General [Thomas L.] Clingman visited his brigade while in camp at Smithfield, and though on crutches, asked of General Johnston the honor of commanding the rear guard. This was denied him, as he was physically unable to perform such duty, and he addressed the Southern commander as follows:
“Sir, much has been said about dying in the last ditch. You have left with you here thirty thousand of as brave men as the sun ever shone upon. Let us take our stand here and fight the two armies of Grant and Sherman to the end, and thus show to the world how far we can surpass the Thermopylae of the Greeks.”
(Government and the PC crowd would have us believe he was willing to make this last stand to “preserve slavery” in the South…AUH! That is about as dumb a thing as I have ever heard and yet this is what they espouse).
HAPPY PRESIDENT’S DAY
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. Jefferson Davis
“…The contest is not over, the strife is not ended it has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena…” 1881 address to the Mississippi legislature…
In other words, "it's only half time folks" it ain't over, witness the strife in the country today...
NEW YORK’S "Negros Burial Ground" "In 1991 excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains of more than 400 Africans stacked in wooden boxes sixteen to twenty-eight feet below street level."
Slavery in the New York City area was introduced by the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland about 1626, this was the beginning of the institution of slavery in what would become New York City that would continue for two hundred years.
As the city population increased, so did the number of residents who held slaves. In 1703, 42 percent of New York's households had slaves, much more than Philadelphia and Boston combined. On the eve of the American Revolution, New York City had the largest number of enslaved Africans of any English colonial settlement except Charleston, South Carolina. Slaves had become essential to the development of New York.
Labelled on old maps as the "Negros Burial Ground," the 6.6-acre area was first recorded as being used around 1712 for the burials of enslaved and freed people of African descent. The first burials may date from the late 1690s. The burial ground would remain in use until 1794.
In total, the intact remains of more than 400 men, women and children of African descent were found at the site, where they had been buried individually in wooden boxes. There were no mass burials. Nearly half were children under 12, indicating the high mortality rate of the time. Historians and anthropologists estimate that over the decades, as many as 15,000-20,000 Africans were buried in Lower Manhattan.
"The Hidden History of Slavery in New York". The Nation. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
What man could be so morally bankrupt as to sacrifice his sons for the purpose of keeping his slaves?
Answer: None, nada, no one...
No country ever went to war to abolish slavery, none, and it didn’t happen here either. There was no war until the president sent troops to force Southern States to remain in the Union against their will to pay the taxes (tariffs) that were then supporting the US government. NO INVASION NO WAR PERIOD…and the so called “first shot” was intentionally provoked by the North in order to make it “appear” as if the South were the aggressor.
No Northern farm boy or factory worker was going to risk death and dismemberment to free slaves in the South 150 years ago, when many Northern states had slaves themselves. To prove my point, how many of you are willing to fight and die to free the estimated 27 million slaves that exist in the world today? That’s what I thought…(estimate from Free the Slaves website).
However, a man will fight to defend his land and family from invaders. And a young Northern boy could be convinced by his self serving representatives in Congress that it's his patriotic duty to do the invading. The rest is history.
WE DIDN’T LEARN FORM HISTORY SO NOW WE ARE REPEATING IT…
The primary cause of the War For Southern Independence was MONEY (no surprise here). Before the War the Southern States were some of the richest in the Union. Through the “REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH” the South transferred 80% of their tariffs receipts North to fund industrialization, Northern infrastructure and jobs for the “FLOOD OF IMMIGRANTS from overseas.” The South was being ROBBED.
Slavery was a secondary issue …the federal government maintained and supported slavery throughout the war in Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and West Viginia. Slaves could have been freed in 1861, 1862, 1863 (West Virginia was admitted into the Union as a slave state 6 mos. after the Emancipation Proclamation and with all the protections of the fugitive slave laws) or 1864. During the war the government chose to free slaves only in the South where it had no control or authority (how convenient). Lincoln couldn’t buy a newspaper in Charleston SC, let alone free a slave there or anywhere else in the South.
Slavery was not abolished until after the war as a result of the 13th Amendment and long after the so-called great emancipator (who petitioned congress to have freed slaves deported) was in his grave…
A direct result of the transformation from a “Union by Choice” to a “Union by Force,” is the loss of freedoms. States no longer have the option of Nullifying laws which do not serve their people i.e. health care, gun restrictions, abortion, the Patriot Act, the NDAA Act, immigration control and potential drone strikes on our own American citizens….now we’re all slaves, the government is your massa, WELCOME TO THE PLANTATION…
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS ...
On the eve of the War, Massachusetts Senator Wendell Phillips gave a speech at the New Bedford Lyceum in which he defended the Confederate States' right to secede:
"A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right?
I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. . . . You can never make such a war popular. . . . The North never will endorse such a war." Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 13, 1861, p. 2.
Oh really? Not long after this speech he did a 180 and threw his full support behind the war effort, very much like Lincoln’s own secretary of state:
William Seward April 4th 1861 “It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use armed force to subjugate the South. If the people of the South want to stay out of the Union, if they desire independence, let them have it.” Spoken to a London Times correspondent.
April 10th 1861 “Only a despotic and imperial government can subjugate seceding States.” Officially written to C.F. Adams Minister to England.
It's ok when a New Englander calls for secession don't ya know!
"The Constitution is a mistake! Tear it to pieces! Our aim is disunion!" Massachusetts Senator Wendell Phillips. There was nothing wrong with secession as long a New Englanders were calling for it. No one ever denied them their right to do so.
March 24th 1862 the Senator from Massachusetts, hater of the South and all things Southern speaks to a crowd about emancipation in Cincinnati, Ohio and is pelted by eggs. I guess Northern folks didn’t much care for his rhetoric either.
Is it any wonder why the South was not enamored to the Republicans and why they would seek separation once these hypocritical radicals were in power?
