Excerpts from the above which is a speech I was asked to give by the
executive director of the Bell County Kentucky Historical museum in
Middlesboro Kentucky during Confederate Memorial month April 2011 which
is easily found by googling basil childress bell county Kentucky
"...................For we are truly owned by corporate interests backed
up by the political power of the state.
Alexander Hamilton (north) wanted that arrangement and Thomas Jefferson
(South) warned
constantly against it. That Hamiltonian arrangement's operation has
always depended on
slavery/race politics (the poles of which are occupied by White
Supremacists and the Multi-Culturalists
who are each trapped in a worldview that is not Southern); that is the
red herring behind
which Hamilton won and Jefferson lost. Such race politics must be
transcended if we are to see the
real and continuing contentions. (Which are over that question of the
powers of the federal
government; their nature, their extent, their source and to what purpose
exercised). The issues have
inevitably resurfaced, as Jefferson Davis predicted....along with all
the deceptive distractions that have
always been used to hide the real divide.
Preventing such different understanding is precisely why such efforts
are made to brand Jeffersonian
politics as Nazi….that and the old "race" subterfuge comprising the type
of misdirection that has
worked for so long. Indeed, the extent of the attempt to keep that
branding active is the thermometer
of American politics….the more The People oppose their New England
inspired masters…the more
one will hear screaming about racists and traitors.
The men who wore the gray in 1861, believed they were called upon to
defend the spirit of 1776. The
northern victory and control won by crushing that defense has helped
land us on our current shores.
Today we are engaged in a contest – that's been going on longer than
before any of us – even the oldest of us – was born.
That contest is with a world view that wants to make itself that target,
that vision of that
for which humans ought to be striving and wants to compel how you are
allowed to
aim toward that vision – it began to radically come to the American
Republic after 1865. What follows is my attempt to identify the nature
of that contest,
by putting in context one of the most important historical markers
having to do with it, that "American Civil War."
The attempt by the South to preserve original Constitutional principles
failed and a Reconstruction of the South followed – which was really an
effort expressly
meant to finally smash any clinging to the Constitution as practiced by
the old Republic. ,, a project might I add that is still ongoing. In
fact today we see that "Reconstruction" now has come to the whole
country - with the express purpose of finally smashing even the
bastardized memory of any such old
Republic and to create now, not just a national Sovereign, but an
international one.
And hear this admonition> "So face with calm that heritage - And earn
contempt
before the age." That admonition is from Allen Tate, in a work called
"Brief Message", published in 1932.
Allen Tate was a native of Clark County, Kentucky and one of a group of
Southern scholars nicknamed
the "Twelve Southerners of Vanderbilt" who along with others and a
fellow Kentuckian named Robert
Penn Warren, who all together wrote a defense of the South around 1930
which was also a critique of
the modern age, titled I'll Take My Stand........[this evening] I'm
going to try and give y'all a hook or two out of which to try and sort
some definitions, specifically
relating to defending the cause for which our ancestors fought. [ toward
that end let me begin with
California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown who was nominated
to the U.S. Court of Appeals
by President Bush back in 2003. Brown, the African-American daughter of
an Alabama sharecropper,
has had this to say about the role of the US Supreme Court: She wasn't
confirmed and seated until
2005...that two year delay caused by the following comments – comments
that caused then Senator
Barack Obama to become one of the most vocal opponents of her confirmation.
[the US Supreme court's protection of the government's expansion of the
1930s was] "the triumph of
our own socialist revolution." [And that same enlargement of
Washington's power] "inoculated the
federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality.
The Constitution itself was
transmuted into a significantly different document." …She's also
evidently said the federal
government is a "leviathan" that's "crushing everything in its path,"
About the state of America's
culture (and therefore inevitably the foundation of its legal system),
she has said that when the country
moves away from the religious traditions of its founding, "we change our
whole conception of the most
significant idea that America has to offer, which is this idea of human
freedom and this notion of
liberty."
Brown has said there's a war in this country between those who believe
and some of those who don't.
"These are perilous times for people of faith, not in the sense that we
are going to lose our lives, but in
the sense that it will cost you something if you are a person of faith
who stands up for what you
believe in and say those things out loud.
That may give a clue as to why with every election season, the other
predictable issue in our recent
elections appears again and again. I'm talking about the intensification
of the attacks on all things
Southern, especially the flag of our fathers, who were soldiers of the
South and fought beneath the
folds of the Confederate Battleflag. [If that's too obscure, recall
Howard Dean's comment during the
2004 primaries when he sought the votes of those who have CSA flags "in"
their trucks – a comment
which earned him a storm of censure – none for the right reasons]
Why is the South still, after slavery and segregation have long ago
faded away, the object of these
attacks? - Why is the history and culture of the South absent those
things, a political issue?
As the English man of letters, G.K. Chesterton said, "[Modern] Tolerance
is the virtue of men who no longer
believe in anything.…………….."
And that forms the background for why Justice Brown says there is a
fight brewing between those who
believe and those who don't in this country. This atmosphere if you will
– this renewed contention
between two radically different, "Gnosticisms" – is the terrain on which
we Southerners, particularly
those of us who are members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans – the
remnant who remain to
oppose the nonsense spouted here in the modern era about the "proper
political arrangements forced
by government power" -are asked to pursue the charge and confirms
Jefferson Davis' assertion that,
despite the northern victory, the issues involved would inevitably
resurface – or [as] Vice President A H
Stephens comment[ed] that, 'the cause of the South is the cause of us
all"…..if you're not a Jacobin
Leftist.........>>>> read the rest
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