It seems a number of recent
articles touch on the high moral fabric our Confederate ancestors possessed and
how this has been handed down to their future generations including those of us
who cherish our Southern culture and Christian foundations. In the November/December 2014 issue of the Confederate Veteran magazine, the
article “Lincoln’s War and Historical Revisionism” observes that despite
Northern history books attempting to indoctrinate generations of Americans
since the war for Southern Independence that the Union Army conducted a grand
campaign strictly for the emancipation of slaves from their cruel Southern
masters, the actual truth was that justification was merely an afterthought, an
eventual war measure. The Southern
states had every Constitutional right to secede from tyrannical Northern states
violating God’s very ordained “Natural Laws” attempting to incite slave riots
and impose discriminatory oppressive tariffs.
Ben Jones column in the January/February edition of the Confederate Veteran observes that
perhaps the truth is finally beginning to be revealed and accepted that the
North was profiting from the institution of slavery from the inception of slave
trading in North America up until the secession of the Southern states in the
Northern textile mills and in the tariff proceeds generated by Southern trade which
lined the pockets of Northern industrialists.
As Lincoln stated, he had to instigate the War else he would lose his
source of federal treasure. So he unleashed a Total War against the citizenry
of the Southern states allowing the Union army to indiscriminately destroy
Southern property and commit unspeakable war crimes against the defenseless
Southern women, children and elderly as well as the supposed beneficiaries of
their emancipation crusade.
Tyrone
Crowley sent out an article in December entitled “The Revenge of the Confederacy”
from the magazine Chronicles which
stated in comparing the Southern “civilization” to the Northern peoples, “The South was of a
traditional mind; the North of a revolutionary one. The South was deferential;
the North egalitarian. The South was pious; the North transcendentalist, or nothing.
The South was agricultural; the North industrial. Finally, the South,
politically speaking, was strictly constitutionalist; the North latitudinarian
and expansionist. These differences had existed from the beginning, but they
had grown much wider between 1789 and 1861. With or without slavery, the South
did not wish to live in the future as the North contemplated it, while the
North was determined to drag the South along, as a distinctly junior partner, with
it into that future. Northern politicians, men of business, and public men
generally saw in victory no more than the chance to convert the South to its
way of thinking.” And it continues today
in distinct red states and blue states but with the geopolitical power center
in the Northeast (and California).
Populations segregate themselves with those who “look, think, and vote
like them”. But unfortunately, these are
not entirely “homogenous” regions and it has become clear that we are all
subjects to a supreme federal tyranny, mired in “frustration, gridlock,
seething impotence, and a deep-seated hatred of the other half of the citizenry. The Unionists in 1865 deprived their country
of the opportunity to rid itself forever of that geographic half of it that
bitterly resisted its (lack of) character and its agenda. But they did
something else as well. They made certain that Northern society would continue
to develop in the materialist direction in which it had been moving for
decades, unchallenged by a vision of an alternate civilization grounded in
nature and tradition, and by effective dissent on behalf of these things. America as she exists in 2015 is the creation
of the Union states that won the Civil War, a country the former Confederacy
has had virtually no hand in making. The descendants of the former Unionists
need to remind themselves of this fact as they, along with a majority of Americans,
deplore what their country has since become. For people whose hearts pump
Confederate blood, a certain smugness is understandable, and even pardonable.”
The
Confederate armies experienced a revival which became the bedrock of the Bible
Belt but the defeat of the Confederate Army and the subsequent diminution of
the Southern peoples and culture during the decades of Reconstruction left the
reunited nation without the moral compass which guided the country over the
course of its founding and first century.
Southern legislators over the past half century have often stood alone
against the onslaught of the progressive agenda which has culminated today in
the outrageous social, political and legal acceptance of gay marriage, atheism
and attack of Christianity, the abortion of babies, economically unsound
socialist welfare ideologies and of course, an ever larger more intrusive
federal government. On the national SCV
website you will find a testimony by Dean Boggs of Camp 1209 who in 1979
expressed, “Because I intend to defend my family's honor and remember the
sacrifice of my (Confederate veteran) Great Grandfather, and because it is my
patriotic duty to my country, I belong to the Sons of Confederate
Veterans. Because I Love the South and I
am proud to be a Southerner. I am proud of the culture, grace and elegance of
the Old South, of our heritage of courage, honor, chivalry, respect for
womanhood, patriotism, and of duty to God and country. I take pride in the earlier leading role the
Old South played in the Revolutionary War, the drafting of the Constitution and
the founding of the United States.
Because our Southern heritage has served our nation well since 1865. The Southern people, who lost everything in
the War, and without government aid, had to pull themselves up by their own
bootstraps, traditionally adhere to the free enterprise system with its liberty
and opportunity for all as opposed to the dictatorship of the welfare state
with its liberty and opportunity for none.
Because even today, some of our school books, movies, television
programs and press falsely portray Southerners as rebels and traitors who fought
to preserve slavery, misleading our children and millions of Americans ignorant
of history. Since my family fought for the Confederacy, they thereby falsely malign
my family and me. Their purpose is to
destroy our proud heritage. As Winston Churchill said, "any people with
contempt for their heritage have lost faith in themselves and no nation can
long survive without pride in its traditions". Our enemies know this.”
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