A friendly reminder that we aren't going anywhere, no matter how much they try to rewrite, cancel, or ban our history & heritage!
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ConfederateShop
@ConfederateShop
A brick-&-mortar and online shop exclusively dedicated to honoring Confederate history and heritage. Learn more about us here: https://t.co/FUYsi4dQpV
Harrrisonburg, VA Katılım Nisan 2022
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@tawny_here Is there something wrong in remembering ones history or heritage?
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"As we would have our descendants judge us, so ought we to judge our fathers. In order to form a correct estimate of their merits, we ought to place ourselves in their situation, to put out of our minds, for a time, all that knowledge which they, however eager in the pursuit of truth, could not have, and which we, however negligent we may have been, could not help having. It was not merely difficult, but absolutely impossible, for the best and greatest of men, two hundred years ago, to be what a very commonplace person in our days may easily be, and indeed must necessarily be. But it is too much that the benefactors of mankind, after having been reviled by the dunces of their own generation for going too far, should be reviled by the dunces of the next generation for not going far enough."
Thomas Babington MacAulay (Early nineteenth century British historian and politician)
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From the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution, Art. IV:
"The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State, and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled."
Just to clarify, Massachusetts threatened secession in 1807--never was this option denied them.
Many states explicitly shared these terms when entering the Union agreement. Unfortunately, it turns out all that “sovereignty and independence” had an expiration date. In the case of the Southern states, the blood of 1776 doesn’t carry much weight when Abraham Lincoln shows up with a bayonet to clarify his indivisible Union.
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Have you ever seen anyone with this flag in their yard?
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When it comes to the Thomas Jefferson–Sally Hemings controversy, it appears—once again—that the gatekeepers of mainstream history haven’t given you the full story. The information linked here is well worth your time.
"The question of whether Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave Sally Hemings is an issue about which honorable people can and do disagree. . . . After a careful review of all the evidence, the commission agreed unanimously that the allegation is by no means proven, and they found it regrettable that public confusion about the 1998 DNA testing and other evidence has misled many people."
Jefferson Davis@Jeff_Davis1808
If you are a new follower, make sure you read the scholars commission report. tjheritage.org/the-scholars-c…
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“A wise and philosophical historian has justly said that ‘a people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of a remote ancestry will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered by remote descendants.’” John Cussons, History, pg. 12.
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“There can be no evil so deep and abiding as that which must befall a people who have been taught to hold the memory of their ancestors in derision and contempt.” Cussons, History, pg. 8.
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@jebsmith764 Thanks for all your support Jeb, I really do appreciate it.
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@ConfederateShop That will be my next order through confederate shop!
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I just finished reading this excellent little book. At only 70 pages, it packs in an impressive number of facts about American slavery that rarely make it into mainstream discussions.
I’ll be posting a full video review in my newsletter this weekend. Copies are now available for purchase on ConfederateShop:
confederateshop.com/store/african-…
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“There are, probably, few who would not abstractly prefer free labor; but what shall be done with the blacks? There has never been a time in the history of our discussions on this subject, when, if the South had expressed her willingness to part with the slaves, we at the north could have agreed in what way they should have been disposed of. Who has ever proposed a plan of relief which could in a good measure unite us? What shall be done with the blacks? On the evils of slavery all are well informed. But as to this essential question we get no light”.
~ A Southside View of Slavery, Dr. Nehemiah Adams
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Alexander Stephen’s asked Lincoln what would become of the slaves once they were free. Lincoln responded, “root, hog, or die.”
And die they did—about a million by 1870.
They never got their 40 acres and a mule.
They were not welcomed by what we’ve been told was the righteous north.
They were used, as sharecroppers, and as the violent arm of the Union League and Freedman’s Bureau.
Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson@jjfThompson
“There are, probably, few who would not abstractly prefer free labor; but what shall be done with the blacks? There has never been a time in the history of our discussions on this subject, when, if the South had expressed her willingness to part with the slaves, we at the north could have agreed in what way they should have been disposed of. Who has ever proposed a plan of relief which could in a good measure unite us? What shall be done with the blacks? On the evils of slavery all are well informed. But as to this essential question we get no light”. ~ A Southside View of Slavery, Dr. Nehemiah Adams
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@ConfederateShop I did not realize Wilson wrote on this subject, I will have to check it out
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“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”
Major General John B. Gordon, from his book Causes of the Civil War.
Wanjiru Njoya@WanjiruNjoya
Did you know Lincoln offered to let the South keep slavery forever if they would only stay in the Union? When the Southern bid for independence was lost he was glad they were back in the Union and his empire wouldn't be broken up. He didn't care about "civil rights" and whatnot.
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“History is not a logical proposition, a mathematical calculation, or a scientific experiment.
It is a vast drama of which there is always more to be learned. . . History is the experience of human beings. History is a story and a story is somebody's story. It tells us about who we and who other peoples are. History is properly not a political, ideological slogan like "about slavery." Ideological slogans are accusations and instruments of conflict and domination. Stories of real people are instruments of understanding and peace.” - Dr. Clyde Wilson
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Reminder that these gremlins despise the Confederacy because it was America's last real stand for hierarchy and tradition against egalitarianism and the administrative state that enforces it
They care nothing about nullification or secession as principles, know and care not about Randolph or Calhoun, and both Puritan and Cavalier are alien to them, as those who push the anti-Lee drivel are aliens to America herself
And so they wish to destroy that which reminds us of what America once was so that we forget that the grey and suffocating muck of egalitarianism can be resisted.
To destroy the memory and legacy of Lee, Jackson, and Stuart is their goal, as such is a clear path to destroying any thought that the resistance to egalitarian tyranny embodied in those men can be renewed, and their spirit made our spirit once again
Del. Dan Helmer@DelDanHelmer
The Confederacy was a four year period in which traitors hellbent on preserving slavery tried - and then failed - to divide the Union. The Confederacy and its leaders do not deserve our commemoration, and its adherents certainly do not deserve taxpayer dollars.
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