Posted on 04/03/2004 9:02:32 PM PST by WKB
As is customary across the South, Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April as "confederate Heritage Month" in Mississippi. In keeping with this important, public recognition of our valiant Confederate ancestors, the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library, the Friends of the Library, and the Gainesville Volunteer (Sons of Confederate Veterans) are featuring a Confederate "Heritage of Honor" display in the library's foyer through April 12, 2004.
The public is cordially invited to view the display during regular library hours. In declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month, Gov. Barbour said: "Whereas April is the month in which the Confederate States began and ended a four-year struggle; and, whereas, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation's past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us; now, therefore, I, Haley Barbour, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi."
The Crosby Memorial Library display features some dozen unusual, full-size Confederate battleflags, military uniforms, weapons, antique quilts, portraits of Magnolia State Confederates, various Confederate artifacts, and numerous books, magazines, and newsletters detailing the valor of Mississippi's arms during that heroic struggle for Southern freedom. Importantly, the Crosby Memorial Library's Confederate Heritage display is both the largest and longest-running such display in Mississippi and, possibly, the South.
This display has garnered the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library the prestigious "John L. Harris Heritage Preservation Award" from the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. This award is named for a Black Confederate servant who, in later years as a Mississippi Representative, was instrumental in the construction of the impressive Monument to the Confederate Dead that stands on the grounds of the Old Capitol in Jackson.
Don't mis this rich, colorful, and enlightening display, produced by the Gainesville Volunteers, SCV (MS Division Camp of the Year for four of the last seven years). For more information about our Confederate "Heritage of Honor," please visit www.mississippiscv.org or email huffman@ametro.net.
Just as soon as you start being honest about it...
No, South Carolina rebelled to protect her "internal interests and domestic institutions" of slavery.
No.
What you say about learned prejudice is true, s_w. How-some-ever, just to annoy that person I don't actually post to anymore (the one from Chicago who says he's from downstate but doesn't post at all like he's from downstate Illinois and who I think is flying a false flag -- not the other one from Tennessee who always says he's from Tennessee but won't admit to being a scalawag even though he posts like Ben Butler's retarded son-in-law), I'm going to (gasp!) publicly disagree with you -- yes, true! -- because the aforementioned maroon insisted we always agree about everything. So I'm going to disagree about what we are dealing with here, which isn't damnyankeeness.
Damnyankees are mostly about money, pride, and push, IMHO. They want to trade bad goods for good ones and hornswoggle people (preferably Indians) on real estate deals, and then they want to use their money to start a "bank" and start acting all highfalutin' (until they get stomped into the dirt by an uncooperative, uncouth Southerner like Andy Jackson did to Nicholas Biddle, whose descendant showed the family character by becoming the "Mayflower Madam"), decorate the place with doubtful reproductions and expensive paneling paid for by their chumps accountholders, excuse me, and then go around with their chests puffed out, sneering down their razor-thin noses past their razor-thin chicken lips (the upper one of which is always curled), and generally telling the rest of the world what to do, without any theological or political sanction for doing so. That's a damnyankee. His faults are many, but his vision at least is limited to the end of his (I concede, extensive) nose.
How-some-ever, whut we have heah, as Strother Martin said, is failyuh to communicate, which is caused by not damnyankeeness, but Marxist-socialist totalitarianism -- a.k.a. Newthink in the parlance of the late secular saint George Orwell -- that tells these morons what to say and do in every sitchyashun. You are right that it's eddy-cated in, but you've got the wrong brand of Who Struck John that they've been passing around the First Grade recess room.
Yankees aren't (usually) the kind of statists that Socialists are. It's true, the Hamiltonians begat the Lincolnians, and the Lincolnians begat their uncomely begats, the McKinleyite National Greatness Republicans and their schismatic bretheren, the Bull Moosers, and it's true that Vermonters and other such ilk have voted regularly for all of those. But they're also the descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, who were decidedly anti-statist, and whom the Federalists betrayed into the hands of the Bull Mooser, Jaycee Statists who think that government should be a free lunch for business (them) and paid for with the taxes of other people (us).
But some people would argue with me and say that the idiots writing the letters to the editor of that character-enfeebling newsrag weren't even National Greatness types, but their bastard second cousins from over the sea, which is to say, the spawn of coffeehouse Eurotrash who used to sit around endlessly talking of this and that and drinking great volumes of tedious French plonk. The kind of people who wound up deciding they were Socialists, even Marxists, and that Stalin could do no wrong. So let's argue -- which kind of idiots are these, and is their spew merely sewage, or is it worse than sewage, viz., untreated medical waste from the Ebola ward?
Now, see, we have Officially Disagreed! -- LOL!
That old chestnut didn't work too well for them in 2000, now did it? Nyuk, nyuk!!
Hi there, N-S. I wondered who brung the skunk -- how's old Pepe these days?
Teleology: the warm, cozy refuge of the argumentationally bankrupt. Hi, N-S.
By far the most important reason for secession (it wasn't "rebellion", and you have very good reason to know it, having had it stuffed down your throat by better expositors than I) was the South itself.
Dying on your feet better than living on your knees -- and all that. The casualty figures show how many Southerners believed that. Your side, by contrast, fought a war to put others on their knees. Deny it -- can you?
You keep losing these arguments, and yet you keep wrapping yourself in your teleological council-blanket and coming back for more. Slothful induction, thou art a non sequitur.
That's a curious attempt at being inflamatory. The CSA was formed out of the duly elected governments of its component states acting through the legislative process. In virtually every single one of those states the voters themselves had a direct role in picking delegates to the conventions where secession was decided. In Texas, Virginia, and Tennessee it was even put to a statewide referendum. So unless you think that the people themselves should have no right to determine the course of their states through their own government institutions, the CSA didn't try to overthrow anything.
More suited for Illinois. Yall can celebrate Communists.
Afterall, they plotted to violently overthrow parts of the United States too, didn't they?
You are truly and thoroughly either woefully ignorant or just plain obnoxious.
The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union. We merely wanted to peacefully secede.
When the government of Virginia, through statewide referendum, decided to secede in a landslide majority Lincoln threw his support behind an unsanctioned minority rump convention in the northwest extremity of the state and declared it to be the legitimate government of all of Virginia. When it became clear that he could not sustain that absurdity, he let them break away from the state and form their own government over their counties plus a couple dozen more to the south who got dragged along unwillingly. That state is now called West Virginia.
In Missouri Lincoln decided one day that the sitting state government, though it was unionist and showing no signs of seceding anytime soon, wasn't unionist enough for his tastes (meaning it was reluctant to go to war and to provide him with militias to invade other states). So he called in the federal army and sent it to attack the capitol, causing the governor, liuetenant governor and state legislature to flee for their lives to the southwest. After they were out of the way he simply appointed a military dictator to run Missouri for the next four years.
In Maryland there were some indications that the state government would either tilt toward secession or say something critical of Lincoln's war policy. Lincoln's response? Round up all the legislators, mayors, and other elected officials who weren't enthusiastic enough about his war mongering and throw them in Fort McHenry's prison.
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