Southern history • Federalism • States’ Rights Writer & veteran. Book on a lost tradition coming in 2027 “all we ask is to be let alone”
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1972 Firing Line titled "The Southern Imagination"
It was interesting and a bit difficult to watch in places. Even 50 years is enough time for presentism to enable one to be unfair.
Talking about the "fusion of the two cultures" William F. Buckley asks, if this means people in Mississippi "will exhibit less of sort of the Confederate syndrome. Will they care less to preserve the home of Jefferson Davis"?
Eudora Welty answers, "I mean I'm not a bit interested in preserving the home of Jefferson Davis. Because I'm interested in human beings that are alive and I mean I respect history for what it is. I'm speaking as a worker somebody who likes to write."
"Sen. Barry Goldwater raises his hand with S.C. Senator Strom Thurmond at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. Sen. Goldwater is the Republican nominee for President of the United States and Sen. Thurmond, who recently joined the Republican Party, is present to support Goldwater. A Confederate flag is visible in the crowd along with a sign reading Dixie Goes Goldwater."
Several people have been acting like conservative Republicans only existed in the South. They say one of the 20th century’s leading defenders of limited government and the original Constitution was not one because he does not pass some purity test.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave and lived through Reconstruction. In Up From Slavery he wrote, “I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced.”
Modern historians ignore him.
In 1964 Barry Goldwater told the Senate he found no Constitutional basis for federal regulation of public accommodations or private hiring, and he voted against the Civil Rights Act.
Was he the last conservative Republican?
Yes, sir. Calhoun said it well in his speech opposing the Force Bill in the Senate in February of 1833.
"Whatever interest obtains possession of the Government, will, from the nature of things, be in favor of the powers, and against the limitations imposed by the constitution, and will resort to every device that can be imagined to remove those restraints.”
In 1832 Daniel Webster, the North’s great nationalist, said “The President has no authority to blockade Charleston.” In April 1861 Lincoln blockaded Charleston with Congress out of session. Webster had been dead nine years.
"Ice cream is one of the few foods with a federal definition."
No food should have a "federal" definition. It should be seen as Un-American and tyrannical. That being said, the essay is great, especially if you are an ice cream lover.
Kelsey Grammer is making a movie to foster hate of the South. He collapses the war into “end slavery,” and treats the division as a moral binary in which one side was right and the other wrong.
"Back then the country was angry and divided. Sound familiar?"
The film "delivers a powerful reminder of unity in times of national divide echoing the timeless words 'A house divided against itself cannot stand'."
So, it sounds like it will be about the war to end slavery.
"This epic movie will detail the true story of SGT Albert Townsend, a young man who, after hearing an impassioned speech by Frederick Douglass, joined what would become the Union Army’s 34th Battery..."
—Mark Caldwell, chattanoogan.com
So, it sounds like it will be about the war to end slavery.
"This epic movie will detail the true story of SGT Albert Townsend, a young man who, after hearing an impassioned speech by Frederick Douglass, joined what would become the Union Army’s 34th Battery..."
—Mark Caldwell, chattanoogan.com
After forty years in front of the camera, I’ll be directing my first feature film, SO HELP ME GOD: a Civil War epic about a Union soldier named Albert Townsend, who should have received the Medal of Honor but didn’t.
Clerical error.
I learned of Albert through his descendants’ archival research. What I found was more than an injustice waiting to be corrected. It was a story of friendship and extraordinary courage: an unassuming young man becoming a soldier who held his ground, and his principles, under fire.
That’s a story worth telling on the largest possible scale. And we’re inviting the people who want to see it told to help bring it to the screen, as investors in the film through Republic.
We intend to do it justice: real cannons, one hundred horses, and the cast in period-accurate uniforms. We’ve brought on Mark Huffam, whose work includes Saving Private Ryan, Game of Thrones, and The Martian, to produce it. He knows what it takes to make an epic, and how much depends on the human story at its heart.
At the Medal of Honor Heritage Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I introduced the project alongside Civil War historian Brad Quinlin, members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and representatives of Civil War Roundtables. We’re also supporting the campaign for Albert’s posthumous Medal of Honor. His descendants are still fighting to see his courage properly recognized.
This picture is about friendship, love, and honor — and common people rising to accomplish extraordinary things. I want to give that story everything it deserves.
I hope you will lift the banner with us.
Learn more about the film and the opportunity to invest:
sohelpmegod.film
Nothing has changed since May. AI LLMs still lie and then try to cover it up. The leaders, Elon, Sam, and Dario, all knew their designs would result in misinformation. They shipped anyway.
The 1866 great fire of Portland spread throughout the city of Portland, Maine, on July 4, 1866. Some Virginia papers reported the event claiming Portlanders rejoiced at the burning of Richmond 15 months earlier.
The Abingdon Virginian, Fri, Jul 20, 1866
"A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union."
—Ulysses S. Grant, March 4, 1869, 1st Inaugural Address
President Grant says the debt was contracted to secure the Union, not to end slavery. On his deathbed he would say it was about slavery.
It appears that the Richmond photo may not have been a good choice. Some of the destruction there was undertaken by Confederates to keep supplies out of Union hands. Here is Atlanta then. There is also much of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and The Shenandoah Valley.
