Fulton Anderson, Mississippi’s secession commissioner to Virginia, spoke in the Old Dominion’s General Assembly in mid-February of 1861 in an attempt to persuade the moderate-controlled body to secede from the United States and join the Lower South States in a confederation. As the most powerful and prestigious of all the Southern States, Virginia was vital...
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On April 14, 1861 after Confederates forces evicted Federal occupiers from Fort Sumter in Charleston harbour, Private John S Byrd, Jr of South Carolina’s Palmetto Guard placed this flag on the fort’s wall facing Charleston. The flag features a variation of the Palmetto tree, a reference to a fort which was largely constructed of...
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The other evening I had a chance to speak with a leader in the Tenth Amendment movement in Missouri. Mathew is the webmaster of MissouriTenth.com and has organised and participated in several States’ rights events and projects. In this interview he speaks about the history of Missouri, how it was settled, the conflict that arose in...
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This evening I recorded a podcast with John, a small business owner and liberty activist who keeps the site The Real Liberal. He is also active in the Ron Paul presidential campaign in Charleston, South Carolina. In this interview John and your host Michael discuss Neo-con David Frum’s article attacking Ron Paul, non-interventionism, free markets and Southern...
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Justin Smith Morrill (1810 – 1898) was a US Congressman from Vermont and one of the founders of the Republican Party. Following in the ideological footsteps of Hamilton, Clay, Webster and other anti-free traders who supported Northern industrialism over Southern agrarianism, Morrill is most famous for the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861. This tariff went...
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Those who have been involved in the Southern movement for any length of time have doubtless heard the stunningly brilliant logic of our detractors summed up in cute catch-phrases. The wonderful thing about these slogans is that no matter how many times they have been addressed and thoroughly de-bunked, opponents of Southern heritage, identity or nationalism can...
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A local historian in Shreveport, Louisiana is raising questions about the possibility of finding a Confederate submarine. Michele Marcotte has the story: Four Confederate submarines built in Shreveport to protect the Red River from Union advances may be beneath the proposed site of the Margaritaville casino, a local historian says. But developers of the 400-room...
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Confederate General James Longstreet has his own museum. The Southern general with the controversial post-war record (he joined the Republican Party and cooperated with the Federals) is defended by his great-great grandson in an article from KnoxNews.com: Clark Thornton, who has written a genealogy of his family, said he wanted to help straighten out some “misconstrued...
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The media is playing up what it claims to be a backlash against the small Southern town of Osceola, Missouri for denouncing the band of violent Unionists called the Jayhawkers (who moved to Kansas and conducted murderous raids on Missourians) in general and the Jayhawk mascot of the University of Kansas specifically. Clint Lacy writes:...
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Author and professor Dr Thomas DiLorenzo has a hard-hitting article on US imperialism and its origins in the genocidal campaigns waged against Southerners and American Indians in the 1860s: In The Costs of War (edited by John Denson), historian Joseph Stromberg referred to the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a “trial run” for the...
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A copy of an extremely rare book on the financial system of the independent South has been discovered: It’s time to rewrite the history books on Confederate States finance, and the evolution of Confederate currency collecting. A sixth example of the desirable and rare, original 1880 Register of the Confederate debt by Raphael P. Thian...
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The town of Osceola, Missouri has denounced the mascot used by the University of Kansas as well as the historic Jayhawkers as a domestic terrorist group. The town’s resolution read as follows: RESOLUTION On this date, the City of Osceola, after hearing all of the evidence, and for good cause shown, finds the following:...
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