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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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.
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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)
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KU Twitter: “Can’t Wait to beat Mizzou in football this weekend!”
Mizzou Twitter:
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#Onthisday (9/11/1861) the Richmond Dispatch wrote that it did not think slavery was the cause of the war.
But how is that possible? Weren't you told that this idea was invented after the war to oppress Blacks?
The assault on monuments was always a total lie!
"We have never supposed that the existence of slavery is the cause of the long and irritating strife which has resulted at last in an appeal to arms. Slavery is the occasion, but only the occasion of that strife. Between the patrician and the plebeian elements of Great Britain there are even now greater differences of character than between Great Britain and any foreign nation."
-Richmond Dispatch 9/11/1861
#history #ushistory
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Thomas Jefferson understood that a true republic had to remain small in order to ensure “a republican form of government” for its inhabitants.
In a letter to Joseph Priestly on January 29, 1804, Jefferson said he would be happy to have a Mississippi Confederacy on the western banks of the Mississippi alongside the old Atlantic Confederacy. And he even imagined a Pacific federation, comprised, he said, of "free and independent Americans, unconnected with us but by the ties of blood and interest, and employing like us the rights of self-government."
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“it has ever been held and acknowledged by all parties that Government, to be lawful, must be founded on the consent of the governed.“
On 6/14/1864 the CSA Congress declared the was was about independence. Slavery is not mentioned.
Joint Resolutions, Declaring the dispositions, principles and purposes of the Confederate States in Relation to the Existing War with the United States. (6/14/1864)
Whereas, It is due to the great cause of humanity and civilization, and especially to the heroic sacrifices of their gallant army in the field, that no means, consistent with a proper self-respect and the approved usages of nations, should be omitted by the Confederate States to enlighten the public opinion of the world with regard to the true character of the struggle in which they are engaged, and the dispositions, principles, and purposes by which they are actuated; Therefore,
Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the following manifesto be issued in their name and by their authority, and that the President be requested to cause copies thereof to be transmitted to our commissioners abroad to the end that the same may be laid before foreign Governments.
Manifesto of the Congress of the Confederate States of America relative to the Existing War with the United States.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America, acknowledging their responsibility to the opinion of the civilized world, to the great law of Christian philanthropy, and to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, for the part they have been compelled to bear in the sad spectacle of war and carnage which this continent has for the last three years exhibited to the eyes of afflicted humanity, deems the present a fitting occasion to declare the principles, the sentiments and the purposes by which they have been and are still actuated.
They have ever deeply deplored the necessity which constrained them to take up arms in defence of their rights and of the free institutions derived from their ancestors; and there is nothing they more ardently desire than peace, whensoever their enemy, by ceasing from the unhallowed war waged upon them, shall permit them to enjoy in peace the sheltering protection of those hereditary rights and of those cherished institutions.
The series of successes with which it has pleased Almighty God, in so signal a manner, to bless our arms on almost every point of our invaded borders since the opening of the present campaign, enables us to profess this desire of peace in the interests of civilization and humanity without danger of having our motives misinterpreted, or of the declaration being ascribed to any unmanly sentiment or any distrust of our ability fully to maintain our cause.
The repeated and disastrous checks, foreshadowing ultimate discomfiture, which their gigantic army, directed against the capital of the Confederacy, has already met with, are but a continuation of the same providential successes for us. We do not refer to these successes in any spirit of vain boasting, but in humble acknowledgment of that Almighty protection which has vouchsafed and granted them.
The world must now see that eight millions of people, inhabiting so extensive a territory, with such varied resources and such numerous means of defence as the benignant bounty of nature has bestowed upon us, and animated with one spirit to encounter every privation and sacrifice of ease, of health, of property, of life itself, rather than be degraded from the condition of free and independent States into which they were born, can never be conquered.
Will not our adversaries themselves begin to feel that humanity has bled long enough; that tears and blood and treasure enough have been expended in a bootless undertaking, covering their own land, no less than ours, with a pall of mourning, and exposing them far more than ourselves to the catastrophe of financial exhaustion and bankruptcy, not to speak of the loss of their liberties by the despotism engendered in an aggressive warfare upon the liberties of another and kindred people?
Will they be willing, by a longer perseverance in a wanton and hopeless contest, to make this continent, which they so long boasted to be the chosen abode of liberty and self-government, of peace and a higher civilization, the theatre of the most causeless and prodigal effusion of blood which the world has ever seen, of a virtual relapse into the barbarism of the ruder ages, and of the destruction of constitutional freedom by the lawlessness of usurped power?
These are questions which our adversaries will decide for themselves.
We desire to stand acquitted before the tribunal of the world, as well as in the eyes of Omniscient Justice, of any responsibility for the origin or prolongation of a war as contrary to the spirit of the age as to the traditions and acknowledged maxims of the political system of America.
On this continent, whatever opinion may have prevailed elsewhere, it has ever been held and acknowledged by all parties that Government, to be lawful, must be founded on the consent of the governed.
We were forced to dissolve our federal connection with our former associates by their aggressions on the fundamental principles of our compact of union with them; and in doing so we exercise a right consecrated in the great charter of American liberty — the right of a free people, when a Government proves destructive of the ends for which it was established, to recur to original principles and to institute new guards for their security.
The separate independence of the States, as sovereign and co-equal members of the Federal Union, had never been surrendered, and the pretension of applying to independent communities so constituted and organized the ordinary rules of coercion, and reducing rebellious subjects to obedience, was a solecism in terms, as well as an outrage on the principles of public law.
The war made upon the Confederate States was, therefore, wholly one of aggression. On our side it has been strictly defensive.
Born freemen, and the descendants of a gallant ancestry, we had no option but to stand up in defence of our invaded firesides, of our desecrated altars, of our violated liberties and birthright, and of the prescriptive institutions which guard and protect them.
We have not interfered, nor do we wish in any manner whatever to interfere, with the internal peace and prosperity of the States arrayed in hostility against us, or with the freest development of their destinies in any form of action or line of policy they may think proper to adopt for themselves.
All we ask is a like immunity for ourselves and to be left in the undisturbed enjoyment of those inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” which our common ancestors declared to be the equal heritage of all the parties to the social compact.
Let them forbear aggression upon us, and the war is at an end. If there be questions which require adjustment by negotiation, we have ever been willing and are still willing to enter into communication with our adversaries in a spirit of peace, of equity, and manly frankness.
Strong in the persuasion of the justice of our cause, in the gallant devotion of our citizen soldiers, and of the whole body of our people, and above all in the gracious protection of Heaven, we are not afraid to avow a sincere desire for peace on terms consistent with our honor and the permanent security of our rights, and an earnest aspiration to see the world once more restored to the beneficent pursuits of industry and of mutual intercourse and exchanges, so essential to its well-being, and which have been so gravely interrupted by the existence of this unnatural war in America.
But if our adversaries, or those whom they have placed in authority, deaf to the voice of reason and justice, steeled against the dictates of both prudence and humanity by the presumptuous and delusive confidence in their own numbers, or those of their black and foreign mercenaries, shall determine upon an indefinite prolongation of the contest, upon them be the responsibility of a decision so ruinous to themselves, and so injurious to the interests and repose of mankind.
For ourselves, we have no fear of the result. The wildest pictures ever drawn of a disordered imagination come short of the extravagance which could dream of the conquest of eight millions of people, resolved with one mind “to die freemen rather than live slaves,” and forewarned by the savage and exterminating spirit in which this war has been waged upon them, and by the mad avowals of its patrons and supporters of the worse than Egyptian bondage that awaits them in the event of their subjugation.
With these declarations of our dispositions, our principles, and our purposes, we commit our cause to the enlightened judgment of the world, to the sober reflections of our adversaries themselves, and to the solemn and righteous arbitrament of Heaven.
-Approved June 14, 1864.
