Commanders Column for November 2013
The recent government shutdown and rollout of the
government’s healthcare system brought out the pundits pointing fingers and
casting blame. One of interest claimed
that our country is not dying as has been postulated as the natural course for
democracies by Alexander Fraser Tytler in his nineteenth century lectures describing this
“Fatal Sequence”. The guest on this
radio show claimed the United States is not decaying and dying, it is being
killed. Our heritage, culture and
Judeo-Christian foundation is being attacked and eradicated from within. Lincoln attacked the Confederacy to
exterminate the Southern culture and sought to subjugate the South and redefine
the role of the federal government as the ultimate authority and control in the
lives of the citizenry at the point of a bayonet. Sherman while waging his war on the civilian
populace in a July 31, 1862
letter to his wife (from his "Collected Works") wrote that his
purpose in the war was: "Extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the
least part of the trouble, but the [Southern] people."
The self-determination
and self-reliance which defined our Confederate forefathers and which has been
passed down as our heritage is being exterminated today by socialistic programs
and indoctrination which just two generations ago led to decades of conflicts
and the Cold War to contain the spread of Marxism in southeast Asia and around
the globe. Every generation has its own wars
to wage, its own imperatives which shape the course of history. Our Confederate ancestors took up arms in an
attempt to preserve the freedom and liberty and form of government the founding
fathers shaped after the Revolutionary War.
Will there be patriots today who will resist the oncoming tide and stand
in the face of the onslaught threatening the core of American values? We can help educate our neighbors by telling
the true history of the Confederacy and why our ancestors struggles are
relevant today. We must stand in the
face of political correctness and defend the honor of the Confederate soldier
patriots and preserve their memory and Southern heritage.
The court hearing in
Selma is upcoming and we need to continue to support the Friends of Forrest as
they fight to protect the sacred final resting place of the brave Confederate
soldiers in Live Oak Cemetery there and to enhance the grounds to pay tribute
to the true heroes of the War for Southern Independence, those who fought to
protect their families and homes and way of life. November also is a time of Thanksgiving, a
time we give thanks for our families and blessings bestowed upon us by our
loving God. President Jefferson Davis
issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation on the 15th of November 1861
setting aside that day as “a national day of humiliation and prayer”
encouraging all to return home on that day “to implore (the) blessing of Almighty God upon our people, that he may
give us victory over our enemies, preserve our homes and altars from pollution,
and secure to us the restoration of peace and prosperity.” We should continue to pray fervently for
our nation and our families, for peace and prosperity. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families.
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