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Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April Confederate Heritage month in Mississippi
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| 04-03-04
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: barbour; confederateheritage; dixie; dixielist; history; redneckpride; theysupportslavery
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To: onyx
On March 4, 1865 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, approved an act revising the previous Confederate flag. It is telling that at a time when the victorious Union armies were liberating dozens of miles of southern territory per day from the forces of the rebellion, when the confederate armies had neither the food or the men to continue, and mere days before Davis was forced to flee the capitol, the southern leadership felt that they had nothing better to do than ponder what their flag would look like. No wonder you lost.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:18:58 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: Non-Sequitur; WKB
No wonder you lost..
We didn't lose, we just got tired of killing yankees and suspended the operation. We may resume at any moment. ;)
To: sandmanbr; Non-Sequitur
No wonder you lost..
We didn't lose, we just got tired of killing yankees and suspended the operation. We may resume at any moment. ;)
I would say we might start in "non-squirter's" state
but he his to ashamed to fly his flag so we don't know where to start.
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:33:04 AM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ Term Limits: Because politicians are like diapers., need to be changed for the same reason.)
To: Non-Sequitur
Isn't the "you lost, we won" issue the thing that is fueling the reparations demands?
Although i was raised in the South, I had ancestors who fought on both sides of that war - but I didn't - and I'm not paying reparations for something I didn't do..... ;^)
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posted on
04/04/2004 8:16:57 AM PDT
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Hilary Clinton - Alpha female....I say, Alpo female.......)
To: WKB
I would say we might start in "non-squirter's" state but he his to ashamed to fly his flag so we don't know where to start. Kansas. Good luck.
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posted on
04/04/2004 8:46:35 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: cyborg
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posted on
04/04/2004 10:10:15 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: Non-Sequitur
YIKES, a jayhawker!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
04/04/2004 10:12:43 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: All
A Blue Collar Vermont Yankee on this Dixie Thing
___________________________________________________________
Brattleboro, Southern Vermont.
Home of the "Brattleboro Colonels, the "pride of the south". On the Helmet, two handsome crossed sabres.
Teenage enthusiasms over the years morph this
"pride of the South" into singing dixie (Hooray! Hooray!),the occasional rebel flags and bumper stickers, and a mascot,"The colonel".
Details are foggy, but the most likely reason for this
is that Brattleboro was actually named for a revolutionary era Colonel 'Brattle' This morphed with "pride of southern VT" to a new synergy..."Southern Colonel".
"The colonel" mascot became a mustachioed,stuffed and puffy, soft baby blue clad kind of furry pleasant looking
and most definately harmless fellow.
Peace reigns in the valley, as always.
Enter a fellow,(notably not a local) who decided
he was uncomfortable with the "symbolism".
Southern "Colonels" weren't really "Colonels", they were "Slave Owners". The mascot,team symbol, all must Go.
"I demand it", said he.
The local paper donated their inexpensive front page real estate, and the crew of "editorialists" assisted in relentlessly pumping up the volume of thier irateness.
There never was any actual incident imagined. It was simply "the very idea of it".
The paper is home to seemingly innumerable bitterly frustrated, mud slinging, ill tempered small time
liberals. Familiar?
Thier politics extend all the way from the far left, to the extreme left.
Here, for them a mission, a purpose,
a crusade, because discovered in their midst
an objectification of Evil.
A mustachioed,stuffed and puffy, baby blue clad
kind of furry pleasant stuffed Colonel.
They fueled the fires of thier great crusade by printing amoungst the mostly sane calls for cooler heads, one vitriolic, ill tempered and genuinely racist letter (most notably not from a local resident). It included the de rigeur standard reference to the "truth" contained in the long discredited and infamous "Elders of Zion" screed.
You know what happened next. An explosion of emotion, from a people wronged by this "journalism".
The inevitable bitter and acrimonious refighting of the civil war ensued on the pages of the paper.
"Slavery"
"States rights".
The paper gleefully carried on the crusade, printing it all, adding occasionally even an extra page to its normally single fold front section.
There were still of course no actual incidents or problems. Never one. Not one. But we were all guilty. They said so.
Finally forced by the teachers to a school vote, the teachers
overwhelmingly vote to reject the evil. Cast it out.
The students, overwhelmingly wanted to sing Hooray! again.
It is a great song after all.
The vote is a loser. Shot down.
The crusade continued.
The orchestrated war of words ended with the handsome sabres and Colonel name retained. There was a victim though.
One stuffed,mustachioed, puffy,baby blue clad kind of furry nice looking fellow was consigned to the ash heap of history.
________________________
Whats the point?
Well, there are I am sure more than I can figure
but the significant one for this
lifetime pretty much Hardcase New England Yankee,
is in my own small way,
I finally maybe
"got it" on this issue.
There is no racism here, no problems at all.
Could use some more jobs... companies are a bit strangled by the taxes and environmental rules...
But here, there is hope.
How you ask, can this be? Hope?
Hope from this dismal tale of Abuse of Journalistic Priviledge that locally ranks with no less than
the shamed NYT, those French Wartime Reports of a replaying
of siege of Stalingrad and the crippled by Dogma BBC?
Hope?
Because under relentless left wing pressure, from the paper to the unanimous calls of the Universally PC Teachers...
the Kids saw no harm , no foul.
And, for all Americans North and South I bet those
Vermont Yankee not in the least bit racist kids are going to again open up with refrains of
"I wish I were in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!"
It is a great song, after all.
Keep the faith.
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posted on
04/04/2004 10:33:19 AM PDT
by
pending
To: pending
damnyankees are nothing if not predictable!
btw, being northernborn no more makes you a damnyankee than it makes you a plumber!
damnyankee is a LEARNED prejudice!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
04/04/2004 11:05:50 AM PDT
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: Non-Sequitur
"... the southern leadership felt that they had nothing better to do than ponder what their flag would look like. No wonder you lost."It is apparent you are a typical democrat yankee, hell bent on revisionist history.
Cavalierly slam the South, glorify your yankee Union,of 140 years ago,
but know this:
Today it is the South that's saving the Union from the democrats.
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posted on
04/04/2004 3:24:46 PM PDT
by
onyx
(If FR isn't worth a dollar a day, what is? Be a $1-A-Day Club Member. I am.)
To: WKB
Ah say, those liberal scalawags sneaked in and stole my visual reference like a common carpetbagger in the night!
As ah was pontificatin':
We can all get along better by respecting each others heritage and traditions while rejecting hate-mongerers' agendas.
To: stand watie
thanks for that clarification :-)
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posted on
04/04/2004 5:13:13 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Frankenfreude radio death watch has commenced)
To: Non-Sequitur
Kansas...damn that explains a lot. Lawrence I reckon.
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posted on
04/04/2004 5:13:32 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(If we don't nut up quick as a nation, we'll be foraging for the eggs of the sooty tern soon enough)
To: NewRomeTacitus
I thought Jesse Lee Peterson wrote a book called Shakedown.
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posted on
04/04/2004 5:13:37 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Frankenfreude radio death watch has commenced)
To: WKB; onyx
Good for Haley!
Sorry I was late....I `have been working A LOT....but I did FReep late last night and missed this....my apologies.
Have the yankee revisionists been here and acted unseemly?
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posted on
04/04/2004 5:15:26 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(If we don't nut up quick as a nation, we'll be foraging for the eggs of the sooty tern soon enough)
To: onyx
Today it is the South that's saving the Union from the democrats. Better late than never. Kansas was going GOP while all you good ol' boys were drooling over Democrats from FDR to Jimmy Carter.
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posted on
04/04/2004 5:33:33 PM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: cyborg
![](http://images.thomasnelson.com/CPRImages/ProductMedium/0785263314.jpg)
Close, but no
To: NewRomeTacitus
Oh okay *lol* thanks
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posted on
04/04/2004 5:38:41 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Frankenfreude radio death watch has commenced)
To: onyx
Good job onyx.
Shucks my Puter is crashing...I hope you get this message.
I have to reboot.
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posted on
04/04/2004 6:24:01 PM PDT
by
Syncro
To: Non-Sequitur
Kansas was going GOP while all you good ol' boys were drooling over Democrats from FDR to Jimmy Carter.I ain't a "boy" --- good or ole.
MS is more GOP than your Kansas, so there!
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posted on
04/04/2004 7:33:46 PM PDT
by
onyx
(If FR isn't worth a dollar a day, what is? Be a $1-A-Day Club Member. I am.)
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