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Taking Back Thomas Jefferson
The Abbeville Review ^
| March 10, 2015
| James Rutledge Roesch
Posted on 03/13/2015 12:21:52 PM PDT by don-o
Jefferson, a member of the gentry of Old Virginia, was always regarded as one of the best and brightest of his generation, a gentleman of the finest intellect, taste, and manners. Although Jefferson loved and was loyal to the Union, he was a Virginian first and an American second; Virginia, Jefferson avowed, was his country. This order of allegiance State over Union, or Society over the State was firmly rooted in the Old South.
Accordingly, in the emerging conflict between the North and the South, Jefferson sided with his own country. It is true that we are completely under the saddle of Massachusetts & Connecticut, Jefferson said of the South, and that they ride us very hard, cruelly insulting our feelings as well as exhausting our strength and substance.
Indeed, as Secretary of State, Jefferson stated to the President, Whenever Northern and Southern prejudices have come into conflict, the latter have been sacrificed and the former soothed. To expose Jefferson as a hypocrite, therefore, is not only to dethrone a Founding Father, but also to dishonour a Southern icon and thereby dishonour the South herself.
There is no greater threat to the money and power of the fascists and socialists perched in Washington, D.C. than the Southern political tradition which Jefferson personified. Indeed, many of the features of modern politics which are taken for granted today were originally abhorred by Jefferson as grievous betrayals of the American Revolution, to which secession and resistance were the only hope:
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Just a snip from a long and interesting essay.
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posted on
03/13/2015 12:21:52 PM PDT
by
don-o
To: wardaddy
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posted on
03/13/2015 12:22:34 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
The implication that Jefferson would have been sympathetic to secession is quite false. He denounced secession as treason.
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posted on
03/13/2015 12:29:57 PM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
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posted on
03/13/2015 12:31:47 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: iowamark
You should read the article.
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posted on
03/13/2015 1:02:19 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: iowamark
He denounced secession as treason. Got a source for that?
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posted on
03/13/2015 1:07:29 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
I didn’t know Jefferson “Bore six children”. Stopped right there.
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posted on
03/13/2015 3:16:46 PM PDT
by
Chuckster
(The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
To: Chuckster
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posted on
03/13/2015 3:22:09 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
Read more carefully. "It is now accepted as a fact that one of the preeminent Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson the Apostle of Liberty and Reason engaged in an illicit sexual relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, by whom he bore up to six children."
One of us should.
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posted on
03/13/2015 5:08:10 PM PDT
by
Chuckster
(The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
To: Chuckster
Deep sigh. He is stating the case he is REFUTING.
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posted on
03/13/2015 5:29:38 PM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
I was referring to Jefferson’s reaction to the Burr Western plot and the reaction of the Virginia Dynasty (Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe) to the secession talk during the War of 1812.
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posted on
03/14/2015 7:14:18 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: don-o
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posted on
05/24/2015 7:00:28 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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