Whistlin Dixie XXX

The transcription discusses the heritage of the South during the Civil War and challenges some commonly held beliefs. It mentions that the South was primarily composed of Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants who came to America to escape English oppression. It also argues that African slaves were generally well-treated in the South compared to the North. The transcription recommends reading two books that provide a different perspective on the issue. It then delves into the history of the Republican Party and its connection to socialist and atheist immigrants from Europe. It suggests that these immigrants played a significant role in Abraham Lincoln's election and the formation of the Union Army. Overall, it challenges traditional narratives about Southern heritage and the Civil War. ლელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელე� ლელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელელ� well welcome folks to Whistlin Dixie number 30 and today I hope to delve into the thoughts of heritage what was the southern heritage and what was the northern heritage during that period improperly known as the Civil War because it was in actuality our second war for independence and so we need to get into properly properly understanding exactly what heritage is so the heritage of the majority of the people from the south my people were you know there were some Germans thrown in there were some others thrown in but the primarily the south was composed of the Irish the Scots Irish and the Scots and a lot of people will find problems differentiating between those but you know to try to give you just a little bit of background the Scots who had moved into the Ulster area of Ireland are commonly known as the Scots Irish why the Scots are just simply Scots and then there's the Highland Scots so there are several different meanings or what would we call it you know tribes if you would if you know just to throw it out there the tribes of these people but they had come to America to escape the very you know destruction of what they felt like was their freedom and their individual rights by England and folks these were a hardy folks these folks don't give up they didn't give up because if we look at the Scots they fought a 500 year war against England because of the English oppression and the English form of government and their mercantile system which basically made everyone in the country slaves to the government sound familiar well anyway these Irish and Scots Irish they moved down the Great Wagon Road of the Appalachians and in other areas and moved into the south and inhabited the south and yes people they owned slaves they did but most of them were agrarian they were not industrialized and if we go back and look at the records today that can be found at the University of South Carolina it will show that in surveys after the war when blacks were asked how many were mistreated over 84% of the blacks who were questioned and this goes all the way into the 1930s under FDR but they stated in many occasions that they were very well treated and Alexis de Tocqueville said in his book on democracy he stated that and having toured both the north and the south he stated that the black man was much more well treated in the south as a slave than he was in the north as a free man and he goes into quite the contrast there and I think that is something if you folks get a chance you should read because he says you know that many times the black and the white shared church they shared meals they shared other things while in the north that was forbidden by their state constitutions and of course we aren't taught this but the other point that I want to bring into this before I get delve deep into the workings here is the fact you know that the south if you will you know yes owned slaves but the north had slaves and they sold slaves that was a great economy for them the sale and shipping of slaves and let's not forget that the British banking industry in the north operating through their agents within the colonies were financing the sale of slaves so they were making money hand over fist shipping and transporting slaves and then after that to actually finance the slaves and we just aren't taught this but that is true and a couple of books I would like for you folks to take the time to read if you haven't added them to your library I would highly suggest that you do and number one is a is a book that was written by three Connecticut investigative reporters now pay heed there they were not southerners they were not rednecks they were not hillbillies and as best we can tell they were not racist by any shape form or fashion but they wrote a book called complicity how the north promoted prolonged and profited from slavery and they go into some great detail and one of the authors of that one Anne Barrow made this statement and I'm paraphrasing not a direct quote but she made the statement that as she traveled around promoting that book after it was published that the common question she received from almost every audience she addressed was why didn't we know this well to answer her the question that was given to her it should be obvious that's because the victors write the history books and usually they're full of lies to protect the crimes of the victors and so that is much to be true but folks if you will read that book and go into it and look at all of the details that these three Yankee authors put together in their book it is quite telling and then the second book and then I'm going to jump into particulars here but the second book that I would ask you to please read would be the word works of a one-time senator I think he was involved in the Defense Department others and a veteran named James Webb and a book that he wrote called born fighting and that's a story of the Irish especially and the Scots Irish and the Scots and especially as it relates to the south and I'm going to throw a couple of quotes from that work at you post haste now again folks these are quotes from James Webb and his work called born fighting how the Scots Irish shaped America and so I will proceed with a few quotes and here is the first one quote they came with nothing and for a complicated set of reasons many of them still have nothing the slurs against my people stick to me standing out on those graves rednecks trailer park trash racist cannon fodder my ancestors my people me unquote what a fantastic quote man I love that one and then here to follow up with another one from Senator Webb and he said former Senator Webb he said the consequence of this reality was that in virtually every major battle of the Civil War Confederate soldiers who did not own slaves were fighting against a proportion of Union Army soldiers who had never been asked to give theirs up unquote and another one if I may please quote but to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than a symbol of a racist heritage is one of the greatest blasphemies of our modern age unquote and then I find this one very relevant and he said and I quote the Northern Army was most often run like a business solving a problem the Southern Army was run like a family confronting a human crisis unquote man that one goes right to the core so and he goes on in many ways and so I would ask you to please pick up that book as well and it was you know I wanted to look at one more if I can find that one here post haste I don't want to take up too much of your time he wrote you know a great book called Fields of Fire talking about his Vietnam experience and that is also very very well done but that's not pertaining to the subject that I'm dealing with here today and so we look at our heritage and what is the heritage of the south of the southern combat soldier from 1861 to 1865 what is the difference in the southern heritage and the northern heritage well I guess we probably should just best jump into that should we not so get ready folks because it is a deep dive so here's the thing that we need to know is number one that the Republican Party that came to prominence formed in 1854 had their first political candidate for president in 1856 which would be John C. Fremont in essence an avowed socialist and then you know they came up with Abraham Lincoln who was obviously clearly a Marxist but let's talk first and foremost about why that we had this great influx of immigrants into America which is it's like echo echo echo we're looking at it again here comes the same thing and I predict it will be with the same results but after the failed socialist revolutions of 1848 across the European continent we may say many German English Hungarian even Bavarians flocked to the United States having been banned from their homelands for treason but now the thing we have to remember is the majority of these people coming in were atheists and ironically because of that and you can understand why with the southern being heavy into the Christian faith you can understand why almost all of them went to the north and because in the north we had two churches the Transcendentalist and the Unitarians which were preaching anti-christianity and they were preaching humanism and so there was an immediate bond between them and the people who were coming in people who were coming in and ironically they all became ardent supporters of the Republican Party now most people and you're not going to get the Republicans to admit this but at the first GOP convention one of the main objectives was to and I quote to make sure that Puritans and native-born Americans do not control this party so who is it the party of what is their heritage it's not the American heritage of the Revolutionary War it's not the American principle of no taxation without representation and it's not the Scotch Irish fight against the British mercantile system well these Germans who were the largest with the greatest numbers actually contributed the greatest to Abraham Lincoln's election now Frederick Ingalls who was very very close to Karl Marx and he stated and here's a quote had it not been for the experienced soldiers who had entered America after the 1848 European Revolution especially from Germany the organization of the Union Army would have taken much longer than it did unquote folks there Ingalls himself is admitting that the Marxist were the builders if you will of the Union Army of Abraham Lincoln well that first GOP convention in Ripon Wisconsin included 19 German American delegates and many of them were close personal friends with Karl Marx and Ingalls Frederick Ingalls in fact that GOP platform included protection of voting rights for get this people foreign-born citizens and promotion of the Homestead Act under the nickname of the Dutch planks or German planks now Lincoln this is something we certainly aren't taught Lincoln was so enamored with these Germans and knew that to help him become president he needed their support even though they were not eligible to vote they did many of them thousands tens of thousands of them were said okay you can vote if you will promise to become a US citizen and then of course they were put into the Union Army and in vast numbers but Lincoln valued that German support or the communist support or the Marxist support so much that he himself secretly purchased a German newspaper and it was called the Illinois Stats Anziger I hope I pronounced that correctly I probably didn't but he bought that before he was actually even elected president in fact just about all of the German Marxist folks were at some point in time journalists for newspapers in the United States somehow it was the default vocation for Marxist socialist now isn't that true today I mean how far do we have to delve into this to actually get to that but you know there were so many and I'm just going to tell you a couple here one Frederick Hassereck from Vienna edited a German newspaper in Cincinnati and he campaigned heavily for John C. Fremont in 1856 and then he became a diplomat to Ecuador under Abraham Lincoln administration and then we'll look at a Julius Stahl a Hungarian revolutionary became the US consul to Japan and Shanghai after serving under James C. Fremont in the Union Army as a general now why are these friends of Marx made generals in the US Army and other high-ranking officers which we're going to get into in detail here in a few minutes but Fremont's chief of staff was Alexander Asboth A-S-B-O-T-H who was also from Hungary he went on to become a US diplomat to Argentina in fact Fremont was so connected with socialism judging from the men he surrounded himself then absolutely one can only deduce that Fremont was a socialist and I believe that he was and also the commander and this is critical and at some time I want to do a study on this the commander of Fort Delaware which was a notorious Union prison camp in which captured Confederates were tortured and killed was a Hungarian revolutionary named Albin Francisco Schopf S-C-H-O-E-P-H now why did Lincoln put someone like that into command of a prison camp and this man Schopf even bragged at one point in time that he had killed more Confederates than any battlefield commander let's also look at another one of these Marxist and that was Loures Brentano and he became a senator from Illinois and served as the US ambassador to Dresden Germany many of the early Republican Marxist leaders were not foreign we have to we have to accept that as well John C Fremont as we mentioned several times was a Marxist Senator John Sherman was William Tecumseh Sherman's brother but both of them General Sherman especially was on a list of approved communist imagine that and we wonder about all of his raping pillaging and killing well he was an approved communist it's okay right and then how could we ever forget a Charles A Dana and Lincoln himself had said that Dana was the eyes of his administration he was also the assistant secretary of war and a very very close friend of both Marx and Engels now Horace Greeley who was himself a professed communist hired Dana as an editor for his paper the New York Tribune the paper which had the largest circulation in America over 200,000 and this also included Karl Marx as his premier columnist and Karl Marx wrote over 5,000 I'm sorry 500 editorials during the time of the so-called Civil War and afterwards so here you know folks we have to be able to see here the fact of actually what is the heritage of this Union Army well it certainly doesn't have anything to do with peace rightful liberty and freedom does it no Marxist ever believes in that so let's take a look at a few more of these Marxist and how they had infiltrated the Union Army now here's a question and I gotta ask it again why was Abraham Lincoln taking these men when they were Americans true Americans why was he taking these foreigners and putting them into such great positions of authority in the Union Army number one in my opinion would be Union General Franz Siegel S-I-G-E-L and he had been a leader of the Communist Revolution of 1848 a revolution fought to destroy the individual state governments of Germany ding ding ding ding does that have anything to do with our Second War for Independence and Siegel wanted to forcibly unite Germany under an all-powerful central socialist government you know kind of like ours now thanks to some inept leadership part of it provided by the young Siegel the revolution in Europe failed and Siegel along with tens of thousands of what we call 48ers fled Europe and headed for the northern United States but they did they whatever they left behind they brought their Marxist socialist ideas with them to America now during the war Siegel General Siegel's soldiers declared I fight mit Siegel and after his disastrous retreat at the Battle of Wilson's Creek the Confederates made up a song to ridicule him but I'm not going to go into that but Ralph Waldo Emerson which we've probably all heard of was a Massachusetts Yankee but he was also an avowed transcendentalist and he absolutely hated the South and he wrote so approvingly of Franz Siegel and the other Union Marxists that I quote this revolution has a feature new to history that of socialism unquote well let's look at another one Karl Schurz s-h-u-r-z and he had met Karl Marx at the Democratic Club in Cologne Germany Schurz later went on to deliver the votes of over 300,000 German immigrants to Lincoln in 1860 how do you think he won the election folks without those where would he have been without the people who shouldn't have even been allowed to vote now because of his because of Schurz's actions Lincoln rewarded him with an appointment as an ambassador to Spain but war broke out just before he left for Spain so Lincoln begged him to stay and no he first asked him to go anyway but then he wanted to keep him as a military leader but while he was in Spain Schurz concluded one that the possibility of Europe recognizing the Confederacy was real and he let Lincoln know that and number two that Lincoln should declare a war crusade against slavery well guess what he did two years into the war it was Schurz's ideas and influence that led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation a war measure which freed no one I don't care what you've been taught down at your communist schools but folks how many people are aware that there were actual Marxist communist communities in the north and in the Midwest throughout the 1850s there was Fruitlands at Concord Massachusetts the Owenite community of New Harmony Indiana the various Ammonite communities in Iowa and Emerson's own personal favorite communitarian was Foyer who inspired a number of communist utopian communities and he became the spiritual leader for my friend Greeley the editor of the New York Tribune well we all should be well acquainted with the role of Greeley in his newspaper the New York Tribune but we're not but many also don't know that the Tribune had avidly covered the Revolution of 1848 in a positive manner and had frequently employed as I mentioned before Karl Marx as an editorialist in fact Marx and Engels book the Civil War in the United States consists of many of those articles and dispatches from the New York Tribune in those pieces the two primary founders of communism fret over every Union setback but cheer every Union army advance now there was another communist community in the Midwest that was Communia Iowa and it was founded by a German immigrant named Wilhelm Weitling W-E-I-T-L-E-I-N-G who had been one of the principal revolutionary figures in Europe as a leader of the communist organization which came to be known as the League of the Just coming to America after the Revolution he involved himself in a number of Marxist causes including I don't know if I can pronounce this right Arbeiterbund a German workers association and in Communia in Iowa his life and his entire projections were detailed in his biography and the title of that is if you get a chance read it is called the Utopian Communist by Karl Wittke and it shows a great illustration of the communist revolutionary principles that were brought to America into the years leading up to what we now call the wall of northern aggression the war between the states and our second war of independence you can have your civil war but I believe totally that I would be remiss if I didn't mention a couple of other of these wonderful socialist Marxist communist whatever you want to call them who became generals in a union army one of them was called Alexander von and I'm gonna have to spell this one for you folks I would definitely mispronounce this one spelling the last name S-C-H-I-M-M-E-L-F-E-N-N-I-G was a German revolutionary and he again was appointed to a generalship by none other than Abraham Lincoln so was General Max von Weber W-E-B-E-R who had served as a colonel under Siegel in the communist revolution in the in Europe and so too was Karl Leopold Matthias of Iowa spelling last name M-A-T-T-H-I-E-S now in the lower ranks this is where it really gets interesting in the lower ranks in the Union Army the former Marxist revolutionaries now being Marxist revolutionaries in another country were greatly represented now let me read you a list and it's not going to be conclusive I mean not total because there are many more than what I am going to tell you but if I were to read the whole list we would take probably a three-hour podcast but among these Marxist socialists in the Union Army were Lieutenant Colonel Karl Gottfried Frudenberg who had led insurgents at the age of 15 in an engagement near Mannheim and the Austrian Ernest Fatz F-A-H-T-Z who became Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Maryland there was also Dr. Friedrich Hecker who had been a leader in the Baden Germany rebellion another was Colonel George von Amsberg who had been a leader in the socialist communist revolution in Hungary Adolf Dingler a Baden revolution veteran was the colonel of the 43rd Illinois Colonel Joseph Gerhardt Karl Eberhardt Solomon Wilhelm Hein Conrad Kreitz Henry Flad Fritz Anneke Franz Mahler Adolf von Hartung Edward Kopf August Mercy Friedrich Parchner Franz Wütschel Rudolf von Rosa and others are just touching the surface of these people who were there all of them were avowed Marxist all of them were Union officers there were at least 50 of these men who were majors and that is the research might be a little on the short side but most of them were from the Midwestern states where Marxist had a real hold on the government Ohio Illinois Missouri Iowa and Wisconsin now if we get down to what we would call the boots on the ground the enlisted men the ones who do most of the fighting there were many of them who saw service in the Revolutionary Armies in New York City alone thousands of these Marxists volunteered immediately after Fort Sumter New York State had 10 purely German regiments during the war the New York German regiments included the Steuben rifles Blinker's 8th New York the Aster rifles the German rifles number five the Schwarzenegger and the German rifles number three Blinker's regiment was reviewed by General Winfield Scott and Lincoln in June of 1861 and Winfield Scott called them the very best regiment we now have so folks when have you ever been taught about all of the Marxist that in essence made up a great amount or a large portion of Lincoln's army and it is here is something to really contemplate the great majority of German-born officers and men in the Union Army folks should be overwhelming to almost any true believer of American history it is estimated that in 1860 there were approximately 1,204,000 and 75 Germans in the northern states during the war approximately another 100,000 entered the United States that would create a total of about 1,300,000 Marxist living in the Union during the war years it is calculated that about 118,402 would have been subject to military service the number who actually served and there's lots of different sources so I'm just going to make a roundabout is over well over 200,000 this means that the Germans were over German Marxist were over represented by nearly 100,000 men of the total of those serving at least 36,000 of these men served under their own Marxist officers if the total number of German troops would be assumed to be that 216,000 figure then actually the number of foreign-born troops in the Union Army was well over half a million and that would tell us that one in every four Union troops was a foreigner and that the foreigner was as apt to be Marxist as not that just bears you know such a thing that we have never been taught before but it bears out many of the Confederate letters back home which stated that they believe they were fighting not the Union Army of the United States but an army of Hessians. Do we have any relation with that back to Revolutionary War? I think so and so an interesting phenomenon if we could in 1860 was what was called the Wide Awake Club movement. Now these were paramilitary German and Scandinavian Republican Party organizations founded purposely to promote Lincoln's election and his support. A Wide Awake Club was founded in Washington DC and in just three days signed up over 50 members the majority of whom were German Jews. Imagine that. A large number of German language newspapers were published throughout the Union not one in the south but particularly in the Midwest. Now there was the Illinois Staatszeitung which was virulently anti-southern and an ironic twist on the modern-day southern swastika slander. That newspaper coined a term for the Confederate flag and it's called the Klapperscheineflag, I can't pronounce these German words need my son-in-law to do that for me, the rattlesnake flag. Throughout the war this newspaper spewed forth hate for the South that was just as damning as anything coming out of New England. Now many historians up to today have said and written and what-have-you that the foreign-born vote in the upper Midwest decided the outcome of the 1860 election. For example in a widely quoted essay in the American Historical Review in July of 1911 and it was titled quote the fight for the Northwest in 1860 William Dodd analyzed the 1860 vote and he concluded that the Republicans made a concerted effort to win over the votes of all new immigrants through their support of high tariffs and free homesteads. In addition you know that old 1860 moniker vote yourself a farm well in addition to this Marxist ideologizing I'll get it right one of these days Dodd wrote that Indiana Illinois and Iowa would have given their electoral votes to Douglas but for the support of the Marxist Germans and other foreign citizens led by Carl Schurz, Gustav Kerner, K-O-E-R-N-E-R, and the editors of the Statue of Chicago. I know I didn't pronounce that right either please forgive me. He concluded that one voter in 20 switched from Lincoln to Douglas. Lincoln would have lost that had that happened just one in 20 Lincoln would have lost the upper Midwest and therefore he would have lost the election. Dodd concluded that the election of Lincoln and as it turned out the fate of the Union and of the entire country were thus determined not by native-born Americans but by voters who knew the very least of American history and any of their institutions. Now folks I don't know how more pointed that can become than that right there that the election of 1860 was led by foreigners and even at that Lincoln got less than 40% of the popular vote but I believe we have established to this point with all of these Marxist generals Wiedemeyer, Schurz, Siegel, and all of the others I believe we have established their heritage and the heritage of the Union Army and the heritage of what would become America after that war post-civil war was Marxist and it still is it's never changed. Why do the Republicans continue to demand that they be called the party of Lincoln? Why did Obama when asked who his favorite president was not even hesitate for a second and say Abraham Lincoln? Why did Hillary Clinton say sorry Bill but my favorite president was Abraham Lincoln? Why did Donald Trump state in 2016 I intend to bring this country back to the principles of Abraham Lincoln? And lately in the past few weeks he has brought up Lincoln incessantly. I don't know what it's going to take to wake up enough Americans but I'm going to jump in here to the heredity of the southerner. The heredity of the men who would put down everything and go to fight against another invasion of Marxism and socialism just as they had witnessed in Europe and their ancestors had witnessed in Europe. Well folks if we sit down today and we start talking about the truths of history and we know that the victors write the history and it's almost all lies because they have to cover the crimes that were committed. But probably what most of them would say would be this that America had been founded by a noble freedom and these equality loving patriots and then that that noble event had been saved by other great patriots fighting against a wicked rebellion of traitors seeking only to preserve the un-American institution of slavery. Now how that honestly folks that is what most people today that is the scenario that they believe because they have been taught this at school for years upon years upon years they have seen it on television they have heard it in the news or read it in the news heard it on TV they've heard it from the pulpit of the 501c3 churches in this country who must support the government just like the churches of the south were forced to support the government under Reconstruction or they weren't allowed to exist and we have in effect again today folks the exact same dynamic I just can't understand why that people refuse to look at the truths of history but anyway let's get into the heritage of some of these wonderful southerners not the northerners whose heritage is Karl Marx and Joseph Engels not them these are what the heritage of our true southern Confederate well the also the great professor Clyde Wilson emeritus from the University of South Carolina he has made different things you know different statements but I love this one here and he said and I quote you know your Confederate ancestors were not fighting for slavery but the people you are arguing with have no relevant ancestors their minds deal in abstractions not lived human experience they know and repeat on command what has been promulgated as the national mythology that Lincoln saved America saved the government of by and for the people and that the ideal that all men are created equal yes we've all heard that until you know it's absolutely absurd so I've blathered on and on here and now let's get down to the nitty-gritty and let's look at the connections that the South had what was the southern heritage well President Jefferson Davis was the son of a soldier in the American Revolution Confederate Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stevens was the grandson of a soldier in the Revolution General Robert E. Lee was the son of a cavalry general in the Revolution and the nephew of two signers of the Declaration of Independence his wife was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington Samuel Cooper jr. ranking general of the Confederate States of America was the son of a Revolutionary officer from Massachusetts he was born in New Jersey and appointed to West Point from New York his wife was the granddaughter of the Virginia Revolutionary statesman George Mason the man who said he would rather chop off his right hand and sign the Constitution her brother was the Confederate minister to Great Britain James M. Mason William Henry Chase who commanded the Florida state forces in the early days of the Confederacy was himself a native of Maine but he was also the great-nephew of John Hancock you remember that huge signer of the Declaration of Independence Brigadier General Highland B. Lyon of the Confederate States of America was born in Kentucky but his grandfather Matthew Lyon was a congressman from Vermont who was one of the few strong supporters of Jefferson in New England and was famous for having been prosecuted under the Sedition Act and re-elected while sitting in jail Brigadier General and the Secretary of War George W. Randolph was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson Confederate General James E. Slaughter was the grand-nephew of James Madison Major General Daniel S. Donaldson was the nephew of Andrew Jackson Brigadier General Lucius M. Walker was the nephew of former President James K. Polk Lieutenant General Richard Taylor was the son of General and President Zachary Taylor and the grandson of a Revolutionary officer Confederate Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk's father was a Revolutionary colonel as was his maternal grandfather Major General Matthew C. Butler was the nephew on his mother's side of the great Connecticut naval heroes Oliver H. Perry and Matthew Galbraith Perry Butler's wife was the great-granddaughter of the Revolutionary General Andrew Pickens a number of the early heroes of the US Navy were Southerners like Stephen Decatur most of the rest of the outstanding naval officers were from the Middle States and almost none from New England although New England was supposedly the most seafaring part of the Union the US Marine Corps from its very beginning to the war was mostly led and manned by Southerners after his experience before the mast Herman Melville author of Moby-Dick contrasted Southern Navy officers very favorably for their decency and fairness to all of those of lower ranks Confederate Major General David E. Twiggs was the son of General John Twiggs of the Revolution Brigadier General Hugh W. Mercer was the grandson of Revolutionary General Hugh Mercer Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnson of the Confederate States was the son of a Revolutionary Army Colonel Major General Benjamin Huger's grandfather was a Revolutionary officer and a friend of Lafayette Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton was descended from one of the prominent first settlers of Pennsylvania Brigadier General William Nelson Pendleton's forebears included Thomas Nelson Revolutionary Governor of Virginia and signer of the Declaration of Independence and Virginia and also Virginia Patriot Edmund Pendleton at least two grandsons and many other relatives of Patrick Henry served in the Confederate Army President John Tyler was a member of the Confederate Congress and his son Robert was treasurer of the Confederate States Lieutenant General Richard H. Anderson of the Confederate States was a grandson of a Revolutionary officer Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill was also the grandson of a Revolutionary officer Louis A. Washington a grandnephew of George Washington was one of the people slaughtered by John Brown on his raid on Harper's Ferry the father of General Edmund Kirby Smith of the Confederate States was a distinguished War of 1812 officer from Connecticut and his brother a colonel was killed in action during the Mexican War Major General Joseph B. Kershaw was the grandson of a Revolutionary officer Lieutenant General Wade Hampton's grandfather was a colonel in the Revolution and a general in the War of 1812 Brigadier General Humphrey Marshall was grandson of the first US senator from Kentucky Major General John C. Breckinridge beside being Vice President the United States had a grandfather who was an early senator from Kentucky and was a member of Jefferson's cabinet Brigadier General Turner Ashby's grandfather was an officer in the Revolution the father of Brigadier General William Carroll was a general in the War of 1812 Brigadier General Henry A. Wise was the son-in-law of John Sargent distinguished Pennsylvania political leader and a candidate for Vice President United States Brigadier General William Preston of the Confederate States was the grandson of two Revolutionary officers Brigadier General Bradley T. Johnson was the grandson of a Revolutionary officer John P. McClay the general of Louisiana State Forces for the Confederacy came from a family who were the leading Jeffersonians in western Pennsylvania including a senator from there Brigadier General Louis A. Armistead had a father and four uncles who fought in the War of 1812 Robert W. Johnson a member of the Confederate Congress from Arkansas was the nephew of Richard M. Johnson Vice President of the United States the father of Brigadier General Thomas F. Drayton was born in St. Augustine Florida where his family had been exiled because of their revolutionary activities during the war the New York Revolutionary War General William Henry's son Gustavus was a member of the Confederate Congress from Kentucky and his grandson was a Confederate colonel William R. Caswell a Confederate officer from Tennessee was the grandson of North Carolina Revolutionary War general and governor Richard Caswell the great American painter James McNeill Whistler though born in Massachusetts was a Confederate supporter which partly explains why he spent his life in Europe according to a recent biography of the Whistler his brother was a Confederate surgeon the words to the United States National Anthem was written by Francis Scott Key as we all know less known is that his grandson Francis Key Howard was one of the Marylanders imprisoned by Lincoln for having southern sympathies that's a crime it was back then it's a crime today in many places Howard was also the grandson of Colonel John Eager Howard commander of the famous Maryland line in the Revolutionary War another Francis Scott Key grandson was Richard Hammond Key a Confederate soldier who died in a Yankee prison camp folks that just really scratches the surface I could go on and on but the list of Confederate family connections to the American Revolution and to the early development of America could actually fill a book and that doesn't even including touching on the political and military leaders of the Confederacy who were themselves or whose close relatives were leaders prior to that war senators congressmen cabinet members jurists diplomats soldiers educators ministers and many many more folks I as we look at this and as you we think about it our country under Abraham Lincoln and after you know it was taken over by the Radical Republicans after he was assassinated by his own cabinet our country went total Marxist and as I've said before it has been Marxist ever since so if you want to be critical of the South and call them slave owners why are you not critical of the North who were the slave sellers and as James Webb said in his book on born fighting he made the statement that many and I believe I read it earlier but I think it bears repeating that many of the Southerners went to war and didn't own slaves the vast majority did not own slaves that's documented but yet they went to war against a group of Union soldiers who had never been asked to give up their slaves it's when we look at heritage would we rather have the men who were heavily involved in the actual revolution of bringing America that kind of heritage or do we want the heritage of Karl Marx Abraham Lincoln and the Socialist Empire well you know one of the things I will always remember and I know many of you have heard Russians refer to their country as mother Russia well that really kind of hit home with me when I was having a discussion with my grandfather once and I told him I just absolutely cannot understand Paul that why even people when you sit down and show them documented evidence about what actually happened in this country both in the founding era and also during our Second War of Independence you just get that they walk off and leave you they don't want to believe it you know they just can't accept it it's not comfortable for them and they can't accept it and going back to the Russian theory that mother Russia I will always remember my grandfather's response and it was so to the point but it hit me rather hard took me a while to figure out exactly what he had just said but when I said Paul these people just will not accept the truth about the founding of this country and they will not accept the truth about our Second War for Independence I said I can't understand that and he looked at me and he said well boy ain't nobody wants to believe that their mama's a whore and people the American government following its Marxist tradition is a whore and the American government could care less about what happens to you there are multitudes of examples how many people have they sent off to die in wars and what did the Marxist turn the United States military into what did they turn it into after they raped pillage burned their way across the South they turned their attention on the American Indian did the same thing to them and then when you look at the war atrocities committed by American forces through how many wars now all but it's just collateral damage they shouldn't have been there yeah right if they would have had that phrase back in 1860 through 1865 for the Yankee soldiers they would have said oh well you know those southerners just should not have been there you know they're collateral damage sorry they got killed but you know that's the way the cookie crumbles so what we have here folks is I hope a background of what is the heritage of the United States government and it's pure Marxist and what is the heritage of the South that would have been one of freedom and right for liberty and we have to ask ourselves why have so many of the people of this country affiliated themselves with the Marxist lot why do they continue to stand by the Marxist lie and folks the one thing that I don't think I can emphasize strongly enough is I believe it was Napoleon who said history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme and I think what we are seeing now with this buildup of immigrants being brought into this country with Dick Durbin the senator from Illinois saying oh we've got to put these people in uniform so they can become US citizens and you know the hypocrite Mark Levin saying it's time to bring back the principles of Abraham Lincoln ironically Donald Trump said the same thing I'm afraid that we are staring right down the barrel folks of a repeat of what happened to this country in 1860 through 65 and then reconstruction because folks without a doubt if this tyrannical Marxist government is to succeed the freedom-loving liberty-loving rightful liberty-cherishing portion of this country primarily the white population must be defeated and it must be driven or exterminated so folks have the courage that it takes to stand for truth and don't embrace the comfortable lie if you can folks please go to michaelgatti.substack.com and 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