Confederate Monument and Flag Display, Jenkins County Courthouse, Millen, Georgia
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1776 was the first great secession and 1861 was the second. I for one am damn well ready for the Secession III. For any who do not know me do not get on a Disgruntled Southron tirade. I am a proud native son of the Live Free or Die state and always will be. We had a saying there that just because a cat crawls in the oven and has kittens that don't give you the right to call them biscuits. So I will never claim to be a true southron nor should my children nor my grandchildren.
But I have lived all over this once great nation and my wife and I chose NC to be our last stand and so here we are and here we will make our stand for Liberty. As stated in the Declaration the South had endured one too many transgressions from an over reaching centralized federal government influenced by economic powers of the day to remain any longer in a union they entered into of their own free will and therefore had every right to dissolve. They made every attempt to resolve the issues at hand but to no avail.
To me this is the real answer. Nullification and secession. We are free to work to convince our fellow sovereign citizens to dissolve our ties with Mordor on the Potomac and go our own way and form new compacts with other free and independent sovereign states. There is nothing to be saved in DC. They have broken the oath they took and never meant to uphold. It is not even worth the effort to bring them to trial, convict them and carry out the sentence treason should carry. Forget them unless they think that Lincoln set a precedence for preserving the Union. Just as if Great Britain had won the initial War for Independence (Secession I) an issue of Liberty and Freedom that is suppressed by force and settled in blood will never be settled and will rise again.
Michael
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"Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again."
“A question settled by violence or in disregard of law must remain unsettled forever.”
“A question settled by violence or in disregard of law must remain unsettled forever.”
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
---Address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.
"When certain sovereign and independent states form a union with limited powers for some general purpose, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal an insurrection? If so, then of what advantage is a compact of union to states? Within the Union are oppressions and grievances; the attempt to go out brings war and subjugation. The ambitious and aggressive states obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the states.
Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels", as if they revolted against a master, and a war of subjugation is begun. If this action is once tolerated, where will it end? Where is constitutional liberty? What strength is there in bills of rights-in limitation of power? What new hope for mankind is to be found in written constitutions, what remedy which did not exist under kings of emperors? If the doctrines thus announced by the government of the United States are conceded, then look through either end of the political telescope, and one sees only an empire, and the once famous Declaration of Independence trodden in the dust of as a "glittering generality," and the compact of the union denounced as a "flaunting lie".
Those who submit to such consequence without resistance are not worthy the liberties and rights to which they were born, and deserve to be made slaves. Such must be the verdict of mankind."
Jefferson Davis 1808 - 1898
"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
---Address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.
"When certain sovereign and independent states form a union with limited powers for some general purpose, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal an insurrection? If so, then of what advantage is a compact of union to states? Within the Union are oppressions and grievances; the attempt to go out brings war and subjugation. The ambitious and aggressive states obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the states.
Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels", as if they revolted against a master, and a war of subjugation is begun. If this action is once tolerated, where will it end? Where is constitutional liberty? What strength is there in bills of rights-in limitation of power? What new hope for mankind is to be found in written constitutions, what remedy which did not exist under kings of emperors? If the doctrines thus announced by the government of the United States are conceded, then look through either end of the political telescope, and one sees only an empire, and the once famous Declaration of Independence trodden in the dust of as a "glittering generality," and the compact of the union denounced as a "flaunting lie".
Those who submit to such consequence without resistance are not worthy the liberties and rights to which they were born, and deserve to be made slaves. Such must be the verdict of mankind."
Jefferson Davis 1808 - 1898
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