‘Standout
quality’ in Southern people, not Constitution
Vanzetta
McPherson (retired magistrate judge) stated no real differences between the Confederate States
Constitution and the United States Constitution excepting CS slavery
provisions. She is right and wrong.
That the CS
Constitution was based, “near verbatim,” on the U.S. Constitution was found
curious by the judge, but illustrates that Southerners believed in the U.S.
Constitution and were content living under it. The problem was that Northern
politicians were violating the Constitution and usurping the individual states’
constitutional authority at the expense of the Southern states.
She
couldn’t find a “standout quality” in the CS Constitution. The “standout quality”
in “Southern heritage” she was looking for isn’t in the Constitution, but in
the people who, like their grandfathers before them, exercised the right to
secede from an oppressive union. That the majority of the Southern people,
including the less than 10% who practiced the abomination of slavery, were
willing to fight and die for what they believed in is that “standout quality”
she seeks.
The
Confederate flag was their banner, their rallying point and with it at their
front over 300,000 died in defense of their homeland while resisting an
overreaching and abusive central government. A people willing to stand against
tyranny and oppression is what that flag represents.
I will not
surrender its true meaning to hate groups or the hysterical demagogues
manipulated by those wishing to remove its true history from the people.
Judge, you
failed to mention slavery was protected in the U.S. Constitution as well. Did
you forget?
Benjamin
Austin
Selma
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