[one2many]

During the early 1900's, many members of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) advocated awarding former slaves rural acreage and a home. There was hope that justice could be given those slaves that were once promised "forty acres and a mule" but never received any. In the 1913 Confederate Veteran magazine published by the UCV, it was printed that this plan "If not Democratic, it is [the] Confederate" thing to do. There was much gratitude toward former slaves, which "thousands were loyal, to the last degree", now living with total poverty in the big cities. Unfortunately, their proposal fell on deaf ears on Capitol Hill.
--http://www.37thtexas.org/html/BlkHist.html

[Non-Sequitur]

Now see, this is a prime example of why I don't think that an independent confederacy would have been the low-tax, limited government nirvana that so many of you sothron supporters think it would have been. Decades before a southern president inflicted a war on poverty and all the welfare programs on us, southern veterans were advocating a massive government program to help a segment of the poor population. And how typical of the big government mentality, the people that they wanted to 'help' would have been at least 35 to 40 years old and the SCV proposed yanking them from an urban environment and dumping them on a farm plot without any concern whether they could make it as farmers or not. Did they really see this as a 'fight against poverty' thing or was it more a chance to thin out the black population?