Posted on 11/21/2001 11:54:19 AM PST by shuckmaster
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:33:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Police at the University of Missouri have arrested a student suspected of destroying a Confederate flag in a dorm room.
Dave Sierpina, 18, of Aurora, Ill., was arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary and property damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Here is your heritage:
"We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have> been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States... They have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and> to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and> those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
(from South Carolina Decl. of Secession)
"...[the Northern States] have united in the election of a man to highoffice of the President of the United States, whose opinions and purpose are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of thecommon Government, because he has declared that the `Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,' and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction."
--Texas Declaration of Secession
And here is what Texans thought of the Republican party:
"They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, [not true, of course] and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States."
--Texas Declaration of Secession.
"As soon, however, as the Northern States that prohibited African slavery within their limits had reached a number sufficient to give theirrepresentation a controlling voice in the Congress, a persistent and organized system of hostile measures against the rights of the owners of slaves in the Southern States was inaugurated and gradually extended. A continuous series ofmeasures was devised and prosecuted for the purpose of rendering insecure thetenure of property in slaves. . . . the productions in the South of cotton' rice' sugar' and tobacco' forthe full development and continuance of which the labor of African slaves was and is indispensable.'"Our cause is thoroughly identified with the institution of African slavery."
Mississippi Declaration of Secession
Soon to be CSA congressman Lawrence Keitt, speaking in the South Carolina secession convention, said, "Our people have come to this on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it."
From the Confederate Constitution:
Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 4: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."
Article IV, Section 3, Paragraph 3: "The Confederate States may acquire new territory . . . In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected byCongress and the territorial government."
From the Georgia Constitution of 1861:
"The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves." (This is the entire text ofArticle 2, Sec. VII, Paragraph 3.)<> From the Alabama Constitution of 1861: "No slave in this State shall be emancipated by any act done to take effect in this State, or any other country." (This is the entire text of Article IV, Section 1 (on slavery).)
Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, referring to theConfederate government: "Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . .. is his natural and normal condition." [Augusta, Georgia, Daily Constitutionalist, March 30, 1861
A North Carolina newspaper editorial: "it is abolition doctrine . . . the verydoctrine which the war was commenced to put down." [North Carolina Standard,Jan. 17, 1865; cited in Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 835.]
Robert M.T. Hunter, Senator from Virginia, "What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?"
Alfred P. Aldrich, South Carolina legislator from Barnwell: "If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery [not true of course] and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, orform a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule -- it is a question ofp olitical and social existence."
[Steven Channing, Crisis of Fear, pp.141-142.]
Senator Hunter of VA. Duringthe Negro Soldier Bill debate on March 7, 1865, the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS notes him as stating his opinion of the Bill as follows:
"When we had left the old Government he had thought we had gotten rid forever of the slavery agitation....But to his surprise he finds that this Government assumes the power to arm the slaves, which involves also the power of enamcipation....It was regarded as a confession of despair and an abandonment of the ground upon which we had seceded from the old Union. We had insisted that Congress had no right to interfere with slavery, and upon the coming into power of the party who it was known would assume and exercise that power, we seceded....and we vindicated ourselves against the accusations of the abolitionists by asserting that slavery was the best and happiest condition of the negro.
Now what does this proposition admit? The right of the central Government to put slaves into the militia, and to emancipate at least so many as shall be placed in the military service. It is a clear claim of the central Government to emancipate the slaves."
"If we are right in passing this measure we were wrong in denying to the old government the right to interfere with the institution of slavery and to emancipate the slaves."
"He now believed....that arming and emancipating the slaves was anabandonment of this contest - an abandonment of the grounds upon which it had been undertaken."
That is the southern heritage you are so proud of.
Oddly, President Lincoln never claimed that the federal government had the power to sieze the slaves of owners loyal to the government-but Jefferson Davis did
Walt
No, YOU'RE doing everything you can to make me out a "bad guy," though, which further illustrates my point: You have no argument.
The only "heritage" that stupid piece of cloth you call a "flag" represents is the willingness to kill to protect an investment in human misery, and willful rebellion against the legal and lawful authority of the United States.
If you're proud of that, fine. The United States of America has fought many wars--including the Civil War--over the Consitution's enumerated and implied rights, and you have the privilege of thinking and believing and expressing those thoughts any way you'd like, no matter how lame-brained they might be.
But you are a hypocrite if you swore to defend the Constitution and this nation against all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC, and yet claim as your "heritage" the wanton rebellion against this nation.
A hypocrite.
Illbay, you seem to also be dwelling on the secession as unlawful, illegal, immoral, distasteful or whatever...so was it unlawful, illegal and immoral for our common forefathers to "seceed" from England in the 1700s? I believe even Abe Lincoln himself said something to the effect that when a people find their government has become oppressive and tyrannical, it's their "duty" to throw off the shackle. Something to that effect.
Guys, there have been millions of Southerners born since the end of the institution of slavery...it's NOT part of MY Southern heritage, or that of any other Southerner drawing breath today. But old prejudices die hard, don't they? I guess you Northerners still think we don't pave our roads, walk around barefoot, are toothless and illiterate, have never heard of refrigeration or air conditioning, or electricity for that matter, and that the Reconstruction-era military occupation should still be in effect. So if the South is so damn awful, Illbay, why don't you take I-10 to Mobile, hop on I-65, and don't stop until you're somewhere north of Indianapolis?
This is all I'm saying on the matter. It's obvious we'll never see eye to eye on the subject of Southern heritage, so why belabor the point? I'll say good-bye and look for y'all's ignorant and misinformed posts the next time someone posts a positive article about the South.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Illbay, you have never been right about anything in your life. You were even wrong about saying you were right.
Anyone who admits that an attempt to establish a nation based on human slavery is at the bottom of the CSA's motives any will get no complaint from me.
It's the lies that grate on me.
Walt
And against the loony-tunes who purport they are patriots......
Don't pervert the readily available record.
That is the point.
Walt
Was that you that posted the the great news about the "dangerous" lime in the apartment ?
Very rarely is something said which is so true, it merits being immortalized in granite or bronze.
That statement more than qualifies.
"Don't pervert the readily available record, that's the point."
No Walt, the point is obviously covered by your hat! In case you weren't paying attention to what I said earlier, please let me reiterate that SLAVERY IS OVER, IT HAS BEEN FOR MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS, I HAVE NEVER OWNED SLAVES, NEITHER HAS ANY OTHER LIVING SOUTHERNER, SLAVERY HAS NEVER EXISTED IN THE SOUTH DURING MY LIFETIME, AND THERREFORE SLAVERY IS NOT PART OF "MY" SOUTHERN HERITAGE ANY MORE THAN MISREATMENT OF THE IRISH IS THE HERITAGE OF ANY LIVING AND BREATHING NORTHERNER, OR MISTREATMENT OF THE CHINESE IS THE HERITAGE OF ANY LIVING AND BREATHING KALIFORNIAN!!!
Sheesh, I hate to resort to using all caps, but you can't seem to get it through your thick head that what's in the past is in the past. I bet you support reparations to the decendants of slaves, don't you? That is, as long as only Southerners have to pay, right?
The readily available record, Waltie Boy, is that slavery is over. No mas. It ended a hundred years before I was born. It is no longer a part of Southern culture or heritage. It is only pathetic, tiny brianed pukes like you, Illbay, Queasy N' Fuming (yeah, I know it's Kwesie M'Fume, get a sense of humor while you're at it), Jesse Jackass, Al Sharpton and the like who keep dredging up the past, for political gain or whatever reason. This reminds me of the stupid Clymers who turned out last week at Ft. Benning to protest the School of the Americas, WHICH DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE! GET A FRIGGIN' LIFE ALREADY!.
By the way, what state are YOU from, Waltie Boy? Your profile page doesn't say...why? Are you ashamed of your home? That's too bad, it must really suck being from an area you can't stand. You see, I wouldn't know...I'm from the South and love it. I'll now let you have the last word, 'cause I'd sure hate to ruin your holiday weekend by taking the proverbial last cookie. Merry Christmas, pinhead.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
for dixie,sw
there you go posting more anti-Southron tripe, bilge and irrelevant garbage. since the damnyankees decided to free OUR southron slaves and work their own to death, your bilgewater simply makes you a candidate for DENSA.
GEN U S Grant was still holding HIS slaves in 1866, a year after the CSA was defeated. he was NOT alone. face it walt,as Professor Tyrone Brown of Tuskeegee Univ said in 1991, "in 1860 there were not more than 10,000 people in the whole country who cared a damn about slavery as an institution OR about the plight of slaves. they SHOULD have but they did NOT! furthermore there were not 500 free persons who were willing to fight a war about the institution of slavery;for the northerners and particuliarly the radical republicans in power after the election of lincoln, freeing the slaves was ONLY a lame EXCUSE to start a war to prevent the south from leaving the union. nothing more, nothing less."
FYI, professor brown received his PhD from the university of MI (not a southron school, in case you've lost your atlas.) & and was born/raised in NY.
for dixie,sw
in case you haven't noted the fact, we southrons have put away our requests for freedom from the hatefilled, anti-southron,ignorant, racebaiting, socialist damnyankees during this time of tribulation & sadness in the US. we MUST all hang together, as an attack on ANY part of the country is an attack on dixie, too.
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