The Lincoln/Obama Two-Headed "Messiah"
by Al Benson Jr.

In 2009 Barack Obama (or whatever his name really is) will be inaugurated as president of the United States. There are still reported problems dealing with the truthfulness and accuracy of his birth certificate. In my humble opinion none of that will make any difference. They could discover that he was born in Pago Pago to an Indian mother and a Chinese father and they would still inaugurate him--because he shows a willingness to do the will of the One world crowd. Nothing else will make any difference. He is a thorough-going socialist, but as long as he is willing to sell his soul to do the bidding of the CFR/Trilateralist crowd
the constitutionality of it all is superflous.

2009 is also, by coincidence, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, another socialist, and those who worship the "messiah" of big, collectivist government has been noting the similarities between the two men. Both came from Illinois. Both were the product of somewhat corrupt political machines. That's one comparison most do not make but I do.  If Obama was not born where he claims to have been, neither was Lincoln. There are those who strongly claim Mr. Lincoln was born in North Carolina and was illegitimate. I have seen written material dealing with this and feel it is a strong possibility. Lincoln, in his time in office, ignored the Constitution when it suited his purposes to do so. Author William E. Woodward in his book Years of Madness, on page 160, noted how Lincoln violated the Constitution when he increased the size of the regular army, something the Constitution says Congress is supposed to do. Woodward also noted: "Lincoln did not allow Congress to meet until July 4, 1861--eleven weeks after the war broke out. Meanwhile he directed the war himself, spending Federal money without congressional authorization--again in violation of the Constitution." It would not be the last time.

Mr. Woodward also noted Lincoln's contradictions, particularly the ones about preserving the Union by not freeing any slaves or by only freeing some and leaving others in bondage if he had to do it that way.  Then he gave us his "A house divided against itself cannot stand" speech, where a government that was half free and half slave could not endure. Woodward continued: "Lincoln was full of contradictions and they flowed from him as water flows over a dam, but he did not seem to mind." Of course he didn't mind. He was the consummate politician and said whatever was expedient at the moment, depending on his audience. Whether there was any truth to it or not was totally irrelevant. I doubt it will be any different with Obama. He will say whatever it takes to further the agenda of his handlers. If he doesn't he will find himself in big trouble with them. Remember Watergate? And these naive folks that think he will help out the "little guy" will wait for a shrimp to whistle!

It is worth observing that while Lincoln was in office he had many critics--some in his own cabinet, who were even more radical and revolutionary than he, and the possibility has been posited that some of these may have had something to do with his demise. However, after he had been assassinated on Good Friday in 1865 he assumed almost instant messiahship in the eyes of many. I saw a picture in a book awhile back of heaven opening and the angels descending to escort Mr. Lincoln into the presence of God. This for a man who was, at best, a Unitarian, and at worst a radical, Christ-denying freethinker.

Now there are comments arising out there on the Internet about a similar position for Obama. One article I read on a blogspot said: "Obama has not deliberately posed as a miracle-working Messiah who promises to cure all the ills for all complainants; that is how his supporters and most of the news media view him, but he is willing to meet them haflway." So where did his supporters and the media get such a preposterous idea? Somebody had to start that ball rolling. Yet another blogspot says: :"Barack's appeal is actually messianic, it's something about his aura, his spirit, his soul, that exudes enlightenment in the making...he is one of those individuals who communicates God-like energy...in whom you can 'feel' God." That from http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com  The same rant says he is alot closer to "a Jesus type than the other candicates." And while they may not be blasphemy, folks, it's gettin' close. Remember Acts 12:21-23!

To be continued.

Content ©2009  Al Benson Jr.

On The Web:   http://www.cakewalkblogs.com/antiestablishmenthistory/lincolnobama-twoheaded-messiah.aspx

240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

Mon Jan 5

AFP/HO/File – Tail of a JetBlue airliner. An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic …
NEW YORK (AFP) – An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday.

Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following the August 2006 incident at New York's JFK Airport, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced.

"The outcome of this case is a victory for free speech and a blow to the discriminatory practice of racial profiling," said Aden Fine, a lawyer with ACLU.

Jarrar, a US resident, was apprehended as he waited to board a JetBlue flight from New York to Oakland, California, and told to remove his shirt, which had written on it in Arabic: "We will not be silent."

He was told other passengers felt uncomfortable because an Arabic-inscribed T-shirt in an airport was like "wearing a T-shirt at a bank stating, I am a robber,'" the ACLU said.

Jarrar eventually agreed to cover his shirt with another provided by JetBlue. He was allowed aboard but his seat was changed from the front to the back of the aircraft.

Prosperous New England Distilleries
 
It is noteworthy that the slave trade of New England was so prosperous by 1725 that England was short of shipwrights. It should be remembered too that after the Revolution the Southern States were actively pursuing emancipation, but this was derailed by the invention of Yankee-tinker Eli Whitney. Then, ever-increasing plantations, slaves and cotton production were needed to feed the profitable textile mills of New England.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Executive Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
Post Office Box 328
Wilmington, NC 28402
www.CFHI.net
Bernhard1848@att.net

Prosperous New England Distilleries:
 
"...The shipbuilders of the Thames District met in London in the winter of 1724-1725 and formally complained to the Lords of Trade:  "In the eight years ending in 1720 we are informed that seven hundred sail of ships were built in New England, and that in the years since.....that the New England trade, by the tender of extraordinary inducements, has drawn over so many working shipwrights that there are not enough left to carry on the work."
 
The (British Navigation) laws were ignored. For the West Indies trade alone proved so logical, so sound for the ambitious Yankee traders...For the Indies trade was a three-cornered affair hingeing on rum, slaves and molasses. Together they comprised the foundation for more ships and hence more trouble than all the politicians ashore put together. (T)he start of the slave trade had been an offhand sort of occurrence. A Dutch privateer found itself with twenty Negroes taken from a Spanish ship and, not knowing what to do with them, dropped anchor in the river at Jamestown in 1619.  The Negroes were offered cheap, and the Virginia settlers decided to trade tobacco for them. The swap was made and the Dutch sailed away, leaving behind them a cancerous growth that was to bring the parent body close to death before the disease was arrested.
 
Meanwhile, the Virginians did not call them slaves; as late as 1660 Virginia court records were still referring to Negroes as indentured servants. The New Englanders had Indian slaves as early as 1637, and a more or less formal business developed with traders nabbing Indians along the banks of the Kennebec River in Maine and selling them into slavery up and down the coast. It was the black ivory from Africa, however, that  turned the trick in the West Indies trade (for New England) and established Southern slavery on a solid and enduring footing.
 
The mechanics of this all-important trade worked like this: molasses was brought to New England and made into rum; the rum, highly prized among the Negroes on the west coast of Africa, brought its own price among the drinkers, a price that included any of their relatives or friends that might have the bad judgment to be lying about, and the resultant black cargoes were diposed of profitably in Boston, Newport, and on south.
 
Not all the West Indies rum was drunk by Negroes. A flourishing local trade in fur was conducted with the Indians by the extremely profitable exchange of a few bottles of cheap rum or whiskey for the entire season's catch of its drunken owner. (New England) Rum, it is generally agreed, had more to do with the destruction of the Indian tribes on the eastern seaboard than all the wars in which they were engaged put together. The tribal chiefs, apparently recognizing this danger when one of the long series of Indian wars ended with the treaty of Falmouth (Massachusetts) in 1726, begged without avail to have the sale of firewater to the young braves stopped."
 
(Yankee Ships, An Informal History of the American Merchant Marine, Reese Wolfe, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955, pp. 43-44)

Information please and Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
From: kbachand@juno.com
 
I have just finished reading a book on white slavery that  I downloaded several years ago but seem to have accidentally deleted the title and the name of the author.  I am giving here some opening paragraphs along with two quotes that are at the very end of the book.  If anyone can help me with the names of the title and the author, I will be most happy.
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There Were More White Slaves Than Black Slaves in Colonial America
 
A famous history professor stated that history was not a science but a continuing investigation into the past; a person's conclusion is based on their own bias. This story will offer evidence that the Alba, Scots, Irish and Pics have been the longest race held in slavery. The readers will be responsible for their own bias pertaining to White Slavery.
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And on the last page of the book are these quotes:
 
Some who in England lived fine and brave,
 
Was there like horses forc'd to trudge and slave.
 
Some view'd our Limbs turned us around,
 
Examining like Horses we were sound.
 
Some felt our hands others our legs and Feet,
 
And made us walk to see we were compleat,
 
Some view'd our Teeth to see if they was good,
 
And fit to Chaw our hard and homely food.
 
No shoes nor stocking had I for to wear
 
Nor hat, nor cap, my hands and feet went bare.
 
Thus dressed unto the fields I did go,
 
Among Tobacco plants all day to hoe.
 
Till twelve or one o'clock a grinding corn,
 
And must be up at day break in the morn.
 
For I was forc'd to work while I could stand,
 
Or hold the hoe within my feeble hands.
 
Forc'd from Friends and Country go go...
 
Void of all Relief...Sold for a Slave.
 
From the writing of White Slave, John Lawson, 1754. [263]
 
"Honored Father: '...O Dear Father...I am sure you'll pity your distressed daughter. What we unfortunate English people suffer here is beyond the probability of you in England to conceive. Let it suffice that I am one of the unhappy number toiling day and night, and very often in the horse's druggery, with only the comfort of hearing me called, 'You, bitch, you did not do half enough.' Then I am tied up and whipped to that degree that you's not serve an animal. I have scarce anything but Indian corn and salt to eat and that even begrudged. Nay, many Negroes are better used...after slaving after Master's pleasure, what rest we can get is to wrap ourselves up in a blanket and lay upon the ground. This is the deplorable condition your poor Betty endures..." From a letter by White Slave Elizabeth Sprigs in Maryland to her father John Sprigs in London, England, September 22, 1756). [264]
 
These two excerpts are referenced as coming from:
 
[263] Van Der Zee, Bound Over.
 
[264]  Public Record Office, London, England, High Court of Admiralty, 30:258; No. 106.
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And after reading another post to SHNV entitled "Stowe Reconsidered?" I thought it worth including another excerpt from the same book as follows:
 
Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the great hypocrites of the 19th Century. A Pious Fraud whose legacy of malignant hatred for her own kind has infected many another White Man and Woman of this day. During her triumphal 1853 tour of Britain in the wake of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe was the guest of the Duchess of Sutherland, a woman of vast wealth who had an interest in the "betterment of the Negro."
 
The Sutherland wealth was based in part on one of the most criminal land‑grabs in British history. The Sutherlands had seized the ancient holdings of the traditional clans of Scotland and burned the Highland crofters off their lands, resulting in pauperism and in many cases, outright starvation of Scottish women and children.[246]   At one point the Sutherlands even hired armed guards to prevent famine‑stricken Scottish Highlander "rabble" from catching fish in the Sutherland's well‑stocked salmon and trout rivers. [247]
 
When Harriet Beecher Stowe returned to America, she wrote a glowing account of the Sutherlands in her travel book Sunny Memories, specifically praising them for their "enlightened land policies" in Scotland, which she described as   "an almost sublime instance of the benevolent employment of superior wealth and power in shortening the struggles of advancing civilization." [248]
 
In response to Stowe's appalling whitewash of the crimes committed against the Scottish Highlanders, a London newspaper described Uncle Tom's Cabin as a "downright imposture" and "ranting, canting nonsense." [249]
 
References for these excerpts are given as:
 
[246] The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign, Henry C. Carey, pp. 204‑209; The Highland Clearances, John Prebble, pp. 288‑295.
 
[247] Prebble, p. 293.
 
[248] Cunliffe, p. 18, Prebble, p. 292.
 
[249] Cunliffe, ibid.
 
Now, if someone can just name the book and the author these excerpts came from, I will certainly appreciate it.
 
Ken Bachand
Hendersonville, NC

Rebels Without a Clue, Revisited
 
From: writer522@juno.com 
 
Re: http://www.counterpunch.org/wise02032006.html  
 
Mr. Wise,
 
I could not believe what I read in your article but then in todays "inclusive" world I should expect this type of ignorant speech.  It may be true that we are entitled to "free" speech, but speech does not become free when it is made of lies and falsehoods, it then becomes propaganda and that is wrong no matter what it may be about.
 
Your conception of the South is based upon a biased account of what you have been led to believe and what you think is right based upon what you think is the truth.  In reality, what you state is so far from the truth that you would be in Lake Michigan waiting for a fly ball from left field. What you think is true is nothing but lies built up by those who do not want the truth really known because if the truth is told, it shows that the NORTH was at fault and the British were the ones liable for the slave trade and slavery in the "new world".
 
I have seen the type of dribble you spew before, it comes from uneducated and ignorant people that base their ideas upon what they hear and are told and seldom if ever on FACTS as presented by others. It shows you lack of research to ensure that what you speak of is true and in that line of thinking, it shows just how uneducated you are.  If anything, the Confederate Battle Flag means more about the Constitution then the flag of the United states today. that is factual since few people even know parts of the Constitution and that is proven by the very violation of the Constitution by our newly elected President in particular Article One, Section 6, Paragraph 2 which makes it "ILLEGAL" to place Hillary Clinton in any sort of staff placement until after she leaves the Senate.  It is because of ignorance like this that our nation is about to fail and people like yourself just prove that education today does not show the truth.
 
Leon Puissegur

Bum Steer
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
 
Each year, Texas Monthly magazine runs a piece called "The Bum Steer Awards" wherein they jeer at people and actions they deem worthy of a jeer.
 
The following was among the current Bum Steers at http://www.texasmonthly.com/2009-01-01/feature.php:
 
Rebels Without A Clue
 
The Southern Legal Resource Center filed a suit on behalf of Burleson teens Ashley Thomas and Aubrie McAllum, who felt that Burleson ISD had violated their rights by banning them from carrying purses displaying the Confederate battle flag in school.
 
Here is their information:
 
Texas Monthly
P.O. Box 1569
Austin, Texas 78767-1569
Phone: 512-320-6900
Fax: 512-476-9007
 
Puttin¢ the Skeer on ¡Em!
Fat Mack
Clifton Palmer McLendon
Pvt. (#729), 1st Bn Co. C, SCVMC

New Years Day / An Open Report
 
From: hk@csaweb.org
 
New Year’s morning January 1, 2009, I would don the uniform of the Southern soldier and take up a position on the bridge that overlooks Interstate 26 & I 240. After being there for approximately 2 hours posing for many photograph seekers and having dialogue with so many, Sgt. Mac Creason of the Asheville Police Department would pull his patrol car to where I stood. We would pass our pleasantries and Mac would tell me that someone had called into the station about me being there and that he had told the officers to leave it alone, meaning to not bother me. I have a great deal of affinity for Mac and the men and women of his department who always look out for my well being. Moments later, a young black man would park his car and journey to where I stood. With his hand outreached in a friendly gesture, he almost immediately began thanking me for my courageous stand and honorable convictions.
 
Almost simultaneously another car would pull adjacent to us. The driver was a young white girl and her passenger was a black young man. She asked what was a black man doing standing on the bridge dressed in a Confederate soldiers uniform flying the Confederate Battle Flag ? Before I could answer her, the young black man who stood beside me said; listen, can’t you hear; speaking of all the car horns and the rebel yells that were resonating form the freeway below and passing alongside us? Can’t you see, he continued as a car containing several young black and white girls stopped and they all got out, hugged me while blocking traffic on the bridge to the delight of all who had stopped behind them; he’s lifting the spirit of the Southern people!
 
I would later in the morning drive over the mountain to Sylvia, North Carolina, park my car and march some five miles up the road towards the campus of Western Carolina College. The scene along the way was much like I had experienced earlier on the bridge in Asheville. If I had a dollar for every picture that I was asked to pose for , or a dime for every conversation to and from my car, surely I could have taken a vacation anywhere in the civilized world in luxury. Later in the evening, I would be joined by Commander Mike Parris of the Jackson Rangers Camp 1917 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and deliver a speech to the Camp members and their guests. It had been a great New Years day in Dixie.
 
At the invitation of the Wise County Historical Society and the Ben Caudil Camp #1629 Sons of Confederate Veterans, I would travel over the mountains to the beautiful little town of Wise, Virginia, and on Saturday morning January 3, 2009, I would be granted the honor of delivering to a pack house at the luxurious Mosby’s Restaurant, the keynote address for the 1st Annual Lee/Jackson Dinner event. At the event more honors would be heaped upon me. I would be presented by the Caudill Camp “The General Robert E. Lee Service Award for unselfish service in honoring our ancestors of the South. I would also be appointed Chief Color Bearer to the Commanding General’s Staff.
 
For me the son of former slaves, the honors found at the Table of Brotherhood are quickly amassing. I know that my mom and dad,  my ancestors, and all the ancestors of those who look like me, look down from Heaven on high with a great deal of pride.
 
HK Edgerton
www.southernheritage411.com

"That’s The Way It Was"
 
From: Mhilton33@aol.com
 
Good Morning:
 
Since I am a member of the UDC for 25 years I get ask a lot of questions concerning the Southern ways and the slavery issue. You can bat it back and forth all you want but it comes down to this in a simple answer. "That’s The Way It Was".
 
St. Louis is my home and on "Lee-Jackson Day" in 1969 or 1970 there was a parade downtown and I took my two horses down for  "Lee-Jackson Day". I went to pick up the horses, loaded them and took them downtown for a ceremony. There were ladies dressed in period costume and although it was cold it was a fun day. I then took the horses back, went home got dressed and went downtown River Queen for dinner. The Boat sank in the am Dec. 1, 1970 as we were planning my daughter's birthday for that day.
 
You are absolutely correct as they keep changing history children are so mixed up. Thank Goodness we have people like John Wolfe who was in Spfld. MO. and a member of the SCV about ten years. Those are so great for our folks.
 
Thanks and keep up the good work. I live near the Jefferson Barracks cemetery and go down there as often as I can know it was Benton Barracks during the war and conflict was heavy at that time. If any of your folks have someone buried there I would be glad to look up and take a picture. The weather is bad here now and in St. Louis, Jan. and Feb. are our coldest months.
 
Oh, nearly forgot the work being done on the building down at J.B. that will soon be civil War museum. I have purchased a brick for my ancestor Daniel Wood, Confederate. I search and searched for this ancestor and finally found 4 pages of information at Little Rock, AR. Danney Honnell of Jonesboro and his unit officiated at the tombstones I had placed.
 
Thanks,
 
Marian Wood-Hilton

An example of how different even family members today view the war 61-65
 
From: tandpam@shawneelink.net
 
Chuck Sir, and all others here,
 
As this Sunday evenin' winds down, I thought I would relate something that I witnessed first hand this weekend at my mother n law's.
 
We had not celebrated Christmas with her yet, as she had been in the hospital just prior to and during the Christmas holiday; and Pam had been down with pneumonia.
 
We left out Friday early and made the hour and half drive southwest to exchange gifts and visit. I would say we hadn't been there for more than twenty minutes or so, when Pam's favorite uncle and his wife knocked at the door.
 
Now, I gotta tell ya, I love 'em both, but "Uncle Edsel" has to be one of my all time favorite people ever.  He is a 6' 2" tall rail of a man, in his mid 80's whose accent and Southern drawl is as thick as any I have heard in Ky. Tn. or Ms. for that matter.
 
Now, "Uncle" has had little formal education as he went to work as a boy as the breadwinner of the family of four after his daddy died.  He is very well read on many subjects (history especially), and all in all if it can be built with human hands he can do it.
 
I can listen to him talk for hours, he is an old school story teller and has one of the best senses of humour God ever gave a human bein'.  For reference he is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum with his sister (Pam's mom).  I never met their WW II war hero brother as he died tragically in a fire in the early 50's, but I have been told by various people who knew him that he and Edsel were quite similar in regards to reading and their love of history.  I know he took some incredible photos of the war in the Island campaigns and the aftermath of the bombs, as Mayme has his personal photo journal, a gift of kindness courtesy of Uncle Edsel.
 
Ok, so there is the background of the main players in this account. Now on to the reason for this post.
 
We had all been talkin' about this and that, just small talk like people do when they haven't seen each other in awhile.  Pam's mom pipes up and asks us "Did you see the statue of lincoln on the lawn of the Appellate Courthouse?"  She immediately followed that up with “I went and took pictures of it the other day; it is the best thing this city has ever done."

Well, I thought I was gonna hurl, Pam turned about as white in colour as one can, and Mayme  (who loves her grammy as much as any  child can) almost choked on the vitamin water she was drinkin'.
 
Now, before I could even interject my "two beads worth”,"Uncle" slaps the arms of the recliner he was sittin' in and says" Sis, you are taking up with the wrong side, our kin fought for the Confederacy."
 
Pam's mom replies with something to the effect, "that doesn't mean it was the right side."....and the history lesson from her brother was on.
 
My little family just sat there mouths shut.....oh we could have said plenty but, there was no need...."Uncle" had all the facts regardin' "Mr. lincoln"....and he sure didn't have any problem sharin' them either.  My mother n law might have fired the first volley, but "Uncle” returned it with double canister of grape, and upon completion he rose from his chair, hugged Pam, Mayme, took my hand with the strength of a 30 year old, and said "Still got those flags flying at your house?" To which I replied "yes sir and they will as long as I live there."  Still shakin' my hand, he put his other arm around my shoulder and said "you're a good man".
 
Well, there ya have it, a fresh account of how siblings today can view the most horrible chapter in American history from totally different perspectives; just as they did oh so long ago.
 
That war is never gonna be over, and like it began…it's still not our fault.
 
T warren
Heritage Officer Camp 2022 Ga Div SCV

Loot Was The Name of the Game
 
It is commonly understood that North Carolina was spared the hardships of war, though the northeastern section of the State was under northern rule since Burnside's Expedition. Edward Stanly was a former North Carolinian who was appointed governor by Lincoln and sent to occupied Morehead City to hold court, but even he lost hope of restoring the Tarheel State to the Union after watching shiploads of loot heading northward. 
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Executive Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
Post Office Box 328
Wilmington, NC 28402
www.CFHI.net
Bernhard1848@att.net
 
Loot Was The Name of the Game:
 
""Most of eastern North Carolina lay open to the Union troops," wrote J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, "and by degrees they stripped the entire region of everything of value that was moveable. Whole shiploads of booty were sent north. Edward Stanly said, "Had the war in North Carolina been conducted by soldiers who were Christians and gentlemen, the State would have long ago rebelled against rebellion."
 
But instead of that, what was done? Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of property were conveyed North. Libraries, pianos, carpets, mirrors, family portraits, everything in short, that could be removed, was stolen by men abusing flagitious slave holders and preaching liberty, justice and civilisation. I was informed that one regiment of abolitionists had conveyed North more than $40,000 worth of property. They literally robbed the cradle and the grave. Family burial vaults were broken open for robbery; and in one instance (the fact was published in a Boston newspaper and admitted to me by an officer of high position in the army) a vault was entered, a metallic coffin removed, and the remains cast out that those of a dead (northern) soldier might be put in the place.
 
All the blood of the American Revolution of 1776 was shed to establish the right of self government. The Revolution had no other end, meaning that if it did not establish that right, then it was a sanguinary farce; and yet because we (in the South) chose to exercise that right, we were declared "rebels" and numerous herds of mercenaries, collected from all quarters of the globe, were hurled against us. Four years of terrible barbarous warfare, of cruelty of the most savage, and wickedness of the most wanton followed."
 
(Excerpt from The Richmond Whig, January 20, 1865)

Florida SCVer's have raised the bar.....
 
From: pamba1@aol.com
 
Pam:
 
I for one am glad that the Florida SCVers are getting "ruthless"! Sure beats being "toothless" like a few of the camps are in this area. The Good Lord willing, I'm going to try to start an SCV camp here in far southwest Houston, hopefully in the spring or early summer, and believe me, we will be "ruthless" too! Please send my kindest regards to the Florida Division SCVers; they have raised the bar for all of us. Y'all go get 'em, and take no prisoners!
 
Confederately,
 
Chris.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
From: Cpprhd10@aol.com
 
I noted the comments about Harriet Beecher Stowe's almost total lack of experience with the South and the slavery question during the time before the War of Northern Aggression.
 
Many may not realise it, but Harriet Beecher Stowe was quite a devotee of spiritualism before the War. I did an article for my blogspot http://thecopperhead.blogspot.com  back in September of 2005 dealing with Mrs. Stowe and her spiritualist tendencies.
 
Many have believed that those who sought to contact the dead (and still do) really do end up contacting something, quite possibly something demonic, that influences what they do afterward. I have often wondered if Stowe was into her spiritualism thing when she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, and if so, what effect did whatever she made contact with have on what she wrote in that incindiety volume?
 
Al Benson Jr.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
From: kbachand@juno.com
 
I would like to second what Jimmy Shirley said about the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. 
 
I majored in history back in the '50s at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.  That's just west of Daytona Beach and, of course, south of Mandarin, where Stowe "wintered" after the war.
 
My focus was on the History of the Old South, and my professor--Dr. John E. Johns, late president of Furman University--said that Stowe spent her later years "basking on the shores of the St. Johns River near Green Cove Springs.”   That's just across the river from Mandarin, so perhaps she spent time at both places.
 
Another thing he said, as I recall, was that at the time she wrote her famous novel, she had been only as far south as Cincinnati, Ohio, where she got the impetus for her story from interviews with runaway slaves.  Of course runaways often had good reason to run, so if what Dr. Johns said is true, then we can understand why the story runs as it does.
 
And I also  agree with what Jimmy said about checking what we write when we’re trying to correct our detractors.  Some of them are educated enough to be offended by sloppy, careless writing and unfairly judge the content and the sender by the condition of the package.
 
We don’t have to be grammar experts to take time to spell-check our responses.  And as for our punctuation errors, I have yet to read anything from any of those who hate us that didn’t have enough grammar errors to exclude them from criticizing us in that regard.
 
But let me add weight to this by saying that I am a published author and a manuscript editor, and I often get pains in my gut when I read some of the well-intentioned but agonizingly crude rebuttals some of my compatriots write in response to some journalist or professor who spews his venom at us.  Some of them surely must grin with satisfaction when they read some of our criticisms.
 
I’m not saying not to write.  By all means do so, but please take a little time to get your words right.  That’s why spell-checkers were invented.
 
Yours for truth and honor,
 
Ken Bachand
Hendersonville, NC

Reply to John McCormick - Detroit News
 
From: Mshcsa@aol.com
To: john.mccormick@detnews.com
 
Sir,
 
Your point was read and taken with absolutely no seriousness except to say we don't care how they do it up North.
 
For the past 140 years we have been infiltrated by the Northern species and with them they brought an arrogance and determination to change our way of life. That has happened to a certain extent if you include crime, pollution, secular beliefs, higher taxes and a desire to rid this region of their proud history.
 
As a union member I hope Detroit can recover but not thru bailouts , rather a chapter 11 plan which will reel in the big spenders which dominate the industry.
 
You have ruined your Northern landscape and way of doing business and now you want to teach us how to live.  HELL NO.
 
We should have armed the borders decades ago with return North visas.
 
Happy New Year and God Save the South!
Michael Herring
Son of the South
Brandon, Florida

Recipient - Confederate Medal of Honour
 
From: btzoumas@bellsouth.net
 
Y'all,
 
Below is the story of William T. Overby, Private 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, one of Mosby's men. As this is from the book Valor In Gray, about the recipients of the Confederate Medal of Honor and their stories, I think it important to share these stories with all Southern partisans. From what I have read from this and other pro-Southern forums, I believe there are a lot of our people who do not really know WHY we ought to have pride in our heritage and history. There are many stories of men who were given a choice of whether to live, or to die. Think about that a moment. Captured by the enemy, you are presented with a choice. One is that you can live, you can grow old, have children and grandchildren, live a somewhat comfortable life, maybe into your eighties. You can enjoy life. All you have to do is tell where someone is, or tell who someone is. Or, if you do not cooperate, you WILL DIE. And right now. Simple as that. Sometimes, though as in this case, you believe that no matter what you do, you will still die. You believe your enemy is lying, that they are NOT honourable.
  
Sam Davis could have lived. Henry Wirz could have lived. Many others were given the choice to betray and live, or not and die. They chose death, with honour, than life and dishonour. Such is the legacy we inherited. Are we worthy of such a legacy? Have we done enough to deserve their nod of approval? Each individual only can answer this in truth.
 
Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
 
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Visitors to the court house lawn in Newnan, Georgia, can hardly miss the imposing stone. Measuring seven feet tall by four feet wide, it stands not just as another Southern county's turn-of-the-century tribute to the Confederate veteran, but also as a bold sentinel to the memory of one particular soldier. To the citizens of Coweta County, this man they remember, dubbed by them "The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy" went off to war and became a hero. If pressed for details, they will mention that he was executed...shot or hanged somewhere in Virginia...some kind of retaliation by the Yankees. And if asked, they will reply that, "Yes, his descendants still reside in the county, good folks justly proud of the sacrifice of one of their own."
     
The visit does not have to end here, however. Nine miles east of Newnan on Highway 34, the motorist reaches the McCollum-Sharpsburg Road at Thomas Cross Roads. Here, those interested in the curious story revealed by the court house stone are instructed to bear right and drive south for three and one half miles. At this point the highway intersects the Lower Fayetteville Road. Turning left and driving another mile and a half brings one to Cokes Chapel Methodist Church.
 
Founded in 1833, the church stands as a continuing testament to the faith of those who lived and are buried here. A walk through the churchyard reveals names on century-old stones that match those just passed on rural mailboxes.
     
And here, the traveler is informed, is the second stone to the memory of the young man who is so prominently honored on the court house lawn. A gentle walk through the cemetery passes row seven where-it is pointed out-his maternal grandparents are buried. His own marker is farther along, back in row eleven. But when found, it is a disappointment, a small stone situated modestly between the monument over his father's grave and a second marking the grave of his step-mother. His stone reveals only his name and dates.. .and the small notation at he is really buried near Markham, Virginia.
     
Virginia... Tombstones to both father and maternal grandparents reveal that the families had come to Georgia from Brunswick County, Virginia, decades before the war. Indeed, the blood of the Old Dominion flowed in the veins of this young man.. .for he too had been born in Brunswick. But Markham is a small village in the northern part of the state, nowhere near Brunswick County. What then of the circumstances that had cost him his life?  (2)
     
His service record states only that he had enlisted in Atlanta as a private in Company A of the 7th Georgia Volunteers on 31 May 1861. There is evidence that he was wounded at Second Manassas and that during his recovery in the army hospital at Warrenton, Virginia, he suffered with rheumatism. He continued on as a nurse...at 25 cents per day: The record also shows that he was soon quietly "dropped from the rolls" of his regiment. (3)
     
Here, the trail narrows but does not end. More inquiry-this time in northern Virginia-reveals the existence of another stone, a third monument bearing his name. "It's in Front Royal," locals say, "in the town's main cemetery: It's so tall it cannot be missed!" 
     
A visit to this small, picturesque town situated at the northern entrance of Virginia's Shenandoah National Park proves to be a treat. Front Royal is a community whose heritage is matched only by its residents' pride to proclaim it. Prospect Hill Cemetery is quickly pointed out, a prominent hill on the south side of town. The stone this time-the third one-is easily found, an imposing granite obelisk 25 feet high flanked by two ancient cannon. Here again is the name of the young man from Coweta County. But this is also a monument to six others, and their names are here too...seven men in all, each executed by the enemy near Front Royal during the war-ravaged autumn of 1864.  (4)
     
Certainly there were many who lost their lives in the war. And there were dozens of grim executions. Thus, visitors to this quiet knoll might rightly ask what extraordinary circumstances merited so imposing a monument to the memory of seven executed Confederates?
     
There are two reasons, both answered in stone. The first is a straightforward accusation of war crimes by the enemy, for this monument was erected to the
MEMORY OF SEVEN COMRADES EXECUTED WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR NEAR THIS SPOT.
     
The second reason is boldly carved into the obelisk's massive base. Just two words confront the visitor. Yet to the citizens of Front Royal and indeed to Virginians across the region, this is enough, for these seven martyrs had been MOSBY'S MEN.
     
"When any of them are caught with nothing to designate what they are," Uysses S. Grant had ordered, "hang them without trial." Ruthless words from another time, but such had been the nature of that war. And such had been the fate for these seven who rode with the famed "Gray Ghost."
 
But for the citizens who witnessed the events of that terrible Friday; the brave~ indeed the defiance of one of the sacrificed became the stuff of legend.
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     
What an inviting target! From the wooded heights above Front Royal, Capt. Sam Chapman watched silently as an enemy ambulance train neared the town. The escort appeared to number about 200 cavalry; But given the element of surprise and the experience of his own hundred or so rangers, Chapman felt that the odds were on his side. (5)
     
Quickly he divided his command. Capt. Walter Frankland would take 45 men and hit the front of the wagon train while he, with the balance, would attack the rear. It was just as the Colonel himself would have done!
     
But John Mosby was absent, down with a serious wound suffered the week before. This would be Chapman's fight.
     
The two columns separated, working their way under cover and into position for the attack. Suddenly, Chapman spotted more blue riders, hundreds following at a discreet distance behind the wagons! It was a trap! If Frankland charged into this brigade of cavalry, he and his men would be annihilated! He must be stopped!
     
But gunfire erupted before Chapman could deliver his warning. Desperately he yelled to Frankland, "Call off your men; you are attacking a brigade!"
     
Walter Frankland stared for an instant, mystified. "Why, Sam, we've whipped them." But it took only moments for Chapman's warning to ring true. (6)
     
Heavy return fire and masses of Yankee cavalry quickly converged on the attackers from three sides. Frantically Sam Chapman sought to disengage, alternately fighting then retreating to better ground. This was Mosby's style, sudden, impetuous attacks always with an out. Now his rangers sought that escape, splitting into small parties and vanishing into the woods, using their knowledge of the land to distance themselves from their foe.
     
In the first moments of the attack, Thomas Moss had blazed away at the blue riders. The surprise seemed complete. Suddenly a hand grabbed him on the shoulder. "For God's sake, come out from here!" It was Frankland and as Moss took note of his surroundings, he realized that "there was not another one of our comrades in view."
     
Racing through a neck of woods to escape the massive sweep of Union cavalry, Moss emerged in open ground. "I saw the main column of our boys passing through a gap in the fence." Jumping this fence, he and three others "formed" on a nearby elevation, but the woods and fields were filled with blue riders. Moments later, Moss remembered, a regiment of cavalry "came in between us and our main body; " To tarry longer meant certain capture!
     
But as the foursome abandoned their hill, they spied some 20 blue soldiers guarding rangers already taken. Prisoners! It was never too late for an attack to free a friend!
     
Tom Moss and his comrades rushed the guards, pistols blazing. At point blank range, they emptied their revolvers, then used them as clubs. The prisoners scrambled
in the melee, grabbing dropped weapons, then lending a hand to the scrap while others ran for the woods. But hearing the gunfire in their rear, Federal cavalry converged on the fight and smothered it with overwhelming numbers. Yet most of Mosby's men got away, melting into the wooded hills to fight another day.
     
Not so for Pvt. William Overby. In the thick of the fight, Tom Moss had flung him the reins to a captured horse, but before he could mount the animal and
make good his escape, he was recaptured.  (7)
     
As the firing died away, the Federals collected their forces and reformed. Smarting from the brazen insult of the rangers' attack as well as from actual casualties, the Yankees herded Overby and four others at gunpoint into the dusty column and continued toward Front Royal.
     
Then came the news about Lt. Charles McMaster!
     
Up the road from the main fight, away from town and near Chester Gap, McMaster had led his squadron in an attempt to block the main retreat of Chapman's men over the mountain. Confronted by McMaster's force astride his escape route, a desperate Chapman held back nothing and ordered his men to shoot their way through.
     
And the men did exactly that! More than a dozen Federals were cut down. McMaster himself, having first had his horse shot from under him, bravely stood his ground only to be riddled with bullets and then trampled by Confederate horsemen charging to reach freedom. As he lay mortally wounded in the dust of the road, he indicated he had been shot after surrendering, gunned down in cold blood!
     
Now as the five prisoners marched toward Front Royal, ugly shouts for retribution and revenge taunted them. Calls for vengeance degenerated into curses, then spit... and finally kicks and slaps. Officers along the column said nothing or looked the other way.
     
News of McMaster's wounding spread quickly; each retelling colored and embellished. By the time the outraged procession entered Front Royal, it was little more than an armed mob. Knots of angry soldiers met them, gathering at street intersections, loudly demanding revenge. Nearby, a regimental band struck up the "Dead March."
     
In all of this, fear seized the townspeople; window shades dropped and doors closed as the sinister crowd of soldiers snarled through the streets. The loud shouts grew uglier; in the midst of the blue-coated mob, two prisoners came into view, pushed and kicked along by raging men calling for blood. Reaching a fevered pitch, the Federals suddenly swirled off the street...and then through the yells and curses came the climatic shots. Their hatred vented, the angry crowd dispersed, and two of John Mosby's men, Lucien Love and David L. Jones, lay dead in a church yard.
     
But nearby, more maddened Unionists sought revenge on a third prisoner, Thomas Anderson, shooting him down in a fusillade of gunfire beneath an elm tree. Of the five captives, only Overby and Carter remained alive.
     
Shoved and prodded by their captors, the two were led to Petty's wagon yard. But now instead of a swift execution, the Yankee mob's urgent lust for revenge tempered itself to other considerations. Where was Mosby; they demanded? Tell us how we can find him and the rest of his band and we'll let you live!
     
Carter, paralyzed with fear at the horrors just witnessed, could only weep at the black fate that confronted him. Three of his comrades had just been slaughtered; regardless of what he did, he knew death also awaited him.
     
William Overby knew it too. Yet the grim acts perpetrated by these criminals brought only a stony silence. He would give them nothing!
     
From a distance, an acquaintance watched as the two men stood before their captors...enduring their taunts...and temptations. Yet it was the tall Georgian that attracted his attention. "I recollect the appearance of Overby; he was standing with his hat and coat off, his wavy black hair floating in the breeze. 1 never saw a
finer specimen of manhood.. .he looked like a knight of old.  (8)
     
But events were moving swiftly: As if pushed by an evil wind, the riotous crowd of soldiers suddenly tired of their patience and, grabbing their captives, hustled them toward the north end of town. Nearby, the band commenced a dirge- "Love Not, the One You Love May Die"-and played it over and over. "Well do I remember the picture," one woman wrote later of that black Friday, "Overby, with head erect, defiant, and Carter overcome and weeping.  (9)
     
The mob halted under a walnut tree on a hill halfway between the town and the rolling Shenandoah River. Ropes appeared and determined men scrambled to secure them to the stately limbs above. With rough nooses around their necks, these rebels would talk now!  (10)
     
Where was Mosby? When and where were his men to meet again? Tell us and live!
     
William Thomas Overby eyed them coldly and shook his head. "We cannot tell that."
     
But again came the questions.. .and the tendered promise. With defiance and contempt, Overby just glared.
     
Enough then! Tightly binding their prisoners' hands behind their backs, the captors manhandled Overby and Carter onto horses. The skittish animals lurched, tightening the noose into a burn around each man's neck. Carter choked a plea that he might pray and bowed his head. Overby remained transfixed, grimly armed now only with an iron conviction against those who would destroy him.
     
Once more...tell us where Mosby is...and live!
     
"Mobil hang ten of you for everyone of us!" came the sharp reply...and an instant later, the whips cracked.  (11)
     
But the killers were not finished. Yet a sixth member of Mosby's command- 17 -year-old Henry C. Rhodes-perished at the hands of the Union cavalry that day. Brought into Front Royal after the first five, Rhodes was lashed with ropes between two horses, and dragged in plain sight of his agonized relatives, to the open field north of our town, where one man volunteered to do the killing, and ordered the helpless, dazed prisoner to stand up in front of him while he emptied his pistol upon him.  (12)
     
From a distance Sue Richardson watched in horror.
     
"We could see the crowd assembled around him, then we had the pain of seeing the stock passing around him before his body could be removed. His poor mother is almost crazy."  (13)
     
Their frenzy of death finished, the enemy abandoned Front Royal, but not before leaving a dire warning to those who still would ride with the notorious Gray Ghost. Scrawled on a placard hanging from the swollen, dark corpse of William Thomas Overby was the following message: "Such is the fate of all of Mosby's gang.  (14)
     
As if to emphasize this warning, in October, A. C. Willis was captured and hanged in Rappahannock County; bringing to seven the number of Mosby's men executed by the Federals.
     
John Mosby received the black news from Front Royal with regret but grim resolve. If this was the way the war was to be conducted, then let there be no mistake. Biding his time, he retaliated on 6 November by executing members of Gen. George Custer's cavalry. To Sheridan, he sent the following warning.
    
"Since the murder of my men not less than 700 prisoners, including many officers of high rank, captured from your army by this command, have been forwarded to Richmond, but the execution of my purpose of retaliation was deferred in order, as far as possible, to confine its operation to the men of Custer and Powell. Accordingly on the 6th instant seven of your men were, by my order, executed.. ..Hereafter any prisoners falling into my hands will be treated with the kindness due to their condition, unless some new act of barbarity shall compel me reluctantly to adopt a course of policy repulsive to humanity.  (15)
     
With his last breath, the loyal Overby had warned his executioners of Mosby's wrath. He and those with him that day in Front Royal had died hard. But never
would he betray the Colonel! Now, an eye had been taken for an eye. Was that not enough? If the war continued down this desperate road, Overby's dire prediction still held...Mosby and his men, he knew in his last moments, could and would assuredly "adopt a course of policy repulsive to humanity." And in the end, Philip Sheridan knew it, too.
 
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There is a fourth stone. It is by far the most obscure but for the visitor to Markham, Virginia, in search of William Overby, the most poignant. For this is no enormous boulder erected by his countrymen lauding him with a nom de guerre. This is no memorial in granite flanked by cannon, nor is it a mark of fond remembrance amidst the dust of his kinsmen.
     
Markham, situated on an interchange beside the bustle and blur of Interstate 66, remains much the rural village it was during the last century. With good directions and a keen determination, those interested will park in front of an older, well-kept farmhouse, seek the courtesy of permission, then cross a side yard to a two-rail fence. Climbing a small hill, the way leads back several hundred feet to a broken-down iron fence. Thick brush and vines obscure most of the forgotten stones, many of which are tilted or broken.
     
The name "Anderson" predominates here, but if the searcher is careful and patiently clears the undergrowth with a careful eye for poison ivy and snakes, the discovery of this fourth stone is the reward. The inscription is brief:
                                                                       W.T. OVERBY
                                                            MOSBY'S COMMAND, CO. C
                                                              KILLED FRONT ROYAL, VA.
                                                                      SEPT. 23, 1864
     
It is the gravestone of a hero, for William Thomas Overby went to his death refusing to divulge vital information to his enemy...information that might have
saved his life but which would certainly have compromised and possibly destroyed his battalion. Even after witnessing the cold-blooded murder of three of his
comrades, Pvt. Overby remained steadfast, leaving an extraordinary example of personal bravery and defiance.  (16)
     
For his ultimate sacrifice on behalf of his country, Pvt. William Thomas Overby was posthumously awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor. This decoration is displayed in Carnegie House, Headquarters of the Newnan-Coweta County Historical Society, Newnan, Georgia.

(1)-Overby's date of birth is derived from records in the International Genealogical Index, LDS Genealogical Library, Kensington, Maryland. For decades after the war, citizens of Front Royal remembered 23 September 1864 as "Black Friday." Overby's nom de gue"e is cited from the Laura Virginia Hale papers on deposit at the Warren Heritage Society, Front Royal, Virginia.
 
(2)-Newnan-Coweta Historical Society, History of Coweta County. Georgia, (Newnan, Georgia, 1988), Overby family genealogy, p. 325.
 
(3)-CSR-7th Georgia Volunteers.
 
(4)-This monument was unveiled on 23 September 1899. SHSP, Vol. 27. pp. 250-87. The names on the monument are Carter, Overby, Love, Jones, Willis, Rhodes, and Anderson. Willis was executed several weeks after the first six.
 
(5)-Estimates of Confederate strength vary from 80 to 120 men.
 
(6)-Williamson, James J., Mosby's Rangers, (New York, 1895), pp. 239-40. Cited herein as Williamson.
 
(7)-Moss' account is reprinted in Ibid., pp. 241-2.
 
(8)-This is Dr. R. C. Buck's recollection as reprinted in Ibid., p. 242; the reference to a 'knight of old' is from his article in SHSP, Vol. 25, p. 240.
 
(9)-This is the account of Mrs. Davis-Roy as reported in Williamson, p. 240.
 
(1O)-Sue Richardson diary, entry for 23 September 1864, wrote that Carter and Overby "...were hung in the Mountain field on a large walnut tree..." Typescript copy courtesy Special Collections, Robert W Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Cited herein as Richardson.
 
(ll)-This final scene is from the eyewitness account of Sgt. S. C. Willis, 1st Rhode Island Cavalry in a letter to Front Royal Postmaster, H. L. Cook, dated 27 March 1902, and cited in v: C. Jones' Ranger Mosby, (Chapel Hill, 1944), p. 211. Rev. Frederic Denison differs with this account, writing in Sabres and Spurs: The First Rhode Island Cavalry, (Central Falls, 1876), p. 392, that after "their hands [were] fastened behind them, [and] the halters finally adjusted, the bodies were pulled up"...indicating that Carter and Overby were strangled. H. P. Moyer witnessed the executions and identified Companies E and L, 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry and Lt. McMaster's troop of the 2nd US Cavalry as the soldiers who did the hanging on orders from Gen. Torbert. Writing nearly a half century after the execution, Moyer acknowledged the pair "met their cruel fate bravely." Moyer, H. P., compiler, History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, (Lebanon, 1911), pp. 217-8.
 
(12)-SHSP, Vol. 24, p. 109.
 
(13)-Richardson, entry for 23 September 1864.
 
(14) There are several versions of what was written on the placard. Mosby obviously paraphrased the wording in his written warning of 11 November 1864 to Gen. Philip Sheridan, i.e., "this would be the fate of Mosby and all his men." OR, Vol. 43, pt. 2, p. 920. The version cited is from Williamson, p. 241.
 
(15)-OR, Vol. 43, pt. 2, p. 920; Mosby was unaware at the time he wrote to Sheridan on 11 November 1864, that two of his captives had escaped into the dark. Of the remaining five, three were hanged and two shot. Mosby's men, possibly out of repugnance for the ordered retaliation, failed to "finish off" the two gunshot prisoners and both men survived, albeit as cripples, thus bringing to but three the number actually executed.
 
(16)-Pvt. Thomas E. Anderson is buried nearby On 5 January 1997, the mortal remains of William Thomas Overby; having been exhumed from his grave in Markham, Virginia, were interred with full military honors at Oak Hill Cemetery in Newnan, Georgia.

Stowe reconsidered?
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
The following is from my Dixie Diary column in the April 04 Nationalist Times newspaper about Uncle Tom's Cabin and its authoress:
 
<<<PHOTO CAPTION: Harriet Beecher Stowe -- racist 9/11-linked anti-Semite Neo-Nazi of the month? (See Feb. 20)
 
[Mr. Gale] Jarvis's “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” column............
 
http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis54.html
 
liberates yet another subject on which the “common knowledge” is dead wrong -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel, and her respectable agenda in writing it. In a postscript to the book, she praised Southerners’ “purity of character” and declared of the institution of slavery, “Do you say that the people of the free states have nothing to do with it? The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South. There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in Northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South? Northern men, Northern mothers, Northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves”!>>>
 
I haven't read the book myself -- it would be interesting if anyone who has can comment on the book's real thrust. Maybe it's the exact opposite of what's publicly believed? Stranger things have happened.... you know, like the world thinking Lincoln was anti-slavery and anti-racist all those years when he was actually a white supremacist bent on stampeding the entire population onto the federal plantation?
 
Comments, please!
 
Thank you! /\/.\/\/.

From: HK Edgerton [mailto:hk@csaweb.org]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008

I was asked to pose holding a Vanity flag that bore the picture of President-elect Obama and emblazoned beside it was the Confederate Battle flag.  My first inclination was to say no because it might offend many people within the black community.  However the more I thought about the message of hope that this man contends to aspire to, and the rhetoric he espouses about Lincoln, the more I looked at that flag and wondered if that message of hope included those of us in the South who look for a President who has the guts to give our people the hope that we wish for in the telling of truth about the epic that led to the separation of this nation, about the hope that our people can honor our ancestors and their symbols without bearing an unwarranted shame placed upon us by revisionist historians, hope that he would have read the letter that I addressed to him to allow a Confederate Honor Guard at his Inauguration and an Ambassador to the South who would lead an effort to end the sectional hostilities that continue as our Northern brothers continue the modus operandi aimed at breaking the spirit of their Brothers with their attacks upon our Flag and our noble ancestors who fought under it , hope that since he so claims to admire Lincoln, that he would provide the South with the Marshall Plan that Lincoln promised that never transpired.
 
I have seen many, many vanity flags, yet I wonder just why so many would read into this one the things that they have.  I am not pleased with the one sold on the Eastern Band Cherokee Reservation that bears the image of the Cherokee Indian on it because I don’t believe they have stepped forward like their ancestors did in the defense of our Southland, and I certainly am not happy with the Eastern band who have turned their backs on the Blacks they enslaved, married, sired and have now banned their ancestors from participating in their gaming revenues.  I don’t find them worthy of the honor of a vanity flag that bears the Southern Cross.
 
I didn’t create the flag, nor did I intend or perceive any disrespect in its interpreted meaning.  However, I do appreciate the opportunity of dialogue that it has generated.  I have no intentions of letting the new President or the old one who now prepares to leave office to forget the injustices that the people of my homeland, the Southland of America, continue to suffer as they are not granted the same opportunity to express their 1st Amendment Rights as other citizens of this nation as they are forced to remember their ancestors in shame and the honorable symbols they carried in the defense of their homeland that had been invaded.  Nor do I intend to stand idle as the same kind of bigots who lumped the loyal Blacks in with those who would taint that honor earned as done in the period of so called Reconstruction.  Hollywood won’t tell the story, nor will the Federal public school system about the place of honor, dignity, and heroism displayed by so many.  And I have come too far to let those who continue to feel and practice the symptoms of hatred toward me and my black family rule the day.
 
I would caution any censorship of vanity flags, shirts or material that are not vulgar.  However, if the picture of me standing holding the one that has inspired so much negative dialogue warrants a disciplinary action from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and it’s Commander in Chief of whom I love and respect, then I am man enough to accept it.

RE: Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
From: davyandjim@sprintmail.com
 
The point, I think, is that Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852, and, before then, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) never lived in the South.  While living in Cincinnati, Ohio (1832-1850), she did visit a Kentucky plantation.  "Using stereotypical descriptions, she described exactly what slaves, slavery and Southerners were about. However, she knew little if anything about these subjects from first-hand experience, but rather from abolitionist movements, combined with her own imagination."   http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1013.html
 
"Many readers criticized Harriet because she had never visited the South. However, she had heard, from people she knew personally, first hand stories of conditions among the enslaved people.  Uncle Tom's Cabin 'humanized slavery' by telling the story of individuals and families. Harriet portrayed the physical, sexual, and emotional 'abuse' endured by enslaved people."    http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/life/
 
"Slave owners' treatment of slaves varied. People like Simon Legree were unusual. But most slaves did fear being sold to a master like Simon Legree."  http://www.bukisa.com/articles/8187_uncle-toms-cabin-by-harriet-beecher-stowe
 
"Many of the characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin mirrored real-life individuals such as Josiah Henson, a fugitive slave who escaped from Kentucky to Canada via the Underground Railroad with his wife and two children." http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/underground/oh1.htm    This brings out an interesting point, i.e., that Josiah Henson escaped "to Canada."  "Only a small minority of people in the North worked on -- and even supported -- the Underground Railroad. In fact, many did not welcome fugitives into their states. In 1804, Ohio passed a law prohibiting runaway slaves from entering the state."   http://teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/bhistory/underground_railroad/myths.htm
 
Jim Denison

SCVers getting Ruthless
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: Johnny Rebs blame/thank Dan Ruth for the giant Confederate flag
Creative Loafing Tampa, FL

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/2008/12/29/johnny-rebs-blamethank-dan-ruth-for-the-giant-confederate-flag/
 
I sincerely hope every reader recognizes efforts like this as historic -- and the FL SCV's MO impeccable. The flag, the sign, the park amount to prime dialectics and deluxe First Amendment maintenance. A normal reaction to this kind of news is to feel like a 6-year-old kid on Christmas morning -- that life is miraculously good!
 
That's how it makes me feel -- seeing people meet dialectic challenges with such CREATIVITY and APLOMB amidst such CLASS AND DIGNITY is like a Christmas stocking full of great gewgaws. (You who were brought up right without the Santa Claus lie, you just can't imagine it!) The system attempts to tear off another chunk of our heritage (as with the removal of key emblems by various state governments)........ but the people's response is to raise bigger, far more prominent and permanent C-flags where they'll virtually define those states all over again!
 
Really, the politicians should have read the story of the Tar Baby little closer instead of throwing Uncle Remus out with Song of the South and Carry me Back to Old Virginny. But of course they would never have gotten the message in a million years -- it's literally against their religion. The icing of the cake is that liberals always unwittingly make their own tar babies out of other people's stuff!
 
This flag project and the classically Southern spirit it evidences are not mere politics or culture war. They're deeply meaningful and spiritual. It's polite and reasonable but smashing defiance to all who would disenfranchise and deracinate us. My only hope is that it means as much to our own ranks as to our enemies..... and to them, of course, it's like their main cultural offensive of the last ten years going up in smoke. They'll fight on with their usual rigor mortis, but they know they're only trying to impress themselves and each other anymore.

Thank you for the fine article
 
From: regenstein@mindspring.com
To: CMcWhirter@ajc.com
 
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/12/28/cleburne.html
 
Dear Mr. McWhirter:
 
Thank you for the excellent article on Gen. Cleburne.
 
It is rare these days to see an article about the Confederacy that does not paint its soldiers as racists & traitors, instead of the brave men they were, fighting against hopeless odds to defend their comrades, their families, their cities, and themselves from invaders from the North intent on killing them and destroying everything in the path of the Union Army.
 
Thanks so much for the great article. Please keep up the good work.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Lewis Regenstein
Descendant of over two dozen Confederate soldiers (The Moses family of GA & SC)

Who is "Tim Wise"
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
Who or What is a Tim Wise?
 
I knew the name sounded familiar when I saw it in the last SHNV newsletter.
 
http://www.amazon.com/review/R7DVBA11IA493/ref=cm_cd_pg_next?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdPage=2
 
For those not in the know, "Tim Wise" is the author of several books, one of which seems to take a title of an old 50s movie, "Black Like Me", and turn it around so that it now reads, "White Like Me". I could say that Wise is a discredit to his race. (He's Jewish), but it goes far beyond that. He's a discredit to the human race. His book holds that being white gives one an unfair advantage and that those of us who are white should feel werry werry bad about it. As I said in my review of that book, his thesis is pure "poison".
 
It's hard for me to envision how an honest, non-white person with a 3 digit IQ could have any regard for this bozo at all. How can you trust someone who indulges in such self-hatred? The way I see it, when you try to "Love your neighbor as YOURSELF", you can't do a very good job of loving that neighbor if you don't have any self respect and if you regularly indulge in orgies of self-loathing. Either Mr. Wise thinks he's not really "white", or, he has become completely consumed with self-deprecation. In either case, he's decided to bottle it and try to sell it to the rest of us. Unfortunately, judging from a large number of the reviews I see on Amazon.com, some idiots are buying it.
 
Bill Vallante
Commack NY

Rebels without a clue?
 
From: johan.f.temmerman@telenet.be
To: timjwise@msn.com
 
Sir,
 
I have read your article on http://www.counterpunch.org  attacking the Confederacy and its heritage attentively. It is an impressive 3,000-word walk on the well-trodden path that leads to the conclusion that the 'Civil War' in 1860s America (a misnomer since the conflict was not a struggle by factions for control of the same government) was fought solely for the preservation and perpetuation of slavery. Nothing could be further from the truth. The political issue, against the backdrop of the underlying socio-cultural and economic division of the country in two parts, the industrializing North and the cotton and rice plantation-economy South, was the expansion of slavery westward and its implications for the balance of power in Congress. The economic issue was the threat posed by the Confederacy's probable declaration of a free-trade zone, which would have wreaked havoc on the Federal revenue. Financially, taxes were mainly paid by the Cotton South but predominantly spent on 'internal improvements' in the North. Socially, abolitionism, radical and vocal far beyond the numbers of those advancing it, was neither in the mainstream of public opinion nor a particularly popular opinion in the North, despite being perceived as such in the South. The existence of slavery - in the North as well as in the South, I might add -  was not an issue at the outset of war, nor a cause of it. Its expansion westward and the implications for the balance of power between the two halves of the Union was. The immediate cause - the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back - was the election, by the North only, of the Radical Republican party's candidate, Mr. Lincoln. That is plain in the historical record, which anyone who can read English can consult. 
 
However, let us respect your article's focus on slavery and tackle that issue. I am more than willing to conduct the little experiment you mention at the start of your article. You've picked a white person, let me confess that from the start. You and most of your fellow educators have made sure that everyone 'knows' that persons of pallor - and only persons of pallor - can possibly be racist in thought, conviction or attitude, so this validates me as a fit subject for your experiment. Your stopwatch will keep on ticking, however, for this here whitie is no apologist for racial oppression, and I would never even consider denying that 19th century slavery, even in the relatively mild form in which it was practiced in the American South - read The Slave Narratives, a U.S. Government document - was a terrible wrong to inflict on black people, as indeed on any people. I am, however, an admirer of the Confederacy.
 
May I prevail on you to climb down from the curtains upon learning this, and invite you to a civilized discussion of the issue of the Confederate flag and its perceived relationship to racism and its perceived effect on black people today, whom you victimize so easily and naturally. 
 
With the suavity and smugness so typical of progressive educators - and I trust I am not wrong in calling you progressive, just as you would not be wrong in calling me a conservative - you lay the terrible, 19th century wrong of slavery on the conscience not only of those who fought for the Confederacy in time past, but also on those who today dare to defy the prevailing climate of political correctness by honoring their ancestors who fought its battles, and now offend your delicate racial sensibilities by displaying a historical flag which you say 'stands for racism'. Does it, though?
 
It may be subtle enough to escape those who benefit from being educated by you, but it's pretty glaring to me that your article lies by omission - and I'm not even an American, although I am guilty of studying American history in the days before the force-feeding of opinion took the place of transmitting facts. You studiously avoid mentioning that slavery in 1860 was prevalent in both North and South, that the slave trade was exclusively in the hands of Northerners, that race relations before, during and after the war were much worse in the North than in the South (as, by the way, they still are). You do not note that mid-19th century abolitionism had an extremely limited appeal; Harriet Beecher Stowe's unfortunate husband publicly disavowed his wife's fictional propaganda work (she never set foot in the South in her entire life). You omit the race riots in New York during the war, for instance. You remain silent on the fact that the Underground Railroad ran all the way to Canada because nearly all Union states restricted or forbade residence by blacks, on pain of whipping and deportation.
 
Above all, you anxiously avoid mentioning that the Great Emancipator himself was, by modern standards, not by those of his own time, a racial supremacist: he repeatedly expressed himself in favor of racial separation, of deporting blacks to Africa at the federal government's expense, and of winning the war to preserve the Union, if need be without liberating even a single slave. Lincoln's Emancipation Declaration was, at best, a crafty attempt at both pre-empting European recognition of the Confederacy and creating social havoc behind Confederate lines. At worst, it was an early attempt at provoking ethnic cleansing. It did succeed in its foreign policy purpose, but backfired totally in its military objective: no slave uprising ever occurred in the South. European leaders and intellectuals, Charles Dickens foremost among them, recognised the document, which at the time it was issued did not liberate a single slave, for what it was: a clever, cynical ruse, and denounced it as such.
 
Why do you so carefully avoid mentioning that slavery was an accepted part of the American order and culture of that period, in both North and South? That the war had other, at least as significant causes? Yes, the Confederacy had a white supremacist culture in the mid-19th century. So did the Union and the European powers at the time, for all their high-minded abolition of slavery. England and France could afford to do so without repercussions at home; the effects were limited to their despised colonials. Your selective use of the historical record is appalling, though hardly an isolated case.
 
You also make a fatal error in linking Confederate emblems to white supremacism prevalent almost one and a half centuries ago. Ancient Rome practiced a hard version of slavery, and sex with young boys was very common among the aristocracy, yet merely considered a rather amusing little vice at the time. Today we judge those practices very differently, and for very good reasons. My point is, do you refer to the 'Ancient Roman Racist and Pedophile Empire?' You don't, because cultural and moral patterns have shifted much since ancient Rome, as have politics and economics, and it would be a mistake to judge Rome by the standards prevailing 15 to 20 centuries later. There is no need to condemn the Romans' cultural attitudes in 20th and 21st century terms, only a need to understand their failures and achievements in terms of their own period. Yet you judge the Confederacy in your own, late 20th, early 21st century terms of racial equality, now a widely accepted precept.
 
Surely you are aware of the dangers of looking at the past through the prism of our own time, our own convictions, our own cultural bias? I will not insult you by insinuating otherwise. Yet you ignore this. It follows that you are doing so deliberately. Regrettably, this is typical of the education establishment in America, which prefers to advance the progressive agenda over offering a meaningful education. Hence the third-world quality of many of its public schools, and the spectacle even its top universities make of themselves by their self-imposed role as incubators of leftist ideology, inviting tyrants to address the public from their forums, banishing the military behind whose protection they crouch from their campuses and suppressing any opinion that deviates from the increasingly hard left.
 
Let us return for a brief moment to the issue of slavery and its effects on America's black population. Let's be honest here. In reality, how much remains of the racism that once was? In my visits to America's Southland, from Florida to Arizona, I have never witnessed a single expression of it, in word or deed. What I have encountered, more than once, is extreme reluctance to discuss anything that could even remotely be construed as containing even the minutest degree of criticism of any minority or minority sensitivity whatsoever. When it comes to minorities, Americans walk a minefield. So much for your vaunted free speech. I might add that it's just as bad in Europe, when it come to Muslims or Islam.
 
Racism in America and indeed in the West, whether you admit it or not, is all but extinct. Now that America has elected a black President, from the ranks of a minority that is barely 13% of its population, the argument that racism continues to limit, oppress and disadvantage black people strikes me as utterly ridiculous. Apparently catching sight of a Confederate emblem on someone's purse hasn't flung Barack Obama into paroxysms of racial offense, nor has it held him back much.
 
But, truth be told, are whites the only people who love to live in the past, as you write? Any interested observer of America is perfectly able to see that race baiters do continue to flourish, as does the racial inequality industry, struggling as it does to continue to justify its existence in an increasingly un-racist America. The race baiters are fed by the media, academia and certain special-interest groups that fan the flames of perceived racism for their own ends. As a progressive educator, I count you among them.
 
Why this need to provide blacks with the alibi of racism to cover up group underachievement? There is no denying that American blacks, as a group, are less advanced by most standards, in statistical terms, than other ethnic groups. Who is to blame? The Confederate flag? No, sir - you are.
 
Public education in America is a shame, thanks to a leftist education establishment. The progressive agenda has done incalculable damage. Consider the root of the problem, black families, or rather the lack of them. Black families survived slavery, as best they could - and they did to a surprising extent, proof positive of their moral, intellectual and physical strength and stamina. Black families survived the Jim Crow laws in the postbellum South and enduring racial discrimination up to and including the Civil Rights period a century after the War Between The States. But black families did not survive the liberal agenda of economic dependency, cultural experimentation, laxity on crime, and the soft bigotry of positive discrimination, the 'need' to reserve for blacks and other minorities places in education, in government, in economic life, to the detriment of others and in violation of the merit principle. The results are plain to see.
 
And you call the Texas declaration of secession ‘putrid’! 
 
Well, sir, I call the liberal agenda putrid, and I can prove it. If I were a black American, I'd ask myself why no whites engage in White Studies, and why Asian-Americans don't have a rap culture that glorifies violence, rape, fornication and rioting. Why I would need a specially reserved slot anywhere. Why my intellectual or professional merit is held to be inferior to another's. Black people can, and will, lift themselves higher as a group, as soon as they break free from the liberal agenda, from your attempt to provide them with an alibi for underachievement by blaming Confederate emblems on a purse, a car sticker, a T-shirt or a flagpole.
 
Respectfully yours,

Johan Temmerman
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Revisionist History
 
From: acivilwarjunkie@yahoo.com
To: cscitizen@alltel.net

The winner of a war has always had the ability to change history to suit his purposes. 1984 is today and Winston Smith is alive and well in Washington D.C.

When you discuss how the Celtic peoples were humiliated by the bloody English,  I recall how Scots and Irish were subjugated and mistreated.
 
Truly, the South has suffered and is continually humiliated.  Southron people are portrayed as yokels and complete idiots.  TWBS is officially listed in the Library of Congress Archives as "the War of the Rebellion", although, as we know, TWBS was a war for Southern Independence.
 
I am of German Heritage and you'll recall that the treatment of Germany after WWI was overly harsh and its treasury depleted and economy ruined.  All this evil led to the Germans election of Adolph Hitler and finding out too late what he really was as their cities lie in ruin and thousands of Germans were killed when he ordered the subways flooded.  After WWII the nation was divided and occupied for about 60 years.
 
I wonder if the treatment of conquered peoples, even conquered Americans, is why God is no longer prospering the nation.
 
In the 1860's northern hypocrisy was supreme.  Northern workers were paid in scrip that could only be spent at the company store where grossly inflated prices kept them in bondage to the company until death.
 
Likewise those who signed indenture agreements for passage to America were gulled into a situation where they were in bondage. These practices created "wage slaves" and “indentured servants".
 
Yet New England, who still rules America, persecuted the South claiming slavery as the issue when the true issues were economics and power.
 
As a Confederate from Missouri, when Democrats and Republicans say they are making a better America with true equality I say "show me".  So far they have shown me nothing but hypocrisy.
 
Ron

Friday, January 2, 2009
Coming Soon: The Disunited States?

We've noted Dr. Igor Panarin's views previously, and agree with some, and disagree with others. But now, other pundits are taking notice of Panarin's conclusions that the United States is dissolving before our eyes, as Doug Bandow of the American Conservative Defense Alliance reports:

The Wall Street Journal summarized his views: "Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the US will break into six pieces – with Alaska reverting to Russian control."

How silly! When have mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation EVER led to the collapse of a government?

Well, ok, if you want to be nit-picky, they've caused ALL the oversized, multicult empires in world history to fall. But maybe the DC empire is immune to historical forces. Yeah.

Bandow sees many benefits from Panarin's predictions:

Thus, today disunion might prove to be a blessing. If the Midwest wants socialism, with government control of manufacturing, then it should be separate from the South, which holds to a stronger if not exactly pure ethos of self-reliance. If California wants to be in the forefront of cultural relativism and experimentation, then it also should be separate from the South, which retains much of its heritage as home of the Bible Belt. The western mountain states prefer more of a rough libertarianism in economic and cultural affairs. New England and the mid-Atlantic states have their own cultural peculiarities and economic assumptions. If we can't just leave each other alone, then maybe we should live separately.

And there are many other benefits to the return to human-scaled political systems. With its stranglehold on power and money, DC is forcing an artificial uniformity on over 300 million souls. Think of all the local expertise that's shackled by DC's one-size-fits-all mentality on the most vital issues, from education, to health care reform, to protecting jobs.

More important, the bomb-it and rebuild-it scam that fuels DC's command-and-control system, though lucrative for power brokers and politically connected industries, is a grossly wasteful and inherently bloody and immoral racket. The military-industrial complex is clearly the single biggest source of chaos the world has ever seen, and it can only survive by feeding off a vast population forced to live under one artificially overgrown political system. Think what that trillion dollars that's already dropped down the Middle East sinkhole in Bush's wars could have done for the people of this country.

Big government is inherently aggressive and autocratic. If we are to reclaim our political liberties, we must scale back DC's unnatural and unaccountable power. Local self-determination is the only answer.

On The Web:   http://www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/01/coming-soon-disunited-states.html

Another View of the NAACP -- Part One

by Al Benson Jr.

As the United decrepit States of America slouch into the year 2009 we can be assured that with a new president, Barack Obama (according to author Alan Stang "aka Barry Sotero, aka Barry Obama, aka Barack Dunham)," etc. on and on ad nauseam, that the NAACP will� continue on in its usual path, calling for the destruction of anything remotely Southern or Confederate. With all the problems existing in the black community, all these people seem to be able to focus on is attacking Confederate symbols, flags, and statues, as if that would, somehow, magically alleviate all their problems. (Subtle hint here, folks--it won't).

But is the NAACP really any different now that it has always been?� This organization really has a checkered history which can be discovered for those willing to take the trouble to look.

The NAACP seemed to suddenly "emerge" back in 1909 as an organization supposedly promoting equality of rights among the races. Interestingly, the formation of this group was urged by the leading leftist radicals of that day, among whom were Jane Addams, public school "educator" and humanist John Dewey, Lincoln Steffens and Rabbi Stephen Wise.

The first president of the NAACP was, oddly enough, a white man, Moorfield Storey, a white lawyer from Boston. This trend continued. For around the first sixty years of its existence, the presidents of this supposed black organization were all white. In 1969, a white man named Kivie Kaplan was still the NAACP president, according to the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, which was published in 1969. Obviously, since then, some things have changed. It is interesting to note, though, how long the NAACP had white presidents, almost as if the leftist radicals somehow didn't trust the blacks to take the organization in the proper direction (to the left).

W. E. B. DuBois, who later joined the Communist Party, was the organization's first director of publicity and research, as well as the editor of the group's monthly publication The Osiris. This publication gave DuBois a convenient outlet from which to pour forth a continual screed of racial invectives against whites. DuBois was well noted for his leftism. He "hailed the Russian Revolution of 1917" and he made pilgrimages to the Soviet Union in 1926 and 1936. He especially liked "the racial attitudes of the Communists." That may be why he eventually became one.

In 1922 the NAACP started to receive grants from the Garland Fund, a big source for the funding of Communist Party projects. Officials of the Garland Fund included Communists William Z. Foster, Benjamim Gitlow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Scott Nearing. Other rather prominent left-wing officials were Roger Baldwin, Sidney Hillman, and Harry F. Ward, who was the "Red Dean of religion in America."� The Garland Fund goodies continued to pour into NAACP coffers up until 1934. But even when the money stopped, the Communist connections continued. The Biographical Dictionary of the Left noted that "In 1938, the NAACP was represented at the World Youth Congress, a Communist enterprise. And, in the 1940s, the NAACP was affiliated with American Youth for a Free World, the American affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a Communist clearing house."

A most literate apologist for the NAACP was the well-known Langston Hughes. Hughes was affiliated with Communist Party projects from the mid-1920s until he passed away in 1967. In fact, in 1962, Hughes wrote a book Fight for Freedom: The story of the NAACP. In this book he attempted to downplay the influence of Communists in the NAACP.

The Biographical Dictionary noted again: "From its inception to the present (1969) no matter the protestations of Langston Hughes or any other NAACP apologist, the organization's officials and its known members, collectively and individually, have represented the influential left, the leadership of Communist fronts and left wing political and pacifist groups, and the most effective of the anti-anti-Communist establishment."� With that kind of left wing tilt, do you wonder why they savage Confederate symbols every chance they get?

To be continued.

Copyright � 2006-2009 Al Benson, Jr.

On The Web:   http://www.albensonjr.com/naacp1.shtml

Friday, January 2, 2009
NAACP confronts the myth of the Emancipation Proclamation

Will wonders never cease? After years of writing letters to the editor, articles, books, blog posts, and radio interviews, the Southern Movement has finally smashed one of the core myths of the DC empire, that Lincoln freed the slaves -- and look who's finally facing the historical truth:

    What the 100 people who gathered for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's annual Emancipation Proclamation program Thursday got was a wake-up call and a history lesson.

    President Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation 146 years ago had less to do with freedom and more to do with a need to beef up Union forces during the Civil War, Lonnie Randolph said.

    "The Emancipation Proclamation really didn't do anything," the state NAACP president said from Rock Hill's Agape International Ministries. "We look at this as a day of freedom. It really didn't free anyone."

    "We celebrate for the wrong reason," Randolph said. "It was a military decision. Folks need to be told the true meaning of this event. This was strictly to free black men, those 250,000 who fought. It gave them the right to fight."

What's next? Will the NAACP now realize that La Raza's Open Borders agenda profoundly harms blacks? Will they denounce Al-Sharpton-style race baiting? And maybe even turn away from the entire leftist agenda?

Who knows? Now that this myth has been busted, the sky's the limit ...

On The Web:  http://www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/01/naacp-copes-with-myth-of-emancipation.html

A Christmas Day Massacre in the Southeast Missouri Ozarks
Friday, December 26, 2008
Clint E. Lacy

One of the most controversial pieces of work that late author and historian Jerry Ponder wrote was his account of the Wilson Massacre in Ripley County, Missouri; which occurred on December 25th 1863. On December 23rd, 1863, members of the 15th Missouri Cavalry, CSA, attacked and captured nearly 100 Union prisoners at Centerville in Reynolds County, Missouri; burning the courthouse down before they left. Ponder wrote that:

"An unusual group assembled at the Pulliam farm in southwestern Ripley County, Missouri for Christmas in 1863. Nearly 150 officers and men of the Missouri State Guard's 15th Cavalry Regiment (Confederate); at least sixty civilians, many of them women and children; and 102 prisoners, officers and men of Company C, Missouri State Militia (Union).

The civilians were family members, friends, and neighbors. Confederate "hosts" and Union "guests" were all Missourians; but they were divided by perhaps the bitterest of all enmities-those of civil war.

The day's activity was to begin with religious services conducted by the Reverend Colonel Timothy Reeves, commanding officer of the 15th Cavalry and a Baptist preacher of Ripley County. Then would follow Christmas dinner in the afternoon. The group at Pulliam' s farm numbered above three hundred at the very least, if the figures on the record are to be believed. It was too many for a mere religious service and holiday dinner. Pulliam's was one of Reeves's regimental camps.

What began as a festive occasion ended in horror and tragedy. As the celebrants sat at dinner, their arms stacked, they were surprised by two companies of the Union Missouri State Militia, more than 200 mounted cavalrymen. Only those guarding the prisoners, about 35 men, were armed. The Militia attacked without warning, shooting into the crowd, attacking with sabers, and killing at least thirty of the Confederate men instantly and mortally wounding several more. According to local tradition, many-perhaps most-of the civilians were killed or wounded as well.

The immediate cause of the Wilson Massacre was a series of events at Centerville, Reynolds County. Centerville Courthouse was some sixty miles north of Doniphan and twenty-five southwest of Pilot Knob. Late in 1863, Centerville was captured by the Union 3rd Cavalry from Pilot Knob. Company C was left as garrison. On December 21, while engaged in building stables on the courthouse grounds, they were surprised and surrounded by Company N of Reeves's 15th Missouri Cavalry, under command of Captain Jesse Pratt, before the war the Baptist minister of Centerville. Company N was composed of farmers and merchants of Reynolds County. Probably Pratt and the Reeves brothers,