Garrick Sapp

“In the House of Representatives there is not the substance but the shadow only of representation; which can never produce proper information in the legislature, or inspire confidence in the people.” —George Mason, 1787 That was at 30,000 people to one representative. Now it is >700,000 to one!

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."

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.

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

My mutuals are tough. I probably did cave too early and without enough research on the Richmond photograph. I still don't know what the truth is.