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But what I see is blasphemy, which is happening now. One of the things is, is some of the friend requests I get are from women who are scantily clad in bikinis of the Confederate flag. Some of them are downright porn, with a picture in the background of a Confederate flag. That is just blasphemy. That is nothing that I want to see, and I'm certainly not going to be friends with anyone who is like that. And second of all, is that one that you go and look at someone who claims to be a wonderful Confederate, to stand up for the heritage and everything else, and they have a picture of Donald Trump, as if he was ever a Confederate, as if he was ever a rebel of any kind whatsoever. And there's even pictures people have on their profile page, a picture of the Confederate battle flag, St. Andrew's Cross, with a picture of Donald Trump in the middle of it. Nothing could be more blasphemous to my ancestors and to the true Confederate ancestors than that. That is absolutely ridiculous, because how many people are familiar with what the man had to say at one point in time? So now I think it would be appropriate to actually read what I placed on Facebook, and this has received some rather acrimonious responses. But I said, lately I have been receiving several friend requests from folks who believe they are defending the South, their heritage, and their ancestors. Yet, when I look at their individual pages, I see many of them support Donald Trump, some even with his picture on a Confederate battle flag. When I see such, I am forced to ask myself, would their cherished Confederate ancestors have supported any person who said the following? And I quote, So I repeat, how could anyone ever look at a Yankee from New York who said he wanted to take this country back to the principles and the legacy that was Abraham Lincoln? Does he mean the Abraham Lincoln that violated the Constitution more than anybody in history? Did he mean the great Lincoln who shut down over 300 newspapers in the North and put hundreds, even thousands of people in prison without any charges, formal charges? He sent the military in. The military took over the governments of three states that had not seceded. Is that the Lincoln that he wants to emulate? Is that what he meant? Is he talking about the Lincoln whose troops went into the South and raped and pillaged and burned and murdered their way through towns where there weren't even any Confederate forces present? Does he mean the man who promoted a man from colonel to general who actually burned the town of Athens, Alabama and his soldiers raped a pregnant woman in the street causing a miscarriage? Is that the Abraham Lincoln that Donald Trump stood for? He sure said it. Now there are people who will say, well, he didn't mean that. How did they know? Because these people, the majority of the people in this country who support Donald Trump, have never met the man, have never talked to him. They don't have a damn clue what he's exactly like. But yet, in the great America, you can get millions of people to fall into line with someone if you just push them properly on the Internet, push them properly in the news media. So we have Southerners who want a president who would execute the largest number of Native Americans in a public execution in 1862. The man who would drive the Navajos from their homeland in 1864. And then, this is the man that you consider to best represent your interests as a confederate or as a rebel? Do these people not understand that that wonderful Abraham Lincoln, that wonderful Republican party that they cherish, do they not understand or do they just not know or do they not care? That this party was established by communists and it's never changed. Only in appearance, only in the mirror, never at the core values has that party ever changed. That is still the party of Yankees and everyone should know about how I feel about Yankees about now. I could fill a hundred dishes with them Yankees sons of bitches and I'd care. That probably best represents my thoughts about these Yankees. And these Yankees that Donald Trump would appear to want to emulate and he wanted to bring the country back to the principles of the greatest tyrant in the history of this country. Just absolutely asinine. And then, when challenged, they go, oh, you must be a democrat. Yeah, well, no. No, I'm not a democrat. I'm a confederate. I am a rebel. And I can't even imagine in today's world. I've thought about this on multiple occasions. You know, we have organizations out there that claim that they're confederate who claim that they support the south. And yet they start off their meetings with a pledge of allegiance to the flag of the army of the government that massacred and raped and destroyed the south. And that killed their ancestors. Put them in prisons. Starved them to death. Camp Douglas. Even when food was abundant, they still didn't give it to them. And these are the people. This is the government of Abraham Lincoln. The principles of Abraham Lincoln that people claim they stand for. You want to talk about cognitive dissonance? Holding two opposing viewpoints at the same time? That, my friend, is rhinos and senos. Republicans and confederates in name only. Well, I'm going to jump aside here for just a second before I continue on with this theme. But I wanted to tell you folks that I learned yesterday that on April the 1st of 2023 at the Dixie Republic in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, there will be another day of celebration of our ancestors and our southern heritage. And there are going to be some folks who are having books published. Pardon me. And they will be there. And there will be talks of those. There will be live radio shows, which will be done from the Dixie Republic to Paul and the wonderful Jolly Boys up in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. So if you have it within the wherewithal to attend a meeting to where you will be most welcome as a Southerner, as a true Southerner, not a rhino, not a seno, and there's wonderful things that will happen there. There always are. You're going to meet people that you wish you would have known all your life. So that invitation goes out. I hope that folks will be able to attend that meeting on April the 1st, that wonderful get together, wonderful music, wonderful presentations, and some live radio shows. And all of the Confederate paraphernalia you could ever hope for will be there on site. And Paul and his wonderful staff will be there to take care of you. And you can always come back to Confederate Corner, have a seat. You might even find old Stephen Lightner there. You might find D.W. there. You might find Jim Ram there. You might find a lot of folks that you've heard from time to time. But we're just hoping to see you there, to meet you for the first time. Well, now I feel it imperative at this point to quote from one of my Confederate heroes, and that would be none other than the pastor, Robert L. Dabney. And the good pastor was actually a Confederate soldier. He was on, at one time, Stonewall Jackson's staff. But here is something that he said, and especially as we look at this subject today, as I just mentioned about politics and going back to the principles and the philosophy of Abraham Lincoln, which is an absolute tyranny in itself. But here is the quote from Robert L. Dabney. Now, there's one even more important in my mind that I'm going to get to later, but this one is about politics. And it is so very, very true. So here, Mr. Dabney, and I quote, Now, questions of politics must ever divide the minds of men, for they are not decided by any recognized standards of truth, but by the competitions of interest and passion. Hence, it is inevitable that he who embarks publicly in the discussion of these questions must become the object of party animosities and obnoxious to those whom he opposes. How then can he successfully approach them as the messenger of redemption? By thus transcending his proper functions, he criminally prejudices his appointed work with half the community, for the whole of which he should affectionately labor, unquote. And now to that Dabney quote, which means so much to me. And so here it is. And I quote, Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead. See to it that they have no reason to be ashamed of you. And if you bring these Confederate leaders to trial, it will condemn the North for by the Constitution, secession is not rebellion, unquote. There is a gentleman, a very intelligent gentleman by the name of Dabney. I hope I pronounced that name correctly. I think his first name is John, who covers this subject very well in an essay that he wrote called back in 2016, or it was published in 2016 called Secession of the Heart. And in that essay, he says there is a type of duplicity endemic in much of the South that is far worse than moonlight, magnolias, and disparagement. Here I speak of duplicity as unfaithfulness. The current rage to deface and remove all Confederate memory from the South, be it a monument, a flag, or a song, has brought this sort of unfaithfulness to light in an especially ulgar and vulgar manner. Here I do not speak of certain denizens of greater New England and the left coast. How well Robert Penn Warren captured them when he wrote, and I quote, The Northerner, with his treasury of virtue, feels redeemed by history, automatically redeemed. He has in his pocket not a papal indulgence peddled by some wandering partner of the Middle Ages, but an indulgence, a plenary indulgence, for all since past, present, and future, freely given by the hand of history. That came from a book called The Legacy of the Civil War on page 59. Perhaps Mr. Warren understated the situation. Many of the sons and daughters of greater New England view themselves not only as redeemed, but as the redeemers. It is in their purview to change all existing standards of morality, to make pronouncement upon secular heresies and apostasy, and to excommunicate to the outer darkness all who might dare to question their dictates. These folks long ago adopted a Manichean universe of absolute good and absolute evil for their moral compass. Yet it is they who assign the values. They need the South, or rather their caricature of the South, desperately. Like the Puritan of old, they must have a devil's army to fight in the wilderness, to affirm them in their sense of mission. A mission, by the way, which will never have an end. There is an elect, and they are it, and there exists a damned, and we know full well who they are. This can never change, for the moral universe of the Manichean is a predestined one. The damned shall have no share with the elect. The wizard's apprentice in this black magic show is the unfaithful one, the Good Southerner, or a Rhino or a Chino. The Good Southerner has much in common with his cousin, the Good Indian. The Good Indian was that Native American who agreed to settle his wandering ways and adopt the ways of the European white man. During the wars on the plains, the Good Indian stayed on the reservation. He learned to farm, occasionally scouted for the U.S. cavalry, and for his efforts received spoiled rations, whiskey, and a Henry rifle. His less good countrymen held him in suspicion and contempt for abandoning the paths of his fathers. How relevant! The trap the Good Indian found himself in was truly pathetic. No matter how high he rose on the ladder of civilization, no matter how obsequious he was to his white masters, he remained forever an Indian. Phil Sheridan, the maker of War Upon Women and Children in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, which Donald Trump would have happily brought back according to his own words, captured the predicament quite well when he said, The only good Indian I ever saw was dead. The Good Southerner is a more sinister and less sympathetic type. He adopts the simplistic Manichean moral vision of his cultural imperator and condemns any and all things that his betters condemn. If the northern myth of the war must replace the southern myth of the war, then so be it, and the South be damned. If the monuments are to come down, the flags never furled, and the songs effaced, then to it, man. Our ancestors were villains, and the moral imperators must be appeased. But, of course, they shall never be appeased. The elect are always in need of the damned in order to be affirmed, and no one is more the damned than is the Southerner in today's world. The Good Southerner's duplicity lay in his unfaithfulness. He cares not a whit about the half-truths and detractions hurled at his ancestors or for their distortion of history. They don't need to worry about that, because they get a Facebook page, and every day they post a picture of some Confederate veteran and some battle site, and they meander on about blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, without ever standing for anything. What a great pretense for the Good Southerner. And again, his duplicity, her duplicity, lays in their unfaithfulness. They care not, again, sorry to be redundant, about the half-truths or detractions hurled at their ancestors or for any distortion of history. There is money to be made, foreign industry to attract, basketball, football tournaments on TV in the stupid bowl coming up very soon. Even bowl games to sponsor. Now this Good Southerner's ancestors, who are deserving of pietas for their virtues and achievement, and understanding and forgiveness for their sins and defects, instead have been dishonored. The South was once, together with Ireland, the last non-material civilization in the West. Now it has certain sons and daughters more than willing to put the patrimony up for sale, for it is always about money and power, with the secular Puritan and the Good Southerner on the make. The Good Southerner is the ultimate secessionist, for he has undertaken a secession of the heart. He is less pathetic and more sinister, because he not only allows his enemy to define him, he welcomes his alienation as a sign of redemption and acceptance. That's why they could easily support a man who says he would bring back the principles of the monster Abraham Lincoln to the people of this country. The Good Southerner no longer remembers who he is, and is happy for his ignorance of an alienation from his and his ancestors' history, dedication and devotion, and from his culture. He has become like the character Rex Montrum from Brideshead Revisited, not a complete man at all, just the bits and pieces of one, the rest have been traded for pottage. Yes, the Puritan and the Good Southerner are in the saddle, and they ride us hard. As Dr. Robert M. Peters suggests, they have been an even worse ravage than the war, Reconstruction, the period of desolation, and the Depression. They are the ravage of modernity. To us now belongs the task of restoration, so that the garden may be yet again, in the words of Dr. Peters, produced for the time appointed unto it, the fruits of truth which nurture the human spirit, and which foreshadow the garden of which there will be no end. Just have a mind to always fence out the Good Southerner who presents themselves as a Republican or a Confederate in name only. Find your inner rebel at Dixie Republic, the world's largest Confederate store, located in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. The anti-white, anti-Christ, anti-Southern world ends at the asphalt. Welcome to God's country. Log on to DixieRepublic.com to view our Southern merchandise, from flags to t-shirts to artwork. At the store, browse through our extensive collection of belt buckles, and have a custom-made leather belt handcrafted in our Johnny Rebs Gun & Leather Shop. That's DixieRepublic.com, where you can meet all of your Southern needs. 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To appease his followers in Minnesota, and he sent General John Pope after Pope had just gotten his butt handed to him at the Battle of Second Manassas. He sends him off to take care of the crazy Indians up there who were just trying to recover what was rightfully theirs. And they had been offered money for their land, and they had signed the deal, but they weren't paid what they were told they would be paid, they didn't receive the food, they didn't receive the other things. And so they actually went into, in a very poor year for crops, actually went in to get their promised goods. But they then were apprehended, they were given trials that lasted less than 10 minutes apiece, and then all of them were sentenced to death. But Lincoln, being afraid at that moment in history that a mass execution of a huge number of American Indians might not look really good in Europe, and he still feared an interference in the war, or an alliance, if you will, between England and France and the Confederacy. So he shaved the number down to 39, we're only going to hang 39, and that's what they did. Can you imagine for a minute, those people, the Santee Sioux, deciding sometime later in their history that they wanted to elect a man who promised to bring back the ideals of Abraham Lincoln? What about the people, the Navajo, who were taken from their homelands, their fruit trees were chopped down, their animals were killed, some of them were killed by Kit Carson and Charlton, and they were taken to Bosco Redondo, they were marched, the Navajos today call it the Long Walk. Can you imagine for a moment, the Navajos saying, oh, well, there's a man who wants to bring back the principles of Abraham Lincoln, the man who caused us all of our problems, who stole our land, who killed our women and raped our women. Yes, we want a government just like that again, could you help me please? Can you even imagine that? If you can't, how can you imagine a Southerner, a rebel, wanting the government of Abraham Lincoln to be brought back, and embracing the man who made such a promise? Has the people who call themselves supporters, they are doing more to harm this country than anything in the image and the heritage of the people of the South. I cannot imagine sitting down, and I think of my ancestors, I think of Montreville Ray, my grandfather's uncle, his mother's brother, and also his father's brother, Captain William Gaddy of the 38th North Carolina, or George Washington Gaddy of the 38th Georgia, who died at Shepherdstown or Antietam, whichever one you like to use. I just, I can't imagine them, if I had to sit down and explain to them why I could vote for a man like Donald Trump, who said he would bring back the government, the ideals, the philosophy of Abraham Lincoln. I can't even imagine trying to explain to them. And so I am still perplexed at how these people who call themselves Southern supporters, who call themselves supporters of the Confederacy and the ideals of the Confederacy, embracing a man who wanted to bring back the ideals of Abraham Lincoln. Now hopefully you might learn to understand my passion for this subject, because as a four decade student of history, especially from original source documents, I can make this statement with no reservations whatsoever. And that would be that the South, the men who left their homes, left their families, and left the people they loved to go off and to fight a war, not because of slavery, but because their homeland was being invaded. Lincoln ordered up an army to invade the South without any constitutional provisions for doing so. And so in my mind, the last people to ever bear a weapon to defend liberty and justice and freedom were the men of the gray in 1861 to 1865. And there was a quote, and I'm trying to think which Confederate general said it, but nothing could be more true. The Confederacy did not lose, they just wore themselves out fighting a despicable enemy. So that to me, and that is why Stonewall Jackson referred to it as our second war for independence, which it was. And it was our last war for independence, because even the Civil War was planned far in advance. Abraham Lincoln was making plans to provoke the South into armed conflict after his election, but before his inauguration. Those plans are easily found in the National Archives. He was already corresponding in secret to military commanders, including General Winfield Scott and others. He promoted and provoked the attack on Fort Sumter so that he would have the reason to go to war, just as FDR provoked an attack on Pearl Harbor so that he could go to war. And just so the same as so many other in American history, those provoked attacks or made up attacks like the Gulf of Tonkin incident by a corrupt government. I do not believe that regardless of what political figurehead you would like to place at its helm, I do not believe for one moment that the philosophies of Abraham Lincoln have ever left the government of Washington, D.C. It has never happened. That is still the government of Lincoln. So Trump was not going to return anyone to the government of Lincoln. They still do the same things they did under his administration. They just do it quieter and with less intensity, but they still invade the states. And that happened both in Arkansas and in Alabama when they sent federal troops into those states to support integration, which was completely and totally unconstitutional according to Article 4. But if you can take your crimes and wrap them in the cloaks of, what can we say, good intentions. If you can say, oh, well, we invaded the states of Arkansas with 101st Airborne, ordered by Dwight David Eisenhower. We invaded the state to enforce integration. We have a right to do despicable, unconstitutional things for our perceived moral reasons. Once we ever cross that Rubicon to where the government can do anything it wants to for what it considers moral reasons, we as a people are lost. Of course, going back to the founding of this country, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 gives the federal government the right to do anything they deem necessary and proper. But sometimes, again, you have to cloak it in the robes of morality to get the people to go along with your crimes. It's a lot easier to convince your neighbor to run down the street and kill the guy at the end of the block if you can convince him or her that they were sexually abusive to your children. Then you would be more than happy to do it. But what do you do? How do you handle it when you realize you did all of that perpetrated on a lie? How do you deal with that? How's the American soldier dealing with the fact that they have been duped into going to war? Vietnam veterans, Korean veterans, Iraq war veterans, Afghanistan war veterans, people, why are there 22 American soldiers a day taking their own lives? Heroes don't kill themselves for what they did to become a hero. Now, I know that one's going to be a little tough for people to swallow, but it's true. And nobody wants to examine. You're not going to get Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity or Mark Levin to actually delve into why these soldiers continue to take their own lives. It's not going to happen because the answers they can't allow to be revealed to the American public. This country is rotten to its very core, and yet people keep running out there to vote someone else in. It's like voting in a new dealer to a crooked game or voting in a new assassin, believing that the one that you elected will not do what the government told them they must do to continue to be paid. Let me just use some quotes here to go back to the points about the South and the South being the last struggle for rightful liberty in this country. So I will use some quotes from some Confederates, and I will start with none other than Robert Edward Lee, and this is the most profound quote, in my opinion. And it is, and I quote, And which justified her struggle for these principles, unquote. Again, Robert E. Lee. And then from the London Times in November 7, 1861, and the London Times nailed it. They said, unquote. And a great quote again from Robert E. Lee. Unquote. That is just absolutely correct and has proven to be correct. So a man who is correct and tells the truth must have his monuments torn down, and he must be labeled some vicious name like a racist. What did President Jefferson Davis say? And I quote, The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. But the human mind will always seek freedom, people. That last part was mine, not Jefferson Davis's. Also another quote from Jefferson Davis. Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure. I would do it all over again. I'm sorry. That was again President Jefferson Davis. I think I said Robert E. Lee. But then again, what Jefferson Davis said to the Mississippi legislature in 1881 is most relevant, people. And I quote, The contest is not over. The strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena, unquote. And we're fighting today. And we have enemies within our camp who swear allegiance to Republicans and their principles. Again from Jefferson Davis, and I quote, We feel that our cause is just and holy. We protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honor and independence. We ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the states with which we were lately confederated. All we ask is to be left alone. That those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms. And he said that in April of 1861. And that is exactly what Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump's Abraham Lincoln, did. And then we look at another quote by Robert E. Lee. All that the South has ever desired was that the union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth, unquote. I sure hope he was talking about the Articles of Confederation. If he was meaning the Constitution, he was unaware of its origins and its purposes. He also said we could have pursued no other course without dishonor. And as sad as the results have been, if it had all to be done over again, we should be compelled to act in precisely the same manner. So, yes. And one of the quotes from one of my true heroes, the Stonewall of the West, the good Irishman, Major General Patrick R. Claiborne. And he made this statement in January of 1864. Nothing have I ever read was more profound than this and what a prognosticator the good general was. And he said, and I quote, Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late. It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy. That our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers. Will learn from Northern school books their version of the war. Will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision. It is said slavery is all we are fighting for. And if we give it up, we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government. And to deprive us of our rights and liberties. Unquote. I'm waiting for someone to prove him wrong. And again, back to the wonderful pastor, the Presbyterian Pastor Robert Louis Dabney. And who I said before was a chaplain for Stonewall Jackson. And what a wonderful quote. Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead. See to it that they have no reason to be ashamed of you. Now what did the other side say? What did Chief Justice at that time of the Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase, say in 1867? Very telling, and I quote. If you bring these Confederate leaders to trial, it will condemn the North. For by the Constitution, secession is not rebellion. Lincoln wanted Davis to escape, and he was right. His capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one. Oh, what a... And then that's Salmon P. Chase, who would later sit in a Supreme Court decision, Texas v. White, and completely reverse what he just said here. A double-minded man. I think that's covered in the good book, is it not? Then we have another quote from General Robert E. Lee in August of 1870 to Governor Stockdale of Texas, in which he said, Governor, if I had foreseen the use of those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. No, sir. Not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to have died at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand, unquote. Then let's jump back to the London Spectator, in reference to Lincoln's wonderful Emancipation Proclamation. And I quote, And then there's Charles Dickens. And his quote, Then let's look at a quote from Colonel Richard Henry Lee of the Confederate States of America. And he said, As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the charge and denounce it as a colony. We were not rebels. We did not fight to perpetrate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes. That was just great. And then let's look at what President Jefferson Davis had to say about slaves. And I quote, And I quote, A slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave, unquote. Well, now let's delve into the fact that Abraham Lincoln and his wonderful Union Army, throughout the contraband camps of the South, actually probably murdered somewhere between six to 700,000 to probably as many as a million Negroes who had crossed the lines, gone into Union lines, and submitted themselves to the Union Army, where they were starved, done without clothing, done without food, done without shelter, all of this, all of this, to destroy the Southern cause. So probably more blacks died at the hands of Abraham Lincoln and his army than did Confederate soldiers. I know that's going to be a tough one for so many people to swallow. But that is verifiable, folks, and you won't hear anyone talking about the contraband camps that the Union Army had. That is not a subject they want to bring up, especially when you look into the Devil's Punchbowl in Mississippi. That one will just absolutely grab you by the heart. Well, let's look at another quote by the wonderful General Wade Hampton, and I quote, And I quote, Then let's look at another one from the old Wizard of the Saddle himself, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and his quote, I do not hate it. I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on God's earth, men who would not hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view, to enrich themselves. Their folks in a capsule is the definition of the people who led and formed the Republican Party. And then a great quote from the wonderful Stonewall. Quote, Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave. Now where do we see any such wisdom in the quotes of Union generals? What about Colonel John Singleton Mosby, who operated within view of Washington D.C. for almost two years, pretty much unmolested. He had some close calls, but he did one heck of a job. But anyway, let's look at his quote. Our poor country has fallen a prey to the conqueror. The noblest cause ever defended by the sword has been lost. The noble dead that sleep in their shallow, though honored graves, are far more fortunate than those who survive. I thought I had sounded the profoundest depth of human feeling, but this is the bitterest hour of my life. And then, nothing would be complete without going over a quote from Major General John Gordon that is found in his book, Causes of the Civil War, which I would recommend to everyone who has a yearning for the truth. And I quote, So for all of you ignorant folks out there who say, oh, the war was about slavery, General Gordon was exactly right. At the very beginning, the people of the South could have rescinded their secession documents and gone back, because the Yankee government under Lincoln had sent through Congress, and it was approved by both houses, and had been sent to the states for ratification, where two states had already ratified what was called the Corwin Amendment, which would have put slavery out of the reach of Congress and put slavery in effect in perpetuity. It would never have ended had the South just simply said, OK, yeah, we want slavery, let us back in, because then they would have had it. And then, as much as I dislike him in many ways, I would quote Winston Churchill, and he said, The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history. Thank you, Mr. Churchill, because nothing could be more true. And then, the black slave of Robert E. Lee, William Mack Lee, and he said, and I quote, I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than General Robert E. Lee, according to my judgment. All of his servants were set free ten years before the war, but all remained on the plantation until after the surrender. There's the original source, the man who was there. Then, I would like to throw it to a quote from Sir William Wallace. You probably remember the movie Braveheart, Mel Gibson, but here is the quote from 1281, when he said, and I quote, Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history, or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction, unquote. And folks, we are living and staring that destruction in the face right now. I don't know of any better way to end today's Whistling Dixie than with that very quote. Thanks, everyone. As I promised in the very beginning of these new ones, that I would attempt to keep them around one hour in length, and we are now just a bit over that. I thank you so very much, and please, whatever you do, do not succumb to the temptation to become a Rhino or a Sino or a Sino. Do not become a rebel in name only. Do not become a Republican at all. Don't become a Democrat either, because they're far more evil. Don't become either one. Be yourself. Be an individual. Claim the rights of an individual. You don't need a damn political party to do that, but you do need guts. And so far, as everything I can see, they are in extremely short supply. Battle cry of freedom. I wish I could hear it on the lips of more people. Instead of the adoration of government. People, how can you give up freedom? How can you give it up? Not for you. How can you give up freedom for those children, those grandchildren? How can you do it? Thanks everyone. I appreciate you taking the time to actually listen to this old crazy rebel. And I promise you, I will never be a rebel in name only, and I will never be a Confederate in name only. My prayer is that you don't either. Down with the eagle, up with the cross.
