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Title: Confederate History Month: South's just waiting to rise again (Charley Reese)
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URL Source: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/8796/Ree98APb.html
Published: Apr 23, 1998
Author: Charley Reese
Post Date: 2006-04-03 11:14:03 by BTP Holdings
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By Charley Reese April is traditionally Confederate History Month, and one of the nice things about that is that it annoys the politically correct crowd. Anything that discomforts those KGB-wannabes is a good thing. Of course, all of us Southerners are used to our Northern friends saying, "Hey, Bubba, the war's over. You lost. Get over it." To which I always reply, "What makes you think the war is over, Bub?" Truth of the matter is that the Confederate government never surrendered. It's still out there somewhere, waiting for us to rally around the flag once again. Most folks don't know that, but it's true. The Confederate armies surrendered but not the civilian government. They just high-tailed it out of Richmond. I don't believe that the Confederate Congress paused long enough to pass a resolution of surrender. And the president, God bless him, never surrendered, even though he was captured and put into prison for a couple of years. No, sir. Jefferson Davis, my last president, never surrendered, never apologized and never took an oath of allegiance to the Yankee government, which, my friends North and South, is the same government that today is taxing you out of house and pantry and trampling on the Constitution as if it were the grapes of wrath. Most folks know that Lord Acton, a British peer, is the man who said, ``Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'' But most don't know that the same Lord Acton wrote to Gen. Robert E. Lee (please stand to attention while you read his name) after the late unpleasantness. Lord Acton told Lee, "I grieve more for the government lost at Richmond than I rejoice for the one saved at Waterloo." In other words, Lord Acton knew which side was fighting for the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and which side was staging America's French Revolution. The new Robespierres were in Washington, not in Richmond. Old H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore sage who was no friend of the South, nevertheless said that the one thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's (you may remain seated) Gettysburg Address was that it was the Confederates, not the North, who were fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The PC crowds think that they are going to intimidate us Southerners into taking down our Confederate monuments, renaming our streets and hiding the flag from public view. But Southerners aren't intimidated very easily. We are used to being hated. Wendell Phillips in 1865 said there would be no peace until 347,000 men of the South were either hanged or exiled. Parson Brownlow got even more warmed up and said in a speech in 1866: "If I had the power, I would arm every wolf, panther, catamount and bear in the mountains of America, every crocodile in the swamps of Florida, every Negro in the South, every devil in hell, clothe him in the uniform of the Federal Army, and then turn them loose on the rebels of the South and exterminate every man, woman and child south of the Mason and Dixon's line." I believe that fellow was a preacher, but Southerners don't exterminate very easily either. No, sir. All the politically correct crowd has done is wake up the South so that Southern organizations are rising like biscuits in an oven. Some that had been practically dormant now have thousands of new members. Brand-new ones have sprung up, strong and feisty. R.L. Dabney, chaplain for Stonewall Jackson (attention, please), told a group of young Southerners at a graduation ceremony long after the war, "Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your (Confederate) dead; see to it, they have no reason to be ashamed of you." That is our goal, Rev. Dabney.
Confederate History Month: South's just waiting to rise again
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Published in The Orlando Sentinel, April 23, 1998
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What a refreshing read - thanks for the post.
And then we wonder why others are amazed when with typical myopia, we tell 'em Get over it... Serbs, Arabs when talking about WWOne, and others who reference history when speaking to Americans.....
"I don't hate all Arabs just because a few of them blew up the World Trade Center, so why should they hate all US soldiers just because one shot their father?" asks US Army Cpl. Joshua Hedges, of Warrensburg, Mo., a father of three. "Saddam had [things] under control and we don't basically," he says. "Iraq was safe under Saddam. You weren't safe from him, but you were safe from your neighbor and you were safe from Syrian people trying to come in and blow things up." - Pvt. Isaac Ussery, of Naples, Fla
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