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Betrayed by Yankees Perverting the Constitution

By Bernard Thuersam

Originally published at Circa1865.com. The presidential messages of Jefferson Davis were filled with assertions of the South’s legal right to secede and form a more perfect union, and determine its own form of government to… »

  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Secession
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Yankees

Death is Mercy to Secessionists

By Bernard Thuersam

William T. Sherman viewed Southerners as he later viewed American Indians, to be exterminated or banished to reservations as punishment for having resisted government power. They were subjects and merely temporary occupants of land belonging… »

  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Secession
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman

One Ruler to Enforce Obedience

By Bernard Thuersam

The peaceful political separation desired by the American South in early 1861 was best summarized by President Jefferson Davis’ in his inaugural address: “We seek no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from… »

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  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Robert Toombs
  • War for Southern Independence

The South: The Genesis of American Independence

By Bernard Thuersam

Originally published at www.circa1865.com In 1887 North Carolina’s Lieutenant-General Daniel H. Hill spoke of the American Republic and the men who founded, led and sustained it until a revolutionary movement ended its life after some… »

  • American War for Independence
  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Secession
  • Southern History

Reconstruction’s Hungry Locusts

By Bernard Thuersam

The wife of the president H.L. Mencken referred to as “Roosevelt the Second” provided much of the impetus for the communizing of the Democratic party in the mid-1930s, and could be readily found supporting and… »

  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Reconstruction
  • Southern History

Vindicating the South

By Bernard Thuersam

Reprinted from Circa1865.com. The articles of Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe would often express “in vigorous language . . . the best types of literature of the conservative point of view” from the South. In battling… »

  • Albert Taylor Bledsoe
  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History

Northern Resistance to Abolitionists

By Bernard Thuersam

Reprinted from Circa1865.com Anti-abolition sentiment was often found north of Mason and Dixon’s line and evidenced by incidents like the 1837 shooting death of abolitionist Elija Lovejoy in Alton, Ohio. The local citizenry tried to… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Bernard Thuersam

The Sam and Bobby Show

By Bernard Thuersam

In honor of Senator Sam Ervin’s birthday, September 27, from his Preserving the Constitution; The Autobiography of Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., 1984, The Michie Company, Charlottesville, Virginia, pp. 160-161 During 1963, Attorney General Robert F.… »

  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Civil Rights
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Sam Ervin

“I cannot speak of my dead so soon.”

By Bernard Thuersam

After his release from imprisonment in 1867, President Jefferson Davis journeyed to Canada where he met several Confederate leaders in exile at today’s Niagara-on-the-Lake, directly across the river from Old Fort Niagara. Available from the… »

  • Jefferson Davis
  • War for Southern Independence

The Real Cornerstone Speech

By Bernard Thuersam

From Bernard Thuersam’s website: Senator Robert Toombs and the Cornerstone of the Confederacy “GENTLEMEN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present… »

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  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Robert Toombs
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence

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