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"Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns, and battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles." General Robert E. Lee "All that the
South has ever desired is that the Robert
E. Lee "I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone." Patrick Cleburne, Confederate General "It is stated in books and papers that Southern children read and study that all the blood shedding and destruction of property of that conflict was because the South rebelled without cause against the best government the world ever saw; that although Southern soldiers were heroes in the field, skillfully massed and led, they and their leaders were rebels and traitors who fought to overthrow the Union, and to preserve human slavery, and that their defeat was necessary for free government and the welfare of the human family. "As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the charge, and denounce it as a calumny. We were not rebels; we did not fight to perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes." Richard Henry Lee, Confederate Colonel ________________________________________________________________ POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS Any story sounds true until someone tells the other side and sets the record straight. Proverbs 18:17 "Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again." Jefferson Davis "Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell “1984” "The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency." Adolf Hitler "If a lie is large enough, everyone will believe it." Adolf Hitler "Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history, and denies them their symbols, has sewn the seed of its own destruction." Sir William Wallace, 1281 "No nation can long survive without pride in its traditions." Winston Churchill _________________________________________________________ "The H.L. Mencken "The contest is really for empire on the side of the North and for independence on that of the South." "If I could save the Abraham Lincoln "If the South had only wanted to protect slavery, all
they had to do was go along with the original 13th Amendment, offered in
early 1861 after several states had seceded, which would have protected slavery
for all time in the states where it then existed. This was not inducement
enough to bring Charlie Lott, historian "The Union government liberates the enemy's
slaves as it would the enemy's cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict.
The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that
he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation Proclamation "The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862 "Under Federal Legislation, the exports of the South have been the basis of the Federal Revenue. Virginia, the two Carolina's, and Georgia, may be said to defray three fourths of the annual expense of supporting the Federal Government; and of this great sum, annually furnished by them, nothing or next to nothing is returned to them, in the shape of government expenditures. That expenditure flows in the opposite direction - it flows North, in one uniform, uninterrupted and perennial stream. This is why wealth disappears from the South and rises up in the North. Federal legislation does this." Senator Thomas Hart "I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?" Abraham Lincoln "In saving the Abraham Lincoln "What then will become of my tariff?" Abraham Lincoln to the a Virginia compromise delegation, March 1861 They (the South) know that it is their import trade that draws from the people's pockets sixty or seventy millions of dollars per annum, in the shape of duties, to be expended mainly in the North, and in the protection and encouragement of Northern interest . . . These are the reasons why these people do not wish the South to secede from the Union. They (the North) are enraged at the prospect of being despoiled of the rich feast upon which they have so long fed and fattened, and which they were just getting ready to enjoy with still greater gout and gusto. They are as mad as hornets because the prize slips them just as they are ready to grasp it." "The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty. Karl Marx, 1861 "The assertion that the South fought for slavery is Yankee propaganda and a monstrous distortion." Jefferson Davis ________________________________________________________________ "The past is not dead. It isn't even past." William Faulkner "Southerners can never resist a losing cause." Margaret Mitchell "I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life." Julian Bond "I like the South because of the people. They are loyal. Once they love a team, they're fans forever." Dominique Wilkins "Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being." "The South may not be always right, but by God it's never wrong!"
"I suggest that the true Southland is that territory within which, when asked by an outsider whether he is a Southerner, the reply almost invariably is 'Hell yes!' This 'Hell yes' line has the advantage of eliminating the ambivalent wishy washy fringes, and leaving the unquestionably defiant, hard-core Southland." "Everyone from the South knows who Jefferson Davis was, and this is one thing that distinguishes the South from other parts of the country." William F. Buckley "Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the
John Shelton Reed "The summer picnic gave the ladies a chance to show off their baking hands. On the barbecue pit, chickens and spareribs sputtered in their own fat and a sauce whose recipe was guarded in the family like a scandalous affair." Maya Angelou "Every time I look at John Shelton Reed "Southern women see no contradiction in mixing strength with gentleness." "The friend asked why the Rebel Army had continued to fight when defeat was certain. They were simply afraid to go home and face their women." Gordon Cotton "I've always said that next to Imperial Florence King "War suits them. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless." William T. Sherman "We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a
single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to Jesse Jackson _____________________________________________________________________
THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF SECESSION "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal status to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitles them a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." Declaration of "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." Abraham Lincoln,
Thomas Jefferson "I am for preserving to the States the powers not yielded
by them to the Thomas Jefferson "If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address "The great principle embodied by Horace Greely, New York Tribune's editor, "If it (Declaration of (A legitimate union of states) "depends for its
continuance on the free consent and will of the sovereign people of each
state," and "when that consent and will is withdrawn on either
part, their union is gone. Any state forced to remain in a union by military
force can never be a coequal member of the American Daily
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