Roll, Alabama, Roll

2010 February 10
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

“There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.”
~ Peter Muhlenberg, from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock, Virginia, January 1776

 

February 10, 1779
The Battle of Carr’s Fort
On this day in 1779, a force of more than 340 men from the South Carolina and Georgia militias, led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia, attack a group of approximately 200 Loyalists under the command of Colonel John Hamilton at Robert Carr’s Fort, in Wilkes County, Georgia.

 

CSS Alabama (1862-1864)

CSS Alabama (1862-1864)

“From the Western Isles she sailed forth,
Roll, Alabama, Roll,
To destroy the commerce of the north,
Oh, Roll, Alabama, Roll.”
~ Roll, Alabama, Roll ~ F. Townshend

Big gun goes home
Charleston Post Courier -
The Confederate sloop of war Alabama traveled the world during the SECESSION War, making life miserable for many mariners, but the feared raider …

 

[THERE IS MUCH TO THINK ON HERE, Y'ALL ...]
The vanguard of Venezuela’s rural proletariat is being armed and trained

VHeadline.com -
The peasant militia units are receiving weapons training, mobility experience, basic tactics, and the establishment of intelligence and counter-intelligence … Mobility capability is a key element in the readiness of the peasant militia, for the opposition-sponsored terrorists often arrive and depart in pick-up trucks and SUVs.

 

[MAYBE DEYS COULD PUT IT IN THE PARKIN' LOT OF DA SELMA-TO-MONKEYTOWNE ORGY TRAIL INTERPRETIVE CENTER ===> IT ALWAYS BEES EMPTY!!!]
Spanish Fort park director offers to save Confederate landmark by moving it

Press-Register - al.com (blog) -
Canby and Confederate Gen. Richard Taylor a few weeks after the North won the Battle of Blakeley on April 9, 1865, at the spot where Blakeley Park now …

 

[A LITTLE OVERDONE ...]
Analyzing an era of hatred: Bread, roses, wacism and song
newjerseynewsroom.com -
In the Ferris State University presentation of “What Was Jim Crow?” from its Museum of Wacist Memorabilia, “The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: Whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between blacks and Whites would produce a mongrel race that would destroy America; treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy…”

 

[SHOULD BE REQUIRED READIN' FER ALL SOUTHRON NATIONALISTS!!!]
Apostles of Disunion – Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

By admin -
Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners’ brutally candid rhetoric a stark White Supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political “outrages” committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln’s election. But the core of their argument–the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately–did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln’s election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare.

 

[WE CAN USE ALL THE SKS RIFLES WE CAN GIT!!!]
Photos: Daily RFT Survives Our Journey to St. Charles Gun Show

Riverfront Times (blog) -
The Sons of Confederate Veterans were also there, spreading the message of Confederate pride. And yes, what you heard from the Brady campaign is true. …

 

[SEEMS REASONABLE TO US ...]
Bill to allow guns in Virginia bars advances in Assembly

The Virginian-Pilot -
It was approved this morning by the House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee and now advances to the House floor. If passed there, it will go to …

 

[Ephesians 6:5 NIV • { Slaves and Masters }
 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.]
A guided tour of african-AmeriKan hysterical photos show

Access Atlanta - Howard Pousner -
8 of 19
The Confederate soldiers showed that this is a punishment if you run away from slavery. … We can see how propaganda was started on both ends. …

 

[THE TIME TO BE GONE HAS LONG SINCE COME!!!]
Secession Is In the Air

Lew Rockwell - by Kirkpatrick Sale
I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but secession is in the air. First of all, a fellow named Bill Miller has started a new website, …

 

[FRANKLY MY DEAR, WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN ...]
Megan Fox And Josh Brolin In New ‘Jonah Hex’ Set Photos

MTV.com - ‎
Both Brolin and Fox can be seen in full period costumes for the Western-themed film, which puts the former Confederate soldier turned bounty hunter at odds …

 

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[Romans 10:9 King James Bible
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.]


Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercial-(ACTUAL COMMERCIAL)-Pro-Life-Focus on the Family

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Joshua 24:15  King James Bible
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

The Temporal Consequences of Atheism for Christians
by Gary DeMar

There are temporal consequences for theists as there are eternal consequences for atheists. If as Christopher Hitchens believes Christianity is not good for the world, will laws be passed to outlaw or at least suppress religious expression? This has already been done in public schools. There are signs that such oppositions to religion are spreading:

[A] man talking to two willing strangers in a shopping mall was arrested because the subject of the conversation was God. The case developed several years ago when a youth pastor was arrested at the Galleria Mall in Roseville, Calif., for having a conversation about religion with two other people. Matthew Snatchko, who works with youth at his church, was interrupted in the middle of a conversation by a security guard. A second guard joined the confrontation and told Snatchko he was being placed under citizen’s arrest for “trespassing.”
. . . Besides the ban on conversations with strangers about religion or politics, the mall also bans any clothing with religious or political messages.

It’s one thing to have a policy that prohibits proselytizing, standing on a soapbox and preaching, or carrying a sign around that says “Repent!” Malls are private property. We’ll have to see how the courts rule on this one, but the fact that there is such a written policy is frightening. If you live in an area where malls owned by these companies, you might want to consider shopping elsewhere. By all means let the company know why you no longer will do business there: Fear of getting arrested because you might happen to strike up a conversation with a stranger in the foot court that leads to a discussion about religion.

Those who believe in God could be marginalized, and if atheists get their way politically, we might find some very bad laws passed. Here’s what prominent atheist Daniel C. Dennett wants to happen:

If you insist on teaching your children falsehoods—that the Earth is flat, that “Man” is not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the planet—depends on the education of our descendants.

Yikes! Atheists rail against theocracy, but they don’t see that their worldview is oppressively theocratic with no hint of restraint. Man is god, and man’s law must be imposed on every area of life in the name of Darwin through the power of the State using reason and science as the twin authorities. These revelatory pillars of evolution—the old and new testaments of their man-centered worldview—are as infallible in their eyes as the Bible is in ours. There is no question that this is the truth.

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Chaplains’ Corps Chronicles Anno Domini 2010 February Issue

2010 February 7
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

 

 

Chaplains’ Corps Chronicles

of the

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Anno Domini 2010

February Issue

 

“That in all things Christ might have the preeminence.”

 


Chaplain-in-Chief Cecil A. Fayard, Jr.

PO Box 595

Elliott, MS 38926

E-mail: cecilafayard@msn.com

 

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Editor: Past Chaplain-in-Chief H. Rondel Rumburg

PO Box 472

Spout Spring, Virginia 24593

E-mail: littlealec@mindspring.com

 

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Assistant Editor: Chaplain Mark Evans

20 Sharon Drive,

Greenville, SC 29607

E-mail: markwevans@bellsouth.net

 

  Editorial

 

Fellow Compatriots in the Chaplains’ Corps and Friends,

 

The month of February was an important month in the history of the South for on February 9, 1861 Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens were elected President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America.  This was the last great experiment for freedom on this continent. Compatriots, we must not forget these men and we would do well to study them emulate their uncompromising lives and steadfastness to Biblical principles.  Also, lest we forget another February event, it was on February 11th 1812 that the Vice President of the Confederacy the Honorable Alexander H. Stephens was born.  Yes, this is the birth month of Little Aleck Stephens a man small in size who was a giant as a man.

Also it does us good to not forget the average Southern citizen of the South during those uncertain days of war.  From Lee County, Mississippi we have some excerpts from the Diary of Samuel A. Agnew (1833-1902), which gives a brief insight into life during the month of February in 1864.  Samuel Agnew’s Uncle Young was his pastor and sometimes when his uncle could not preach due to illness or some other providential impairment he would preach in his place.  Samuel was a student of the Bible and of Calvin’s Institutes.  The following begins on February 21 and ends on February 29, 1864.  Agnew titled his entry on February 21 “An alarm at church—Yankees at Chesterville.”

 

        Sabbath. Our lodgers of last night started on their way after breakfast. They considered it “a work of necessity” to travel on the Sabbath.

        The day has been very pretty: tonight however is a little clouded. Rode out to Church—a respectably sized congregation were present, but before the people went to the Church, Uncle Young’s Jo came up bringing the report that the Yankees were in Yarnaby bottom coming up this way. The congregation took the alarm and immediately dispersed. Came over home and read Calvin’s Institutes. Finished the 2d Book of the work today (Samuel Agnew had been systematically reading through Calvin’s work).

        Have heard several items today but what we hear is very contradictory. John McGee is home on furlough from Tunnel Hill. Thad Bryson also reached his father’s this morning. The report of the Yankees being at Aberdeen is contradicted. The general report at Church today was that they were in Yarnaby bottom, and tonight I have certainly learned that there was a batch certainly at Chesterville. Six of them were captured by some of our men in that neighborhood this morning. It seems hard to get the truth about the Yankees. It is now said that none are camped about Poplar Springs. Neil Galloway went down into Buncombe yesterday evening. He will bring an account of things in that country. Tonight about 8 o’clock or a little after Uncle Jo passed going to the Cross Roads. Some 15 of Ham’s men are camped tonight in Brice’s wood lot. A man passed Uncle Jo’s after dark running from Gambrell’s. He told the negroes that the Yankees were coming across country and had drove him from Gambrell’s since dark. I do not know whether there is any truth in the account or not. A Negro Thomas belonging to Jno. Hanna of the 54th Tenn. Reg’t passed this evening making his way from Gibson Co. Tenn. to his master in Johnston’s army. He is a faithful servant. His master gave him a pass home from Dalton in Dec. and now he is making his way back. He certainly deserves credit for his fidelity.

 

February 22, 1864 “Current reports”

        Up early and immediately after breakfast rode west to ascertain facts in reference the report of Yankees at Gambrell’s. At Uncle Jo’s learned that it was not so. A young Jones, son of widow Jones, started the report. His conduct is worthy of the severest censure.

        The day throughout has been clear and pretty. Wrote a letter to Jno. D. Agnew in the forenoon, Uncle Jo over this evening. He has heard that the Yankees are building a bridge across the Tombigby at Aberdeen. E. S. Hammond passed this evening. He has recently married a daughter of Orlando Davy. He says that through a negro he understands that more Yankees were passing through Alabama Saturday and Sabbath. Forrest on Tuesday was at Sarepta, Chalmers at Houston, and Gholson at West Point. A Memphis Bulletin of the 17th reports the Federals at Meridian. Polk is represented as being between Meridian and Jackson. Banks is moving along the coast against Mobile, the bombardment of Fort Morgan is reported to have commence. There is also a movement from Larkin’s Ferry on the Tennessee down the Coosa Valley. Gen. W. L. Smith commands the Feds who have passed through New Albany.

        Rode over to Aunt Rilla’s late this evening. Was surprised to find Aunt Sarah Agnew there. She came up from Verona Saturday. There had been no Yankees there up to Saturday morning: neither at Tupelo. There were some at Okolona on Friday and they had burnt some stores. They had also been at Egypt—and the idea below is that they have gone from Okolona down the Rail Road. Aunt Sarah did not know whether any had been at Aberdeen or not. About Verona the country has been full of the wildest kind of reports, but they have nearly all proven false. It is thought these false alarms mostly are started by deserters. Noticed this evening two Tennesseans going back to the army, they are from Shelby Co. One was named Herring, the other was an Irishman who Herring called Dennis. They were footing it.

 

February 23, 1864 “Tennesseans going to the army”

        After breakfast rode home. Met in Phillips’ lane several footmen and one horseman: they were Tennesseans from Fayette and Tipton Counties going to Bragg’s army as Johnston’s troops are still called. They were here last night and I hear give very entertaining accounts of the times in West Tennessee during the Yankee occupation. Maj. Beaty told me this morning that he saw Alex Lowry yesterday evening. Lowry told him that the Yankees were scattered from Aberdeen to Meridian. Our troops were concentrating at Starkville opposite them. The day has been clear and pretty. Mr. Bryant was here for dinner, he was hunting corn. This evening Uncle Jo was over. During the day the news was that the Yankees were all gone down the Railroad below Okolona.

        Late this evening rode down to Uncle Young’s & spent the night, Miss Mollie McGee was there. As I went down Frank Branyan told me that there was an alarm of Yankees this evening. They were reported 4 miles this side of Chesterville coming this way. The neighbors there had their stock out. Went on to Mr. Young’s. The alarm had subsided. Gambrell’s scout got back this evening and they report Forrest driving the Yankees back. Forrest could not get in their front until they got down near Tibbie. There he got them turned. At Okolona they made a stand on Monday, but Forrest drove them away with considerable loss. Col. Jeff Forrest was killed at Okolona. Forrest with one regiment charged 4 Federal reg’ts and routed them. There we captured 15 pieces of artillery, which some say is all they had. The pursuit still continues. There was fighting near Redland Monday evening. The Yankees passed through Pontotoc Monday night going towards New Albany. As the Yankees retreated they destroyed vast quantities of corn and burned every gin house they came to. Gambrell’s men heard firing this evening towards Poplar Springs and they conjectured the Yankees were in that quarter.

 

February 24, 1864 “The Yankee retreat”

        Uncle Young’s negroes report having heard firing last night about 10 o’clock in a western direction. Came up home soon after breakfast, and have lolled about doing nothing of much moment. From several passers by have heard several items confirmatory of yesterday’s news. The Yankees have gone back towards Memphis, having crossed Tallahatchie at New Albany 3 o’clock Monday evening and fed that night at Norvell’s and Graham’s. One of them told a citizen that they had been south and got whipped like hell. They filled the ford of the river with logs &c so that Forrest could not cross after them. He however sent 60 men over to follow and see where they went. Forrest pressed them hard between Pontotoc and New Albany, especially at Cherry Creek, and Oconita. The road from Aberdeen to Pontotoc is strewed with dead Yankees. The Yankee loss is heavy in killed, wounded and prisoners: ours comparatively light. Col. Jeff Forrest at Okolona killed a Yankee Colonel, when two of his men shot him, Gen. Forrest killed 2 who were trying to kill him. We have not the particulars in reference to the localities and details of the different fights. The Feds traveled the whole of Monday night going towards Holly Springs. The enemy on the route lost all their artillery and wagon train. I think it cost them more than it came to. Mrs. Abrams was here this evening wanting to get a bale of cotton to take to Memphis. She did not get any. The day has been very pretty, perfectly clear but a little smoky.

 

February 25, 1864 “Gambrell’s Independent Scouts”

        This day has been fair and pleasant, but very smoky, owing to the prevalence of fires. Uncle Jo had fire out in his farm this evening and was fighting it. Assist the girls in their flower yard during the morning, also finished the 5th Chapter of Romans in my critical studies. This evening study with a view to a sermon for Sabbath.

        Saw R. C. Richey this morning. He tells me that Ham has been ordered back to West Point. Ham in the pursuit was the last to leave off. His Battalion drove the Yankees from Pontotoc and Cherry Creek. At Pontotoc Jas. Sutherland was severely wounded. Tonight a Mr. Beanland, a lad, is here. He belongs to Gambrell’s Independent scouts. Gambrell is just back from a scout after the Yankees. He killed 1 and captured 2 about 3 miles this side of Tippah on yesterday. The idea among the Yankees was that they would stop on the other side of Tippah and rest a few days. The most important fight was between West Point and Tibbie. This was on Sabbath. The 7th Indiana, 14th New Jersey and 4th Regulars were along. Gambrell has captured 10 Yankees during this Yankee expedition. He is a brave man and an effective scout. He proposes making a scout towards Meridian soon. They start on the 8th inst.

 

February 26, 1864 “Sermonizing”

        This day has been fair but very smoky, especially early in the morning and late this evening. I have been busily engaged writing a sermon, Micah 2:10. This has kept me engaged the whole day. I finished it tonight.

        Mr. John Anderson, wife and child called in before dinner and sat till about 4 o’clock. They had been to Guntown.  Pa had gone over to the Hughes’ farm and did not return till the middle of the afternoon, and it devolved on me to do the entertaining: not a very pleasant task especially as I had a sermon on hand and wished to devote my entire time to that. My guests were not of the most refined character and it was rather an unpleasant service. Harvey Hawthorne called at the gate this evening. He has been down in the neighborhood a few days and was returning, He had no news. It is rumored that Col. Inge was killed at Okolona. Hear from two passers by tonight that it is rumored that the Yankees have been driven from Meridian, and it is thought that in 5 or 6 weeks trains will be running up the M & C R R again. But it is a rumor and may or may not be so. Have tonight a singular pain in the large intestine opening at the anus, a short distance above the anus.

 

February 27, 1864 “Smoke—depredations”

        This morning and entire forenoon has been very smoky, as much so as I have seen lately. The sun shines out however in a dim way.

        Have been all forenoon writing a letter to N E M to send by Uncle Jo to West Point. I have not seen anyone outside of the family and have not heard any news. About 1/2 after 1 I started to Hopewell, and rode to Hugh Caldwell’s where I spent the night.

        This evening the smoke very dense. It looked as if the whole country was being burned off. Saw no fire out but notice considerable tracts of woods which have been burnt within a short time. This will perhaps account for the superabundance of smoke.

        Got from Mr. Caldwell reliable accounts of the Yankee depredations in that neighborhood. The accounts we have had were much exaggerated. They camped several days at Cornelius, above Tardyville, and the people along the main Pontotoc road were badly torn up. Sloan’s crib was burned, B. Harper’s gin was also burnt. In the Hopewell neighborhood they did much damage, searching houses, and taking corn, fodder and meat, and pilfering little articles from their houses. At Houston’s they only took 3 negroes who are believed to have gone away of their own accord. They took none of his corn and very little if any of his meat. John Stephenson had all his fodder and a good part of his corn taken. Barton Jones, Isaac Smith, Jerry Neal, Mrs. Stephenson &c were principle sufferers. They were at Wiley’s Mill but not at his house. They did him no harm. They captured Moses Roberts, some think that Mosey threw himself purposely in their way, but I cannot think so. They did not interfere with citizens who are not in the army. Tonight I hear that Forrest was fighting the Yankees about Holly Springs on Friday and got the worst of it. But the report is discredited. I was also told this evening by Jno. Wages, Sr. that the Yankees were at Holly Springs reinforcing from Memphis and swearing by all that is good that they will go back and give Forrest a thrashing. They acknowledge that Forrest gave them the worst kind of a whipping.

 

February 28, 1864 entry was titled “A sad occurrence in Buncombe”

        Sabbath. This morning was still smoky but by noon the smoke lifted up and it was cloudy and tonight a cold mist of rain is falling.

        Rode out to Hopewell and preached from Micah 2:10. Had one of my sick brushes during the sermon and had to conclude with a very short prayer. Dine with Maj. Wiley and rode home after dinner. Had a respectable congregation. The chief topic of remark was a sad occurrence which transpired last night. It seems that some men (supposed to be Steel and Coleman) went last night to Milton Dunlap’s and fired his fodder stack. Dunlap went out to see about it, and the scamp fired at him inflicting dangerous wounds in his right breast and the calf of his leg. Mrs. Sim Pannel and Miss Sallie McKeown being near neighbors, hearing the cries of Dunlap children, went to see what it meant, accompanied by Allen Miller, who was spending the night at Mr. Pannel’s. When they got near Dunlap’s the scoundrels fired on them, hitting Mrs. Pannel in the right shoulder, left side, and ankle. Miss McKeown’s clothing was pierced by the bullets. The scamps then went to Pannels corn crib and burned it to the ground. This was a high handed proceeding. Messrs. Steel and Coleman have been arrested. What could have impelled any one to commit such a deed cannot be imagined by me. The wounds inflicted on Mrs. Pannel and Mr. Dunlap are very severe but it is hoped they will not be mortal.

        Hear today that on the 17th Polk was at Demopolis fortifying and Sherman at Meridian engaged in the same way. Later accounts report the Yankees to have fallen back to Jackson, some say after a fight, and others without one. Charlie Liddell and Silvanus Johnson furloughed from the 45 Reg’t were at Church today. H. Mitchell got home yesterday. On the way he heard that their reg’t would be sent to Meridian very shortly.

        Rec’d tonight a letter from J. F. Y. dated the 13th. Nothing special in it. Rev. Wilson Frierson died about the 25th ulto Jan’y at Meridian. He was on his way home. Aunt Sarah came home with our people from Church and she and Mary are at Uncle Jo’s tonight.

 

February 29, 1864. “A rainy, inclement day.”

        First noticed peach blooms for this season on Saturday evening the 27th. Mother saw one on Friday, but the first I saw was on Saturday. It rained I think all of last night. And the day throughout has been rainy, cool and inclement. It has rained slowly but almost continuously and has been so unpleasant that I have mostly sat by the fire within doors, amusing myself by teasing and quizzing Erskine. Miss Davis was down this forenoon. Her father is no better, but perhaps worse. Frank Young came up this evening and sat awhile with us. Have heard from several sources today that the Yankees have left Meridian. Some say they have gone away and others they were driven. An ox wagon from Memphis passed this evening with the body of Lt. Col. Hamilton who died recently at Johnson’s Island (a Yankee Prison Camp in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie where Confederate officers were held prisoner). It is being carried home for burial. The gentleman along told me they left Memphis Wednesday and he says they met the worst whipped set of Yankees he ever saw. He also reports having heard that the Yankees were driven back from Meridian and also that there has been a big battle in Virginia in which the Yankees were as badly whipped as they ever have been. These are the reports he brings. Time will prove whether it is true.

        Tonight the rain is still falling—more heavily I think than in daylight and without intermission. The water gurgling through the gutters and falling on the housetop makes a monotonous music which courts sleep.

 

We leave Samuel Agnew in repose on the night of February 29, 1864.  These entries in his Diary help us grasp the events of life in the families left behind by many a soldier and chaplain of the Confederate States of America.

           

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In this issue you will find our Chaplain-in-Chief’s The Chaplain as a Good Soldier of Christ, in this he gives us encouragement as well as an urging to do what we do for our King and Saviour Jesus Christ. The series on Esther continues as chapter 2 ends and three begins: Hamen the Enemy of God’s People.  Your editor has an article on Confederate Chaplains and Their Pay which deals with one of the difficulties faced by Confederate Chaplains.  Our Assistant Editor, Chaplain Mark Evans’ article An Eternal Victory provides a sense of the great work of God in the camps of our ancestors.  Thank the Lord for the record we have of the great revival in the Confederacy and may we cry to Him who gave it for the same today. This issue includes A Confederate Sermon submitted by Chaplain Kenneth Studdard; the sermon is Rev. Henry Holcombe Tucker. This is one of the most profound sermons you will ever read, it is pungent and fearless, Scriptural and pertinent, and on we could go with recommendations.  This sermon was preached to the Georgia Legislature in 1861. Our Book Review is by the editor on Christ in the Camp a very formative volume on Confederate Chaplain’s and God’s Work during the war for Southern liberty. 

 

Soli Deo Gloria,

Editor H. Rondel Rumburg

 

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Contents

*Chaplain-in-Chief’s What to Leave in 2009, Dr. Cecil A. Fayard, Jr.

*Esther: The Queen who Refused—The Humble Exalted, Dr. Cecil A. Fayard, Jr.

*Confederate Chaplains and Their Pay, Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg

*An Eternal Victory, Chaplain Mark Evans

*A Confederate Sermon, Rev. Henry Holcombe Tucker

*Book Review: Christ in the Camp, by J. Wm. Jones and reviewed by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg

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Chaplain-in-Chief’s Editorial

 

THE CHAPLAIN AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF CHRIST

2 Timothy 2:3 “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”

 

As men of God and as Chaplains in the Chaplains Corp, we are to endure hardness as a good soldier.  Having served in both Korea and Vietnam, I know that it is not always easy being a soldier.  That is what kept me going in those countries far away from home and hearth?  DUTY, that is it.  Not any hope of glory or reward, but DUTY. 

Luke 17:10 puts things in perspective for us as Christian servants: “So like wise ye, when ye have shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our DUTY to do.”  As children of God and as Chaplains, we are to serve without the expectation of earthly reward.  Remember dear one, your reward is in heaven.  I have been a full time Minister for a good many years now, and I have seen a lot of folks come and go.  Those who are always looking for recognition fall by the wayside; they fizzle out; they quit.  Why?  Because they are serving for the wrong reason. 

In Ecclesiastes 12:13, the preacher says: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; Fear God and keep his commandments:  for this is the whole duty of man.”  You may feel that you are not making a difference in your local Camp: keep doing right and stay faithful.  The Word says: “And let us not grow weary in will doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:9).

We may or may not reap here on earth; but be assured, “we shall reap if we faint not.”  

What I have written thus far would cause some to thank that there is no happiness or joy in the life of service, the life of a warrior.  This is not true; there is great joy in serving Jesus.  In Christ, we have life, “and that more abundantly.”  Mrs. M. L. Williamson wrote of the great Christian General JEB Stuart: “In spite of his joyous and fun loving disposition, General Stuart was always ready when duty called him.”  Friends, whether that duty was on the battlefield fighting the Yankees or in the spiritual warfare.  In Chaplain J. William Jones book Christ in the Camp, Elder Jones writes: “Stuart was a humble and earnest Christian who took Christ as his personal Saviour, lived a stainless life and died a triumphant death.”  Stuart went to Dr. Jones asking him to recommend a Chaplain for the cavalry outposts saying: “I do not want a man who is not able to endure hardness as a good soldier.  The man who can not endure the hardships and privations of our rough riding and hard service and be in place when needed would be of no earthly use and is not wanted in my headquarters.”

Men, don’t quit; keep going; be a Good Soldier of your Captain Jesus Christ.  Endure hardness, not for your glory, but for Him.

 

Yours in Christ,

Dr. Cecil Fayard

Chaplain-in-Chief

 

 

The Queen Who Refused

Dr. Cecil Fayard

Chaplain-in-Chief

 

Haman The Enemy of God’s People

Esther 2:21-3:15

 

INTRO: Before we get into chapter three of Esther, we need to take a brief look at the last three verses of chapter two.  What happens in these verses is very important to the rest of the story of the book of Esther.

     1. In Esther 2:21: In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.   We have a secret conspiracy by two of the king’s men.  These men were planning to murder the king.

     2. Esther 2:22-23: And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.  And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.  Mordecai got wind of the plot, and he told Esther about it, and Esther told the king.  “The insurgents were sentenced to death, and before the ink was dry on the decree, they were history” (Swindoll 31).

     We come now to chapter three of Esther which concerns Haman the enemy of Mordecai and the Jews.

     There are three ways to view Esther chapter three: historically, prophetically, and practically.

        1. Historically, this man Haman had a hatred for one man, Mordecai.  This hatred led to his intention of destroying all Jews in Persia.

        2. Prophetically, Haman is a picture of the anti-Christ who will persecute the Jews and seek to destroy them during the last half of the tribulation.  The phrase, “this wicked Haman” in 7:6 adds up to 666 in the original Hebrew; and this is the number of the beast (Rev 13:18).  Haman plotted his murders secretly while appearing to be friendly to the Jews openly.  The anti-Christ will make a covenant with Israel for seven years, but break it after 3 ½ yrs.  Haman possessed tremendous power given to him by the king; the beast will possess great power given to him by Satan.  Haman’s pride was obvious.  He wanted all men to bow down to him; and the beast will cause all men to worship him and his image (Rev 13).  Haman hated the Jews; and the anti-Christ will hate the Jews.  Haman was doomed; even though for a time, he seemed to have power.   Satan’s masterpiece, the beast, will appear to be indestructible; but Christ will destroy him and his followers when He returns (Rev 19:20).

     3. Practically, we see how some men cannot handle promotion.  There are those who are promoted when others ought to be.  Mordecai had saved the king’s life; you would think he would be first in line for promotion.  But Haman gets the promotion, not Mordecai.  How many bosses have promoted the wrong man?  Deserving folks often get passed over while the unrighteous get the reward.

 

I.  VS.1-2, 5 HAMAN A TYPE OF ANTI-CHRIST

     A. Verse 1:  After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.   Haman is promoted by the king who is here a type of the world.  The king gives Haman political prestige, “above all princes.”

                 1. Haman’s political power is second only to that of the one who gave it (Rev 13:1-4).  This is the way it is with the anti-Christ.

                 2. The anti-Christ will come to power during the tribulation (Dan 9:25-27).

                 3. Today, we have world powers that are controlled by Satanic forces.  The “Princes” of Esther 3:1 remind us of the princes  (Rulers) over municipalities– principalities of Eph 6:12.

                 4. This world and its system delights in promoting ungodly superstars, just as Ahasuerus delight in promoting Haman.

     B. Verse 2: And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.:  Haman is not able to fool Mordecai.  Godly Mordecai is sensitive to spiritual matters and knows that Haman is seeking to be worshiped.

                 1. This is what Daniel tells us the anti-Christ will do during the tribulation (Dan 11:36-37).

                 2. Humanism and its emphasis on the worship of man is the theme of our age.

                 3. Mordecai saw Haman for what he was– the two witnesses of Rev 11:3-5 will see the anti-Christ for who he is and witness against him.

 

II  VSS 3-9, THE PLOT IS HATCHED

     A. Verse 3: Then the king’s servants, which were in the king’s gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king’s commandment?   Just as Daniel and the three Hebrew children could not bow before and worship false gods, Mordecai refused to worship a man– Haman.

     B. Verses 4-6: Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.  And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.  And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.   When Haman learned that Mordecai was a Jew, his anti-Semitism boiled over (vs 5).

                 1. Haman’s hatred for the Jew came from his family tree.  Haman was a descendent of Agag the Amalekite king whom the prophet Samuel killed.  The Amalekites had never gotten over this and were bitter enemies of the Jews.

                 2. Why did Mordecai refuse to bow down to Haman? To bow to such a man would be an act of idolatry to a Jew.   Mordecai would not bow to Haman because Haman was an Amalekite, an avowed enemy of his people who deserved no respect.

 

III. VSS 7-11, HAMAN’S WICKED PLAN FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS

     A. Verse 7: In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.   This verse tells us that Haman had to wait for his turn to see the king.  This gave him time to hatch his wicked plan.  It has been from wicked hearts like Haman’s that evil has threatened the Jews for centuries (Jer 17:9).

     B. Verses 8-9:   Here we have the conspiracy at work.

                 1. Verse 8: And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.   Those same laws that upset Haman are the laws that upset the ungodly today.  The world hates authority, hates the Ten Commandments, and hates the inerrancy of scripture.

                 2. Verse 9: If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.    Haman promises to bring in 375 tons of silver to put in the king’s treasury for permission to destroy the Jews.  The king is influenced by this money that will, he thinks, help him build his empire.

                 3. Verses 10-11: And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.  And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.   The king gives his approval for the plan as well as the finances to carry it out.

                 4. Anti-Semitism is nothing new; it has been around a long time.  From the time of Solomon’s death until today, the Jews have suffered great periods of persecution at the hands of their enemies.

 

[SEE MATTHEW 22:1-14, 27:25, 1 THESSALONIANS 2:14-15!!!]

 

Matthew 22:1-14 KJV

   1And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
   2The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
   3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
   4Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
   5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
   6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
   7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
   8Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
   9Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
   10So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
   11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
   12And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
   13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
   14For many are called, but few are chosen.

Matthew 27:25 KJV
   25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 KJV
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

 

 

                 5. Today, we not only have animosity against the Jews, but also animosity against the Christians (I Pet 1:11; Eph 6:11).

 

IV. VSS 12-15, THE ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE

     A. Verse 12: Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring.   The king’s ring has given Haman the power of attorney to set its seal on any document that he drafts to carry out his wicked plans.

     B. Verses 13-15: And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.  The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.  The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.  The day was set and the letters had been sent out.  While the Jews await extermination, Haman and the king sit and drink (vs 15).

 

CONCLUSION: There is a Jew who is both hated and loved: He is Jesus (Jn 1:11, 12).

 

 

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Confederate Chaplains and Their Pay

by Dr.  H. Rondel Rumburg

 

“Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward” 1 Timothy 5:17-18.

 

     One of the certainties of the service of the Confederate Chaplains was that they did not serve for mammon.  They could not be classed as overpaid. The reason for saying that is that they were poorly compensated for their manifold labors which included preaching, praying, teaching, leading singing, caring for the dying, helping the wounded, visiting the sick, burying the dead, writing condolence letters, baptizing converts, passing out literature, and a multitude of other tasks.  Actually they were treated by some political figures as men of little value.  The same problem exists today.  Many do not see the value of the things of God.  Paul reminded the Corinthian believers, “If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things…. Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:11, 14).

On May 3rd, 1861, Bill 102 was approved.  This Bill explained, “There shall be appointed by the President such number of chaplains, to serve with the armies of the Confederate States during the existing war, as he may deem expedient; and the President shall assign them to such regiments, brigades or posts as he may deem necessary; and the appointments made as aforesaid shall expire whenever the existing war shall terminate.”  President Davis was thus empowered to appoint chaplains as needed and to assign them to regiments, brigades or posts as long as the war continued.  Then there was the following further stipulation, “The monthly pay of said chaplains shall be eighty-five dollars; and said pay shall be in full of all allowances whatever.”  On May 16th this was amended to read, “So much of the second section fixes the pay of chaplains in the army at fifty dollars a month” [The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States, 99; Laws for the Army and Navy of the Confederate States, 36, 51; Charles F. Pitts, Chaplains in Gray, 39-40]. 

This reduction in pay was the cause of a bit of a furor that erupted.  The opposing Congressman who pushed for the reduction did not seem to have a grasp of the extensive nature of the work of the ministry and thus the chaplain’s work.  This was evident when he remarked that all the chaplain had to do was “to preach once a week.”  There was another attempt to cut the chaplain’s pay even more, but this move failed [Pitts, 40 ff].  The Confederate Congress did not get off the hook very easily with the reduction of the proposed pay of chaplains.  Some of these men seemed a bit short-sighted, and they were reprimanded by others who pointed out that many men who were chaplains had left good positions to enter that ministry.  Their families needed the same things as did others.  Chaplains and their families needed food and clothing the same as others.  Some men had been promised by their states or other entities pay equal to a Captain ($140).  Now many of these men in order to care for their families would have to resign and seek other employment [Frank L. Hieronymus, For Now and Forever: The Chaplains of the Confederate States Army, 106].  One chaplain sent a stinging epistle chiding the congress for such behavior; he said it amounted to a request for a lack of morality, a stand against spirituality, a wish to forget the Almighty, and the putting of trust in the strength of arms [Hieronymus, 107].

Rev. T. V. Moore in a fast day sermon on Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 in Richmond, Virginia gave the Confederate Congress a good spanking for its financial behavior toward the Confederate Chaplains Corps.  In his sermon he declared,

 

And in this aspect the act of our Congress in virtually degrading the office of Chaplain, by making it the only one in the army whose rank and pay were cut down, and after two reductions, fixing it at a rate that excludes from it any man with a family, who has not private means of his own, a thing not very common with clergymen—this marked and seemingly invidious distinction of this office, I feel bound to say kindly, but plainly, was at least an unfortunate act, if not more blamable. In an army of volunteers, like ours, a good Chaplain is just as important as a good Captain or a good Surgeon, for he is adapted to meet those moral evils arising from inaction, discontent, weariness and home-sickness that are often far more injurious than the dangers of the battle-field. And we know of no reason arising from incompetency or dereliction of duty in those who have filled the one office for any such stigma, which does not exist in a twofold, if not a tenfold degree with the occupants of the others. It is a false economy that starves the soul to feed the body, even in an army…. Hence we feel bound to say plainly, that this was a wrong, a short-sighted and suicidal wrong, although we also believe an undesigned and inadvertent wrong, which we hope will be remedied as soon as it can be reached by competent authority. If the finances of the government will not warrant the employment of men of experience and mature age in this office, it were better to abolish it, and leave the spiritual wants of the soldier entirely to the voluntary action of the people. But if the office is to be retained at all, it ought to be put on an equality with other offices of the same importance.

 

Dr. Moore made the case with precise Biblical judgment.  We do not know how many ministers and other God-fearing people saw the need of good chaplains and their proper care.  There were evidently enough for the government to take note.

On April 19, 1862 a recommendation to increase the pay to $80 was considered and passed by Congress.  This bill was signed by President Davis the same day.  Then on August 31st of the same year there was another provision for chaplains. They were to be issued or “allowed the same rations as privates” [Pitts, 40-41, Hieronymus, 108].

There were officers who saw to it that their chaplain was cared for and that his horse was fed often with his own. “Stonewall” Jackson applied for Corps commission for Beverly Tucker Lacy his chaplain, which the Department promptly granted to Jackson’s agreeable surprise and Jackson added $200 to his salary, with the use of a horse.  Jackson’s interest all along concerning chaplains was deep and constant. Lacy said it could not be exaggerated.  When Chaplain Lacy became chaplain Jackson placed $300 in his hands, to be used in buying testaments and other religious reading [Lacy Narrative].

 Chaplain Lacy and Rev. Wm. Hoge set off for a visit to the Fredericksburg battlefield.  Once word got around camp as to where they were headed General Jackson provided their transportation by sending them two of his horses [J. Wm. Jones, Christ in the Camp, 304].  Off the preachers went on the general’s mounts.  To Jackson nothing was too good for the Lord’s servants.

One chaplain observed, “Lieut. Ellis goes to work to raise money to buy a horse for his chaplain.”  Yes, there was support among the officers for the chaplaincy.  “At the beginning of the Confederate War, a chaplain was not allowed forage for a horse.  I believe the U. S. Army Regulations never considered a Chaplain a mounted officer.  My colonel [wrote a chaplain] always drew forage for my horse as one of his.  I am told that ‘Stonewall’ Jackson asked our congress to allow forage for each Chaplain, because he thought they could be so much more active and efficient by being mounted” [A. D. Betts, Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, April 21, 1863]. Some officers, as already noted, aided chaplains in manifold ways, but usually in very practical ways.   “In camp Lieut. Orr presents me with ten dollars.  Sundry other officers contribute to buy me a horse,” wrote Chaplain Betts in his diary.

Chaplain B. T. Lacy wrote a ten page pamphlet to his denomination requesting more chaplains with the request “assist in the support of his family while he is engaged in the work” [Jones, 237].  The work of Christ was too important to be left without proper support.  Jesus said to his disciples, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest” (Matt. 9:37-38).  The denominations helped with chaplain support and the publishing of literature for the chaplain’s use.  An example in 1864 the Old School Presbyterians employed in the past year 130 missionaries and chaplains in the different armies and contributed around $80,000 dollars for that work [Jones, 241].  Likewise the Southern Baptist Convention, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and on one could go with those who began to awaken to the need.

What the Confederate government failed to do, the denominations did to insure a gospel-preaching chaplaincy.  Although there were never enough chaplains or Bibles or tracts and many other things because of shortages the attempt to supply them grew in spite of the difficulties.

 

 

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 An Eternal Victory

 

Mark W. Evans, Chaplain

 

   Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) Jackson was a dedicated Christian warrior.  During the Mexican War, Colonel Frank Taylor awakened Jackson to his need of salvation.  After much prayer and diligent study of the Word of God, the future “Stonewall” looked to Jesus Christ with saving faith.   His love for the Savior, the Bible, and the souls of men, never left him.  The War of Northern Aggression provided his greatest opportunity to wield the Sword of the Spirit.

  While defeating superior Yankee forces, he also, under the banner of the King of kings, assaulted the fortresses of Satan.  Jackson’s burden for the salvation of souls moved him to call for an army of ministers, missionaries, and colporteurs.  His plan was simple:

 

Each branch of the Christian Church should send into the army some of its most prominent ministers who are distinguished for their piety, talents and zeal; and such ministers should labor to produce concert of action among chaplains and Christians in the army [J. William Jones, Christ in the Camp, p. 94].

 

  His spiritual strategy was as victorious as his military strategy.  Sadly, our modern professing Church is only a caricature of the South’s flourishing churches of the 1800’s.  The Christianity of our Southern ancestors has suffered from compromise with Northern infidelity.  Many religious teachers now reject the Bible as the infallible, inerrant Word of God.  A new message of social Darwinism and man-centered salvation has replaced the Gospel of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.  Most of our Southern ancestors believed that the Bible was the only rule of faith and practice.  They may have differed on some teachings, but they tested everything by the Bible and were united in the essentials of the Christian faith.  Jackson called for Christian laborers from different denominations because they proclaimed the same Gospel.  He said:

 

I would like to see no question asked in the army of what denomination a chaplain belongs to; but let the question be , Does he preach the Gospel  [Jones, p. 94].

 

Confederate chaplain, J. William Jones, showed the results of Jackson’s plan:

  

Let us go some bright Sabbath morning to that cluster of tents in the grove across the Massaponax, not far from Hamilton’s Crossing.  Seated on the rude logs, or on the ground, may be seen fifteen hundred or two thousand men, with upturned faces, eagerly drinking in the truths of the Gospel.  That reverent worshipper that kneels in the dust during prayer, or listens with sharpened attention and moist eyes as the preacher delivers his message, is our loved Commander-in-Chief, General R. E. Lee; that devout worshipper who sits at his side, gives his personal attention to the seating of the multitude, looks so supremely happy as he sees the soldiers thronging to hear the Gospel and listens so attentively to the preaching, is “Stonewall” Jackson; those “wreaths and stars” which cluster around are worn by some of the most illustrious generals of that army; and all through the congregation the “stars” and “bars” mingle with the rough garb of the “unknown heroes”  of the rank and file who never quail amid the leaden and iron hail of battle, but are not ashamed to “tremble” under the power of God’s truth.  I need not say that this is Jackson’s headquarters, and the scene I have pictured one of frequent occurrence [Jones, pp. 95, 96].

 

  The Lord did not limit His blessing of revival upon one section of the Confederate Army.  Confederate Chaplain W. H. Browning said that Chaplain Winchester, at a meeting of the Association of Chaplains, told of the conversion of one soldier and “stated that he believed we were on the eve of one of the most glorious revivals ever witnessed on the American continent!”  The revival soon appeared.

  Confederate Chaplain W. W. Bennett, in his book, The Great Revival in the Southern Armies, quoted Rev. L. R. Redding’s description of a meeting in the Army of Tennessee:

   

In the evening, at the close of dress-parade, the drums would beat the ‘Church call’ on Chapel Hill.  It was a glorious sight, just as the setting sun bathed the mountain tops in his ruddy light, to see those toil-worn veterans gathering in companies and marching to the house of the Lord.  From all directions, down from the hills, out of the woods, across the valleys, they came, while the gallant Colonel McCullough, of the 16th South Carolina, himself a godly man, leads his men to the place of worship.  Then the 24th South Carolina falls into line, led by their chaplain, Mr. Auld, and their brave Colonel Capers, son of the deceased Bishop Capers, of the Southern Methodist Church.  The benches and the pulpit have to be removed from the house, and a dense multitude of hearers crown the Chapel Hill.  A clear, strong voice starts a familiar old hymn, soon thousands of voices chime in, and the evening air is burdened with a great song of praise.  The preacher now enters the stand, a thousand voices are hushed, a thousand hearts are stilled, to hear the Word of the Lord [Bennett, pp. 246, 247].

 

Missionary Redding also described the ministry of one of many Gospel preachers:

   

Perhaps the speaker is Rev. William Burr, of Tennessee.  As he rises with his theme, his silvery, trumpet-like voice, clear as a bugle note rings far out over the mass of men, and hundreds sob with emotion as he reasons with them of righteousness, of temperance, and a judgment to come.  At the close of the  sermon, hundreds bow in penitence and prayer, many are converted, tattoo beats — the men disperse to their cabins, not to sleep, but to pray and sing with their sorrowing comrades; and far into the night the camps are vocal with the songs of Zion and the rejoicings of new-born souls [Bennett, 247].

 

  The Confederate Armies saw vast revivals, bringing tens of thousands of Southern warriors into the joy of salvation.  Isaiah the prophet foretold of the triumph of Jesus Christ: “He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth:  and the isles shall wait for His law” (Isaiah 42:4).  In these times of spiritual darkness, our Confederate ancestors point us to eternal victory in Jesus Christ.  Dixie still reaps the benefits of “The Great Revival in the Southern Armies.”   There is reason to pray for another gracious work of the Holy Spirit.  “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19). 

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A CONFEDERATE SERMON

 

GOD IN THE WAR

 

Henry Holcombe Tucker (1819-1898) was one of the most noted Baptist theologians the state of Georgia ever produced.  After two years of the practice of law, in 1848 he abandoned it for the Christian ministry.   He traveled to Mercer University, where he received private instruction from its President, Dr. John L. Dagg.  Tucker would only pastor briefly, being forced due to health reasons to leave the pastorate.  He would continue to preach and was widely hailed as a gifted preacher of the Gospel.

 

Tucker served as President of Mercer University from 1866 to1871, guiding the institution through the difficult days of Reconstruction.  He would also serve as Chancellor of the University of Georgia from 1874 until his resignation in 1878.  He would pass away on Athens, Georgia on September 9, 1898.

 

Although an opponent of secession, once Georgia seceded, Tucker was an ardent supporter of the Confederate cause.  The following sermon was preached in 1861 following President Davis’ call for a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer.  Tucker’s message stresses the Providence of God in the War while reminding his hearers of their responsibility.

 

GOD IN THE WAR.
A SERMON
DELIVERED BEFORE THE
LEGISLATURE OF GEORGIA,
IN THE CAPITOL AT MILLEDGEVILLE,
ON
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1861,
BEING A DAY SET APART FOR,
Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
,
BY
HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.

BY REV. HENRY H. TUCKER, D.D.,
PROFESSOR OF BELLES LETTRES IN MERCER UNIVERSITY.

MILLEDGEVILLE:
BOUGHTON, NISBET & BARNES, STATE PRINTERS.
1861.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Nov. 16, 1861.

To REV. PROFESSOR H. H. TUCKER:

        Dear Sir: The undersigned Committee appointed by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, to solicit of you for publication a copy of your able and interesting discourse delivered in the Representatives’ Hall on yesterday, have the pleasure to communicate to you the wishes of the House, with the hope that you will comply with the same.

We have the honor to be,
Yours with considerations of respect,

ROBERT H. TATUM,
ROBERT HESTER,
F. M. HAWKINS,
Committee.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Nov. 16th, 1861.

        Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, conveying to me the request of the House of Representatives for a copy of my discourse delivered yesterday, for publication.

        Hoping and believing that the spread of the sentiments expressed in my discourse will not only do good to the hearts of my countrymen, but contribute to our success in the struggle in which we are engaged, I place a copy of the manuscript at your disposal.

I am gentlemen,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

H. H. TUCKER.

To
Messrs. ROBERT H. TATUM,
ROBERT HESTER,
F. M. HAWKINS,
Committee &c.

SERMON.

        ”Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth.

        He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh to bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.” PSALMS XLVI, 8:9.

 

        Desolation! Desolation! Thousands of our young men have been murdered. Thousands of fathers and mothers among us have been bereaved of their sons. Thousands of widows are left disconsolate and heart-broken, to struggle through life alone. The wail of thousands of orphans is heard through the land, the Ægis of a father’s protection being removed from over their defenceless heads. Thousands of brave men are at this moment lying on beds of languishing, some prostrated by the diseases incident to the army and camp, and some by cruel wounds. Every house within reach of the seat of war is a hospital, and every hospital is crowded. Huge warehouses emptied of their merchandize, and churches, and great barns, are filled with long rows of pallets beside each other, containing each a sufferer, pale, emaciated and ghastly. Some writhe with pain; some rage with delirium; some waste with fever; some speak of home, and drop bitter tears at the recollection of wives soon to be widows, and babes soon to be fatherless. The nurse hurries with noiseless step, ministering from bedside to bedside. The pious chaplain whispers of Jesus to the dying. The surgeon is in frightful practice, bloody though beneficent; and as his knife glides through the quivering flesh and his saw grates through the bone and tears through the marrow, the suppressed groan bears witness to the anguish. A father stands by perhaps, to see his son mutilated. Mother and wife and sisters at home witness the scene by a dreadful clairvoyance, and with them the operation lasts not for moments but for weeks. Every groan in the hospital or tent, or on the bloody field, wakes echoes at home. There is not a city, nor village, nor hamlet, nor neighborhood that has not its representatives in the army, and scarcely a heart in our whole Confederacy that is not either bruised by strokes already fallen, or pained by a solicitude scarcely less dreadful than the reality. Desolation! Desolation! Hearts desolate, homes desolate, the whole land desolate! Our young men, our brave young men, our future statesmen, and scholars and divines, to whom we should bequeath this great though youthful empire with all its destinies; the flower of our society,—contributions from that genuine and proper aristocracy which consists of intelligence and virtue,—thousands, thousands of them laid upon the altar! And alas! the end is not yet. Another six months may more than double the desolation. Relentless winter may aid the enemy in his work of death. The youth accustomed at home to shelter, and bed, and fire, and all the comforts of high civilization, standing guard on wintry night, exposed to freezing rain and pealing blasts, and having completed his doleful task, retiring to his tent, to lie upon the bare ground, in clothes encrusted with ice, may not falter in spirit in view of his hardships; the fires of patriotism may still keep up the warmth at his heart; when be remembers that he is fighting for the honor of his father, and for the purity of his mother and sisters, and for all that is worth having in the world, he may cheerfully brave the terrors of a winter campaign; but though his soul be undaunted, his body will fail. Next spring when the daisies begin to blow, thousands of little hillocks dotted all over the country on mountain side and in valley, marked at each end with a rough memorial stone, and a brief and rude inscription made perhaps with the point of a bayonet, will silently but ah! how impressively, confirm the sad prophecy of this hour. Thus the work of desolation may go on winter after winter, until the malice of our foes is satiated, and until our young men are all gone. But let us not anticipate. The present alone presents subjects of contemplation, enough to fill the imagination and to break the heart.

        These are the desolations of war. Do you ask why I present this sad, this melancholy picture? Why I make this heart-rending recital of woes enough to make heaven weep? In so doing I am but following the example of the Psalmist when he says, “Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth!” If in the midst of victory when the God of Israel had given success to the arms of his people, their leader and king called upon them to forget their successes and meditate on the desolations of war, it must be right for the man of God now, to call upon his countrymen in the midst of a series of victories such as perhaps were never won in a war before, to forget their triumphs, and contemplate for a little the expense of life and of sorrow which those triumphs have cost.

        Come then my countrymen, and behold the desolation. What emotion does it excite? What passion does it stimulate? To what action does it prompt? Indignation at the fanaticism, folly and sin of those who brought it all about. Rage at the authors of our ruin. Retaliation! To arms! To arms! Let us kill! Let us destroy! Let us exterminate the miscreants from the earth! Up with the black flag! They deserve no quarter! They alone are to blame for this horror of horrors. We had no hand in bringing it on. We asked for nothing but our rights. Our desire was for peace. They tormented us without cause while we were with them. What we cherish as a heaven-ordained institution they denounce as the “sum of all villainies.” They regarded us as worse than heathen and pirates; they degraded us from all equality; they spurned us from all fellowship; they taught their children to hate us; their ministers of religion chased us like bloodhounds, actually putting weapons of death in the hands of their agents with instructions to murder us. They made a hero and a martyr of him, who at Harper’s Ferry openly avowed his design, to enact over in all our land the horrid scenes of St. Domingo,—thus by the popular voice dooming us to death and our wives and daughters to worse than death; and when after these outrages, we sought no retaliation but besought them to let us go in peace, they still clutched us with frantic grasp, in order to filch away our substance, and reduce us to a bondage more degrading than that which they affect to pity in the negro.

        I will not continue to give expression to thoughts which alas! have already taken too deep hold on us all. But in the midst of all the rage, resentment, and fury, which a contemplation of these facts of history is calculated to engender, let me repeat to you the words of the text, with an emphasis which perhaps will lift your minds above the consideration of second causes. “Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth!” If it be important to regard the desolations of war, it is still more so, to be mindful of the source whence they come. This perhaps was the chief object of the Psalmist. If he pointed to the rod, it was that all hearts should be turned towards Him who held it. And this my countrymen it is all important for us to remember,—that GOD is in the war. He brought it upon us. The wickedness and folly of our enemies may have been the occasion of it, but these could not in any proper sense be the cause. That is but a shallow philosophy which sees a cause in anything outside of God. The idea of cause involves by necessity the idea of power, and what power is there independent of God? Aside from the will of God, what nexus can there be, between an effect and the antecedent which by a sad misnomer we denominate the cause? Satisfied with a slovenly nomenclature, we apply the term cause to that in which there resides no power. That profounder wisdom which we learn from the inspired oracles demands a better vocabulary; it calls for a word to designate the cause of so-called causes. In want of this, it disallows to earthly antecedents even if invariable, a name which describes that which is to be found only in the Almighty. The guilt of our enemies is what we term a second cause, that is to say, it is no cause at all, but only the occasion of a chastisement inflicted by an Almighty arm. God is in the war. God is in everything; in the doings of earth, for “He knoweth our downsitting and our uprising;” in the raptures of paradise, in the flames of perdition. Yea saith the Psalmist, “If I ascend up into heaven Thou art there. If I make ray bed in hell, behold Thou art there! Psalms cxxxix, 8.

        In the economy of God the wicked are often used as instruments for the accomplishment of divine ends. Satan, when he introduced sin into the world, was the instrument of preparing the way for a brighter display of God’s goodness than ever yet had amazed the universe, and was as really the herald of Jesus of Nazareth as was John the Baptist. Those who cried out “Crucify him! crucify him! his blood be upon us and upon our children!” all guilty as they were;—in piercing the veins of a Savior opened the fountain of eternal life to the millions of them who shall be redeemed unto God by his blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.*

        * Many parallel cases might be referred to; for an interesting one see Gen. 45. 6.

Thus does God cause the wrath of man to praise him. If there be any possible wrath, such as could not by divine almightiness, be so perverted from its wicked end as to promote the glory and exhibit the goodness of God, that remainder of wrath is restrained. In other words, sin is allowed only in so far as God brings good out of it. Thus every evil is the precursor of blessing. The greatest calamities that ever befell the Universe were but the harbingers of glory.

        A Christian poet has said

                         We should suspect some danger nigh
                         When we possess delight.

 

        Thank God it is also true, that whenever evil comes, we may know there is good at hand. In national or in individual experience, when the godless soul sees only a dark cloud, fraught with terror and with wrath, to the Christian the cloud resolves itself into a blazing star that guides to the best of blessings. When God says to his children “All things work together for good to them that love God,” the heart of the believer makes no exceptions, and thus “rejoices in tribulations, also.”

        It is also a part of the divine economy to use the wicked as instruments for the chastisement of each other.—Two individuals indulge in mutual animosity. Each is wrong; and each by a series of unkindnesses, or acts that deserve a harsher name, inflicts upon the other a well deserved penalty. Neighborhoods give way to ill-will.—Nothing short of a miracle could prevent them from distressing each other; and Providence works no such miracle. Nations burn with hate against nations, and as an appropriate punishment for their crimes God turns them loose upon each other, and their perpetual wars result in mutual ruin. History, profane as well as sacred, is full of examples where “Nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city; for God did vex them with all adversity.” 2 Chron. xv. 5.

        Even in the control of his own children God makes use of the wicked as his instruments of discipline. When Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, the inspired record declares that “The Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian; and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and Israel was impoverished because of the Midianites.” Judges vi. 6. Individual experience too, may often make appropriate the prayer of David when he says “Deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword; from men which are thy hand.” Ps. xvii. 13.

        The sin of the wicked is not diminished by the fact that it is over-ruled for good by a superior power. There can be no interference with the personal responsibility of moral creatures. Thus the guilt of those who wage this diabolical war on the unoffending people of these Confederate States, finds no apology in the providence of God. “It must needs be that offences come but woe unto him by whom they come.” Luke xvii. 1. Our aggressors must answer for their awful account before the bar of God.—There let us leave them. Our text which was written when the death-smell was fresh on the field of battle, makes no reference to the outrages of the enemy, but points only to God, as the author of the desolation. The Psalmist does not confound the cause of trouble with the occasion of it. He is engrossed, not with the doings of earth, but with those of heaven. He has no eyes to see the wickedness of his foes. He forgets he ever had a foe, and sees only God in the war. Let his example be for our imitation. Surely it is as contrary to religion as it is to a sound philosophy to banish God from the most striking act of his Providence that has occurred within the memory of living man. If it be true then that the hand of God is in this thing (and who can doubt it?) and if we lose sight of that fact, surely a worse evil will come upon us. Among other evils, we may expect to receive in our own souls the consequences of our sin. Resentment, rage, and hate, will be so developed as to take entire possession of us. We shall become blood-thirsty as tigers, cruel as death, and malicious as fiends. All that we expect to accomplish by the war, if bought at such expense to our own character, would cost more than it is worth. If we cannot be free without transforming ourselves into devils, it were better not to be free; for any thraldom is to be preferred before slavery to sin. But if we exclude God from our thoughts, and regard the desolations around us as coming only from the enemy, how is it possible to keep from violating the injunction “avenge not yourselves!” Whose blood would not be set on fire, whose soul would not be carried away with fiercest passions, by contemplation of the frightful evils we sustain, if they be traced to no cause outside the wicked hearts of our enemies! Alas, all of us are too prone to confine our attention to second causes. Methinks I see the apparition of the spirit of David rising from the sleep of centuries, as that of Samuel did under the incantations of the witch of Endor. His form is venerable, his beard is flowing, and on his brow rests the crown of Israel. He touches the harp of solemn sound, and peals forth the notes of the sublime ode whence our text is taken. He waves his hand to the scenes of sorrow wrought by the war now upon us, and making no allusion to our foes, says “Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth!”

        When we regard the evils we suffer as the chastisement of the Almighty, there arises within us no spirit of resentment. The fiercer elements of our nature all subside.—We humbly submit to the judgments of the Almighty. Our eyes instead of flashing fire, are melted to tears; our tongues instead of curses and defiance, utter words of penitence and contrition. Whatever comes from God we can bear. We acknowledge his authority. We know that at his hands we deserve nothing but indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish. We know that he is a gracious Father as well as a righteous judge; and we recognise his benevolence even in his chastisements; for “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” We only say “It is the Lord, let him do as seemeth him good.” Surely this is a better spirit than results from a view of second causes. Surely this is more likely to secure the divine approbation and the divine aid; and if God be for us who can be against us? This is the very spirit which his chastisements are intended to excite; and when the end is accomplished the means will be laid aside. Thus shall war afflict us no more, and God will not allow “the wicked which is his sword” to harm us further. But that other spirit which instead of forgetting the enemy and looking to God, reverses the order and forgetting God looks to the enemy, and which stimulates to frenzy the worst passions known to human nature, tends only to make us more wicked than we were before, and therefore to perpetuate the very causes which made these chastisements necessary. If instead of profiting by the afflictions which God sends upon us, we make them the occasions of additional guilt, what can we expect but that billow after billow of his wrath will overtake us until we shall be utterly destroyed.

        The sweet singer of Israel having depicted the desolations which God sends by war, devotes the next strain of his inspired verse to the announcement of the truth that “He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth.” It is He who brings these evils upon us and it is He who takes them away. Nor is it needless for the Psalmist to remind us of what we might have known, that the blessings of peace are from the hand of the Almighty. Here too as in the former case, we are prone to be satisfied with second causes. We are anxious for wise legislation and for skillful generalship. We congratulate ourselves on having such able statesmen as Davis and Stephens, such able generals as Johnston and Beauregard. We glory in the belief that our troops are as brave as the bravest in the world, and that our enemies though outnumbering us four to one as they did at Leesburg, cannot stand before Southern valor in the open field for one moment. We exult (alas! our exultation is not unmixed with sin) when we see the terror-stricken fugitives leaping by hundreds over the steep embankment, and like devil-possessed swine plunging headlong into the Potomac. We are making abundant arrangements to supply ourselves with all the munitions of war. We are casting cannon, manufacturing arms, and fortifying our coasts. Hundreds of thousand of us are already under arms, and hundreds of thousands more are ready and anxious to step into the ranks. We feel safe when we remember that we are so many and so strong, and so brave, and so well prepared to re-enact the scenes of Sumter, and Bethel, and Manassas, and Springfield, and Lexington, and Leesburg, and Columbus. We feel sure that if the enemy will only give us battle once more on the Potomac, our brave boys will again send them shrieking and screaming back to their Northern homes. We doubt not that we shall whip them whenever we come in conflict with them. We shall whip them, and whip them, and whip them again. We shall whip them again and again. We shall whip them until they are satisfied to their hearts’ content, that the only safety for themselves is in letting us alone.

        My countrymen! it is right for us to resort to all the means of defence which Providence has placed within our reach. It is proper to call into action our best civil and military talent, to strain every energy to the utmost in supplying the material of war. As for that sublime faith which we have in the unconquerable valor of our troops, I admire it, I partake in it. But we are here on dangerous ground. We must not step over the line where God says “Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.” Let us not lean on an arm of flesh. Saith the prophet, “Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of.” Isa. ii. 22. Is our confidence in our success based on the wisdom of our statesmen and generals? That Providence which sustains the flight of the sparrow and numbers the hairs of our head might direct the death-bringing bullet to the vitals of our greatest chieftain. Instead of the horse, the rider might have been slain. “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princes.” Ps. cxviii. 8-9. Is our trust in the valor of our troops? The same God who struck terror into the hearts of the Midianites when they heard the cry “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” the same God who sent confusion and dismay into the ranks of our enemies when the sword of the Lord and of the South prevailed at Manassas, might send a panic among us which would scatter us like chaff before the wind. He might send his angels in armies to descend upon us, and filling the air with their unseen presence, every heart might quiver with undefinable dread from unknown cause, and they might smite us with invisible weapons, the very touch of which would curdle our blood. Oh! there is no bravery that can stand before the hosts of the living God. The outward appliances of war, the chieftains and captains, the arms and munitions, the shot and shell, the rifles, infantry, artillery, cavalry, all these are useful in their proper places. But let us not put our confidence in them. They are not to be trusted.—They all may fail. They never yet have made a war to cease. This is the very sentiment of the scripture which says “There is no King saved by the multitude of an host; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. An horse is a vain thing for safety, neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him!” Ps. xxxiii. 16. “Battle is the Lord’s.” 2 Chron. xx. 15. “He shall cut off the spirit of princes; he is terrible to the kings of the earth. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and the horse are cast into a dead sleep.” Ps. lxxvi. 6-12. “He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth!” So earnest is the Psalmists in declaring that the ending of the war as well as the beginning of it is from God, that he reiterates the sentiment four times in the text. First in literal terms, “he maketh wars to cease;” then in figure of speech “he breaketh the bow;” again in similar figure, “he cutteth the spear in sunder;” and for the fourth time he enunciates the same idea in another figure when he says, “he burneth the chariot in the fire.” The destruction of the bow, the spear, and the chariot, ancient instruments of war, was a symbolical way of describing peace. The figurative expressions then, mean the same as that which is literal; and if this portion of the ode were stripped of its poetic dress and expressed in plainest terms, it would be simply a fourfold declaration of a single truth. “He maketh wars to cease! He maketh wars to cease! HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE! HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE unto the end of the earth!” Let this tremendous energy of quadruple emphasis, be for the rebuke, and discomfiture and silencing of those who look to earthly sources for the power to stop this awful war. Ye worshippers of human Deities, who by supposing that the efforts of mortals can terminate the bloody strife, exalt the creature to a level with omnipotence, listen to the voice of the Almighty! “Be still and know that I am God! I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth!”

        While it is true that we need constant admonition to wean us from trust in human resources and lift our thoughts to a higher Power, yet it is also a fact, and one most gratifying to the Christian, that thus far in the war, there has been a wonderful turning of the hearts of the people to God.—When Col. Hill wrote to the Governor of North Carolina that the Lord of Hosts had given us the victory at Bethel, he spoke the sentiment of the whole army. Our soldiers, from the highest officer to the humblest private in the ranks, habitually ascribe our victories to God. Even the irreligious seem to pause for a moment when they speak of Bethel or Manassas, and reverently acknowledge God in the battle. So universally does this feeling pervade our troops that it excites the wonder of all who have had an opportunity of observing it. When Mr. Memminger introduced into the Confederate Congress the ever-memorable and sublime resolutions ascribing the victory of the 21st of July to the King of kings and Lord of lords, a thrill of acquiescence and hearty appreciation flashed over the whole Confederacy, and the hearts of all the people were melted together. When the news reached this Legislative Hall only day before yesterday, that the Providence of God had brought across the ocean to our shores a ship laden with weapons of defence, and shoes for our feet, and other articles of necessity and comfort, the Representatives of the people here assembled, almost unanimously and simultaneously fell to their knees, and while tears of gratitude streamed from many a cheek, and amid a wide spread murmur of scarcely suppressed sobs, their presiding officer as the spokesman of the Assembly, offered up to God a tribute of prayer and thanksgiving!—Oh! that was a thrilling spectacle, and on which doubtless angels looked with beaming eyes and a new delight. Surely such a scene never occurred before. The record has been entered on the Journal and is now a chronicle of the times. Posterity will read it centuries hence with moistening eyes. Heartstrings will quiver and bosoms will heave with emotion all over the world on perusing this sublimest page in history. It is cheering to believe that the record is copied in heaven, and that this outburst of gratitude which thrilled the breasts of men and angels with such sweet and strange emotion, was not unacceptable to Him, to whom the tribute was paid and whose goodness was the cause of it. And now that His Excellency the President of the Confederate States has set apart this 15th day of November as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, calling on all the people to flock to a throne of grace, as a father calls on his children to surround the family altar, the whole people respond; all business has ceased, and the nation is prostrate before God.

        The scoffer and the infidel may question the sincerity of the Christian, or if not, they will perhaps be surprised to learn that to his mind the most cheering evidence of our success in this war is this acknowledgment of God so wide spread in the hearts of the people. This pious and reverent feeling is not the natural offspring of the human heart. If it comes to us from external sources it comes from none that are bad. Satan never turns the heart to God. None but God himself could have inspired this confidence in himself: and he never inspires confidence merely to betray it.—This then is the chief reliance of the Christian patriot in this emergency. It is gratifying to see that this devout and proper spirit so generally prevails, and it should be the great aim of all who love God to cultivate and cherish it. The very best of us though we acknowledge God with one breath, are prone to forget him at the next; and while we ascribe the victories of the past to him, we are apt to trust for future victories to our own strong arms and stout hearts, and abundant preparations. No greater calamity could possibly overtake us than to yield to this disposition to forget God. If I were to say that it would be the certain precursor of overwhelming defeat, I should be only repeating what the prophet Isaiah said three thousand years ago, but which like all other truth is not impaired by time:— “Woe to them that stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord.”—Is. xxi, i. Woe to you then ye people of Georgia! Woe to you all ye people of these Confederate States! if you are engrossed with outward preparations for battle, and seek not the Lord nor put your trust in the Holy One of Israel, and in the King of glory! Who is this King of glory? “The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle!“–Ps. xxiv.8.

        Many of the ways of God are past finding out, for “his thoughts are very deep,” but in regard to the matter before us, it is not surprising that high and unfaltering faith in God should be the precursor of success. On the contrary it can be shown to be in keeping with all the dealings of his providence with us.

        Of course when faith is spoken of, reference is had to real faith, not to counterfeits. Real faith either in God or in anything else is never an inert and unproductive principle. There is in its nature an element which prompts to action. Faith in God prompts to obedience, and if to obedience then to repentance, to reformation and to every virtue. The apostle not without reason places faith first, and hope and charity afterwards. For though charity be the greatest of the three, yet faith is the seed-virtue from which the others spring, certainly without which the others could not exist.

        Now let us remember the point already made, that God is in the war. Let us further remember that he has not brought these calamities upon us without a purpose. Without presuming to know any of the secrets of Infinite wisdom, the Almighty has revealed himself to us sufficiently to warrant us in saying, that these afflictions must have been brought upon us either as a punishment for sins that are past, or as a means of making us better in future, or for both these ends. Suppose the object be the first of these. Then such faith in him as prompts to repentance and reformation while it might not logically remove the chastisement, would at least prevent further occasion for it from accruing; and there is reason to hope, that the divine benevolence would not be bound by so strict a logic as not to remove the penalty when the sin that occasioned it is repented of and abandoned. Suppose the object be to make us a better people. When the object is accomplished, there will be no further use for the instrumentality which brought it about. Suppose the object be both retrospective and prospective. The same reasoning that applied to the cases separately will apply to both together; except that the former case being coupled with the latter would receive strength by the connection, and we should have still better reason to hope that if we cease to sin our Heavenly Parent would cease to chastise.

        It is not irreverent to suppose that the divine procedure would be governed by the same principles which control us in the discipline of our children. What father ever continues to use the rod when he is convinced that his child is so heartily sorry for his fault that he will never commit it again? What master would chastise his servant if he knew the servant’s grief for his fault to be sincere and profound enough to prevent him from repeating the offence? We are God’s children. He is chastising us. Let us acknowledge him; and say “though he slay me yet will I trust in him.” Let us confess the sins that brought these evils upon us. Let us repent of them, and so repent as to abandon. Let us do all this, and this war will come to an end. “He maketh wars to cease.” He will make this war to cease. When we become what we ought to be there can be no motive in the divine mind to continue the chastisement, and the war will cease. The skeptic may ridicule this conclusion. Let him ridicule. “A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this.”–Ps. xcii.6. He who is enlightened from above, without stopping to ask the opinions of politicians, soldiers or philosophers, and preferring higher authority, goes straight to the oracles of God for a solution of the problem, and is satisfied when he reads: “He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he; breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.” The caviler may object, and talk about military and political necessities, and physical and moral impossibilities, and philosophic difficulties. But while he is prating, the providences of God will go right on, and will say to him in due time, “Be still and know that I am God.”

 How strange that we should ask men to predict what the end will be, without asking God who knows all things from the beginning. How strange that we should rely on our puny efforts to bring this dreadful strife to a close, when we know that God only can stop it. For is it not He who makes wars to cease? We have been trusting in horses and in chariots. Let us rather remember the name of the Lord our God. Let us pay our vows unto him, and we shall have no further use for these dread instruments of war.—Here then is great good news for the people of these Confederate States! These desolations may be stopped! The red tide of life that flows from the veins of your sons may be staunched! Prosperity may again be established!—”What,” exclaims one, “can we entice the enemy from their entrenchments into open field? Then indeed we shall soon destroy them and the remainder will sue for peace!” No my friend, there is no certainty that that would close the war. “What then? shall we cross the Potomac, deliver Maryland, push on to Philadelphia and still farther North until we conquer a peace?” No, no. There can be no assurance of success in such an enterprise. “Shall we then court the friendship of foreign powers, and thus reinforce our army, and re-supply our wasting resources?” Yes! Let us court the friendship, not indeed of a foreign power, for the God of our fathers is not foreign to us, but let us court the favor of heaven, and verily an alliance with the Almighty will make us omnipotent!

        My countrymen, before God! in my heart and from my soul, I do believe that if the people of this Confederacy were to turn with one heart and one mind to the Lord and walk in his ways, he would drive the invader from our territories and restore to us the blessings of peace. I wish I could express myself with more plainness and with more force. Let me say again, I believe that the quickest and easiest way to terminate this war, and that favorably to ourselves, is for us all to be good. We imagine that the only way to get out of our difficulties is to fight out. There is a more excellent way. Let us by faith, obedience and love, so engage the Lord of Hosts on our side that he will fight for us; and when he undertakes our case we are safe, for “he maketh wars to cease,” and he will break the bow of the enemy, and cut his spear in sunder, and burn his chariot in the fire, and say unto him, “Be still and know that I am God!” Call it superstition if you please ye men of the world. Say that we are deluded by a religious enthusiasm. But know ye that faith in Israel’s God is not superstition, and that confidence in an over ruling providence is no delusion. Enthusiasm there may be, there is, there ought to be, we avow it, we glory in it. The heathen may rage and the people imagine a vain thing, but we rejoice when we can say,—God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof, Selah! The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge, Selah!”

        Lay what plans you will, and set what schemes you please in operation, and at the summing up of all things at the end of the world, it will be found that God ruled and overruled all things according to the working of his power; and that the great statesmen and great captains who figure so largely in history, were but the unwitting instruments of accomplishing his purposes. We look back over the past and see God in history. We look forward and see him bringing generation after generation upon the earth to work out his designs and not theirs, for before they existed they could have had no designs. Why should the present be an exception? Let us then do justly, and love mercy and walk humbly before God, and by thus falling in with his plans, we shall be on his side and he will be on ours, and those who make war upon us will either see their folly and cease, or if they continue will do nothing more than work out their own ruin. They have no power to harm us. We have no power to make ourselves safe. “Once hath God spoken, yea twice have I heard this, that power belongeth unto God.”—Ps. lxii.ii. Let us fly to that Power and engage it in our behalf, and he who smote great nations and slew mighty kings, Sihon king of Amorites, and Og king of Bashan for his people’s sake, will smite the hypocritical nation that wars against us, and will give to us and to our children the heritage of our fathers forever.

        I have said that the way to enlist this almightiness on our side is to make the law of God the law of every man’s life. Perhaps these terms are too general to convey the idea with power. What then more particularly is to be done? What specific duties must we discharge? What special evils must we forsake? All, all! The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint, the whole body is corrupt. How small a proportion of our population are disciples of Jesus!—Counting out avowed unbelievers and false professors, how few are left! Here is the place to begin. A pure Gospel is our only hope—I repeat it, a pure Gospel is our only hope. If the Kingdom of Christ be not set up in the hearts of the people no government can exist except by force. All you then who have no personal experience of the grace of the Gospel are so far, in the way of your country’s prosperity. The first step for you to take is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, confessing your sins and giving him your heart. But aside from this, let us look at our public morals. Passing by profanity, for we are a nation of swearers; passing by drunkenness, for we are a nation of drunkards; passing by Sabbath-breaking, for our cars thunder along the track on the Sabbath as on any other day, and our convivial gatherings are too often on the day of the Lord; passing by covetousness and lying, for two many of our citizens alas! will for the sake of defrauding the public out of a few dollars make false oath in giving in their tax returns; passing by neglect of our children, for too few of them receive that religious instruction and training which is their due; passing by injustice to servants, for while their physical wants are in some cases unsupplied their moral wants are too generally neglected; passing by all these things, and each of the sins of private life which ought to be exchanged for its opposite virtue; let me call especial attention to three things of more public nature, and which are fairer samples of the average of public morals.

        In the first place, how is it that in the State of Georgia it is almost impossible to convict a culprit of crime? The most atrocious murders and other outrages are committed with impunity, in the very face of our so-called Courts of Justice. Is the Bench prostituted? Is the Bar prostituted? Or is it the Jury box? In either case it is clear that public virtue is at fault; otherwise these evils would not be tolerated. So notoriously defective is the administration of justice, that in many cases fresh within the memory of us all, citizens have felt it necessary in self-defence to execute criminals without the forms of law. Is not this a step towards barbarism? The example of disregarding the law being set by reputable citizens, will be followed by others not so reputable. When this system is inaugurated where will it stop? Whose life will be safe? This reign of the mob, this lawless execution of men which is little short of murder, will become the rule and not the exception, unless a more healthy public opinion shall correct the evils in our Courts of Justice.

        The second evil is kindred to the first. How is it that in all the history of this Legislative body pardon has been granted to every criminal, almost without exception who has ever applied for it? Can it be that all who have been pardoned were innocent? If so there must have been horrid injustice in the Courts which convicted them. The bloodthirsty Jeffreys would scarcely have sent so many innocent men to the gallows. No; under the loose administration of justice already referred to, none but the most glaring cases (with possibly a rare exception) could ever be convicted.—How comes it then that our Legislators turn loose these culprits upon society? It is because they are more anxious to secure a re-election than to promote the good of the State. How comes it that a vote adverse to pardon would endanger their re-election? It is because public opinion is rotten. The fault lies in the low standard of public morals.

        But for the third item. Without meaning to indulge in wholesale denunciation of any class of my fellow citizens, it may yet be pertinent to inquire, how is it that so few of our public men are good men? Is it to be supposed that all the talent, and all the learning, and all the wisdom, have been vouchsafed to the bad rather than to the good? Does Satan claim a monopoly of all the intellectual power and administrative ability in the world? Perhaps it is not surprising that he should; for he once offered to give to their rightful owner “all the Kingdoms of this world and the glory of them” on condition of receiving his homage in return. But it is preposterous to suppose that there are no good men to be found capable of discharging the highest public trusts.—Why then are they not oftener found in eminent position? It is because the public in estimating a man’s fitness for office, throw his morals out of the account; and because popularity can be obtained by means which bad men freely resort to, but which good men eschew. How sad a comment on public virtue! Every voter who allows personal interests, or preferences, or prejudices, or party zeal or anything to influence his suffrage in favor of a bad man in preference to a good one, if the latter be capable, is doing what he can to banish virtue from our councils and God from our support. It might be a fair subject of inquiry, whether he or the out breaking felon whose place is in the Penitentiary inflicts the greatest injury upon society.

        It is time that the preachers of the Gospel, who ought to be if they are not, the great conservators of public morals, had made way upon these monster evils; and I rejoice that I have the opportunity on this public day, before this Legislative body, and before the people of the whole State, to bear my testimony against them.

        The three evils just specified are only outward manifestations of an internal distemper, the mere efflorescence of evil deep seated in the public heart. The disappearance of these would indicate a radical change. Suppose public justice to be rightly administered, suppose the influence of virtue in our councils to be predominant; and this is to suppose that thousands upon thousands of individual men have grown wiser and better, that myriads of private faults have been exchanged for corresponding virtues, that the whole complexion of society is changed, and its whole nature improved. Suppose that the Gospel of Christ which alone can work these changes, should continue thus to elevate, refine, ennoble and sanctify, until every heart were brought under its sacred influence. How much like heaven our earth would be! Can any one suppose that in such a state of society as this, the heavenly tranquility would ever be disturbed by the clangor of war! Let our whole people at once renounce their evil works and ways with grief, and follow hard after God, and I confidently declare that he would with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm deliver us from our enemies and restore peace and prosperity.—Think you that I ought to modify this positive declaration into a mere expression of opinion? I reiterate the same sentiment in words which no man will dare to question:—”When a man’s ways please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.”—Prov. xvi.7. And again, “Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him turn unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God for he will abundantly pardon.”—Is. Iv.7. Is it said that these words refer to individuals and are not applicable to States? The same conditions of mercy that would suffice for one man would suffice for two, and if for two then for any number, for nations and for all.

        From these teachings of Holy Writ, it appears my countrymen, that in carrying on this war which the providence of God has brought upon us, we ought to use a new set of instrumentalities; instrumentalities the object of which shall be not to injure our enemies but to benefit ourselves; to benefit us not in things visible and tangible but in the inner man. Thus shall those faults in our character which made these chastisements necessary be removed, and as matter of moral certainty the sad consequences which we suffer would cease.

        Here then is joyful news to thousands of Christian patriots who burn with desire to aid their country’s cause, but who know not what to do. All you have to do is to be good, and in being good you are doing good; and in doing good you are securing the favor of God and contributing your share towards enlisting Him on the side of our armies. Joy to our venerable fathers, who bowing beneath the weight of years, are unable to gratify their intense desire to fly to arms! Fathers, learn from the word of God; the sins peculiar to old age. Struggle against them. Fixed as your habits may be, try to improve your hearts and lives; and be sure that every success you meet with in the improvement of your graces will tell upon our enemies with more power than the missile from the musket. Joy to our mothers and wives and sisters and daughters! While with busy fingers you ply the needle and the loom for the benefit of our brave defenders, remember that you can render aid far more efficient. Cultivate the graces and practice the virtues enjoined in the Gospel; and though no famous report will be made to the world, God will observe it; though no influence be seen going out from it, yet its influence will be felt in heaven and will descend to earth again. God yearns towards them who seek Him; and when His affections are drawn out towards us, He will be more ready to defend and deliver us. Joy to the invalid, to the blind, and deaf and dumb, and maimed, and poor, and all who by afflictive dispensations are seemingly helpless and apparently a burden to their country in these times of peril. You too can help us in the war. Bear your sorrows with patience, receive the attentions of your friends with gratitude, copy the spirit of Jesus, and as little as the world may think of it, you too will help to drive the invaders from our soil. Scoff skeptic if you please, but we rejoice in the assurance that whatever brings God nigh to us will drive our enemies far away; and what brings God so nigh as the exercise of the spirit and the practice of the duties which His word enjoins? Joy, Joy to you ye preachers of the Gospel! Know ye that whatever makes the people better makes them stronger; that in spreading truth and virtue you are supplying the true sinews of war. Your mission is one of love and peace, and yet in more senses than one you are warriors. Your profession may be thought valueless in these times of bloody strife, but in truth yours is the most efficient branch of the service. The influence of the Gospel is a wall of defence against enemies carnal no less than spiritual. Every pulpit is a battlement whence great moral Columbiads hurl huge thunders against all who would harm us. Joy, joy! ye ministers of the Gospel of peace, for you can fight for your country and yet keep your hands unstained with blood.

        See what an accession there is here to our forces in the field. We thought we had an army of some two hundred thousand. Here we have added the whole army of the saints, male and female, of every age, and color, and condition;—a motley band whose uneven ranks excite the sneers of men and devils. But on their banner is inscribed, “Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord.” Zech. iv. 6. By that sign they will conquer. Each in his sphere moves quietly along, and men of the world think they are doing nothing, but they are the best soldiers in the war. Their spiritual weapons make no loud report; no blood is seen to follow their stroke; the stroke itself is not seen. The still closet is remote from the scene of battle. But when our enemies rush on a praying people, they rush on their own destruction. Every closet is a masked battery, from whose mysterious depths there goes forth an influence unseen and unheard, but carrying swift disaster to the ranks of our foes. Terror seizes upon them; they feel the dread influence but know not whence it comes, and bewildered and confounded by these assaults on their spiritual nature while yet their bodies are unhurt, they fly, they fly, supposing that they fly not from men but from devils. They know not that they are flying from before the saints of God, from before the armies of the Most High.

        My countrymen, we are certain of success in this war if we but use the right means. But those means which are the last that men think of, and the last that they adopt, are the first in order and the first in importance in the Divine estimation. The first and last and only thing that men are apt to do, is to gather together the implements of war and prepare for battle. God forbids not the use of these things; nay, to lay them aside would be but to tempt His Providence. But paramount to this is the purifying of the heart. Let us “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,” and trust that all other things will be added. Mat. vi. 33. Let our people forsake their sins and practice goodness, so that it call be said of our land, “thy people shall all be righteous,” and the sweet prophecy will be fulfilled in us, which declares, “Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shall call thy walls Salvation and thy gates Praise. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation. I the Lord will hasten it in his time.” Is. xvi. 18. Yes! when this happy day comes it will be of God, for “He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.” Suppose every nation were thus to turn to the Lord. Then every nation would secure his blessing. Nation would rise up against nation no more, nor would men longer learn the arts of war. The spears would be beaten into pruning hooks and the swords into ploughshares; the days of Millenial glory would come, and the whole world would be subject to the gentle reign of the Prince of Peace!

 

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 Book Review

 

Christ in the Camp or Religion in the Confederate Army:

by J. William Jones,

Reviewed by Chaplain H. Rondel Rumburg.

Sprinkle Publications, c. 1986, 624 pages in hardback.

 

There was a great work of God which occurred during the years when the plague of locusts from the North overran the South seeking her destruction.  The work of the Lord was monumental in the Confederate Armies during the conflict from 1861 to 1865.  However, some of the middle and late years of that time frame had a greater concentration of divine blessing than the previous.

 

After those devastating days of war and during deconstruction there was concern over the documenting of the religious history, that is, how Christ had visited His people.  As early as April 1866, J. Wm. Jones wrote the following to The Religious Herald,

 

To Former Chaplains, Missionaries and Colportours of the “Army of Northern Virginia.”

    Dear Brethren, –The undersigned, at the instance of many brethren, and in accordance with his own desires, proposes to write, in a connected narrative, the religious history of the Army of Northern Virginia.  And in order to succeed in the effort, he must have the assistance of the brethren who labored in that great harvest field.  His design is to trace the gradual development of religious interest in the army, give a narrative of the great revivals with which the different brigades were blessed, and show the influence of the gospel upon the morale and efficiency of that great army.  He desires to illustrate and enliven the narrative by such incidents and anecdotes as he may be able to cull from his diary or obtain from other sources.  Will not brethren whose privilege it was to labor in that army, send me brief sketches of the religious history of their brigades, embracing such statistics as the number of conversions, number of prayer meetings, accounts of tract distributions, the general deportment of the young converts, and any other facts of interest?  I should also be glad to get facts going to show the effect of the army revivals upon the churches—whether our returned soldiers have maintained their Christian character—what proportion of the army converts are devoting themselves to the gospel ministry, etc.

    The undersigned is impressed with the magnitude of the work he has undertaken, and would gladly turn it over to some more competent hand; but he is so anxious to see some such memorial of those precious seasons of revival in which it was his high privilege to have been an humble laborer, that he has determined to undertake the work, and begs that he may have the sympathies, the prayers and the active assistance of the brethren with whom he was so pleasantly associated during the scenes of the war.

    Any suggestions from brethren as to the details of the work, as well as the material above asked for, sent to my address, Goshen Bridge, Central Railroad, Va., will be most thankfully received.

                                                                       J. Wm. Jones,

                                                                       Formerly Chaplain 13th Va. Infantry,

                                                                       and Evangelist to Hill’s Corps.

 

The Editors for the Religious Herald endorsed Jones by adding, “We most heartily commend the above object.  Of all the brethren we know, Rev. J. Wm. Jones, in view of his active participation in the events which he proposes to describe, and his literary qualifications, is best fitted for the task.  We are persuaded that, with the assistance that he solicits, and which will surely not be withheld, he will make a volume of most unrivalled interest.”

 

The work of John William Jones on this memorial was finished and published on May 30, 1887 in the account called Christ in the Camp.  Years of collecting material and pains-taking work over a long period of time, around 20 years, came to fruition in this profound account of the Lord’s work of grace during a time of invasion and the defense of hearth and country.  Jones was a pastor, editor of various publications, representative of noble causes, guest speaker and writer of other projects during this time as well.  A new edition was produced in 1904 containing 624 pages.  A reprint of the new edition was brought to the public by Sprinkle Publications of Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1986 and thankfully is still in print.

 

The Editors of the Religious Herald were correct.  Jones was “best fitted for the task.”  Time proved their observation to be astute. No one could ask for a more accurate or readable history of what the Lord did during those years of Southern suffering and dying.  There was reviving and a great ingathering of souls during that era. Perhaps a quote which characterizes this chronicle of the work of Christ in Lee’s Army was, “Jesus was in our camps with wonderful power, and that no army in all history—not even Cromwell’s ‘Roundheads’—had in it as much of real, evangelical religion and devout piety as the Army of Northern Virginia.”   

 

This volume contains information on the religious elements in the army, the influence of Christian officers, Bible and colportage work, hospital work, the work of chaplains, missionaries and evangelists, the reception the gospel, the movement of the Holy Spirit, and the results and genuine nature of the work of God among the soldiers.

 

Anyone interested in knowing what God was doing in the Army of Northern Virginia from those who were His instruments needs only to read Christ in the Camp. Soli Deo Gloria!

 

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 We must remember who we are and what we must be about:

The SCV Challenge by Lt. Gen. S. D. Lee

 

To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought.  To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations.

 

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 Chaplain’s Handbook

  

Sons of Confederate Veterans

 

What a pleasure it is to continue to remind you of the Chaplain’s Handbook.  Our Past Commander-in-Chief Sweeney, your Past Chaplain-in-Chief and others have highly recommended this tool.  This volume will be of help and benefit.  Any person who loves Southern History will appreciate this volume.  Not only will this book be of great value to the Chaplains of the SCV or the UDC, but it will be of help to any who speak at memorial services, Lee/Jackson banquets, etc.   Much of the material is from the period of 1861-1865.  There are period weddings, funerals, prayers, hymns, etc.

There is an excellent chapter on Camp Chaplains in the volume.  This chapter should be of personal help to local camp chaplains.

            The Chaplain’s Handbook is a hardback book bound in gray cloth.  The volume is printed on acid free paper, printed in signatures that are sewn, 131 pages long, and measures 5 ¼ by 7 ¼ inches.  Thus, the book is produced in a form much like books of the Confederate era.  The book can be purchased from headquarters (http://.scv.org) or from biblicalandsouthernstudies.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confederate Sniper

2010 February 3
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

“We do not think that Whites should be slaves either by law or necessity. Our slaves are black, of another and inferior race. The status in which we have placed them is an elevation. They are elevated from the condition in which God first created them by being made our slaves. None of that race on the whole face of the globe can be compared with the slaves of the South. They are happy, content, unaspiring, and utterly incapable, from intellectual weakness, ever to give us any trouble by their aspirations. Yours are White, of your own race; you are brothers of one blood. They are your equals in natural endowment of intellect, and they feel galled by their degradation. Our slaves do not vote. We give them no political power. Yours do vote, and, being the majority, they are the depositories of all your political power. If they knew the tremendous secret, that the ballot-box is stronger than “an army with banners,” and could combine, where would you be? Your society would be reconstructed, your government overthrown, your property divided, not as they have mistakenly attempted to initiate such proceedings by meeting in parks, with arms in their hands, but by the quiet process of the ballot-box. You have been making war upon us to our very hearthstones. How would you like for us to send lecturers and agitators north, to teach these people this, to aid in combining, and to lead them?”
~ Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitution: delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858.

February 3, 1865
Hampton Roads Conference
The meeting convened on February 3. Stephens asked if there was any way to stop the war and Lincoln replied that the only way was “for those who were resisting the laws of the Union to cease that resistance.” The delegation underestimated APE Lincoln’s resolve to make the end of Slavery a necessary condition for any peace. The president also insisted on immediate reunification and the laying down of Confederate arms before anything else was discussed. In short, the Onion was in such an advantageous position that Lincoln did not need to concede any issues to the Confederates. Robert M.T. Hunter, one of the delegation, commented that APE Lincoln was offering little except the unconditional surrender of the South.

 

The Odd Angry Shot Drawing by Robert DeWolfe

The Odd Angry Shot Drawing by Robert DeWolfe

[ARE Y'ALL MAD ENOUGH YET???]
Confederate sniper rifle showcased in Dover

Paris Post Intelligencer - ‎
The rifle used by Confederate sniper Capt. Jack Hinson will be on display from 10 am-3 pm Saturday at the Stewart County Public Library as part of an …

The former plantation owner became a guerilla fighter after Union troops decapitated his sons and placed their heads on his gateposts.

 

[HOW COME THEY GIT GUBMINT SUPPORT & WE DON'T???]
Government sets the guidelines of Workers’ Militias

El Universal -
The Working Militias have been ordered to take action in the event of foreign or domestic threats, and they are protected by several laws and other, …

 

[REMEMBER!!!]
Metro Historical Commission plans 150th anniversary of War FER SOUTHRON INDEPENDENCE in Nashville

The Tennessean - ‎
The war began in 1861 when 11 States, including Tennessee, seceded from the United $tates and formed the Confederacy. The Onion-seized Downtown Presbyterian Church …

 

[Y'ALL STILL WANNA BE PART OF THE "EVIL EMPIRE"???  "That we are a Christian people of Northwest European descent, with predominately Anglo-Celtic institutions, traditions, culture and heritage; wherever we may abide, we are bound by blood, loyalty and sentiment to the American South, comprising: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia." ~ The New Albany Declaration]
FALSE “”Earth religions”" get worship area at AF Academy
AP – 
AP DENVER - The Air FArce Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday.

 

[lol!!!  IF'N ONLY ...]
NObama Gets Fiesty in Agenda-Affirming Speech

Daily Nexus -
Finally, a note to Publicans: Gov. Bob McDonnell’s response contained the typical “tax cuts good, federal government bad” rhetoric that has become the boilerplate Publican solution to nearly everything. There was one troubling line, however. McDonnell’s veiled allusion to states’ rights in his line warning NObama not to “undermine the proper role of state and local governments in our system of federalism” may have been entirely innocent, but when delivered by a White Man, in response to THEIr first black president, inside the chamber that inaugurated Confederate President Jefferson Davis, it raises suspicion, especially when the GOOP has a notorious history of race baiting in recent years. Coupled with the painfully forced diversity among the audience sitting directly behind McDonnell, it makes for a hilarious backdrop, and a reminder to voters that Publicans have only a shallow commitment to healing the racial divide that still persists in the United states.

 

[SPEAKIN' OF AGENDAS, AND SOMEONE TELL ME WHY WE WANNA ""support the STORMtroops"" AND STAY IN THE SAME "EVIL EMPIRE" AS THOSE PEOPLES!!!]
[STILL WANNA SUPPORT THE U$ STORMTROOPS???]

Gates to unveil plan to abandon ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

CNN -
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay AmeriKans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are,” NObama said.

 

[WTF???]
Glorious Johnson to Enter Mayoral Race?

The Jacksonville Observer -
But will the colorful Johnson, who once graced the cover of Folio Weekly wearing a Confederate Flag, be able to raise enough money to be a serious factor in …

 

[ROTFLOL!!!]
Black police group says wacism rampant in city police department
KMOX.com -
Simmons says he’s planning a series of town hall forums to better inform the public of allegations of wacism against black officers in the department.
**White officers routinely referring to black officers by the “n” word,  and claiming they don’t want to ride with them.
**A White sgt telling a black officer that he “could train monkeys to burn up gas all night and ride around;” what he needed was ‘intelligent” officers.

 

[NEVER, EVER, FERGIT!!!]
ABOLITION War comes alive at Museum of the Albemarle
The Daily Advance -
Beginning at 10 am Bruce Long: will present “The Destruction of the “Mosquito Fleet” The small force of lightly armed Confederate vessels that helped defend …

 

[NOT SURE THEY WERE CIVILISED ...]
Wayne Newton advocates for Virginia state recognition of Patawomeck AMER-Ind tribe
Washington Post -
Newton’s cousin, Patawomeck chief Robert “Two Eagles” Green, blamed Virginia’s State-sanctioned Wacism for the tribe’s inability to document an unbroken link to their ancestors, referring to the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which required residents to destroy existing census records and reclassify all nonwhites as “coloured.”

 

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[WHAT A WASTE!!!]


The Quiet Professionals
(CBS)
60 Minutes spent over two months with a Green Beret unit as they trained a group of Afghan soldiers and then went into battle with them against the Taliban. Lara Logan reports.

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“When you’re left wounded on Afganistan’s plains and the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier”
~ Rudyard Kipling

As for the United States’ future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
~ Mohammed Omar
 

Light at the End of the Afghan Tunnel?
by Eric Margolis

Is it finally light at the end of the Afghan tunnel, or an oncoming express train?

Total confusion erupted last week as the U$, NATO, the UN and the Kabul government all issued differing views on new plans to end the nine year Afghan war by bombarding Taliban with tens of millions in cash instead of precision bombs.

One thing is clear: the U$ and its NATO allies are losing the war in Afghanistan in spite of their fearsome arsenal of high-tech weapons and war chests of billions of dollars.

Lightly-armed Pashtun tribesmen are living up to their legendary reputation of making Afghanistan the graveyard of empires.

IMPERIAL Washington, London, Ottawa, Berlin and Paris share the same problem: their war propaganda has so demonized Taliban as terrorists and woman abusers that Western politicians are petrified to deal with the tribal movement, and risk being accused of sending soldiers to their deaths in a futile war. The far right will howl “appeasement,” “giving in to terrorism,” and “betraying our boys.”

These advocates of permanent war and torture should be ignored. Afghans have suffered over 3 million deaths in 30 years of wars. They desperately need peace, political stability, and rebuilding, not the current Western-installed puppet regime of thieving war lords, drug mafias, and thugs of the old Afghan Communist Party.

The best thing we can do for “”our”" Western soldiers is to get them out of the Afghan morass before they die in this pointless war, or get stuck there for decades.

“White Inhabitants”

2010 January 30
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

Mr. [Samuel] Chase moved that the quotas should be fixed, not by the number of inhabitants of every condition, but by that of the “White inhabitants.” He admitted that taxation should be alwais in proportion to property, that this was in theory the true rule, but that from a variety of difficulties, it was a rule which could never be adopted in practice. The value of the property in every State could never be estimated justly & equally. Some other measure for the wealth of the State must therefore be devised, some standard referred to which would be more simple. He considered the number of inhabitants as a tolerably good criterion of property, and that this might alwais be obtained. He therefore thought it the best mode which we could adopt, with one exception only. He observed that negroes are property, and as such cannot be distinguished from the lands or personalities held in those States where there are few slaves, that the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by, he invests in cattle, horses, &c. whereas a Southern farmer lays out that same surplus in slaves. There is no more reason therefore for taxing the Southern States on the farmer’s head, & on his slave’s head, than the Northern ones on their farmer’s heads & the heads of their cattle, that the method proposed would therefore tax the Southern States according to their numbers & their wealth conjunctly, while the Northern would be taxed on numbers only: that negroes in fact should not be considered as members of the State more than cattle & that they have no more interest in it.
~ Discussion of The Articles of Confederation in Jefferson’s Autobiography

 

January 30, 1781
Maryland finally ratifies Articles of Confederation
On this day in 1781, Maryland becomes the 13th and final State to ratify the Articles of Confederation, almost three years after the official deadline given by Congress of March 10, 1778.

In November 1777, Congress put the Articles before the States for ratification. As written, the Articles made the firm promise that “Each State retains its sovereignty.” Western claims remained in the hands of the individual States and States’ support to Congress was determined based only on their free population. Each State carried only one vote.

 

Southern Rights

Southern Rights

[RAISE 'EM AGAIN!!!]
Flag of Independence
A coiled rattlesnake and the words “Our Motto Southern Rights, Equality of the States, Don’t Tread on Me” appeared on a Flag raised in Savannah upon Lincoln’s reelection in November 1860. The words, taken from a Revolutionary War motto, suggest parallels between Southern Independence from the Onion and that claimed from England by American patriots.

 

Terrys Texas Rangers

Terry's Texas Rangers

[BRANG BACK THE FLAGS FLOWN BY THOSE WHO FOUGHT FER WHAT IS WHITE, ER, RIGHT!!!]
Official Wants Authentic Confederate Flags Returned to Texas

MyFox Houston - 
It’s a rescue mission some might view as “”misguided”". The emblem, after all, was carried by troops whose government sought to perpetuate slavery.

 

[THE SOUTH SHOULD BE GOVERNED BY SOUTHRONS!!!]
The secession option.

Toronto Star Blogs (blog)
… the freedom to truly experience rugged individualism. Secession 2.0. It’ll never happen, you say, But it’s becoming tougher by the year to argue against it.

 

[IF'N DEY DON'T LIKE US, DEY SHOULD LET US GO!!!]
Artist ready to repair Hilltop mural in spring

Columbus Dispatch -
Camp Chase, where the Westgate neighborhood began developing in the 1920s, was home to Confederate prisoners and served as a training area for Onion soldiers.

 

[LET'S HOPE SO, AND WE'LL KEEP OUR GOD, GUNS & GUTS AND 'THOSE PEOPLE' CAN KEEP THE CHANGE!!!]
Wacism is the basis of much of the anger

Daily Commercial -
Hardly a day goes by on right-wing radio that one cannot hear clips of Rev0LTIN’ Wright’s rants, ACORN references or a black woman in Detroit talking about NObama money.
These are propaganda techniques designed to exploit dormant Wacism and rejuvenate the WhItE-wing base. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, …

 

“There are two great truths from this platform I have proclaimed for many years.  The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.”
~ C. H. Spurgeon

Why is the South so religious?
Beliefnet.com (blog) - ‎‎
‘Almighty God’ got edited into the Confederacy’s rewriting of the Constitution, aka the Confederate Constitution, in 1861. The cultural difference predates …

 

[SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE IS MY SOLUTION, WHAT'S Y'ALLS???]
Nullification: It’s Official.

Tenth Amendment Center (blog)
“But my suspicion is that there will never be official nullification or secession, but if the [federal] government continues to fail, and they can’t deliver …

 

[THE TIME HAS LONG SINCE COME TO BE GONE!!!]
Confederate Songs Highlight Southern Sovereignty
ABOLITION War Southern Anthems and Songs Call For Freedom From Tyranny
Michael Streich -
Nationalistic tunes of the Confederate South reflect the desire to defend against Northern tyranny and to take up arms to protect a lifestyle threatened by arbitrary rule

 

“The great object is, that every man be armed.”
~ Patrick Henry

Gun-show loophole bill dies in Va House
Daily Press -
A House Militia, Police and Public Safety subcommittee voted 4-1 Thursday to kill Democratic Del. Jennifer McClellan’s bill to close the so-called gun-show …

 

[WISHT THEY'D COME A LITTLE DEEPER SOUTH ...]
History lectures scheduled at Manassas courthouse

Inside NoVA -
He will discuss the creation and usage of the Confederate Centreville Railroad, the first military railroad in CS history. The final series is “Faces of the …

 

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Acts 27   Geneva Bible (1560/1599)
With
Original Geneva Footnotes of both the 1560 and 1599 versions
and all with Corrected Spelling

13 And when the Southern wind blew softly …
25 (6) Wherefore, Sirs, be of good courage, for (*) I believe God, that it shall be so as it hath been told me.
(6) The promise is made effectual through faith.
(*) Faith is grounded upon the word of God.

Lessons For The Voyage Of Life
 (SUN)  |  Bible: Acts 27
by Dr. Alan Cairns
Faith Free Presbyterian Church • Greenville, South Carolina

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
~ The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

The Compact Theory « Secession University
By Bill Miller -

Simply put, our Constitution is nothing more than an agreement between the States establishing a federal system of government; a government delegated with the authority to perform a few very specific duties as the agent for these sovereign States. Some prefer to use of the term “Compact” when referring to our Constitution since it conveys a more precise definition for an agreement between nations and states. The Compact Theory, as used in this article, provides an examination of the terms and conditions of our Constitution—making the case that the parties to this agreement (i.e. the States) can withdraw at their pleasure.

In 1781, five years after their Declaration of Independence, these thirteen free, independent, and sovereign States joined in pursuing shared governing functions through a constitution known as the Articles of Confederation. This first constitution of these United States was a compact between thirteen specifically named States, required unanimous consent to change, as well as language proclaiming, “The Union shall be perpetual.” With terms like these, the idea of any State freely withdrawing from this compact was highly unlikely.

These annoying details did not seem to bother our Founders since they eventually came to the realization that the Articles of Confederation was weak and ineffective. Before long, in 1787, our Founding Fathers drafted a “more perfect” constitution, in which they stipulated this new Union would come into being once just nine of the thirteen States agreed to leave their current “perpetual” union and join the proposed “more perfect Union.”

One by one, States began to abandon the old Confederation without so much as an apology for breaking their perpetual compact, and doing so without the required unanimous consent of all thirteen States. In June of 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth State to ratify the new agreement, and at that point, according to Article VII, our current Constitution was officially established. Over the next two years, the remaining four States—their status then being independent self-governing nation-states—eventually straggled into this new Union.

This marked the second time in just twelve years when the people of those thirteen States exercised their right to withdraw from a government they considered not in their best interest and form a new one more to their liking. It would be more than seventy years later when eleven Southern States would again attempt to exercise this option, but rather than respect their right to do so, Lincoln reacted as King George III and ordered his Royal troops into these newly free and independent States—forcing their return at the point of a bayonet.

It is important to note at least one major difference between the Secessionist movements of 1776, 1788, and the 1860s. While each enjoyed a natural God-given right to a government of their choosing, the Secessionists of 1860-61 also had a contractual right to such an undertaking—a legal right derived from their Compact between the States.

Conclusion

The clear and precise language and structure of the Constitution, along with the ratification provisions of several States, and most importantly, the Tenth Amendment, leave no doubt whatsoever that the States have an unfettered constitutional right to withdraw from the Union without cause or interference.

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“all the Free White Males capable of bearing Arms … irrespective of Nationality”

2010 January 27
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And enter while there’s room;
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve then come? 
‘Twas the same love that spread the feast,
That sweetly forced us in,
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.
~  Isaac Watts

January 27

January 27, 417: Pelagius, a British monk, is excommunicated for heresy. He denied original sin and claimed that men could become righteous by the exercise of free will (see issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church).

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[SPEAKIN' OF HERESY, OF THE POST-MODERN HUMANIST VARIETY LIKE THE MYTH OF THE ""blackconfeds"":  "When the State legislature passed a law in January, 1862, that reorganized the Militia by conscripting 'all the free White males capable of bearing arms… irrespective of nationality.'” ...]
Rare photographs go on display

NOLA.com -
The Louisiana Native Guard began as a NON-Confed “”regiment”" of free black BOYZ, but when New Orleans fell to Onion troops, the regiment disbanded. In need of reinforcements the YANKEE Army called for all blackConfedZ “”soldiers”" to join. In September 1862, the 1st Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guard was formed.

 

[COULDNA HAVE PUT IT BETTER OURSELFS--IT DOES SOUND LIKE THOSE BACKWARD MASKING DEVIL'S MESSAGES IN ROCK-N-ROLL {ANOTHER NEGRO SLANG TERM!!!} THAT WERE POPULAR A FEW YEARS BACK ...]
Hip Hop and the Holo-HOAX

Jewschool (blog) - ‎‎
Along with her band-mates she is working on wrapping about wacism and making the world a better place. The fact that an octogenarian is willing to wrap says …

 

[WE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLES!!!]
Events Observe african-AmeriKan Heritage in Wilmington NC-Cape Fear Coast

Carolina Newswire (press release) - ‎‎
To commemorate the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Forks Road come see Confederate, Union and US Colored Troops re-enactors provide a glimpse into the …

 

[THE TIME HAS LONG SNCE COME FER US TO AGAIN BEGONE!!!]
SECESSION CONVENTION

Handbook of Texas Online -
SECESSION CONVENTION. In late January and early February 1861 a convention of the people of Texas met in Austin and voted to secede from the Onion. …

 

[RIDE WITH PRIDE!!!]
The South might not rise again, but it will never fade away

Tuscaloosa News (subscription) (blog) - ‎
… sunny January afternoon this guy comes blasting around me on Interstate 59/20 with no fewer than six huge Confederate Battle Flag mud flaps flapping. …

 

[ROTFLOL!!!  WOULDN'T IT JUST BE EASIER TO BAN 'THOSE PEOPLE'???]
France should denounce, ban Muslim face veils: panel

Reuters -
PARIS (Reuters) - France’s National Assembly should pass a resolution denouncing full Muslim face veils and then vote the strictest law possible to ban women from wearing them, a parliamentary commission proposed on Tuesday.

 

[OUR PEOPLE!!!]
John Watson: Characters in action

Cleburne Times-Review -
In the SECESSION War he commanded a Confederate cavalry regiment in Texas outposts from the Red River to Fort McKavett. Patrols protected outer settlements and …

 

[MORE OF THE SAME--SEE ABOVE ...]
COLUMN: What’s in a name?
South Carolina Now -
“He was sent as a delegate from Chesterfield County to the South Carolina Secession Convention,” where he signed the Ordinance of Secession. …

 

[KNOW Y'ALLS ENEMY ...]
War Communication Before Modern Technology

Huffington Post (blog) -
The thought of this “hired gun” being an important part of the Confederate war cabinet sent me on a mission to find out more about how the military observed …

 

[LOL!!!]
The 50 Most Wacist Movies (You Didn’t Think Were Wacist)

Complex.com (blog) - ‎
… but our minds are like a steel trap for this shit. From caricatures to Whitewashing, mildly to wildly offensive, get ready for some wacism!

 

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[FER FAITH & FOLK, FEDGOV, FER MY FAITH & FOLK!!!]
This is Sparta. Full scene.

rastout

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[THE ANTI-FEDERALISTS WARNED Y'ALL: "Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?" ~ Patrick Henry]

Rednex Rants: The Second Amendment and the meaning of Militia
By Rednex

 
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Never in history have 27 words sparked so much debate and controversy.  What is the true meaning of these words?  What did the framers have in mind when they made this the 2nd amendment of the constitution?  While all will agree that the basis of this amendment is to provide the right for American people to keep and bear arms, the phrase “well regulated militia” has put into play the question of exactly “which” Americans should have that right.

Personally, I am a strict Constitutionalist.  I believe that our Founding Fathers were men far beyond their time when it came to the establishment of history’s most successful and free government, therefore, we should strictly adhere to their words with little to no interpretation.  However, I also realize that none of the Founding Fathers are alive today to tell of their intent, so some interpretation must be made.

Gun control advocates surmise that the words “well regulated militia” intends to limit gun rights to only those that are actively participate in State militia’s, meaning military groups raised and controlled by the States.  Gun control opponents however, contend that the phrase is meant in a general sense, applying to all “able bodied people”.

To fully understand, I think we have to look at the timing and purpose of two of this country’s most important documents: The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  The US Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, and laid the foundation for the legal authority for the existence of the United States of America, as well as, establishing the framework defining the relationship between the federal government, the states, and it’s citizens.  The Bill of Rights, or the first 10 amendments, was proposed by James Madison and went into effect four years later on December 15, 1791, as an answer to State concerns that threatened the ratification of the US Constitution due to a belief that the Constitution failed to safe guard the basic principals of human liberty.

That being said, the 2nd amendment was meant to amend the constitution so as to protect a liberty sought after by the states.  The exact provision(s) of the constitution that were to be amended were as follows:

The powers of Congress:

To provide for the calling forth the milita to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrection and repel Invasions

                                                                    Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15

To provide for the organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

                                                                       Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16

The powers of the President:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States

                                                                           Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1

So what about these provisions so offended the states that an amendment was needed to allow for ratification?  Well, we have to look at history to fully understand.  We, as a Country, were just coming out of the Revolutionary war.  The term “militia” during this time, meant the same as it did within the text of the constitution, which was a group of trained citizen soldiers under the control of the government (king), to be used in times when a standing army was not present.  If you read the words of the constitution, the founders had the same meaning here.  In addition, we must remember that Cornwallis used the meaning to disarm the citizens, by stating that a militia was not necessary as the British Army was present for the defense of the states.  Had American citizens relinquished their arms as mandated by Cornwallis and not fought, the Revolutionary war may have ended very differently.  The states were very aware of this fact and wished to prevent a second coming of this denial of liberty.  It was a belief that armed citizens WERE the method by which to regulate a specialized militia.

Lastly, we as citizens, must stand to ensure that this right is left preserved wholly and completely.  Gun control in any form is an attack upon our freedom.  Many will say that gun rights are plausible, but that a limitation of type of arms should be enforced.   Make no mistake that this reasoning is also an attack and lessening of the power.  To allow a limitation of arms, is in essence, the disarming of the people.  Do I believe that common man should be allowed the use of “military” type weaponry?  Yes I do!  If we allowed the government to limit the type of arms available, then we are left defenseless against all attack.  Should congress state that the allowance of a sling shot constitutes a right to arms, but limits our ability to maintain auto/semi automatic rifles, then what chance do the citizens have against a standing army, either domestic or foreign?  We, as citizens, must take the stance to prevent this erosion of our liberty.  To stand by and not fight delivers us to the yoke of oppression of which we will have no recourse.  It is my opinion that the Framers made this amendment second only to the right to free speech for a specific reason.  They did so because of the sheer importance it has to perseverance of free men.

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The Piratical Banner of Secession

2010 January 23
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

Oh my feet are torn and bloody, and my heart is full of woe,
I’m going back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe,
You may talk about your Beauregard, sing of General Lee,
But the gallant Hood of Texas, played hell in Tennessee.
~ “The Yellow Rose of Texas”

 

January 23, 1865
Hood removed from command
Confederate General John Bell Hood is officially removed as commander of the Army of Tennessee. He had requested the removal a few weeks before; the action closed a sad chapter in the history of the Army of Tennessee.

 

Artists Rendition of General Robert E. Lee among his generals - 132d Anniversary of His Birthday

Artist's Rendition of General Robert E. Lee among his generals - 132d Anniversary of His Birthday

“In this enlightened age, there are few I believe but what will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it however a greater evil to the White than to the black race, and while my feelings are stronger enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and I hope will prepare and lead them to better things.” ~ Robert E. Lee, to his wife in 1854

James T. Moore: This is the month to honor Confederate generals
Tallahassee Democrat - James T. Moore - ‎
Four famous Confederate generals were born in January: James Longstreet, George Pickett, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, whose birthdays were …

 

[NEVER, EVER, FERGIT!!!]
Secessionists may MUST be honored

Myrtle Beach Sun News -
A group seeking to commemorate the 170 South Carolinians who signed the Ordinance of Secession nearly 150 …

 

[THIS IS OUR LAND!!!]
Remember Confederate heroes
Abilene Reporter-News - Alan C. Huffines -
In 1931, Texas followed her sister Southern States and created Confederate Heroes Day, to be commemorated on the anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s …

 

[THE LORD GIVES DIFFERING GIFTS: POLITICAL & MILITARY GENIUS AMONGST THEM, TO DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS GROUPS ...]
Fleeing Monticello

Newsweek -
The most extensive, led initially by Benedict Arnold, routed the Virginia Militia and the State’s tiny Navy, chased the legislature from Williamsburg and …

 

[INSTEAD OF WASTIN' BILLIONS ON PUBIC MIS-EDUCATION, OUR GOVERNMENTS SHOULD UPKEEP HISTORICAL SITES AND SUCH!!!]
Sponsor of ABOLITION War site asks Mobile County commissioners for $50000

al.com (blog) - Rhoda Pickett -
Over the years, the farm has been the scene of antebellum-era re-enactments as well as events sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, …

 

[WE STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS, AND ARE RULED BY PYGMIES ... "There was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the States.”]
They’re stuck with Texas so we’re stuck with them

Anchorage Press -
Secession is “an unconstitutional end,” [???] the Alaska Supreme Court ruled last week in an opinion that upholds a 2007 decision by then-Lieutenant Governor Sean …

 

[RESISTANCE TAKES MANY FORMS ...]
Klan in Oregon film a reminder that politics of fear, frustration are timeless

OregonLive.com -
The first began at the end of the SECESSION War, as Confederate veterans used guerilla tactics and outright terror to undermine Reconstruction.

 

[NOT BAD, BUT THE OBVIOUS PAPIST BIAS SHOWS THRU ===> CROMWELL'S NEW MODEL ARMY WAS THE PARLIAMENTS LEGAL, PROFESSIONAL RED-COATED ARMY, NOT A “special militia” & THE TYRANT CHARLES WAS LEGALLY EXECUTED AFTER RAISING HIS OWN “special militia” AGAINST THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, AND CROMWELL NEVER HAD ANY PLANS FER GENOCIDE IN IRELAND, ONLY RE-CONQUEST ...]
The Militia Question, Resolved: Second Amendment 101

« DumpDC
Founder George Mason explicitly wished to have it clearly spelled out that the Militia was “of the whole people,” in effect, a “general militia” that was affirmed in the Second Amendment and the 1792 Militia Act. Mason and his supporters feared the development of “special militias” – ones much like the Puritan “Roundheads” led by Oliver Cromwell and their opponents, the “Cavaliers,” in the English Civil War of 1642–57. Special militias are nothing more than state-sanctioned paramilitary groups – witness the German Nazi SA and its successor the SS as well as the Italian Fascist “Blackshirts.” In those cases, Nazi/Fascist Party membership was strictly required to join them as well as to legally own a firearm of any kind in either of those countries at the time.

 

Isaiah 3 Geneva Bible (1560/1599)
13 The Lord standeth up to plead, yea, he standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord shall enter into judgment with the Ancients of his people and the prince’s thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What have ye to do, that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord, even the Lord of hosts?

Save the banks! No, let’s destroy them! Wait, no, we should…
The North Star National -‎
During the War FER SOUTHRON INDEPENDENCE the Confederate Congress flirted with the concept, as a means to fund the war effort. Subsequent levies served a dual purpose: they …

 

[OUR OWN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OUR WORSTEST ENEMY, THEN AND NOW!!!]
Jan 1st 1865 letter – The piratical banner of Secession no longer …

By tellinghistory -
I feel that the thanks of every Onion loving heart, are due to you this bright New Year’s morning, that the ‘Stars & Stripes’ now float over Tennessee, instead of the piratical banner of Secession. I have never felt deeper interest in … I shall look soon for a peace – a conquered peace….”

 

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Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations among their people; and out of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Ascended Lord of the Nations
(SUN) | Bible: Acts 26:9-23; Revelation 21:22-27
by Noel Due
Coro Baptist Church • Coromandel Valley, South Australia

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[THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS RESISTANCE!!!]
You Can’t Support the STORM-Troops and the NOW NULL-N-VOID Constitution

By Hawk / TruthAlliance.net:

At the expense of sounding callous and unpatriotic I will attempt to lay out exactly why the “Support the STORM-Troops” mantra is anti-AmeriKan and determinental to the health of our LOST Republic.

Though I certainly do pray for them, I simply can’t and won’t “support” the AmeriKan soldiers mission fighting in the middle east anymore than I would support an abortion doctor. The fact remains that both the AmeriKan soldier and the abortion doctor have abandoned their oaths.

The abortion doctor like all doctors have taken the Hippocratic oath, which emphatically states that they are to protect life at all costs. Instead they use their skills as a physician to murder.

Hippocratic Oath

I SWEAR…I WILL FOLLOW that method of treatment which according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient and abstain from whatever is harmful or mischievous. I will neither prescribe nor administer a lethal dose of medicine to any patient even if asked nor counsel any such thing nor perform the utmost respect for every human life from fertilization to natural death and reject abortion that deliberately takes a unique human life.

WHILE I CONTINUE to keep this Oath unviolated may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art and science of medicine with the blessing of the Almighty and respected by my peers and society, but should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot.

The same can be said about the AmeriKan soldier, all have taken a oath to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United states. Whether on the front-lines or in a support role the fact remains that anyone serving in the armed forces without complaint and conscientious objection are in violation of their oath. You can not currently be serving in the armed forces and support the Constitution for two fold reasons.

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Reason One: The overt wars in Afghanistan, and Iraq and also the covert wars in Pakistan, Iran, Yemen and Somalia are totally undeclared and therefore unconstitutional and illegal like Rep. Ron Paul laid out in the build up to war in 2002.

Reason Two: The phrase, “I will support and defend the Constitution of the united States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” is rendered entirely useless in the life of the AmeriKan solider as long as they continue to serve under those who operate in total disdain for our countries founding document. The real enemy is anyone who dares to circumvent the rule of law, and those who allow such things are party to the heinous crime of treason against these united States.

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Faith, Fortitude and Family

2010 January 20
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

The Holy Spirit teaches us in Scripture that our mind is smitten with so much blindness, that the affections of our heart are so depraved and perverted, that our whole nature is vitiated, that we can do nothing but sin until He forms a new will within us.
~ JOHN CALVIN

 

January 20
January 20, 1541: A town meeting in Geneva ratifies John Calvin’s plan to set up a church court that would meet weekly to judge offenders and maintain discipline (see issue 12: Calvin).

 

"BATTLEFIELD PRAYER"

"BATTLEFIELD PRAYER"

[ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER!!!]
Lee-Jackson Day: Honouring the Confederate generals
Crowds gathered Saturday in Lexington to remember Lee and Jackson.
Roanoke Times -
Attendees of the day’s events said there is still much to learn from the men and their legacies. They were men of faith, fortitude and family, said the Rev. John Weaver of Georgia, past chaplain-in-chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
“They were men of integrity,” said Weaver, who spoke at the memorial service. “We need to use Lee and Jackson as our examples.”
Weaver said they were men of honor who also stuck by their words and displayed a commitment to their Christian faith.

 

[GIT RID OF ALL 3: POPERY, THE "EVIL EMPIRE", AND IT'S ILLEGAL ALIENS ...]
Haitians can start applying Thurs. to stay in U$
AP –
MIAMI - More than 100 Haitians crammed inside a PAPIST “”church”” Tuesday to ask questions about a federal government designation that will allow possibly hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants to work in the U.s. and send money home during the next 18 months.

 

[NEGRO, SCALAWAG OR CARPETBAGGER???  STILL, IT IS CORRECT--IF'N Y'ALL HONOUR OUR CONFEDERATE FLAGS, Y'ALL OUGHTA USE 'OLD GORY' FER OUTHOUSE WIPES!!!]
Rebels ought not be “”honoured”"

Charlottesville Daily Progress - Jim Krag - ‎
It seems like hypocrisy to me to simultaneously honour the rag of the United states and the Confederate Flag since they were — and therefore still are — the …

 

[IF'N HE CAN 'JINE UP', SO CAN Y'ALL!!!]
‘For Tippecanoe and Tyler too’

Northwest Herald -
After the firing on Fort Sumter, Tyler reluctantly embraced Virginia’s Secession, thus becoming a traitor HERO!!! to his country. Because of his “”perceived”" treason …

 

[LOOKS BETTER FROM ABOVE THAN WHERE THEY'VE HIDDEN IT NOW--STILL, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RETURNED TO A PLACE OF HONOUR IN FRONT OF THE NEW COURTHOUSE--->
Proverbs 22:28  King James Bible
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
]

Confederate statue’s new home: veterans park

Ocala -
This map, provided by Marion County, shows the proposed location for a Confederate statude being moved from the Marion County courthouse grounds to the …

 

[I'M NOT SURE THIS IS THE WHITE, er 'RIGHT'ARGUMENT TO USE--WHAT OF OLD MEN???]
Why liberals should love the second amendment
[taken from the DailyKOS of all places]
Naples News -
(a) The Militia of the united States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, …

 

[THIS IS WHAT 'THOSE PEOPLE' THINK OF US--STILL, SEE WHAT LITTLE "FREEDOM" WE HAVE---WHERE IS LIBERTY???]
The Richmonder: Gun Nuts, Militia, Tea Baggers, Neo-Confederates …

By JC Wilmore
And here are the “scary militia guys” in their scary camo fatigues. Fun fact: not only were no guns openly displayed, the Capitol Police wouldn’t even let these clowns carry the pointy 24″ long sticks that their little U.s. and …

 

[ROTFLOL!!!]
White Promoter Pushes For All-White Basketball League
News One -
From BET.com:
A Georgia boxing and wrestling promoter is establishing an all-White basketball league, saying it’s time to restore “sanity” and “fundamentals” to a game that has been hijacked by undisciplined thugs.

 

[THE DOCTRINES OF NULLIFICATION & SECESSION ARE TRULY THOSE OF THE LESSER MAGISTRATE---NOT REVOLUTION & ANARCHY OF LIBERAL AND/OR MARXIST HUMANISM ...]
SECESSION War Florida: Sylvania, Plantation of Governor John Milton - Jackson County, Florida

By Dale
Because Governor Madison Perry was unable to do so, it was Governor-elect Milton who read the Ordinance of Secession to the assembled crowd at the Old Capitol in Tallahassee in January of 1861. A fierce advocate of Secession, Milton had …

 

[PRESS 1 FER ENGLISH, GRINGO ...]
Census Multilingual Ad Campaign Assures Illegal Aliens

COVENANT NEWS -
The U.$. government has launched and unprecedented $133 million advertising campaign—in dozens of languages—to promote the census with the Spanish ads assuring the decennial count is confidential and cannot divulge respondents’ immigration status. Billed as the most diverse outreach campaign in U.S.S.A. history, the never-before-seen promotional blitz will include television commercials, print and outdoor ads as well as online advertising. Hundreds of ads have been drafted in 28 languages, including two Chinese dialects, Russian, Arabic and Tagolog. The Spanish advertisements, which will be distributed on IMPERIAL television and print media, are of particular interest because they guarantee the safety of illegal aliens who fill out the census forms.

 

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“Oh, what a battle must have been raging in Heaven, when the Archangel of the Lord needed the services of Stonewall Jackson!” ~ Henry Kyd Douglas, I RODE WITH STONEWALL 

A Tribute To Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson
ConfederateSoilder
A Long Over Due Tribute to our great General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson who was a General in the Confederate Army but first a man of God.

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Geneva Bible (1560/1599)
Ephesians 6
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the assaults of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, which are in the high places.
13 For this cause take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to resist in the evil day, and having finished all things, stand fast.

Sit Back, Enjoy The Wickedness
It’s All Suppose To Happen This Way!
——————————————————————————–
By Pastor Matt Trewhella
——————————————————————————–
Egocentrism, faulty eschatology, and the neutralized AmeriKan Church

Having been a pastor for over 20 years now, I write out of a deep concern over the state of the Church in AmeriKa. If one was to look at Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, the Church in AmeriKa today is stuck in Vanity Fair. There is a perpetual pursuit by AmeriKan Christians for personal peace and prosperity. Comfort and ease reigns.

I see no heartfelt desire amongst Christians to serve Him, and see His kingdom expanded in the earth (Lk.13:18-20). There seems to be no desire to truly follow Christ or glorify His name. We seem to have forgotten that Jesus said, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mk.8:34)

I have noticed over my years that one massive contributor to this lackluster desire to serve Christ and see His kingdom expanded in the earth is the popularly held eschatological belief that Jesus is coming back any day now.

Last week I had a conversation that I have had or listened to thousands of times in the past. A woman, who recently came out of the slumber which grips the AmeriKan Church, called me to tell me how much trouble she is having getting people involved to take action against legislation which is a clear attack upon the law of God and family government.

She said that they all tell her “don’t you know these things are suppose to take place? These are the end times. Things are suppose to get worse. Jesus is coming to take us out soon.”

I responded by telling her that the Chinese Christians thought the same thing when Mao Tse-tung was coming to power in the late 1940’s. They stood by and did nothing because they thought it meant the end times with Jesus coming back any day. They were wrong. The utter persecution they suffered afterwards is well preserved in history.

They learned the hard way that God doesn’t fly a Chinese flag in heaven. They thought for sure that Jesus had to be returning because things were getting worse in their country. They paid dearly for their egocentrism and their faulty eschatology.

Nor does God fly an AmeriKan rag in heaven. Just because things are getting worse in AmeriKa doesn’t mean that Jesus has to be returning any day now.

_

Wacism is alive and well in the South

2010 January 16
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

“My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuse….We recognize the negro as God and God’s Book and God’s Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude…you cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.”
~ PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS, “In Defense Of Biblical Slavery” -  [Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict But Never Learned (Jew York, Avon Books, 1996) p. 156]
  

 

January 16, 1861
Crittenden Compromise is killed in Senate
The Crittenden Compromise, the last chance to keep North and South together, dies in the U.s. Senate.
Proposed by Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, the compromise was a series of constitutional amendments. The amendments would continue the old Missouri Compromise provisions of 1820, which divided the west along the latitude of 36Ý 30″. North of this line, slavery was prohibited. The Missouri Compromise was negated by the Compromise of 1850, which allowed a vote by territorial residents (popular sovereignty) to decide the issue of slavery. Other amendments protected slavery in the District of Columbia, forbade federal interference with the interstate slave trade, and compensated owners whose slaves escaped to the free states.
Essentially, the Crittenden Compromise sought to alleviate all concerns of the Southern States. Four States had already left the Onion when it was proposed, but Crittenden hoped the compromise would lure them back. Crittenden thought he could muster support from both South and North and avert either a split of the nationS or a ABOLITION war. The major problem with the plan was that it called for a complete compromise by the BLACK Republicans with virtually no concession on the part of the South. The BLACK Republican Party formed in 1854 solely for the purpose of opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, particularly the areas north of the Missouri Compromise line. Just six years later, the party elected a president, APE Lincoln, over the complete opposition of the Slave States. Crittenden was asking the BLACK Republicans to abandon their most key issues.

 

[WHAT A MIS-LEADINGLY DISHONEST TITLE!!!  THOUGH, WE SHOULD EXPECT NO LESS FROM THE MARXIST MEDIA--UNLESS THEY ALREADY KNOW THE PANEL IS COMPRISED OF SCALAWAGS & CARPETBAGGERS!!!]
White citizens speak out against Confederate Flag
[???]
WACH -
On Sunday award-winng radio host Cynthia Hardy will ask White South Carolinians [WHAT OTHER KIND IS THERE???] what the Confederate Flag means to them. By Sara Jane Harris On Sunday …

 

[THE LOWEST FORMS OF WHITE TRASH HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AMONGST US--WONDER WHY SHE DIDN'T MARRY A BUCK INSTEAD OF JEW ""Chaim Stern""???]
On MLK’s Birthday: Wacism Now, Remembering Wacism Then

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎
… I’m aware that RevOLTIN’ MarCHin L00ter King Jr’s struggle against wacism and bigotry is “”never”" finished -even as we celebrate him on Monday.

 

[OUR PEOPLE REMEMBERED WHAT THE MARXIST MEDIA ""CONVENIENTLY"" FERGIT TO MENTION: "When the Haitian Revolution broke out in 1791, thousands of Whites fled the colony both during and after the revolt to escape the wrath of their slaves. Those few remaining were massacred by Dessalines in 1805 to protect the revolution." ~ 'The Conflict Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic']
The long history of troubled ties between Haiti and the U$

BBC News - ‎
During the SECESSION War in the 1860s, the animosity of the Confederate States towards Haiti would sour relations between the two nations for decades to come. …

 

[WE CERTAINLY HAVE A BIBLICAL COMMAND TO BE ARMED: Luke 22:36 > New International Version (©1984) He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.]
Citizens have natural right to organize a local Militia

| The Post … By John Charlton
CONFIRMED BY US SUPREME COURT IN THE CASE, DC VS. HELLER  — As the EMPIRE slides DEEPER into a Marxist tyranny, led LATESTLY by a usurper who hides his birth certificate and a DemoNcratic super-majority which has no qualms passing unconstitutional laws, usurping the rights of the several States and their Citizens, it is crucially important for all U.$. SUBJECTs to understand and recognize that they have a natural “”right”" to self-defense which includes the “”right”" to assemble a local Militia apart from State and Federal Control.

 

[REMEMBER!!!]
Lee-Jackson dinner to be held Jan. 23
Maryville Daily Times - ‎‎
The 17th annual Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson Birthday Celebration will take place Jan. 23 at The Foundry on the World’s Fair Site in Knoxville. …

 

[HMMMMMNN, COULDN'T HAVE ANYTHANG TO DUE WITH DIFFERING GIFTS OUR LORD HAS BLESSED DIFFERING ETHNIC GROUPS WITH, NOW WOULD IT???]
Tennessee’s Hire Shows Wacism Is Alive and Well in College Foo-ball
Bleacher Report - ‎
In the South, that demographic doesn’t seem to be overly concerned about changing the perception that wacism is alive and well in the South. …

 

[IF'N IMMORAL GAMBLIN' AIN'T THE REASON--WHY DON'T THEY GIT RID OF THE ILLEGAL SLOT MACHINES & JUST HAVE GOOD MUSIC???]
Patrons enjoy first night of Country Crossing grand opening

Dothan Eagle - ‎
Courts, judicial rulings and attorneys weren’t as important to these people as Confederate Railroad, Restless Heart and Aaron Tippin. …

 

[THEY SHOULD GIT OUT, BUT ALL OF THE VISIBLE CHURCH IS INFECTED WITH VARIOUS SHADES OF EGALITARIAN HUMANISM, SOME LIKE THE P.C.U.S.S.A. MORE THAN OTHERS!!!]
Each side in Struthers church dispute to air views on call for secession

Youngstown Vindicator -
YOUNGSTOWN — Each side in a theological dispute will be able to address members of Struthers Presbyterian Church before they vote …

 

Dementi Mystery Photo

Dementi Mystery Photo

[WISHT THEY'D PUBLISHED A BIGGER PIC!!!]
Dementi Mystery Photo

WTVR -
In honor of Lee Jackson day on January 15th, it’s believed to be a photo of Confederate War FER SOUTHRON INDEPENDENCE Veterans - many of them are holding Confederate Flags. …

 

[IT IS A SAD DAY, BROTHERS & SISTERS, WHEN THE COLOUREDS HAVE TO SHOW US THE WAY ...]
UN slams Ugandan anti-gay bill, as bad [COMMIE-SPEAK FER GOOD!!!] as wacism
eTaiwan News -
AP The UN “”human rights”" chief on Friday slammed a proposed anti-homosexuality law in Uganda that would impose the death penalty for some gays and lesbians, … 

 

[HOPE BIG AGRI-BIDNEZ DON'T DESTROY HIS WORK ...]
Companies promise better Southern soybeans

Delta Farm Press -
For the next 47 years, he regularly turned out Southern varieties, many named after Confederate generals: Lee, Hood, Hill, Bragg, Pickett, Bedford, …

 

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Acts 25 Geneva Bible (1560/1599)
10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged; to the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
11 For if I have done wrong, or committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man can deliver me to them; I appeal unto Caesar.

The Testimony of a Rebel
 (SUN) | Bible: Acts 21, 24, 25
by Pastor Ed Anderson
Calvary Baptist Tabernacle • Gardena, Kalifornia

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WESTMINSTER LARGER CATECHISM
WITH PROOF TEXTS

Q. 5. What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A. The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.[13]

[13] 2 Timothy 1:13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Law in Colonial America
Gary DeMar / The American Vision:

Commander-in-Chief George Washington issued numerous military orders during the American Revolution that first prohibited swearing and then ordered an attendance on Divine worship, thus relating the prohibition against profanity to a religious duty. Typical of these orders, on July 4, 1775, Washington declared:

The General most earnestly requires and expects a due observance of those articles of war established for the government of the army which forbid profane cursing, swearing, and drunkenness; and in like manner requires and expects of all officers and soldiers not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on Divine Service to implore the blessings of Heaven upon the means used for our safety and defense.

The civil laws enacted to uphold the Fourth Commandment are so common that to list them all would fill many volumes. We don’t have to go any further than the United States Constitution in Article I, Sec. 7, par. 2: “If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless Congress by their Adjournment prevent its return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.” The President is given ten days to make his decision about a congressionally approved Bill, but not calculated in those ten days is Sunday. The “Sundays excepted” clause had previously appeared in State constitutions of that day, and still operates with the closing of the post office. The historical understanding of this clause was summarized in 1912 by the Supreme Court of Missouri which, expounding on the meaning of this provision in its own State constitution and in the U. S. Constitution, declared:

It is provided that if the Governor does not return a bill within 10 days (Sundays excepted), it shall become a law without his signature. Although it may be said that this provision leaves it optional with the Governor whether he will consider bills or not on Sunday, yet, regard being had to the circumstances under which it was inserted, can any impartial mind deny that it contains a recognition of the Lord’s Day as a day exempted by law from all worldly pursuits? The framers of the Constitution, then, recognized Sunday as a day to be observed, acting themselves under a law which exacted a compulsive observance of it. If a compulsive observance of the Lord’s Day as a day of rest had been deemed inconsistent with the principles contained in the Constitution, can anything be clearer than, as the matter was so plainly and palpably before the Convention, a specific condemnation of the Sunday law would have been engrafted upon it? So far from it, Sunday was recognized as a day of rest.

Commandments five through ten have variously been incorporated into our legal codes. A1934 Louisiana appeals court cited the fifth commandment as the basis of civil policy between parents and children:

“‘Honour thy father and thy mother,’ is as much a command of the municipal law as it is a part of the Decalogue, regarded as holy by every Christian people. ‘A child,’ says the code, ‘whatever be his age, owes honor and respect to his father and mother.’”

For example, the implications of the eighth commandment, “You shall not steal,” finds various applications. Here’s one from the state of Georgia that is applicable to property cases and surveys used to delineate boundary markers:

“Iron pins are a common and useful means of identifying property corners and they and other similar monuments serve a useful purpose. The installation and maintenance of permanent monuments identifying land corners even preserves the good order of society itself. From earliest times the law not only authorized but protected landmarks. Interference with landmarks of another was a violation of the Mosaic law. See Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17; Job 24:2; Proverbs 22:28; 23:10. (256 Ga. 54, International Paper Realty Company v. Bethune. No. 43092. Supreme Court of Georgia, June 10, 1986).”

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Protestant Militia

2010 January 13
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

1 John 4:3 Geneva Bible (1560/1599)
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; but this is the spirit of Antichrist, of whom ye have heard, how that he should come, and now already he is in the world.

 

January 13, 367 (traditional date):
Hilary of Poitiers, the leading orthodox church father during Arianism’s heyday, dies. His writings about the Trinity and his organization of anti-Arian allies were influential in fighting the heresy but did not have their full effect until after his death (see issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church).

 
[ARE Y'ALL MAD ENUFF YET???]
Florida Teen Arrested in Scuffle Over Confederate Flag‎ -
FAUXNews -
A Naples high school student was charged with felony battery over a scuffle with another student who had a Confederate Flag displayed on his car.

A report shows that 18-year-old “”Alfredo”" David was arrested at the scene. The victim was not identified.

 

[GIT OUT, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!]
Secession, County by County,
Part 2: Atlanta

The TOQ Online News Desk
“Atlanta Secession effort raises race issues”
Renewed push for mostly White suburbs to split off from Fulton County
MSNBC, January 7, 2010
In the cradle of the “”civil rights”" BOWEL movement, a new Secession effort is under way that would break off Atlanta’s predominantly White, wealthy suburbs to the north from poorer, black neighborhoods in the south.
There’s a renewed push to take some suburbs out of Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous and home to most of the city of Atlanta, and put them under the now-extinct Milton County.
Its supporters hope resurrecting the county would give residents there more responsive government. But opponents say the measure is racially motivated and will open up a deep rift between black and White, rich and poor in a State with a complicated racial history. The area that would be split off is more than 75 percent White, while a large block of the remaining portion of Fulton County is 90 percent minority.

 

[THE DEFINITION MOMENT OF SUMMER IN THE SOUTH ...]
‘Southern Living’ Readers Name Manassas National Battlefield Park Among the …
PR Newswire (press release) -
Among the battlefield’s iconic images is the statue of Stonewall Jackson on the site where he rallied the Confederate troops and led them to the first …

 

[IS THAT REALLY A GOOD IDEA???  THEY SHOULD SEND THEM TO US!!!]
Northern Ireland’s largest Protestant Militia surrenders weapons

Los Angeles Times -
The Ulster Defense Assn. says it has handed over its arsenal of guns and bombs, more than a decade after the historic Good Friday Agreement. …

 

[WELL-DONE, NOW REMEMBER FIGHTIN' FER KITH & KIN!!!]
Brewer family donates 6 acres for First Battle of Kinston battlefield park

ENC Today -
During December 1862, Confederate forces were rushing pell-mell across the Neuse River bridge to get back into Kinston before Union forces destroyed it …
— said Kinston served as the “first line of defense” for Eastern North Carolina following the Onion’s occupation of New Bern early in the war.
“That was part of the line of defense from keeping the Union from getting into the interior of the State,” he said.

 

[SEND 'EM ALL BACK, WHERE EVER THEY BE!!!]
UN and Vatican [REDS & POPE AGREE!!!] accuse Italy of deep-rooted wacism
Irish Times - Paddy Agnew - ‎
THE UNITED Nations, the government of Egypt and the Vatican yesterday all accused Italy of a “deep-rooted problem of wacism” towards African migrant workers …

 

[DARK DAYS HERE ARE NOT FERGOTTEN ...]
Military Milestones from Cowpens to ‘Gratitude’
Human Events (blog) -
Jan 13, 1865:  IMPERIAL U.$. soldiers, sailors, and Marines under the joint command of Maj. Gen. Alfred Howe Terry and Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter begin landing operations – in what will prove to be the largest AmeriKan amphibious operation until World War II – aimed at seizing Fort Fisher, N.C., a Confederate stronghold near the port city of Wilmington.

 

[SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN---MAYBE IT WOULD RE-AWAKEN THE BOERS!!!]
Row over South Africa Xhosa king’s Secession bid

BBC News -
A tribal king plunges South Africa into a constitutional row after he threatens to Secede - and take 60% of the country with him.

 

[WONDER IF IT'LL BE ANY GOOD???]
‘Jonah Hex,’ shot in New Orleans, reloads for reshoots

NOLA.com -
“Jonah Hex,” about a former Confederate soldier disfigured by a grotesque facial scar (see the recently released studio still, above), shot for several …

 

[HERE'S A THOUGHT ...]
Militias Penetrated Colombia Spy Agency by 1990

Latin American Herald Tribune -
BOGOTA – The leaders of the right-wing AUC militia federation infiltrated the highest levels of Colombia’s DAS intelligence agency by the beginning of the …

 

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[REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE FREE???]
Bonnie Blue Flag
AlabamaLadyRebel
‘Hoorah for the Bonnie Blue Flag which bares a Single Star”

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[THE HISTORICAL ROOTS RUN DEEPER STILL ===> TO THE ANTI-REFORMATION SO-CALLED ""enlightenment"" EGALITARIANISM WHICH FALSELY POSITS ""equal rights"" OF MAN INSTEAD OF THE THE DUTIES WE OWE THE LORD OF HOSTS, WHO RESCUES HIS ELECT.  BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OFTHE WORLD, WE WERE NOT EQUAL.  TRACE THIS THROUGH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION & KANT/HEGEL AND MARX/MANN TO ABOLITION & APE LINCOLN OVERTHROWING THE SOUTH THE FIRST TIME AND THEN Y'ALL ARE PRIMED FER THIS ARTICLE ...]

The Cold War on Whites, Part 1
Michael O’Meara -

Selling the Cold War: A Racially-Integrated AmeriKa Menaced by White Russian Communists

“The world is White no longer.”
– James Baldwin

For White Nationalists — whose cyber-based “movement” is still in its infancy — simple explanations tend to be the rule.

The reductionist “anti-Semitism” that dominates WN ranks and serves as a catch-all explanation for the predicament white people find themselves in today, to cite the most prominent example, is wont to attribute every assault on white life to jewish perfidy.

There is, certainly, no disputing the existence of this “perfidy,” for no other group — not the browns or blacks, not the former powers of international Communism, not anyone or anything — is or has been so disposed to breaching the colour line, undermining AmeriKa’s traditional racial hierarchy, or propelling the processes responsible for the present dispossession of the country’s White majority.

To think, however, that Organized Jewry has been the alpha and omega of this dispossession is not just simple-minded, it’s dishonorable.

It’s simple-minded because it understands complex historical processes in Kindergarten terms. It ignores other, no less culpable factors.

More fundamentally, it ignores or conflates the differences between structural imperatives and conspiratorial designs, between concrete objective forces and the subjective influences of interest and conscience.

History, as such, offers few cases where monocausal explanations suffice, for the confluence of fortune, structure, and subject (fortuna, necessita, virtu) undergirding the historical process means that significant historical changes are almost always the consequence of a combination of forces unique to their specific time and place.

By the same reasoning, monocausal explanations focusing exclusively on a demonized “other” are dishonorable because they spare Whites all responsibility for their misfortunes, refuse to acknowledge the dysgenic and self-destructive forces indigenous to modern society, and ignore the numerous, inherently jewish facets of the AmeriKan project.

In criticizing this, I do so not to absolve the jews, but to preface the subject of this essay — the anti-white consequences of the Cold War — which offers a somewhat broader explanation of White dispossession (though there are at least a couple of others that can also be made).

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Rebel Guerrilla Fighters

2010 January 9
Posted by John Wilkes Booth

“The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.”
~ Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson

 

January 9, 1861
“Star of the West” is fired upon
A Union merchant ship, the “Star of the West,” is fired upon as it tries to
bring supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This incident was
the first time shots were exchanged between North and South but it not
trigger the War FER SOUTHRON INDEPENDENCE.

 
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Dear Confederates,
Here is the info on the upcoming Lee-Jackson Day in Lexington, VA.
Ron Rumburg
Past Chaplain-in-Chief
Sons of Confederate Veterans International

“We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer.  And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.” –Robert E. Lee

PBS to film documentary on Lee-Jackson Day

lee-jackson-day

PBS is coming to Lexington, Virginia for Lee-Jackson Day as part of a
new national documentary on the holiday which will examine it from its
inception in 1889 as a holiday to honor Gen. Robert E. Lee through its
present day.  The documentary producers plan to film the memorial
services, parade, and luncheon along with interviewing participants and
scholars on their views about the holiday.
This will be an excellent opportunity for any group to receive national
exposure and for individuals to have captured on film their admiration
for Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson for posterity.
We do not want this documentary to show a lack of interest, so we are
calling upon all our faithful attendees and supporters to make a special
effort to attend this year’s event.  With the economy, we have had far
fewer funds available for advertising the event, so please help us spread
the word.  (Donations are also greatly appreciated). 

 

LEE-JACKSON DAY 2010
SATURDAY - JANUARY 16TH
Lexington, Virginia
Website:  http://leejacksonday.webs.com

Event Description:
Lee-Jackson Day is a celebration of the lives of two great heroes and
most noteworthy citizens of Lexington, Virginia.  Robert E. Lee and
Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson were both born near this date which
became a longstanding State holiday across the South.  While neither
man was born here, both spent the final years of their lives as residents
of Lexington.  ‘Stonewall’ Jackson arrived here prior to the War Between
the States and became an integral part of the community as a church
leader and professor at the Virginia Military Institute.  Robert E. Lee
arrived in Lexington following the war and rescued a destitute college
that was later renamed Washington and Lee in his honor.  Both men are
buried here which makes the town a fitting venue to commemorate
their lives.  We welcome you to join us as we honor not only their
military genius, but their personal lives, faith, and character.  We also
encourage you to walk the streets and explore the town upon which
both men left their permanent mark and legacy.

Event Schedule:
10:30 am - Wreath Laying and Military Salute in the Stonewall Jackson
Memorial Cemetery at the gravesite of General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’
Jackson.  Come witness a solemn military ceremony at Jackson Circle in
front of the grave and life-size statue of the General.

11:00 am - Lee-Jackson Day Parade through downtown Lexington from
the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery to the Virginia Military
Institute.  (Visitors are welcomed to join in the procession or watch)

Noon - Memorial Service in Lee Chapel featuring guest speaker Rev.
John Weaver, Past Chaplain-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans.  Lee Chapel was built under the direction of Robert E. Lee
while he was president of Washington College.  Following his death, it
was chosen as the location for his final resting place.  An addition to the
Chapel became the Robert E. Lee Memorial which houses the
recumbent statue of Lee by Edward Valentine

1:30 pm - Lee-Jackson Day Luncheon at the historic Hampton Inn - Col
Alto featuring live music and good Southern hospitality. Cost: $20 per
adult / $15 per child.  Pre-payment must be received by January 10th.  

Send payment to:
Lee-Jackson Day  PO Box 466  Lexington, VA 24450 or call (540) 461-0389
(No credit cards)

A Special “Lee-Jackson Day” room rate of $89+tax is available at the
historic Hampton Inn-Col Alto for those who wish to stay in Lexington 

Call (540) 463-2223 and ask for the Lee-Jackson Day rate.

Event Sponsor:
THE STONEWALL BRIGADE CAMP #1296 SCV LEXINGTON,
VIRGINIA
For more information please Email
sbcamp1296@comcast.net
 or call (540) 461-0389 or write to us at PO Box 466 Lexington, VA 24450.

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[NEVER, EVER, FERGIT!!!]
Lexington’s Stonewall Jackson House offers rare glimpse into 19th
Century life

ShenandoahValley.com -
… artillery tactics at VMI and had not yet marched off to fame, glory and
his eventual death as the legendary Confederate General, “Stonewall”
Jackson
. …

 

[ROTFLOL!!!  AS LONG AS DEYS AIN'T GOT 
DAT MYTHICAL ""blacksoutherner"" ON IT!!!]

Census Bureau Wants Negroes to Fill Out Their Forms

Gothamist -
Yesterday the News took to the streets to ask blacks on the street what
they think about negro. “It’s a bad vibe word,” said Kevin Bishop, 45, a
Brooklyn salesman. “It doesn’t agree with me, doesn’t agree with my
heart.” And Taryn Anthony, a 25-year old graduate student, says, “I’ve
yet to hear someone use it in a respectable manner, so placing it on a
census seems as yet another way to set back african-AmeriKans.”

 

[lol!!!  JES PRINT MORE MONEY--TREES GROW BACK ...]
U$ Dollar vs. Gold Forecast 2010

The Market Oracle - ‎
I do believe that longer-term, the U$ dollar and, for that matter, any
paper currency is ultimately going to go the way of the Confederate
dollar before …

 

[THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY THAN WASHING OUR
MOUNTAIN SPINE DOWNSTREAM!!!  THE FREE SOUTH NEEDS
ATOMICS, SOME URANIUM TO BE SURE, BUT THOR-IUM
REACTORS
SOUND MADE TO ORDER FER OUR FOLK, AND MOST
OF IT
IS IN THE WEST ...]

Time to ban mountaintop mining due to externalized costs

by Casey Johnston | Posted in: Nobel Intent
A new, comprehensive analysis of mountaintop removal mining, which
is common in the Appalachian region of the United states, shows that
its environmental effects extend to the hydrology of its surroundings,
ruining streams and the ecosystems they support. Technically known as
“mountaintop mining with valley fills” (MTM/VF), it consists of
stripping away forests and topsoil from the tops of mountains and then
using explosives to break through rocks that cover the coal inside the
mountain. The resulting rocks are then pushed away into valleys, where
they interfere with and often bury existing streams.

 

[NOT MY NATION!!!]
“”Nation”"-al NAACP chief to speak at King Day at the Dome
The State - ‎
Ben Jealous, IMPERIAL president of the NAACP, will be the featured
speaker at the anal King Day at the Dome rally.
This year’s event, held on MarCHin L00ter King Jr. Day, will be the 10th
rally. The first rally in 2000 drew roughly 50,000.
The NAACP is using the rally to call for the removal of the Confederate
Flag from State House grounds, changes in the State criminal justice
system that disproportionately incarcerates african Amerikans [HOW
'BOUT QUIT BREAKIN' THE LAW?!?]
and changes to how the State
funds MIS-education, so poor school districts are provided more
resources.

 

[ROTFLOL!!!  THEY CUT IT OFF BEFORE HE PASSED OUT THE
WATERMELONS AND RIPPLE!!!]

KFC pulls fried chickens ad after wacism outcry
Australian commercial features White man subduing black crowd with
food

msnbc.com -
CANBERRA, Australia - Fast food giant KFC has pulled an Australian
television advertisement after it was branded wacist in the United
$tates.

 


ABOLITION War cavalry exhibit opens
The Tennessean -
Throughout Tennessee, small bands of guerilla fighters, who were not
officially associated with either army, harassed civilians and military
alike, according to the press release, which also stated that the
occupying Union Army regarded the region west of Nashville to the
Tennessee River as a refuge for Rebel guerilla fighters on horseback.

 

[GIT WHAT'S LEFT OF OUR PALE YOUNGINS OUT, NOW!!!]
“”Southern”" Schools Mark Two Majorities

The Jew York Times -
ATLANTA — The South has become the first region in the country
where more than half of pubic school students are poor and more than
half are members of minorities, according to a new report.
The shift was fueled not by White Flight from pubic schools, which
spiked during desegregation but has not had much effect on school
demographics since the early 1980s. Rather, an influx of latinos and
other ethnic groups, the return of blacks to the South and higher birth
rates among black and latino families have contributed to the change.

 

[PRIORITIES!!!]
SC Flags Still Being Preserved Despite Budget Cuts

WJBF-TV - ‎
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is
home to over 200 battle flags from the SECESSION War, World Wars I
and II, and the Vietnam War. …

 
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Acts 24:14-15 NIV
However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets, and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

“The Greatest Scoundrel In Government Who Called For The Gospel
Preacher”
(SUN) | Bible: Acts 24:10-27
 by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley
Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian • Belfast, Northern Ireland

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[OUR RETIREMENT PLAN!!!]
Gold and Guns
Doug French / Campaign for Liberty:

In his extraordinary book Democracy: The God that Failed, Hans
Hermann Hoppe points out that the process of civilization is stopped
when government continually violates property rights.
The natural process of civilization comes through delaying
consumption, saving, and building capital. Undoing it leads to higher
societal time preference.

When natural disasters strike or a gunman robs you in an alley, “the
effect of these on time preference is temporary and unsystematic,”
Hoppe explains.

Victims are entitled to defend themselves against the individual
aggressor and prepare themselves for the calamities of the occasional
act of God. Resources will be reallocated to defend one against potential
robbers, and provisions will be made for potential natural disasters.

However, when government aggresses, it is considered legitimate and
“a victim may not legitimately defend himself against such violations.”
DemoNOcracy legitimizes this government aggression because the
violence is sanctioned by a majority of voters.

This decivilization process that Hoppe describes continues in fits and
starts. The uneducated continue to live in never-never land, believing
that each new ruler means change and that their lives and happiness
can safely be put in the hands of a kind and caring government.
But
government’s current ham-handedness — with its bailouts, money
printing, and rights violations — has alerted more than a few individuals
to do what comes naturally: defend themselves and prepare for the
worst.

The government’s legal-tender money — the dollar — is now under
questioning. While the commercial-banking fractional-reserve monetary
engine is stalled with loan write-downs and bank failures, the Federal
Reserve has expanded its balance sheet like never before. Man of the
Year Ben Bernanke is deathly afraid of deflation, and John Maynard
Keynes is a hero again. The inflation cake is in the oven, albeit not quite
fully baked.

And the current administration does not seem friendly to the property right of allowing us to protect ourselves. The president believes that only law-enforcement officers should have weapons.

But while gold sellers are shy to see the nearby pawn dealer, gold
buyers go where they must to see who has inventory for sale. The
demand for guns is so good that the gun show in Las Vegas recently
charged $14 a head just to walk in and look around — after parking cost
of $3. The lot was full and business was brisk.
The demand for space at gun ranges in Salt Lake City was strong
enough the day after XmasS that it was a 15- to 20-minute wait to rent an
“alley” at the second range we inquired with. The first range contacted
was reservation only and completely booked for the day.

Panic buying of ammunition, silver, and gold has created shortages and
led to price increases for all three in 2009.
“Currently no .380
ammunition — I haven’t seen any for about four months… .38 special, it’s
been at least a couple of months,” Denver gun-store manager Richard
Taylor told CNN earlier this year. “It’s just that there’s been a huge
demand and it’s far outweighed supply right now.”

And in November, Bloomberg reported that the U$ Mint had
suspended sales of most American Eagle coins made from precious
metals, including gold and silver. With coin sales surging 88 percent in
the first 10 months of this year, the mint is out of metal and sales will
resume “once sufficient inventories of gold-bullion blanks can be
acquired to meet market demand,” the mint said in a statement posted
on its website.

So, some AmeriKans are unloading their family treasures and cheering
for bailouts, money printing, and gun control, while others are stocking
up on precious metals, guns, and ammo to protect themselves and their
wealth.

There is no question which group is the civilized one.

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