Confederates, each and every one of them, was someone from somewhere and knew who they were, where they came from, and what they were doing. That knowledge was their superpower. I have no other explanation for their four year struggle against such overwhelming odds. We need that superpower if we are going to weather the storms that are gathering about us. Knowing who we are, where we come from, and what we are doing gives us roots—the deeper the roots, the more stability. Lose the roots and people sooner or later fall for the falsehoods regarding America in general and the South in particular. Our “betters” want our roots torn from the ground. Why else attack reminders of our dead? They know that we cannot be controlled easily if we know our history.
It appears that far too many Americans have forgotten, and the South is not far behind. Our colonial fathers did not forget their roots when the British Parliament began testing their resolve which eventually evolved into the first war for American Independence. The sons of those veterans of the heroes of the so-called “revolution,” at least in the South, were Confederates. Davis and Lee, for example, were both sons of patriots who fought for American independence. Confederates, like their fathers, would not simply submit to an all-powerful, top-down government which was the exact opposite of the federal union of sovereign States established by the consent of the people of the States openly and honestly.
In this clown world, Southerners are punished for being Southern in the South. The issues in Virginia being the latest of a long train of abuses. To “those people” we have always been and will always be “less than,” or in the words of Dr. Clyde Wilson, “America’s redheaded stepchild.”
Unlike many of our people today, our fathers who participated in both wars for independence knew their inherited rights, how they came about, and paid a great price in blood and treasure to defend them. They had no intention to sign-on voluntarily to some new arrangement that was (to paraphrase the Declaration) foreign to their constitutions, and unacknowledged by their laws without serious resistance.
In the case of the colonist, it was the abuse of power by the King, but more especially the parliament who were in their estimation a foreign governing body in which they were not represented and to whom they never gave their allegiance.
For the Confederates, it was the election of a man who they believe (and believed correctly) would use the reins of government to trample the terms of the constitutional compact to which their fathers gave consent. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but the South was the defender of the Constitution as ratified, not the Lincoln regime. They were not interested in a revolution designed to destroy the Federal Union and out of its ruins create a centralized regime—one and indivisible—as Lincoln and the Republicans did. This form of government was rejected by the union of States when they adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and then the Constitution of 1787.
We are not, nor have we ever been a nation—at least a legal one. We were, however, made one by force if that counts.
In the case regarding the two wars for independence, the participants were not fighting for some new form of government. No sir. They fought to preserve the rights and privileges as well as the burdens and benefits of self-government—something they had long enjoyed before and after British America’s separation from the mother country.
Our Confederate forefathers saw the consolidation of the American States in a similar fashion, but they remembered. They knew what they were and where they came from and had no intention of allowing the creation of a consolidated governing apparatus without firm and principled opposition. Such a government went against everything they agreed to when signing on to the aforementioned compacts.
We have the original documents, easily available, that tell the truth about what the States were (and still are—legally speaking), what they agreed to and what they emphatically did not.
Those who remember will see the fraud for what it is. Those who forget will fall prey to it. It’s just that simple.
“Those people” want us to forget. They need us to forget. They have been trying to strip us of what is left of our traditional and cultural institutions and “Constitutionally protected” rights for over a century and a half. I can’t help but believe that these people are in the process of creating a new kind of government, a government, once again, foreign to our constitutions (both State and federal), and unacknowledged by our laws. They call it progress. I call it usurpation.
We are not engaged in an academic exercise or an argument where there are winners and losers, ours is the history of a real people—human beings that existed just as truly and fully as we do today—that are still constantly demonized and persecuted, even as they lay in their graves.
This is not coming from people who know, but people who don’t. This does not come from people with roots, but from people who lack them. Their hatred for our Confederate fathers is not because they were guilty of some great evil. Rather, it is an attempt to make us forget our forebearers who knew how to say “NO!” when their hard won independence was threatened from within.
I don’t care (and neither should you) what governments, media outlets, mobs on social media, or (even worse) “experts” who cannot tell the truth and keep their jobs think or say about our Confederate fathers. They are on a shaky foundation based on blatant falsehoods which cannot maintain their position forever. The truth, sooner or later, always surfaces. That could ruin their plans for us. Hence, remove the reminders, the markers, and the monuments.
We should do all in our power to help Americans, but especially Southerners, remember who they are. Help them remember where they came from, and why it matters. I once heard it put this way: “If they know, we will grow.” This includes not only growth as an organization, but as a true counterweight to the enemies of the Constitution as ratified by the people of the several States, and defend it against all enemies both foreign and domestic.
The stakes are high, compatriots. Higher than most of us can currently imagine. We must, therefore, remember and see that future generations have the ability to do the same.
