The Tenth Amendment is Just as Important as the First and Second. SCV and SAR
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A Union Vet, dedicating a Nathan Bedford Forrest monument in 1905, said that "no American North or South seeks to lessen the measure of his fame."
So why would anyone try to do it in 2020? Stop saying "the winners write the history" when modern activist slime spreads lies.
"Impartial history has given Gen. Forrest high rank as one of the greatest cavalry leaders of modern times; no American North or South now seeks to lessen the measure of his fame, and no one can speak of him without remembrance of the men who served with him and whose soldierly qualities made it possible for him to win his wonderful victories; no military leader was ever supported by more faithful, gallant and daring subordinate officers than Gens. D. C. Kelley, Bell, Chalmers, Jackson, Buford, Armstrong and Lyon; Cols. W. F. Taylor, Starnes, Heiskell, Rucker, Barksdale, Barteau and Jeffrey Forrest; Maj. Strange; Capts. William and Jesse Forrest, Morton and Rice, Walton and Thrall and all the rest of that galaxy of splendid soldiers who brought to the service of their chief talent, energy, fidelity and courage of highest order.
Words are inadequate to do full justice to the superb bravery of men who made up the rank and file of Gen. Forrest’s command; it has been truly said that “the spirit of the cavalier which was found in the Southern armies was combined with the steadfastness of Cromwell’s Ironsides,” and it is equally true that no soldiers ever met more promptly every demand made upon them, no soldiers ever faced the enemy’s blazing guns more fearlessly or performed greater feats of valor than did the veterans of Forrest’s regiments in battles which were as hard fought as Marathon or Philippi."
-Col C. A. Stanton (Union Vet, 5/16/1905)
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Many claim protecting slavery involved extending it into the territories. Let’s think about that one. When the South seceded from the Union, it cut itself off from any legal claim to the territories (with the exception of a small section of the Southwest territories that asked to join the CSA). How then did secession in any way help serve the cause of extending slavery into the territories? It in fact did just the opposite.
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Devil’s Punchbowl — An American Concentration Camp So Horrific It was Erased from History
The Devil's Punchbowl was a concentration camp created in Natchez, Mississippi during the American Civil War to control freed slaves.
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The deliberate falsehood which Sherman inserted in his official report, that Columbia, South Carolina, had been burned by General Wade Hampton, was afterwards confessed in his "Memoirs" to have been "distinctly charged on General Wade Hampton to shake the faith of his people in him." Even when confessing one falsehood he deliberately coined another, and on the same page of his "Memoirs" said that the fire "was accidental," when he knew, from the letter of General Stone, who commanded the Provost Guard in Columbia, that the fire was not accidental. How much more he knew, he may in future "Memoirs" or "statements" reveal.
Can any man imagine less moral character, less conception of truth, less regard for what an official report should contain, than is shown by Sherman deliberately concocting a falsehood for the dishonorable purpose of shaking the faith of the people of South Carolina in their fellow citizen, General Wade Hampton? His election to be Governor of that State by the votes of a larger majority of her people of every race than was ever polled before or since; his elevation to the Senate of the United States, and the respect, admiration and regard which is shown to him, must be particularly vexing to the Shermans, and may have suggested to the General to "hedge" in his "Memoirs” and confess his wrong doing. Such an act of penance, if it brought true and genuine repentance, would have protected the memory of Albert Sidney Johnston, the fame of General Grant and my own reputation from the slanders which called forth this exposure. It would also have prevented the United States from having indorsed a falsehood, which is liable to be confessed when another volume of "Memoirs" shall be prepared.
-9/23/1886
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Elmira’s Confederate death rate was 24.5%. Andersonville’s Union death rate was 28.7%.
Henry Wirz the Andersonville commandant was hanged in 1865. Nobody at Elmira was ever charged.
Elmira Military Prison, Library of Congress, 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln started the war because he refused to accept peaceful secession and never would.
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#Onthisday (9/26/1941) the Charlotte Observer runs an incredible story about an Australian soldier that is buried with our flag!
Where can you find Confederate Flags? Everywhere! Yes, in 1941 an Australian soldier carried the flag into battle in Syria. Does anyone think he was thinking about "Jim Crow?" Faux historians hope you don't see these articles!
From 9/26/1941 Charlotte Observer
#history
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It is interesting to note that the state of Virginia did not secede from the Union on April 17, 1861, over any grievance concerning policy. Virginia seceded on the one distinct and practical matter of constitutional right. She was followed by Tennessee, Arkansas, and Nirth Carolina.
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The case referred to today for its declaration of secession’s unconstitutionality is Texas v. White. Concerning secession, it came down to one sentence by Chief Justice Salmon Chase, “The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible states.”
He provided zero constitutional evidence to reinforce his statement. Chase was only doing what was necessary to ensure that the law as made by the courts fit the result on the battlefield.
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My Letter from 9/23/1886:
As the Republican party renounced the issue of treason when it abandoned my trial in 1867, not at my instance, but in face of my defiance, its leaders of the present day but stultify themselves in the cry of traitor which they raise at the mention of my name. This is more a matter of traffic than of argument, but as it serves to keep alive the issues and prejudices of the war period, it is a device which, as politicians, they may not like to abandon. It is not surprising that the politicians of a party which, in the mad fury of its passions, deliberately hung a harmless and helpless woman, should continue to keep warm their malice against an old soldier, and long a civil official, by the frequent use of epithets. If it affords them any relief, it costs me so little concern that it would be uncharitable to deny them the enjoyment they take in hurling epithets at me, a game in which any fishwoman might successfully compete.
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Referring to Thomas Jefferson and his allies, John C. Calhoun writes:
They assumed the name of the Republican party. Its great object was to protect the reserved, against the encroachments of the delegated powers...And hence they were often called, "the State Rights party."
A Disquisition on Government, 1851, p352
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Julia Grant took her slave Jule into Union camps to visit her husband. Grant wrote the pass himself: “Mrs. Grant servant & child.”
Lee is the monster. The Grants get a pass.
That is not history. That’s hating the South.
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"The numerical majority, perhaps, should usually be one of the elements of a constitutional democracy; but to make it the sole element, in order to perfect the constitution and make the government more popular, is one of the greatest and most fatal of political errors."
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August 8th, 2000: Confederate Naval Jack flying above a U. S. Coast Guard cutter supervising the raising of the C. S. S. Hunley in Charleston Harbor.
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John Hancock owned slaves. Robert E. Lee owned slaves.
Hancock inherited slaves from his uncle. Lee inherited slaves from his mother.
Both were slave owners. Only Lee is treated as the face of evil. That is not history. That’s hatred of the South.
On this day in 1862, General AP Hill marched five brigades over 17 miles from Harper’s Ferry to Sharpsburg and forced Union troops back across Antietam Creek in the single bloodiest day in American military history.
Curious that all these liberals and Rinos are trying to lecture those of us with roots in America before the founders that there is no such thing as a “Heritage American”.
I hope they remember they said it does not matter who our 6x Great Grandfather was they next time they start crying for reparations.
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It appears to me unquestionable that if any portion of the Union seriously desired to separate itself from the other states, they would not be able, nor indeed would they attempt, to prevent it; and that the present Union will last only as long as the states which compose it choose to continue members of the confederation. If this point be admitted, the question becomes less difficult; and our object is, not to inquire whether the states of the existing Union are capable of separating, but whether they will choose to remain united.
(Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 1, p. 389)
