Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April Confederate Heritage month in Mississippi

picayuneitem.com ^ | 04-03-04

[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.

[unspun]

The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union. We merely wanted to peacefully secede.

And the United States said, "No, your reason isn't good enough." Too bad that Ft. Sumter got in the way.

[lentulusgracchus]

The South didn't violently plot to overthrow the union.

That's always been a key charge of the other side, and one which we all need to point out is a straw man at every opportunity. Leaving the Union isn't the same thing as abolishing it. That's why Southerners were called Secessionists, not Abolitionists.

You're doing a good job, helping them out there. I'm sure they won't appreciate it, though.

[Colt .45]

Ah - well put. But you would have to agree that the damnYankees have ascribed to the second part of my tag line since Old dis-honest Abe Lincoln, and still cling to that falsehood in the hope of perpetuating their purported "moral righteousness" in perpetrating that war of oppression.

[RUCKUS INC.]

Halle Berry is a confederate???

[wardaddy]

This is about how it usually runs....the South bashers invade a thread and breast beat about how evil we all are and it goes on for a few days till interest fades or something else pops up.

Some of the bashers are public school educated yankees tilting at windmills, some are black FReepers with a chip on their shoulders (it should be mentioned that most black FReepers I know do not have this particular chip but a few do) or it might be the social liberal contingent here who have convinced themselves wrongly that they are conservatives since they dislike high taxes and know zilch about culture war issues.

In the end....let us not forget...they have chosen the side of the LEFT on this issue and they seem confortable there.

Ya'll did great! Onyx....you go girl! The Magnolia state is lucky to have you.

We have something many of them resent....a strong sense of identity and commonality. Forget Hell!

[unspun]

Their majorities decided to overthrow the constitutional nation they were in, for the territories they held as States. Na ah. Inflammatory is in the eye of the beholder and in the nation's eye, the Confederates reason (preserving the "peace" of owning and using humans as semi-human animals) just wasn't good enough.

What a hoot, to celebrate that.

[unspun]

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[unspun]

a strong sense of identity and commonality

We find it in a place called The United States of America.

[wtc911]

I'm from the north, a fourth generation New Yorker. I will stack my family's contributions to the civil, economic and military well being of this country against anyone's.

I worked SAR at GZ with a guy named John who drove non-stop from Alberta, Alabama just to help. He was a true Sothron but 99% (by my observation) of the volunteers in the first two days were 25-55 yo white NYers like me. You couldn't chip the pride off these civilians with a jack hammer.

We got a-holes up here but I've spent enough time in Jackson, Ms., Columbus, Ga., Birmingham, Al, and other garden spots to know that you got at least your share too.

You use too broad a brush and offend those whom you should befriend.

[GOPcapitalist]

Their majorities decided to overthrow the constitutional nation they were in, for the territories they held as States.

No, not really. They sought to peacefully exit the union they had voluntarily entered under that constitution and replace it with another union among themselves under a virtually identical constitution.

Inflammatory is in the eye of the beholder and in the nation's eye

Cut the relativity nonsense. You came to this thread and made the post that you did for no other reason than an attempt to provoke emotional and angry reactions from people who do not share the historically ignorant and intellectually sloppy views you do.

[lentulusgracchus]

And the United States said, "No, your reason isn't good enough."

The United States Government didn't have the stature to say that.

The seceding States were the People. When the People say something, their servants do not contradict them.

Secession and ratification were alike sovereign acts of the People subject to review only by God Himself. Or do you think that your government is empowered to stand over you with iron rods and tell you what your rights are and are not, and what your duties are, and what you are going to do right now?

We're just about there in practice .... are you going to go the last few yards and drink the Kool-Aid, and tell us, with all your heart and your dying breath, that you deeply and truly bellyfeel Big Brother? Signify to us.

[unspun]

Holding slaves wasn't a good enough reason. The Declaration provided for changes of nationality, for good reasons (not bad reasons). The Constitution did not provide for the process you described.

[unspun]

The seceding States were the People.

Please see my last post. No, those people were clearly not the People, in and of themselves. If there were an Constitutional Convention, held by the process described in the US Constitution, that would have been "We the People." Good reason based upon faulty premeses is bad reason.

[GOPcapitalist]

Aside from the fact that your link doesn't work, it is not the case that the "United States" collectively said "no, your reason isn't good enough" or some other such nonsense. The United States is a composite of many and thus cannot collectively say anything. Majorities of physical persons within it can say things and sometimes invoke its name on their behalf, but that doesn't make them the collective whole any more than flapping your arms will make you fly.

So who really said "no your reason isn't good enough" then? Abe Lincoln and his faction in the government. And why did they say it? Not because they wanted to abolish slavery. Not even because they wanted to "preserve the union." They said it because they wanted to collect the taxes.

[unspun]

The United States is a composite of many and thus cannot collectively say anything.

Thanks for your offerings. I suggest you think in terms of legitimate (constitutional) processes. Then you will see how we may act as a nation and how we man not act against our nation. Please see my last two posts.

[GOPcapitalist]

Holding slaves wasn't a good enough reason.

Ah, but the yankees did not invade to either free the slaves or change their status in any material way.

The Constitution did not provide for the process you described.

The major founding-era legal texts on the constitution disagree with you, as does the philosophy behind the document itself. If you don't understand why go read Tocqueville.

[unspun]

may not

[wardaddy]

So do we but due to our rather large hearts...we have some room leftover for our regional homeland....that and the fact that an extraordinary percentage of Southerners have deep and old roots here....more so than perhaps anywhere else in the USA sans New Hampshire and Maine.

Shame you're such an antagonist on this thread about something which is really none of your business, cause you have a great homepage I would otherwise admire.

There is nothing we dislike more domestically than do gooder smug Yankees telling us how and what to do when those same Yankees are oblivious to their own social, cultural, and political shortcomings (see a big chunk of quite segregated and impoverished and politically corrupt Chicago)....ironically, your stance on Southern Culture places you directly in that very camp. Have fun!

[GOPcapitalist]

No, those people were clearly not the People, in and of themselves

Three prominent members of the confederacy seceded by statewide popular referendum. They all indicated overwhelmingly that they wanted to leave. You can't get any closer to the people than that.

[unspun]

The major founding-era legal texts on the constitution disagree with you, as does the philosophy behind the document itself. If you don't understand why go read Tocqueville.

That's like saying "read Blackmun" about the penumbra of the 14th Amendment. Go read the US Constitution, itself, not about what someone says about it. It proscribes how changes may occur thereafter and was ratified by all states. Read my posts. Re-read the Constitution and Declaration. Re-read my posts.... ;-)