On the Golden Circle podcast today we take a look at the political struggle over foreign policy and war preparations within the newly-established Confederate States Government in the winter of 1861.Topics include: Southern nationalists vs Southern conservatives; Excerpt from William C Davis’ book Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater; Rhett’s vision of a free South; Conservatives...
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George McDonald reports for CBS 8 in a recent news piece on the possibility that the United Daughters of the Confederacy may be given control of a Confederate portion of a Selma, Alabama cemetery. Predictably, the report also focuses on local anti-White activists in the area, such as Faya Toure, who oppose the plan....
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A friend and fellow Southern nationalist wanted to share the following picture (and brief description) of some very young Southerners honouring the man who led Dixie in her struggle for self-determination: Laying flowers at the site of Jeff Davis’ capture this past Sunday. Click here for all our articles and information on President Jefferson...
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Today we celebrate the 152nd anniversary of Florida’s independence from the USA. Let us continue to work for the liberation of the Republic of Florida, and the rest of Dixie from the American Empire. Deo Vindice!!
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Below is the a picture of the ‘Yes’ sticker that the Scottish National Party (for those interested, I’m a member; this is the only party which I have ever joined) sent me the other day. I like their ‘Yes’ campaign. It’s very positive and it uses Scottish national symbols. There’s nothing negative about the campaign....
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Dr David Gordon, an author and senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, recently wrote an article for LRC about secession. He begins by tackling the popular US myth that ‘the Civil War settled the issue of secession.’ From there he goes on to give a moral and historical argument for the right of...
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As we have seen in previous articles, Southern nationalists in the Antebellum period struggled to convince conservative Southern elites and the conservative-minded Southern public to embrace independence. After decades of pushing the issue, working their ways into influential positions in the media, educational institutions and government, Southern nationalists ultimately were successful in splitting the...
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Along with Robert Barnwell Rhett and William Gilmore Simms, one of the strongest voices for Southern independence in the months and years leading up to secession was William Porcher Miles. As we have seen in an earlier article, Miles was one of the South’s most able leaders and as Mayor of Charleston and later...
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Early Southern nationalist leader and South Carolina statesman Robert Barnwell Rhett struggled against Southern conservatives his entire political career. Even after three decades of leading the cause for Southern independence, he and his fellow Fire-Eaters (as Southern nationalists were then known) were pushed aside once the Southern States seceded in 1860-61 and control of...
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Andrew Hamilton at Counter-Currents Publishing has an interesting article which looks at the Southern Confederacy as a revolutionary movement. This is somewhat of an unusual perspective, as Hamilton notes. Because the Confederates were not Marxists they tend to be overlooked by academics and therefore are often not brought up when the subject of historical revolutionary...
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The major obstacle that stood in the way of the Fire-Eaters‘ (early Southern nationalists and secessionists) efforts to secure an independent Southern confederacy in the early 1830s through the late 1850s was the conservative nature of the South and especially the ruling class. It is simple to understand the inspiration for such conservatism. The...
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South Carolina statesman, leading Fire-Eater and Charleston newspaper editor Robert Barnwell Rhett, though eventually marginalised by more conservative elements in the Confederate States, exercised great influence in the crucial winter of 1860-61 when Southerners considered independence and what form their new Confederacy would take. As the momentum toward secession spread from South Carolina across the Lower...
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