your Hands Out of Our Pockets
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net 
 
“On the 14th of December [Alexander H. Stephens] made a speech in the House in answer to Mr. Mace, of Indiana, who had announced the determination of himself and his party to vote for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill…and had given notice of his intention to introduce a bill to prohibit slavery in those Territories.  After showing that the local elections throughout the States give a different testimony, Mr. Stephens thus meets the allegation that the South had been in the habit of claiming and extorting more than her just rights from the Federal Government: 
 
“But the gentleman says that when Southern men’s measures are vetoed, they raise their voices in tones of thunder until they carry them. Sir, I do not believe there ever was a Southern measure vetoed. I do not recollect one. The South has never asked anything from your Government that called for a veto. There is the difference between us. The South asks but small favors from you. It is a class of gentlemen from the North who ask aid from the Government. Why, we never come here in that attitude. Let me ask the gentleman when any measure from the South was ever vetoed?, when the South ever asked anything that required the exercise of the veto power?
 
But the gentleman said that he admired the South, because “knowing their rights, they dared maintain them.” That I take as a compliment. And now, what is his position? Why the South, “knowing their rights, and daring to maintain them,” he would have the North rise up and prevent her from getting her known and acknowledged rights!  If we know our rights, and they are our rights, and we dare maintain them, why ought not the North,---why ought not the gentleman (I will not say the North) to grant us our rights?  Have we ever asked anything but what was right?  That is the position that the South has always occupied, as I remember her history.”
 
“Now, sir, upon the subject of internal improvements which the gentleman alluded to, has the South ever asked legislative aid in that particular? I do not speak now sectionally, or against the North; but look at the whole history of the Government. Who is it that is constantly appealing here for legislative aid and legislative patronage? Who ask for fishing bounties? Who ask for protection to navigation? Who is that wants a duty on coal? Who upon iron? Who upon woolen goods? Who upon shoes, leather, cotton fabrics---everything? Why the industrial interests of the North. But when did we ever come up and ask any aid from the Government of the United States? The constant prayer of the South to you has been to stay your hands. All that we ask of you is,---keep your hands out of our pockets.”
 
(Life of Alexander H. Stephens, Richard Malcolm Johnson, William Hand Browne, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883, pp. 280-281)