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Saturday, November 23, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Alabama Secession Convention, "Resolution of Resistance" Jan. 7, 1861 (Basically a declaration of causes)
The following is the declaration of the Alabama Secession Convention as to why they are seceding. They are seceding to protect slavery as explained in their own words.
In 1860 the Alabama legislature adopted a Joint Resolution as to what would drive them to secession. In was reprinted in the "History and Debates of the Convention of The People of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Montgomery," as to given a historical background as to why they were having a secession convention. The following is the Joint Resolution.
The page numbers are from the reprint edition. They were planning to secede to protect slavery.
Alabama
Secession Convention, “Resolutions of Resistance,” January 7, 1861.[1]
Whereas, the only bond of union between
the several States is the Constitution of the United States; and Whereas, that Constitution has been violated,
both by the Government of the United States, and by a majority of the Northern
States, in their separate legislative action, denying to the people of
the Southern States their Constitutional rights;
And
Whereas, a sectional party, known
as the Black Republican Party, has, in the recent election, elected Abraham
Lincoln to the office of President, and Hannibal Hamlin to the office of
Vice-President of these United States, upon the avowed principle that
the Constitution of the United States does not recognise property in slaves,
and that the Government should prevent its extension into the common
Territories of the United States, and that the power of the Government should
be so exercised that slavery in time, should be exterminated:
Resolved, By the
people of Alabama, in Convention assembled That the State of Alabama cannot,
and will not, submit to the Administration of Lincoln and Hamlin as President
and Vice President of the United States, upon the principles referred to in the
preamble.
[1]William R. Smith, The
History and Debates of the Convention of The People of Alabama, Begun and Held
in the City of Montgomery, on the seventh Day of January, 1861,
(Spartanburg: Reprint Company, 1975), 24-25.
EARLIER IN 1860 ALABAMA LEGISLATION PLANS TO SECEDE WITH THE ELECTION OF LINCOLN TO PROTECT SLAVERY*******************************************
In 1860 the Alabama legislature adopted a Joint Resolution as to what would drive them to secession. In was reprinted in the "History and Debates of the Convention of The People of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Montgomery," as to given a historical background as to why they were having a secession convention. The following is the Joint Resolution.
The page numbers are from the reprint edition. They were planning to secede to protect slavery.
Page 9
INTRODUCTION--HISTORICAL.
ON the 24th
day of February, 1860, the Alabama Legislature adopted the following Joint
Resolutions, with great unanimity--there being but two dissenting voices:
WHEREAS,
anti-slavery agitation persistently continued in the non-slaveholding States of
this Union, for more than a third of a century, marked at every stage of its
progress by contempt for the obligations of law and the sanctity of compacts,
evincing a deadly hostility to the rights and institutions of the Southern
people, and a settled purpose to effect their overthrow even by the subversion
of the Constitution, and at the hazard of violence and bloodshed; and whereas,
a sectional party calling itself Republican, committed alike by its own acts
and antecedents, and the public avowals and secret machinations of its leaders
to the execution of these atrocious designs, has acquired the ascendency in
nearly every Northern State, and hopes by success in the approaching
Presidential election to seize the Government itself; and whereas, to permit
such seizure by those whose unmistakable aim is to pervert its whole machinery
to the destruction of a portion of its members would be an act of suicidal
folly and madness, almost without a parallel in history; and whereas, the
General Assembly of Alabama, representing a people loyally devoted to the Union
of the Constitution, but scorning the Union which fanaticism would erect upon
its ruins, deem it their solemn duty to provide in advance the means by which
they may escape such peril and dishonor, and devise new securities for
perpetuating the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity;
therefore,
1. Be it
resolved, That upon the happening of the contingency contemplated in the
foregoing Preamble, namely, the election of a President advocating the
principles and action of the party in the Northern States calling itself the
Republican Party, it shall be the duty of the Governor, and he is hereby
required, forthwith to issue his Proclamation, calling upon the qualified
voters of this State to assemble on Monday not more than forty days after the
date of said Proclamation, at the several places of voting in their respective
counties, to elect delegates to a Convention of the State, to consider,
determine and do whatever in the opinion of said Convention, the rights,
interests, and honor of the State of Alabama requires to be done for their
protection.
2. Be it
further resolved, That said Convention shall assemble at the State Capitol
on the second Monday following said election.
3. Be it
further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Governor as soon as
possible to issue writs of election to the Sheriffs of the several counties,
commanding them to hold an election on the said Monday so designated by the
Governor, as provided for in these Joint Resolutions, for the choosing of as
many delegates from each county to said Convention as the several counties
shall be entitled to members in the House of Representatives of the General
Assembly; and said election shall be held at the usual places of voting in the
respective counties, and the polls shall be opened under the rules and
regulations now governing the election of members to the General Assembly of
this State, and said election shall be governed in all respects by the laws
then in existence, regulating the election of members to the House of
Representatives of the General Assembly, and the persons elected thereat as
delegates, shall be returned in like manner, and the pay, both mileage and per
diem, of the delegates to said Convention, and the several officers thereof,
shall be the same as that fixed by law for the members and officers of said
House of Representatives.
4. Be it further resolved, That copies of
the foregoing Preamble and Resolutions be forwarded by the Governor as soon as
possible to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and to each of the
Governors of our sister States of the South.
The following
Resolutions, adopted at the same session, will serve still further to show the
spirit that animated the Legislature of Alabama:
Joint
Resolutions of the General Assembly of Alabama in response to the Resolutions
of South Carolina.
1st, Be it
resolved, That the State of Alabama, fully concuring with the State of South
Carolina, in affirming the right of any State
Page 11
to secede from the confederacy, whenever in her own judgment
such a step is demanded by the honor, interests and safety of her people, is
not unmindful of the fact that the assaults upon the institution of slavery,
and upon the rights and equality of the Southern States, unceasingly continued
with increasing violence and in new, and
more alarming forms, may constrain her to a reluctant but
early exercise of that invaluable right.
2d, Be it
further resolved, That in the absence of any preparation for a systematic
co-operation of the Southern States, in resisting the aggressions of their
enemies, Alabama, acting for herself, has solemnly declared that under no
circumstances will she submit to the foul domination of a sectional Northern
party, has provided for the call of a Convention in the event of the triumph of
such a faction in the approaching Presidential election, and to maintain the
position thus deliberately assumed, has appropriated the sum of $200,000 for
the military contingencies which such a course may involve.
3d, Be it
further resolved, That the State of Alabama having endeavored to prepare for
the exigencies of the future, has not deemed it necessary to propose a meeting
of Deputies from the slave-holding States, but anxiously desiring their
coöperation in a struggle which perils all they hold most dear, hereby pledges
herself to a cordial participation in any and every effort, which in her
judgment will protect the common safety, advance the common interest, and serve
the common cause.
4th, Be it
further resolved, That should a Convention of Deputies from the slave-holding
States assemble at any time before the meeting of the next General
Assembly, for the purposes and under the authority indicated
by the resolutions of the State of South Carolina, the Governor of this State
be, and he is hereby
authorized, to appoint one deputy from each Congressional
District, and two from the State at large, to represent the State of Alabama in
such Convention.
Upon the
election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency, the Governor, in pursuance of the
foregoing Resolutions, called a Convention of the People of Alabama, to meet in
the city of Montgomery, on the 7th day of January, 1861. The following
CORRESPONDENCE is worthy of preservation as a part of the history of the times:
[1]William R. Smith, The History and Debates of the Convention of The People of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Montgomery, on the seventh Day of January, 1861, (Spartanburg: Reprint Company, 1975), 9-11.
[1]William R. Smith, The History and Debates of the Convention of The People of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Montgomery, on the seventh Day of January, 1861, (Spartanburg: Reprint Company, 1975), 9-11.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Lt. Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans recommends neo-Confederate fringe and the Abbeville Institute
The National Lt. Commander-in-Chief is given a regular column in the Confederate Veteran, a publication of the Son of Confederate Veterans (SCV).
In the March-April 2019 Confederate Veteran, the topic of Lt. Commander-in-Chief Larry Allen McCluney Jr. for the "Report of the Lt. Commander-in-Chief," is "Become a 'Fanatic' about the SCV." ( Vol. 77 No. 2, March/April 2019 pp. 8-9, 49).
Part of the column is a complaint that the public is not taught their neo-Confederate view of history and instead are taught lies by a "government indoctrinated public education."
To counter this McCluney Jr. recommends some neo-Confederates writers and the Abbeville Institute. To quote this section I am going to use an image capture to show that I am not making this up. All these individuals who are recommended also have essays at the Abbeville Insitute website.
Don Livingston founded the Abbeville Institute.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/ At one time he was a member of the League of the South.
Tom Woods wrote articles for the Southern Partisan magazine. In the Southern Partisan Woods condemned the 14th Amendment to the American Constitution. He wrote an article saying that the Civil War was really a theological war. In another article, "Sitting Amidst the Ruins: The South Versus the Enlightenment," he condemns the 18th century Enlightenment as destroying civilization. When I say neo-Confederates are reactionary, I mean they are reactionary with a capital Old English Gothic R.
Woods was a member of the League of the South and made contributions to their publication Southern Patriot.
Woods doesn't refer to this neo-Confederate past so I decided to write up his neo-Confederate curriculum vitae and put it online. http://templeofdemocracy.com/thomas-e-woods.html
Woods is a frequnet contributor to the LewRockwell.com site and you can search for his articles via this link. https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=Woods
Kirkpatrick Sale attends Abbeville Institute functions and has articles contributed to their website. His most notable book in the neo-Confederate movement is, "Emancipation Hell: The Tragedy Wrought by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," which is supposed to have brought great injury to African Americans according to Sale.
https://www.amazon.com/Emancipation-Hell-Tragedy-Lincolns-Proclamation/dp/0692592113/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Q1KZLBD533TI&keywords=kirkpatrick+sale+books&qid=1553481528&s=gateway&sprefix=kirkpatrick+sale%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1
In reading the Amazon webpage promotion for the book we learn that Sale asserts that "social statistics of 1900" show that the "material quality of life" for African Americans "was lower for most black Americans than under slavery" which is argued to be due to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is also held to have "doomed Americans to a century and a half of racial conflict and disparity that is still with us."
It doesn't seem to occur to Sale that the racial problems in the United States are due to the overthrow of Reconstruction, groups like the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, lack of Civil Rights for African Americans.
Sale is a founder of the pro-secessionist Middlebury Institute. https://kirkpatricksale.wordpress.com/
There is a tendency because his early work to give Sale a free pass regarding his neo-Confederate activities.
Clyde Wilson is a long time neo-Confederate writer. Numerous articles were written for the Southern Partisan, he was a founding board member of the League of the South, he writes for Chronicles Magazine, he makes numerous contributions to the Abbeville Institute website.
M.E. Bradford was known for his strident attacks on Lincoln as the destroyer of the American Republic. He also was a foe of civil rights for African Americans. He led the Dallas area campaign to elect segregationist George Wallace president. He was a racist who attacked James Baldwin. He was a contributor to Southern Partisan magazine. Several of his articles in Southern Partisan are at the Abbeville Institute website. Bradford really had hoped that the election of Ronald Reagan as president would result in the civil rights legislation of the mid-20th century being repealed.
Brian McClanahan is a frequent contributor to the Abbeville Insitute web page and does their pod casting.
Marshall DeRosa is a professor at Florida Atlantic University. https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/politicalscience/faculty/derosa/ He was active in the League of the South. He contributed to Southern Partisan magazine.
DeRosa is a fan of the Confederate Constitution. One of the more recent books is "Redeeming American Democracy: Lessons from the Confederate Constitution," published by the neo-Confederate publisher Pelican Publishing of Gretna, Louisiana.
DeRosa sees the Confederate Constitution as having ideas useful to reform and save American democracy.
Some of his views have gotten media attention. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/09/florida-atlantic-professor-criticized-after-his-essays-blaming-black-supremacy
Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is primarily known for his writings attacking Abraham Lincoln for being a tyrant. He is involved with the Lew Rockwell part of the libertarian movement. You can search for his contributions to the website via this link. https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=DiLorenzo
The last half of the quote above is a recommendation to attend educational seminars put on by the Stephen D. Lee Institute, run by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the seminars of the Abbeville Institute.
Stephen D. Lee is notable for his lenghty essay in the multivolume set "Confederate Military History," about the contemporary south in which he argues that civil rights for African Americans gave young African American men the idea to rape white women and that lynching is an understandable response. Stephen D. Lee in the early 20th century proclaimed "The Charge" which is held to be the reason for the existence of the SCV.
Scholars from the Abbeville Instiute help put on the Stephen D. Lee Institute and there is a large overlap of people speaking to one group as the other. So to understand what type of education McCluny thinks the SCV membership should receive we can go to the Abbeville Institute website. https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/
I think this article at their website gives a good summary of the mentality of the "scholars" of the Abbeville Institute.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/our-american-cultural-revolution/
In this essay Gottfried tells us such things as:
However, generally if you are looking for neo-Nazis or other screamers you will be disappointed. The unfortunate thing is that the public all too often believes that white nationalism or racism fits a certain stereotype.
Here the reactionary agenda is drenched in nostalgia and sentimental pictures of the past. Discontents with the modern world are employed to argue for the neo-Confederate agenda.
Thomas Dixon produced the notorious racist movie, "Birth of a Nation," which glorified the Ku Klux Klan. This is the Abbeville Institute take on Thomas Dixon in a review of the book, "Southern Horizons," Dixon's autobiography.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/southern-horizons/
I think I recognize this article having an earlier version in the Southern Partisan magazine. In the Fall 1984 (Vol. 4 No. 4) issue of the Southern Partisan on page 54 Stephen Page Smith has a review of the book "Southern Horizons." The idea of African American men being rapists is part of the book review.
A lot of articles at the Abbeville Institute are noted as having been published in the Southern Partisan originally. It seems some might be getting slipped in without a reference to Southern Partisan.
In this article Kirkpatrick Sale has a rosy view of slavery in the ancient world and in the antebellum south. https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/slavery-and-the-confederacy/
Thomas Fleming, who had led an anti-Muslim campaign for years in the pages of Chronicles Magazine, has this contribution.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/from-under-the-rubble-the-wearin-of-the-cross/
Browsing through the web site a reader will undoubtedly find other articles which will appall. But it will be within a general venue of nostalgia and images of oil paintings. This web site is a good site for people to learn that white supremacy is supported by narratives like this website where the authors work in shades and contextualizations and nostalgia and subtilties and not really by a few losers wearing some costume and screaming at a rally.
Again this is the organization which the Sons of Confederate Veterans recommends its members to be a source of information.
In the March-April 2019 Confederate Veteran, the topic of Lt. Commander-in-Chief Larry Allen McCluney Jr. for the "Report of the Lt. Commander-in-Chief," is "Become a 'Fanatic' about the SCV." ( Vol. 77 No. 2, March/April 2019 pp. 8-9, 49).
Part of the column is a complaint that the public is not taught their neo-Confederate view of history and instead are taught lies by a "government indoctrinated public education."
To counter this McCluney Jr. recommends some neo-Confederates writers and the Abbeville Institute. To quote this section I am going to use an image capture to show that I am not making this up. All these individuals who are recommended also have essays at the Abbeville Insitute website.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/ At one time he was a member of the League of the South.
Tom Woods wrote articles for the Southern Partisan magazine. In the Southern Partisan Woods condemned the 14th Amendment to the American Constitution. He wrote an article saying that the Civil War was really a theological war. In another article, "Sitting Amidst the Ruins: The South Versus the Enlightenment," he condemns the 18th century Enlightenment as destroying civilization. When I say neo-Confederates are reactionary, I mean they are reactionary with a capital Old English Gothic R.
Woods was a member of the League of the South and made contributions to their publication Southern Patriot.
Woods doesn't refer to this neo-Confederate past so I decided to write up his neo-Confederate curriculum vitae and put it online. http://templeofdemocracy.com/thomas-e-woods.html
Woods is a frequnet contributor to the LewRockwell.com site and you can search for his articles via this link. https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=Woods
Kirkpatrick Sale attends Abbeville Institute functions and has articles contributed to their website. His most notable book in the neo-Confederate movement is, "Emancipation Hell: The Tragedy Wrought by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," which is supposed to have brought great injury to African Americans according to Sale.
https://www.amazon.com/Emancipation-Hell-Tragedy-Lincolns-Proclamation/dp/0692592113/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Q1KZLBD533TI&keywords=kirkpatrick+sale+books&qid=1553481528&s=gateway&sprefix=kirkpatrick+sale%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1
In reading the Amazon webpage promotion for the book we learn that Sale asserts that "social statistics of 1900" show that the "material quality of life" for African Americans "was lower for most black Americans than under slavery" which is argued to be due to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is also held to have "doomed Americans to a century and a half of racial conflict and disparity that is still with us."
It doesn't seem to occur to Sale that the racial problems in the United States are due to the overthrow of Reconstruction, groups like the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, lack of Civil Rights for African Americans.
Sale is a founder of the pro-secessionist Middlebury Institute. https://kirkpatricksale.wordpress.com/
There is a tendency because his early work to give Sale a free pass regarding his neo-Confederate activities.
Clyde Wilson is a long time neo-Confederate writer. Numerous articles were written for the Southern Partisan, he was a founding board member of the League of the South, he writes for Chronicles Magazine, he makes numerous contributions to the Abbeville Institute website.
M.E. Bradford was known for his strident attacks on Lincoln as the destroyer of the American Republic. He also was a foe of civil rights for African Americans. He led the Dallas area campaign to elect segregationist George Wallace president. He was a racist who attacked James Baldwin. He was a contributor to Southern Partisan magazine. Several of his articles in Southern Partisan are at the Abbeville Institute website. Bradford really had hoped that the election of Ronald Reagan as president would result in the civil rights legislation of the mid-20th century being repealed.
Brian McClanahan is a frequent contributor to the Abbeville Insitute web page and does their pod casting.
Marshall DeRosa is a professor at Florida Atlantic University. https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/politicalscience/faculty/derosa/ He was active in the League of the South. He contributed to Southern Partisan magazine.
DeRosa is a fan of the Confederate Constitution. One of the more recent books is "Redeeming American Democracy: Lessons from the Confederate Constitution," published by the neo-Confederate publisher Pelican Publishing of Gretna, Louisiana.
DeRosa sees the Confederate Constitution as having ideas useful to reform and save American democracy.
Some of his views have gotten media attention. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/09/florida-atlantic-professor-criticized-after-his-essays-blaming-black-supremacy
Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is primarily known for his writings attacking Abraham Lincoln for being a tyrant. He is involved with the Lew Rockwell part of the libertarian movement. You can search for his contributions to the website via this link. https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=DiLorenzo
The last half of the quote above is a recommendation to attend educational seminars put on by the Stephen D. Lee Institute, run by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the seminars of the Abbeville Institute.
Stephen D. Lee is notable for his lenghty essay in the multivolume set "Confederate Military History," about the contemporary south in which he argues that civil rights for African Americans gave young African American men the idea to rape white women and that lynching is an understandable response. Stephen D. Lee in the early 20th century proclaimed "The Charge" which is held to be the reason for the existence of the SCV.
Scholars from the Abbeville Instiute help put on the Stephen D. Lee Institute and there is a large overlap of people speaking to one group as the other. So to understand what type of education McCluny thinks the SCV membership should receive we can go to the Abbeville Institute website. https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/
I think this article at their website gives a good summary of the mentality of the "scholars" of the Abbeville Institute.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/our-american-cultural-revolution/
In this essay Gottfried tells us such things as:
"Woman students on our campuses are now encouraged by the state to accuse male students of rape"Generally Gottffried's article is is a lengthy rage against a world where he is not automatically privileged and in charge.
However, generally if you are looking for neo-Nazis or other screamers you will be disappointed. The unfortunate thing is that the public all too often believes that white nationalism or racism fits a certain stereotype.
Here the reactionary agenda is drenched in nostalgia and sentimental pictures of the past. Discontents with the modern world are employed to argue for the neo-Confederate agenda.
Thomas Dixon produced the notorious racist movie, "Birth of a Nation," which glorified the Ku Klux Klan. This is the Abbeville Institute take on Thomas Dixon in a review of the book, "Southern Horizons," Dixon's autobiography.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/southern-horizons/
I think I recognize this article having an earlier version in the Southern Partisan magazine. In the Fall 1984 (Vol. 4 No. 4) issue of the Southern Partisan on page 54 Stephen Page Smith has a review of the book "Southern Horizons." The idea of African American men being rapists is part of the book review.
A lot of articles at the Abbeville Institute are noted as having been published in the Southern Partisan originally. It seems some might be getting slipped in without a reference to Southern Partisan.
In this article Kirkpatrick Sale has a rosy view of slavery in the ancient world and in the antebellum south. https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/slavery-and-the-confederacy/
Thomas Fleming, who had led an anti-Muslim campaign for years in the pages of Chronicles Magazine, has this contribution.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/from-under-the-rubble-the-wearin-of-the-cross/
Browsing through the web site a reader will undoubtedly find other articles which will appall. But it will be within a general venue of nostalgia and images of oil paintings. This web site is a good site for people to learn that white supremacy is supported by narratives like this website where the authors work in shades and contextualizations and nostalgia and subtilties and not really by a few losers wearing some costume and screaming at a rally.
Again this is the organization which the Sons of Confederate Veterans recommends its members to be a source of information.
Second installment about neo-Confederate hostility against Muslims
In this issue, with its horribly designed cover, is the lead cover article, "What Thomas Jefferson Learned from the Q'uran." (Southern Mercury, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2007, pages 12-13.)
The editor was Ron Wilson who at one time was the Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
It is an article by Ted Samply about the Quran that Thomas Jefferson owned and which Minnosota Democrat Keith Ellison used to take his oath of office in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The article published in the Southern Mercury can be found online in several places.
This is one URL for the article. http://valleypatriot.com/what-thomas-jefferson-learned-from-the-muslim-book-of-jihad/
The Southern Partisan was published starting in 1979 until it faded out after 2005. It was the leading publication of neo-Confederate ideology. It had contributors who were columnists, professors, authors, religious leaders, politicians and others. This is the publication to which U.S. Senator Lindsey Grahmn gave an interview.
The editor of this issue was Christopher M. Sullivan who later was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Besides the cover article, there were of course a couple of anti-Muslim articles such as "The Dark Side of Islam," by P.J. Byrnes and "Does the Future Belong to Islam?" by Joe Sobran.
However, several articles, though anti-Muslim in perspective were focused pushing some pet reactionary viewpoint.
For example, Christopher M. Sullivan, one time editor of Southern Partisan, and also who served once as the Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans had an article, "Whose Fault?" (Southern Partisan, 2001 4th Quarter, page 16.)
Sullivan sees the fault in too much religious tolerance, a need for a close alliance with Israel, but contradictorily an avoidance of involvement in foreign matters.
The avoidance of using 9/11 for anti-Muslim animus seemed to irritate them. Sullivan writes:
The United States is an open society even to it's own detriment. You can be anything from an Episcopalian to a witch without so much as a cross word from authorities. In Muslim countries the opposite is true. Just being a Christian is enough to make you the object of government scrutiny, while sharing your faith can be a capital offense. [Boldface added.]And:
While their Eastern brothers speak the name of Jesus in fear of torture and martyrdom, most Western Christians are terrified of doing or saying anything that might be construed as the least bit offensive. To say that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven is tantamount to racism in America today.
The most outrageous example comes from the prayer service held at the National Cathedral.He then refers to Rev. Dixon's invocation at the Cathedral.
Rev. Dixon stood in the pulpit of the National Cathedral and prayed, "In the nae of the God of Abraham, Muhammad, and the Father of Jesus Christ ..." When a minister of a Christian faith cannot stand in the pulpit of a Christian church and pray to an exclusively Christian God, it is impossible for that nation to engage in holy war.Which was rather the point of Rev. Dixon invocation, and it was a great frustration for Sullivan that 9/11 was not going to be used by the George W. Bush administration to persecute Muslims.
Rev. Father Alister Anderson, who has been a Chaplain-in-Chief for the Sons of Confederate Veterans argued that 9/11 was a diaster allowed by good to punish the US for being ungodly. Anderson writes:
My Christian faith in a good righteous, just, merciful and loving God convinces me that there must be reasons why this holocaust occured. They are enumerated again and again in the Holy Bible. God withdraws for a time His safeguarding cover over mankind when he sees us deliberately withdrawning ourselves from His righteous Law which is our cover. God's judgment of mankind's wickedness embraces each personal and deliberate decision to ignore Him as well as the more obvious and collective world-wide rejection of His will for us. (pp. 14)About two to three years later the Southern Partisan had its anti-Islam issue. The editor of this issue was Christopher M. Sullivan who later was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The articles by Ben Hart and Richard Spencer argue that Islam is murderous and in particular murderous of Christians. There is imagery from the crusades.
Richard Spencer is mentioned as the director of Jihad Watch at the end of the article. Ben Hart is likely Benjamin Hart, and the the author of "Radical Islam vs. America."
It is not know whether Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis had anything to say about Muslims if anything at all, but the modern neo-Confederate movement has a position on Islam and Muslims.
Christopher M. Sullivan is listed as Lt. Commander-in-Chief in the May-June 2005 issue of the Confederate Veteran and was listed as Commander-in-Chief in the Confederate Veteran Sept.-Oct. 2006 issue.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
The neo-Confederate movement is hostile to Muslims and sees them as deadly enemies.
I will be updating this page as I get the information together. I would ask that the mosques in Mobile, Alabama take care. Especially in light of recent events in New Zealand.
I didn't get any replies to my letters to Mobile, Alabama churches. These mass shootings always seem to be implausible until they happen. I hope they reconsider and take my letters to them seriously.
I am planning on writing letters to the mosques in Mobile, AL and it seems that I need to get a move on now. I need to assemble materials together.
As background information are these blogs postings and articles about the anti-Muslim animus of the neo-Confederates.
One of my articles was originally published in The Touchstone and was later taken up by a Muslim group iin Texas.
http://hispanicmuslims.com/articles/alamokosovo.html
I was a major source for information for this article.
http://balkanwitness.glypx.com/sells2.htm
This is a section of a chapter in a book I wrote about the neo-Confederates hostility towards Muslims.
NOTE: The two issues of Chaplain's Corps Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have been recently pulled offline. Google still shows it, but the link is no longer valid. I am noticing that the usual places I might find it have vanished also.
I found the issues online elsewhere on the Internet Archive, an institution which archives the Internet.
This is the Feb 2016 attack on Muslims. They are protrayed as murderous.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160209114814/http://chaplain-in-chief.com/custom3_1.html
This is the June 2016 attack on Muslims.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170226173757/http://chaplain-in-chief.com/custom3_1.html
I didn't get any replies to my letters to Mobile, Alabama churches. These mass shootings always seem to be implausible until they happen. I hope they reconsider and take my letters to them seriously.
I am planning on writing letters to the mosques in Mobile, AL and it seems that I need to get a move on now. I need to assemble materials together.
As background information are these blogs postings and articles about the anti-Muslim animus of the neo-Confederates.
One of my articles was originally published in The Touchstone and was later taken up by a Muslim group iin Texas.
http://hispanicmuslims.com/articles/alamokosovo.html
I was a major source for information for this article.
http://balkanwitness.glypx.com/sells2.htm
This is a section of a chapter in a book I wrote about the neo-Confederates hostility towards Muslims.
Muslims
The Chaplains’
Corps Chronicle of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Nov. 2006, has a short
section, “Confederate view of Islam,” to assert to the readers that there is,
in fact, a Confederate view of Islam.
The introduction to the section states, “Our Confederate compatriots saw
the immense paganism and evil in false religions, and Islam was one of those
that they viewed in such a way.” The article then includes a set of quotes from
pro-slavery theologians, with a note stating how each supported or fought for
the Confederacy. R.L. Dabney states, “Mohammed extends the same hope to all his
sinful follows.” Girardeau is quoted, “Mohammedanism is the great apostasy of
the East.” Thornwell has a more lengthy attack, characterizing Islam as being
swindle or racket, “Where it could not extort a blind credulity, it made the
passions the vehicles of its doctrines; the timid it frightened to submission,
the profligate it allured to acquiescence, and the heretic and skeptic it
wheedled and cajoled by a partial patronage of their errors,” and “its
strongest attraction the license which it gave to voluptuous indulgences.”
Someone might be critical of one religion
or another. People make choices as to what religion they believe in and have
opinions about others all the time. What is of interest here, however, is that
condemnation of Islam is held to be a part of Confederate heritage.
In response
to Minnesota Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, an African American, taking his
oath of office with a Koran owned by Thomas Jefferson, the Southern Mercury in 2007 ran an article by Ted Sampley titled “What
Thomas Jefferson Learned From the Q’uran.” The article is about the American
war and victory over the Barbary Pirates in the early 19th century. Jefferson
is supposed to have learned from his Koran that Islam is a danger, concluding,
“Jefferson had been right. The ‘medium of war’ was the only way to put an end
to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about Jefferson. He was a
‘visionary’ wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their own Muslim
Holy Book.”[i]
The current SCV Chaplain-in-Chief Ray
Parker, Dean of the Master’s Theological Research Institute of the MASTER’S
International University of Divinity (The name of the university has “MASTER’S”
in capitols.), has an editorial in the Feb. 2016 Chaplain’s Corps Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans condemning
“the culture of tolerance,” asserting that those who are tolerant will get
killed by Muslims as part of God’s wrath against the tolerant.
The great weakness of
this culture of tolerance is that it denies the God of the Bible and falls
under His wrath. Actually, Jesus Christ said, ―He that believeth not the Son shall
not see life; but the wrath of God abideth or remains on them. This culture has
set itself up as judge and jury, but it will be destroyed by enemies from
within. What enemies? Enemies they tolerate in their culture such as Islam!
Why? … They will be overwhelmed when they are lined up as cattle to be beheaded
by their enemy for their moral decadence. When their protests cannot deter their
enemy they will not know how to act. Why? They believe Islam is a peaceful
religion…
Parker then discusses an act of
terrorism in France. He criticizes the French who honored the dead with candles
and flowers, rather than expressing hatred against Muslims. Parker rejects this
stating, “Will flowers and candles protect you? Such reactions are the norm of
a culture of tolerance. When such a radical Islamist goes to shoot you, just
lift a flower in one hand and a candle in the other and all your problems are
solved!”[ii]
Parker revisits the topic of Muslims
again in a June 2016 editorial Chaplain’s
Corps Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans discussing a defense
of the Confederacy by Confederate Gen. D.H. Hill in the 19th
century. Hill asserts that abolitionists were hypocrites. Then in reference to what I think is the
massacre of church goers in Charleston by Dylann Roof Parker writes:
But such hypocrisy has not
ceased. For example, we are not supposed to judge Muslims by the myriads of
atrocious acts (murders, beheadings, burnings, crucifixions, etc.) that they
perform worldwide, but Confederate history, with its symbols, is supposed to be
obliterated from history because of the action of one murderer who had a
Confederate flag in his possession, but not a Confederate heart in his body.[iii]
The Abbeville Institute also has
articles which perceive Muslims as a menace. One example is Thomas Fleming who
as former editor of Chronicles magazine
ran a campaign of hysteria about Muslims in Chronicles
for decades. His 2015 article at the Abbeville Institute, “From Under the
Rubble: The Wearin’ of the Cross,” is a tirade against Muslims.
Fleming’s article starts with a brief
mention of “A Palestinian Muslim named – what else? – Muhammad kills five military
men,” and is upset that television ABC News focused on Muhammad’s use of drugs.
Fleming asserts that the murder was motivated by the Koran’s teaching. Fleming
writes:
As Srdja Trifkovic and
others have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt, Islam is a religion of war,
violence, and oppression. The only function of non-Muslims in their world is to
pay taxes and endure oppression.
Srdja
Trifkovic is a Chronicles writer and
writes anti-Muslim books.
President Obama is portrayed as
knowingly allowing Muslim immigration to make the United States an Islamic
nation.
Even the President of
the United States, as ignorant and clueless as he seems to be, must have run
into an advisor who has given him a few hints. What does it tell us, when we
learn that under the Obama administration 400 thousand other potential
Muhammads are arriving legally into the United States every year? Will this
news cause the President suddenly to sober up? Not hardly. He is getting the
country he wants, a place where his Islamic friends and relations can be
considered typical.
Muslim immigrants to the United States are
held to be a scheme of a ruling elite to oppress Americans.
Importing militant
Islam into the United States is not an end in itself but a means to subjugate
the American people by creating chaos and instilling fear … Terror has been,
historically, an instrument of ruling regimes. The French and Russian
Revolutions, Nazi Germany and Maoist China all used terrorism to intimidate
their subjects. Our own regime has refined on their methods: Import dangerous
people from Latin America and the Islamic world, fill their heads with nonsense
about rights, and convince Americans that chaos and fear are normal, and they
will surrender all that is left of their liberties to this new KKK–the
KuKoranKlan.
And so on the article goes. The title
is in reference to “Wearing of the Green” a poem by Dion Boucicault in
reference to British oppression of the Irish. The implication is that
Christians will be similarly oppressed. Fleming informs us that Dion Boucicault
left Ireland to the United States. Fleming concludes the article with the
question, “Where, now, would anyone go to escape cultural genocide?”[iv]
In 2016 in a nation with anti-Muslim
hysteria raging, these writers in SCV publications are just a few voices among
many in a shrill cacophony. However, when presenting itself to the media, the
SCV is usually perceived as a group with a sentimental interest in history that
referenced as “heritage.” The Abbeville Institute wishes to promote the romantic
image of Southern cultural roots. These articles should raise the question as
to what the real agenda of the neo-Confederate organizations is.
NOTE: The two issues of Chaplain's Corps Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have been recently pulled offline. Google still shows it, but the link is no longer valid. I am noticing that the usual places I might find it have vanished also.
I found the issues online elsewhere on the Internet Archive, an institution which archives the Internet.
This is the Feb 2016 attack on Muslims. They are protrayed as murderous.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160209114814/http://chaplain-in-chief.com/custom3_1.html
This is the June 2016 attack on Muslims.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170226173757/http://chaplain-in-chief.com/custom3_1.html
[i] Sampley, Ted, “What Thomas
Jefferson Learned From The Q’uran,” pages 12-13, Southern Mercury, Vol. 5 No. 2, April 2007. The article can be found
online. I have never found this online.
[ii] Parker, Ray, “Editorial,” Chaplain’s Corps Chronicles of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, Feb. 2016, http://www.scv.org/pdf/chaplains/2016_Feb.pdf,
printed out 7/3/2016. SEE ABOVE NOTE.
[iii] Parker, Ray, “Editorial,” Chaplain’s Corps Chronicles of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, June. 2016, http://www.scv.org/pdf/chaplains/2016_Jun.pdf,
printed out 7/3/2016. SEE ABOVE NOTE
[iv] Fleming, Thomas, “From Under the
Rubble: The Wearin’ of the Cross,” Abbeville Institute, http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/from-under-the-rubble-the-wearin-of-the-cross/,
printed out 7/3/2016.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Special letter to the Unitarians
There is a series of posts about violence and neo-Confederacy. Look for the label ID violence.
I have had the Internet Archive archive many of the neo-Confederate web pages if they delete them.
This is the letter I sent.
I have had the Internet Archive archive many of the neo-Confederate web pages if they delete them.
This is the letter I sent.
February
26, 2019
Edward
H. Sebesta
edwardsebesta@gmail.com
Dixie
Pomerat
President
UUFM
XXXXXXXX
Mobile,
AL 36608
Dear
Dixie Pomerat:
I wish to
add a note about the neo-Confederate movement’s special hostility against the
Unitarians. They view the Civil War as a theological conflict and the
Unitarians and Transcendentalists as agents who led the nation into civil war
and a campaign to destroy antebellum
society. Dr. Euan Hague and I had an
article published at the Canadian Review
of American Studies, Univ. of Toronto Press, in 2002. The article is
available online https://muse.jhu.edu/article/680125/summary.
I can get you a pdf if you have issues with that site.
Though
the article limited to 7,000 words focuses on Transcendentalists,
neo-Confederate writing considers Unitarianism to be largely the same.
In this
issue of their magazine, http://www.scv.org/new/confederate-veteran-magazine-jan-feb-2016/,
(Starts on page 55), you will see a review of a book, “Cultures in Conflict:
The Union Desecration of Southern Churches and Cemeteries,” by Charles A.
Jennings. The review is by Dr. Boyd D. Cathey. Unitarianism is specifically
mentioned in the review. In a more recent issue is an article complaining that
a conservative philosopher should have attacked Unitarians rather than
Puritans. http://www.scv.org/new/confederate-veteran-magazine-may-june/.
(Starts on page 18.)
I hope
you take seriously security during the SCV reunion in Mobile, Alabama. Please
contact me if you wish to see additional documentation of their hostility.
Sincerely
Yours,
Edward
H. Sebesta
Special letter to synagogue in Mobile, Alabama
There is a series of these posts related to violence and they will have the label violence so you can find them.
I have had special concerns that a synagogue would be a target of violence and so I did a few blog warnings on a blog I do about historical memory, nationalism, and the neo-Confederates. The links to these postings are:
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2015/06/an-attack-on-synagogue-next-literature.html#.XILAAIg2qiM
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/02/benjamin-mcdowell-threatened-to-do.html#.XILALog2qiM
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/05/warning-to-synagogues-part-2.html#.XILAyYg2qiM
I strongly urge that these blog postings be read if there is doubt that there is a risk.
THE LETTER
This is a letter I sent with the general letter to the synagogue in Mobile, Alabama.
I have had special concerns that a synagogue would be a target of violence and so I did a few blog warnings on a blog I do about historical memory, nationalism, and the neo-Confederates. The links to these postings are:
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2015/06/an-attack-on-synagogue-next-literature.html#.XILAAIg2qiM
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/02/benjamin-mcdowell-threatened-to-do.html#.XILALog2qiM
https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2017/05/warning-to-synagogues-part-2.html#.XILAyYg2qiM
I strongly urge that these blog postings be read if there is doubt that there is a risk.
THE LETTER
This is a letter I sent with the general letter to the synagogue in Mobile, Alabama.
February
26, 2019
Edward
H. Sebesta
edwardsebesta@gmail.com
Rabbi
Howard A. Kosovske
Springhill
Avenue Temple
XXXXX
Mobile,
AL 36607
Dear
Rabbie Kosovske:
Please
find enclosed a commentary about violence and the neo-Confederate movement
publish by the Dallas Morning News (DMN) in 2017. It is also online https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/17/confederate-heritage-root-recent-tragedies-troubles.
I am
writing you out of concern for the safety of your church members. I am sure you
are aware of the massacre in Charleston in 2015. I am a researcher of the
neo-Confederate movement. I have been published by two university presses and
peer-reviewed academic journals, the last one at Cambridge Univ. I was also
awarded the Spirit of Freedom medal by the African American Civil War Museum in
D.C. I have reason to be concerned.
I am
bringing this to your attention since the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is
having their national convention in Mobile, Alabama July 10-13, 2019. The
webpage for the reunion is: https://www.scvsemmes.org/2019-scv-reunion.html.
In
Charleston Dylann Roof wasn’t a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens
(CCC), but it was the inflammatory material put out by the CCC that led to his
committing the massacre. Similarly, I don’t think it is likely that a member of
the SCV is going to commit a massacre, the SCV has not called for violence
against any group. However, I think that material, that I think are angry or
inflammatory materials, which the SCV has had a hand in making more available
could possible led someone to commit a violent act.
Additionally,
as Confederate monuments come down across the nation I sense that the
neo-Confederates are becoming more enraged as their world is crumbling. I also
see increasing radicalization of the SCV year after year. Black
Commentator published in an article by myself, “The Racism and Extremism” of
the SCV in 2013. Yet, as extremist as
they were then, I think they have become more extreme.
The most
recent development is the appointment of Walter Donald Kennedy to head of the
national “Heritage” defense for the SCV. He, along with his brother, have a web
page http://www.kennedytwins.com/
where you can purchase books, such as “Rekilling Lincoln.” He is a former board
member of the League of the South.
It could
be asked why this particular time period of the reunion should be of concern
more than any other time. I think it is a concern because the SCV reunion in
Mobile, AL will bring a lot of focus to controversy over the Confederacy to the
Mobile area. Further, if some prominent monument goes down, the SCV leadership
will be speaking from Mobile, Alabama. If Alabama changes its laws on
monuments, the SCV leadership will be speaking from Mobile, Alabama.
In
particular I wish to especially alert certain religious groups. African
American churches because it was an African American church where a massacre
occurred in Charleston. Other groups are Unitarians, Muslims, and Jewish
people. The Unitarians have been denounced in neo-Confederate writing for some
time. I don’t suppose it should be surprising that Islam has been an object of
hostile writing. I will provide
information about their special animosity against these groups online at https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/.
For
Jewish people, the SCV offering for sale the book, “The South Under Siege,” is
of special concern. The civil rights movement is held to be a Jewish conspiracy
in and Northern Jews are called the South’s “deadliest enemy” in this book. The
Black Commentator article details
some of this.
I don’t
want to create the impression because I mention some religious groups, others
are safe. Walter Donald Kennedy and other neo-Confederate groups feel betrayed
by the Southern Baptist Conference and have expressed anger in their writings. I
think it would be wrong to think that those who commit these massacres are
predictable.
Now there
hasn’t been a massacre at any SCV reunion ever, but there hadn’t been any
massacres from people reading the CCC online material until 2015. As to what
should be done, I am not a security expert. I strongly suggest that churches
contact those who have expertise in this field.
Feel free to contact me by email for more information about the SCV and
the neo-Confederate movement. I will be putting information online at https://mobileanticonfederate.blogspot.com/.
Additionally,
I will be sending out two more mailings of matters I think are of concern to Mobile
churches shortly, but I thought I should start out with the issue of security
first.
Sincerely
Yours,
Edward
H. Sebesta
P.S.
Please share this information with other religious institutions. I compiled my
list of places of worship to write to from Google maps and I am sure I must
have missed some.
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