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Welcome, my fellow Confederate truth seekers. It is not surprising that this has been one of the most visited pages on my website, for on it I have indexed all of the hard hitting articles that I have managed to gather in this one place. I have searched the web and scoured the internet forums for these articles and they are as close to the truth about our Confederate heritage as you’re ever likely to find. Assembling them here has been truly a labor of love. I sincerely hope that you will enjoy the fruits of my labor.
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INDEX TO ARTICLES
Do you know who Lord Acton was?
There was no greater mind in the 19th century than the British philosopher and historian, John Acton. Lord Acton, famous for the quote, “Power tends to corrupt and
absolute power corrupts absolutely,” was not only a great mind, but a great spirit. He rejected tyranny however “patriotic” and refused the spoils of war however
enticing. Acton watched closely as the crisis built up between the old Union and the states of the South in America. He was aware of the various economic, political
and moral issues—including slavery—but nonetheless, cast his lot with the South. After the war, he wrote the following to General Robert E. Lee:
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Economic Factors Leading to the War of Northern Aggression
One of the quarrels between the North and the South concerned taxes (tariffs) paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. Southerners thought
those tariffs unfair and were aimed specifically at them, as the South imported a wider variety of goods than Northern people. Moreover, Southern exporters
sometimes had to pay higher amounts for shipping their goods overseas and to pay unequal tariffs imposed by foreign countries on some of their goods.
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Yankee Atrocities – An Eye Witness Account
My thanks to Black Southerners. I would not be here but for the protection of a Black woman who put herself between a Yankee sergeant and my great grandmother. Here
is the story handed down in my family…
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General Mahone’s 1892 Statement on the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 22, 1864
John Day Smith of the 19th Maine wrote a regimental history of his regiment published in 1909. Interestingly, he walked the battlefields of Second Petersburg and
Jerusalem Plank Road with Confederate General William Mahone, the mastermind behind the brilliant June 22, 1864 attack on the Union Second Corps at Jerusalem Plank
Road which wreaked so much havoc. Smith related the following statement by Mahone in 1892 in his book on pages 209-210:
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The Worthy Rebels of Worth County:
In 1861, the Southern states were a seething hotbed of secession. Ever since Confederate batteries had fired upon Fort Sumter in retaliation to Lincoln’s sending
federal ships to resupply that installation, Southern boys everywhere had been signing up in droves to join the Confederate army in defending their homeland.
Lincoln’s subsequent calling up for 75,000 federal troops to squash this Southern rebellion only only escalated this mustering in of Southern troops. Miles Monk and
his older brother, John, were no exception to this rush to defend Confederate honor.
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The Civil War is Over. Let the Battle Flag Be.
Over the past several months, the NAACP has launched a campaign against the Confederate Battle Flag by protesting its presence at the South Carolina statehouse.
Governor Nikki Haley did not respond to the demands of the NAACP to remove it. In a similar matter, black protesters have called for the removal of the Battle Flag
from a Georgian cemetery that happens to have interred the bones of Confederate soldiers. And now, most recently, Republican presidential candidate Governor Rick
Perry of Texas has become the newest target of the NAACP over whether the Battle Flag should appear on license plates. In the end, Perry decided against the idea.
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Lesson # 4 – Confederate-American History:
There is probably no other Confederate figure who has been as maligned and falsely portrayed than General Nathan
Bedford Forrest. And just like our Confederacy, his true person, ideals and beliefs have been deliberately mis-
characterized for fear by those that if the TRUTH of each were to be made known, this country would be an
altogether different place and their standard of dependency & control, would be threatened as never before.
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Secession is not an Anti-American Objective
In closing out my interview with my friend Judge Andrew Napolitano last week, I told him that I believe we are now
in a virtual civil war in this country between those who believe in the sanctity of private property and those who
believe it is the government’s duty to provide for us. I then asked him, “Where do you, as an individual, see all
this eventually leading?”
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Southern shame, Southern ghosts
Historians disagree about whether the war would have happened “with or without slavery.” Slavery was a national
evil, the great mainstay of the agrarian South and a catalyst for polarized politics and violent action on both
sides. But even Southerners have now forgotten about the enormous and complex roster of constitutionally based
complaints regarding tariffs, direct and indirect taxation, the extraordinarily significant issue of nullification,
innumerable federal impositions and more, and more, which led the Confederate states to draft their declarations of
secession. These short, concise documents are not only fascinating, they are of obviously incalculable value to any
free citizen whose aim is to know the history of his state, his country and his constitution. Do you know of even
one young Southerner who has studied any of these documents in school?
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The Mendacious Yankee Culture
Southern folks, from Jefferson Davis on down, never really grasped the true mendacity of the Yankee culture, how
false and devious it was. Southern delegations sent to Washington were always the victims of one-upsmanship because
they tried to deal honestly with the questions at hand, while Lincoln and Seward and the rest had no intention of
doing such.
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The 1963 Inaugural Address of Governor George C. Wallace
Hear me, Southerners! You sons and daughters who have moved north and west throughout this nation . . . . we call
on you from your native soil to join with us in national support and vote . . and we know . . . wherever you are .
. away from the hearths of the Southland . . . that you will respond, for though you may live in the fartherest
reaches of this vast country . . . . your heart has never left Dixieland.
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The Southerner
If it cannot be said of the Southerner that his culture represents a legitimate, established place among the
peoples of the world, then it cannot be said of the French in France or the Swedes in Sweden, for the Southerner
can validate his exemplary inheritance not only on one shore but upon two. His legitimacy of race was established
in the Old Country and confirmed in the Old South. Not only does he have the right to exist but he has the right
to exist well.
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How the Lincoln Myth Was Hatched
The violence of the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line
is startling. The breadth and depth of the spectacular prejudice against him is often shocking for its cruelty,
intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Mr. Lincoln was deeply reviled by many who knew him
personally, and by hundreds of thousands who only knew of him.
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The Magnificent Lee
There was a time when no true son or daughter of Dixie would let the birthday of Virginia’s greatest son pass by
unheralded. Yet, as we approach Lee-Jackson Day here in Virginia, once again, nary a word has been said in the
press, the pulpit, or the halls of our capitol, expressing excitement or planned celebration of the state holiday.
It is no wonder that few, if any of our school children, have the slightest clue as to who Robert E. Lee and Thomas
Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson were. They don’t know, and they don’t care. I believe the loss is all of ours.
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A Study in Modern Liberal Revisionism and Political Correctness
It has always amused me that northern liberal scholars and historians alike, feel their insights into the minds of
the Southern people are more accurate than what those very people knew themselves and shared openly among
themselves, as well as with outsiders, concerning their reasons for secession from he Union.
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Beneath the Southern Cross
The Confederate Battle Flag ought to be the honored heritage of not only every Southerner, but every American. Yet
there are those who are willing to accept an ignominious degradation of truth and venomous slander against the
honor of the Confederate soldier in order to maintain social peace in this and perhaps future generations. There
are those who are willing to trample on the honor of noble ancestors, even their own ancestors, in order to promote
such a social peace.
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America has lost Southern Values
Personally, I have come to the conclusion that we all would be better off if the South had been allowed to
peaceably secede, as the primary divisions we see in the country, from its founding and which led to the Civil War,
are still present today and driving the discord in this country. In fact, we clearly never have been “One People”
except briefly during the Second World War; we separate today, as then, on basically conservative versus liberal
political philosophy; strong centralization of government versus limited central government, pursuit of wealth
versus pursuit of quality of life, imposing ones values on other people versus letting others live the way they
want, secular humanism versus religious faith and values.
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Message of Jefferson Davis to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America
Gentlemen of the Congress: It is my pleasing duty to announce to you that the Constitution framed for the
establishment of a permanent Government for the Confederate States has been ratified by conventions in each of
those States to which it was referred. To inaugurate the Government in its full proportions and upon its own
substantial basis of the popular will, it only remains that elections should be held for the designation of the
officers to administer it.
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Who killed the Constitution?
I became intrigued recently by the question of at what precise point the U.S. Constitution ceased to be the
constraining force behind U.S. government actions. And, more importantly, who it was that doomed the Constitution
to its current irrelevance. Nothing ‘just happens’, there is always some disaster maker, a real live person,
lurking in history’s gloomy shadows. Who was this real, live person?
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The Last Trench
As they walked through the bodies strewn throughout the overran trenches, one officer could not help but comment on
the composition of the dead laying everywhere:
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Where Is Lincoln’s Real Gettysburg Address?
Ward Lamon, intimate friend of Lincoln and his US Marshal for the District of Columbia, and Colonel in the Secret
Service; Historian Shepherd of Baltimore; W.H. Cunningham of the Montgomery (Missouri) Star, who sat right behind
Lincoln at Gettysburg, all agreed and publicly stated that the speech published was not the one delivered by
Lincoln; that both Edward Everett and Seward expressed their disappointment and there was no applause; that Lincoln
said: “Lamon, that speech was like a wet blanket on the audience. I am distressed by it.” These gentlemen who heard
the speech all say that the speech delivered was not the one which has been so extensively printed.
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Abraham Lincoln: An American Dictator
For four years, during the greatest crisis that this country has ever known, America was ruled by a dictator. But
then, as history has repeatedly shown, it is generally during times of national crisis that dictators rise to
power. Who was this tyrant? He was a simple and self-educated lawyer who came from humble roots in rural Illinois.
Yes, I’m talking about Abraham Lincoln.
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The 10 Causes of the War Between the States
Historians have long debated the causes of the war and the Southern perspective differs greatly from the Northern
perspective. Based upon the study of original documents of theWar Between The States (Civil War) era and facts and
information published by Confederate Veterans, Confederate Chaplains, Southern writers and Southern Historians
before, during, and after the war, I present the facts, opinions, and conclusions stated in the following article.
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Thank Goodness for the Bill of Rights!
When our Founders proposed the Constitution (and the new federal government) to the American people in 1787, many
people objected that the document did not contain express guarantees of due process of law and protection of
fundamental liberties. Those who advocated the adoption of the Constitution responded that there was nothing to
fear because the powers of federal officials would be limited to those enumerated in the original document. Since
those powers didn’t include the power to deprive a person of fundamental liberties or due process of law, their
argument went, there was no reason to have an express prohibition on the exercise of such power. That wasn’t good
enough for the American people.
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Reconstruction and Black-White conflict in the South
Now we all know that much is made in the corporate press about black-white conflict in the South, while even worse
goes on in Northern cities without the posturing and hand-wringing. When inter-racial violence erupts up North, the
press focuses on the “bad eggs” responsible for the violence, but let the same happen south of the Mason-Dixon
line, and the blame always falls on “the South.”
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The Truth About The Confederate Battle Flag
Let me begin by asking a simple question. Why in the world is there so much fuss over a flag? Is a standard, a
banner, and ensign, or a flag worth fighting about? Everyone knows that a flag is a symbol. It represents
something. But what is it a symbol of and what does it represent?
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Newsweek‘s ‘Voodoo Gospel’
Lincoln may have been an atheist, but he fully understood that most Americans were certainly not, that they read
the Bible, and that their emotions could be rather easily swayed by references to the Bible, especially at wartime
when emotion seems to overwhelm reason on the part of much of the population.
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Immigrants, Not Americans, Must Adapt
I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the
terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. However, the
dust from the attacks had barely settled when the “politically correct” crowd began complaining about the
possibility that our patriotism was offending others.
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My Heritage, My Flag, My Opinion
Our South, our Confederate history, and by extension, our Confederate battle flag, have suffered for many years
from the relentless hatchet job of false propaganda heaped upon them by the news media, the education system, and,
of course, Hollywood and television.
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Power, Legitimacy, and the 14th Amendment
The justification for the vast, intrusive, and coercive powers employed by the government of the United States
against its citizens from affirmative action to hate-crimes legislation, from multilingualism to multiculturalism,
from Waco to Ruby Ridge is the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1868, or, more specifically, the
authority conferred upon Washington, explicitly or implicitly, by the privileges and immunities and equal
protection clauses of that amendment.
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Race and Revolution
As McGee’s remarks illustrate, the urban insurrectionists of the 1990s are pursuing a sophisticated and diabolical
strategy: using anarchy to summon tyranny into existence. With the help of foreign sponsors, federal largesse, and
the blessings of the mainstream media, the nouveau guerrillas are laying the groundwork for future eruptions like
the July 4th communist attack in Westwood and the much-invoked Los Angeles “Uprising.”
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What It Really Means
One of the most enduring traditional American hymns and patriotic songs is Julia Ward Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of
the Republic.” It is a staple with many Christian church choirs and hardly a patriotic holiday passes without this
song being sung and played at ceremonies nationwide. But is “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” truly appropriate for
religious hymnals and patriotic ceremonies? Who was the author? What motivated and inspired her? What message was
she trying to convey? What do the words mean? What meaning do they have for us today?
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The Confederate Soldier
The Confederate soldiers who engaged in the struggle for constitutional liberty and the right of self-government
were neither rebels nor traitors; they were true and brave men, who devoted their fortunes and their lives to the
mothers who bore them, and their precious blood watered the hills, valleys and plains of their native States, and
their bodies sleep in unknown graves, where they shall rest until the last great trumpet shall summon all alike,
the conquered and the conqueror.
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Guns, Gun Laws, and Liberty
The challenge is to express appropriate grief and concern about these things without allowing hyped emotions,
rhetorical window-dressing, or futile “quick fixes” to rule the day. Political jockeying to prove who is most
outraged by violence must not overwhelm facts, logic, and experience.
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The War for Our Survival as a People
‘It would be immeasurably the worst consequence of defeat in this war that the South should lose its moral and
intellectual distinctiveness as a people, and cease to assert its well-known superiority in civilization, in
political scholarship, and in all the standards of individual character over the people of the North. That
superiority has been recognized by every foreign observer, and by the intelligent everywhere; for it is the South
that in the past produced four-fifths of the political literature of America, and presented in its public men that
list of American names best known in the Christian world.’
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Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence
On 4 March 2000, The League of the South held a Southern Independence Day celebration at the Alabama State Capitol
in Montgomery. Some 3,500 Southern Patriots there witnessed the signing of the “Declaration of Southern Cultural
Independence.”
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The Other Reparations Movement
Jack Kershaw of Memphis, Tennessee, wants to file a class-action lawsuit against the US government for reparations.
Not on behalf of the descendants of slaves but on behalf of Southerners of all races whose ancestors were the
victims of the US government’s rampage of pillaging, plundering, burning, and raping of Southern civilians during
the War for Southern Independence.
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My South
I am always amused by Hollywood’s interpretation of the South. We are still, on occasion, depicted as a collective
group of sweaty, stupid, backwards-minded and racist rednecks. The south of movies and TV, the Hollywood south, is
not my south.
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It Freed Whose Slaves?
It amazes me how often conservative and patriotic people, who should know better, have so little a grasp of
accurate history. I recently saw comments on a patriotic web site by a well-intentioned columnist commenting about
how all the slaves were freed upon the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. My first thought was rather
unprintable. My second thought was “you’ve got to be kidding!”
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Motivating Southerners
Every day, you are likely to pick up a newspaper or watch on the television some attack on Southern culture.
Recently, the cowardly Virginia legislature voted against the recognition of a Confederate history month. Of
course, they, like all other Southern states, continue to recognize the black history month shoved down the throats
of children at government schools.
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The Lincoln Putsch: America’s Bolshevik Revolution
Regardless of how “conservative” the Republican Party may or may not be, it is easy to forget that there was a time
when the Party was far from conservative, that in the early days of the party, socialists and outright communists
played an active role. In fact, it can and will be argued here that the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was
made possible by communists and socialists, most of them German immigrants in the Midwest, and indeed the
prosecution of the War depended in large part on those same alien people.
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Humble response to Mr. A. J. Cortez
A rebutal to an email received by Carleton S. Wilkes from a Mr. A. J. Cortez contending that the War for Southern
Independence was an attack upon the government of the United States.
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No, We Are Not Surrendering
From the enemy’s mandate, the mission is clear: Saving the Southern Culture, State Sovereignty, educating the
population as to the nature and cause of this contest, and keeping forever the respect and memory of those who died
fighting for it. To fight any battle, all that’s needed is fuel and information. Any well-motivated army can do the
rest. No more eating, meeting and retreating, gentleman. Time for them to feel our pain.
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The Case for Southern Secession
Secession today appears to be a serious but popularly accepted option everywhere except here in the United States. Fifteen years ago, someone suggesting that Russia
would voluntarily allow the three Baltic states their independence after their re-annexation, at the point of a bayonet in the I 940s, would have had been considered
a hopeless romantic and/or lunatic. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (and possibly Canada) and a rebirth of Scottish nationalism, Southerners too
are increasingly wondering whether or not greater autonomy for the South is possible.
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