http://www.fireeater.org/Pages/LT_Content/Archives/PDF%20Files/2008_Vol_1.pdf
A lot to read....
http://dixienet.org/rights/quovadis.shtml
http://johnhuntmorgan.scv.org/articles/childress.pdf
http://www.fireeater.org/Pages/Vol_II_2010/912speechRichmond_09Sep2010_bazz.pdf
http://camp100.blogspot.com/2008/11/confederate-memorial-day-speech-1-june.html
And, what of the Sons of Confederate Veterans? Does not the circumstances today present an opportunity to reach out with the truth of our Cause? Aren't Americans becoming more aware the country they love has been lost to a centralized government our founding fathers never intended to exist? Isn't this the time for our Confederation to grow in strength and numbers?
Our former president, the honorable Jefferson Davis, said, "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in another form." Question: If it is not up to us, the historic Sons of Confederate Veterans. If it is not up to us, the descendants of those who bravely fought to defend our Southern homeland. If it is not up to us, who know and understand the truth of the Confederate cause. If it is not up to us to reassert and contend. Then who? And, if that time is not here and now, then where and when?
Speaking to the Mississippi legislature in 1881, Jefferson Davis also stated, "The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena." This was true in 1881, and it's true today. It's not over! Our Southern heritage, homeland, and values are still being attacked by malicious, self serving misfits and it's up to us to stand and firmly contend for the truth and honor of our Confederate Cause. And, the time is here and now!
http://www.fireeater.org/Pages/Vol_II_2010/912speechRichmond_09Sep2010_bazz.pdf
Let me finally close with Lord Acton (Sir John Dahlberg) . Many are familiar with Lord
Acton’s quote, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Dahlberg, was
one of the nineteenth century’s pre-eminent political philosophers. In 1866, Dahlberg
maintained a correspondence with Robt E Lee about the consequences of what had
happened to the American experiment. He remarked that,
“he mourned for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over
that which was saved at Waterloo." And later, Dahlberg said, “The North has used the
doctrines of Democracy to destroy self-government. The South applied the principle of
conditional federation [aka shared sovereignty] to cure the evils and to correct the errors
of a false interpretation of Democracy................[and the inevitable result of an unfettered
federal government will be] the initiative in administration; the function of universal
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guardian and paymaster; the resources of coercion, intimidation, and corruption; the
habit of preferring the public interest of the moment to the established law; ....... a public
creditor; a prodigious budget – these things will remain to the future government of the
Federal Union, and will make it approximate more closely to the imperial than to the
republican type of democracy…..By exhibiting the spectacle of a people claiming to be
free, but whose love of freedom means hatreds of inequality, jealousy of limitations to
power, and reliance on the [modern state] as an instrument to mould as well as to
control society, it calls on its admirers to hate aristocracy and teaches its adversaries to
fear the people."
http://thelostcauseky.blogspot.com/2010/11/found-lost-cause-its-origins-as-phrase.html
On 7/27/2011 6:17 PM, Bazz Childress wrote: We are as divided as we ever were and over all the same issues. The 1860s war was a continuation of a fight that started before the ink was dry on the constitution over money, banking and tax policy.....never in the history of the world did two totally different sets of humans (Puritans [Massachusetts]and Cavaliers [Virginia] culturally and spiritually as divided as could possibly be, attempt to accomplish that impossible joining. We are now living with the cataclysmic result of making that attempt and failing to go separate ways long ago when it was plain that the Abram Lot solution was best.
There is much more to say :-) and usually I try and say it,... but just literally don't have the time right now - Indeed, Melissa Harris Perry guest hosted for Rachel Maddow last night and talked about from the Left's perspective of course (haven't been able to find the link to her comments last night) - these very matters and that link to the War
Excerpt from a recent
SCV chaplain's devotion>> Everywhere you look the American people are growing weary of being used and taken for granted by a government that has simply gotten too big. We the people, the majority who have supported this country and continue to do so, are tired of being ignored by a bureaucratic government that promotes it's own agenda and caters to the demands of a few malcontents. Americans are becoming more and more dissatisfied, many to the point of anger, and our elected leaders are not listening.
SCV chaplain's devotion>> Everywhere you look the American people are growing weary of being used and taken for granted by a government that has simply gotten too big. We the people, the majority who have supported this country and continue to do so, are tired of being ignored by a bureaucratic government that promotes it's own agenda and caters to the demands of a few malcontents. Americans are becoming more and more dissatisfied, many to the point of anger, and our elected leaders are not listening.
My responsed late Sunday evening 24 July 2011
These are significant words. I truly believe we are entering that renewed and enlarged arena........the first financial ramification of which might be less than hours away. This is a fight as old as the country between Hamilton and Jefferson (the banks, financiers vs the rest of us normal people). if the creation of this current version of the US Govt can be said to come through its creation of US treasuries and the debt market in order to finance the War against the South - which was perhaps the crucial factor in the Southern loss (that issue of financing the war), then Southern vindication might come from the debt market's unravelling......done by the US govt's own hand even if it did take 150 years.....isn't history delicious in its ironies :-) Indeed some financial/political chatterers are saying that passing a balanced budget amendent will put pressure on the states to help reign in the debt crisis. The US or its taxpayers can repay the debt that's been run up.....Indeed gallons of Southern blood was shed to prevent the "money center" banks from saddling the taxpayer with their debt........back in the 1860s and before it was slavery that produced the cash argued over. Today we have all become wage slaves in this system (do you feel balanced yet)??
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