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.
Funny. I seem to recall an election in 1964 where the ONLY states to vote Republican were all former states or territories of the old confederacy. Come to think of it, the Democrat "solid south" hasn't been "solid" since 1944. The same can't be said for New England or even greater yankeeland.
Given the malodrous subway I experienced on my recent trip to New York, one certainly wouldn't think so.
Also, come to think of it, here down south we have these things called toilets. Based on the stenches of New York City and Boston, one is inclined to believe that y'all have substituted that wholly practical device with the nearest sidewalk.
A resolution to this effect is currently making its way through the process of being added to the Texas Republican Party Platform. It has already been adopted at conventions for the counties of Orange, Wharton, Fort Bend, Tarrant, and several others. If anyone is attending the state convention in san antonio please freepmail me for details on how you can help advance it there.
That being said, as a Louisiana and Texas southerner, I will never be proud of what my ancestors did in the 1860s, nor what the democrats did to the blacks in the South with slavery, the KKK, and every other attempt to keep blacks from participating in our society.
Relish our southern heritage with its great characteristics, but do not celebrate some misguided leaders and followers who attacked the United States.
Great rant, wardaddy. I don't understand why these folks feel the need to run down Mississippi, the good people from there, and our heritage. I really don't understand their motivation. To be honest, I've seen more of that on this forum than I have seen in all the years I've lived in Oregon. Maybe they feel empowered to impugn us because, other than white Christians, Southerners are the only people left who CAN be belittled, in a PC way.
I usually stay away from WBTS threads, but this thread is NOT about who was right or wrong. This thread is about a celebration, and recognition, of our history, and honoring our dead. Confederate Heritage Month is observed all over the South. It's part of history, whether they like it, or not.
It seems to me that there are some who either have a permanent burr on their butt, or are elitists in the Kerry and Dean manner...
or, just maybe, both.
Bullsh*t. You newbies can thump your chests all you want and continue the great southron myth machine if you like. But if you look at the history you will find mine own state of Kansas was Republican when y'all were solidly Democrat.
I joined this thread when I pointed out the lunacy of the confederate government spending time in 1865 debating what their flag should look like. By that time there was damned near nothing left of their rebellion to fly the flag over.
Of course it didn't.
"But I trust I may not be intrusive if I refer for a moment to the circumstances which prompted South Carolina in the act of her own immediate secession, in which some have charged a want of courtesy and respect for her Southern sister States. She had not been disturbed by discord or conflict in the recent canvass for president or vice-president of the United States. She had waited for the result in the calm apprehension that the Black Republican party would succeed. She had, within a year, invited her sister Southern States to a conference with her on our mutual impending danger. Her legislature was called in extra session to cast her vote for president and vice-president, through electors, of the United States and before they adjourned the telegraphic wires conveyed the intelligence that Lincoln was elected by a sectional vote, whose platform was that of the Black Republican party and whose policy was to be the abolition of slavery upon this continent and the elevation of our own slaves to equality with ourselves and our children, and coupled with all this was the act that, from our friends in our sister Southern States, we were urged in the most earnest terms to secede at once, and prepared as we were, with not a dissenting voice in the State, South Carolina struck the blow and we are now satisfied that none have struck too soon, for when we are now threatened with the sword and the bayonet by a Democratic administration for the exercise of this high and inalienable right, what might we meet under the dominion of such a party and such a president as Lincoln and his minions." -- Speech of John McQueen, the Secession Commissioner from South Carolina to Texas
One of those state wasn't Texas, which went Democrat in 1964, same as Kansas. But Texas went Democrat again in '68. And funny, I seem to recall an election in 1976 when the whole south went Democrat. For Jimmy Carter, of all people. Four states of the 'old confederacy' went for Clinton in 1992 and four went for him again in 1996. So I suppose I'm supposed to thank y'all for that?
Maybe it was you?
Great move, Governor Barbour - thank you for recognizing Mississippi's history. Lest we forget!
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the PRIVATE PAPERS OF LINCOLN is a good place to start.<P.free dixie,sw
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