Introduction [top]
	Topics Confederacy Federal encroachment John C. Calhoun - southern Whig Clement Vallandigham - northern defender of liberty Contemporary secession - tool for liberty Abolitionists

Confederacy "Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule." - Jefferson Davis [top]

Federal encroachment [top] The Second Revolution - Charley Reese, April 1, 2006 [LewRockwell.com] A Heartfelt Thanks to the National Park Service For showing my daughters that Reconstruction never ended. - Daniel D. New, June 3, 2005 [LewRockwell.com] They Aren’t What They Used to Be The change was violent, not natural. Lincoln waged war on states that tried to withdraw from the Union, denying their right to do so. This was a denial of the Declaration of Independence, which called the 13 former colonies “Free and Independent States.” - Joseph Sobran, May 27, 2004 [Sobran's] The Former Confederacy To this day, Union propaganda passes for objective history. But in fact so many Northerners agreed with the South — and with the Founding Fathers — that Lincoln had found it necessary to suspend the freedom of speech, the free press, and the ordinary rights of accused persons to habeas corpus and a jury trial. Dissent became a crime, and truth itself a fugitive. - Joseph Sobran, December 4, 2003 [Sobran's] Why do the neocons hate Dixie so? - Patrick Buchanan, November 26, 2003 [WorldNetDaily] Gods, Generals, and Tariffs The anticipation surrounding the new movie "Gods and Generals," which opens today, underscores the continuing fascination that Americans (and the world) have with the meaning of the Civil War. It also reflects a growing awareness that the simple story of Northern liberators versus Southern slaveholders fails to do justice to the truth. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, February 21, 2003 Textbooks and the Southern Tradition The uniformity of education, provided first by the textbooks, then by academic accreditation of the nation's colleges, has crushed regionalism. - Gary North, April 26, 2002 [LewRockwell.com] Remembering Robert E. Lee January 19, was the 195th anniversary of the birthday of Robert E. Lee; a very special day, not only for Southerners but for all Americans who admire true heroes. - Gail Jarvis, January 29, 2002 [LewRockwell.com] A Renewed Effort to Rewrite Controversial State Song Legislator Proposing Less Bellicose Lyrics (regarding Lincoln's agression) - David Snyder, January 24, 2002 [Washington Post] The Shot Heard 'Round Dixie - Kevin Southwick, August 28, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] The Davis Legacy - Joseph Sobran, August 22, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Acton and Lee Correspondence between Lord Acton and Robert E. Lee - Tim Swanson, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] True Tolerance, or a Morning among Indignant Southrons The individuals I met and saw didn’t resemble the Sturmabteilung or Squadristi so much as straight-talking Americans of a Jeffersonian bent. As diverse as they were resolute, these men and women championed their cause with uniqueness and passion. - Myles Kantor, June 22, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Purging the Confederacy…and Liberty, Too Proving once again that the greatest threats to heritage are often indigenous, Seminole County in Georgia has banned students from wearing t-shirts with the Confederate Battle Flag. - Myles Kantor, June 2, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Confederate Connections: The American Revolution and American Life Still, it is true that until a very few years ago, the Confederacy was an accepted and honored part of the American national heritage. The current jihad against our forebears indicates a radical forward step in the movement toward government suppression of free thought and expression. - Clyde Wilson, April 28, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Bristling Dixie? Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, in a typical treatment that also attacks Dixie Outfitters, refers to the Confederate flag as "the proud symbol of the Ku Klux Klan." In fact, the KKK – a US nationalist outfit if there ever was one – used the US flag exclusively in its days of power. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., April 26, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Of Flags, Tattered Banners, 'Erasures,' and 'Hate' - Joseph R. Stromberg, April 19, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Cornel West’s Anti-Confederate Absurdities - Myles Kantor, February 10, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Another Racist Outrage in Georgia Fresh on the heels of their victorious effort to change the Georgia state flag, State Representative Tyrone Brooks, Martin Luther King III, and a gathering of other civil rights activists assembled today outside the Yellow River Game Ranch to protest the annual Groundhog Day winter weather prediction of beloved groundhog General Lee. - Jef Allen, February 3, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Slavery, No; Secession, Yes Unfortunately, many Northerners insist on equating the perfectly constitutional principle of states' rights – more properly, the powers reserved to the states – with slavery and segregation. - Joseph Sobran, January 31, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Secession and Liberty The centralization of governmental power not only leads to the looting and plundering of the taxpaying class by the parasitic class; it also slowly destroys freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, November 28, 2000 [LewRockwell.com] The Civil War and the American Mind It encouraged collectivist intellectuals to vigorously promote their reform visions and it won thinkers to the collectivist cause. - Sheldon Richman, November 2000 [The Future of Freedom Foundation] Why the South Was Right, the North Wrong - Doug Bandow, November 2000 [The Future of Freedom Foundation] The Confederacy (of Dunces) vs. the South I neither support nor denounce the Confederate flag. As a Libertarian I don’t support governments, much less government flags, even much less unofficial flags of defunct governments. - Michael Gilson De Lemos, January 25, 2000 [LewRockwell.com] The Union: Worth a War? - Doug Bandow, March 1996 [The Future of Freedom Foundation] The Civil War and Political Nationalization - Clarence B. Carson, January 1982 [Liberty Haven] John C. Calhoun - southern Whig [top] "Can anything be imagined more destructive of patriotism, and more productive of faction, selfishness, and violence, or more hostile to all economy and accountability in the administration of the fiscal department of Government than protectionist tariffs?" Disquisition on Government Published posthumously in 1851. Calhoun's Cause: Free Trade Calhoun's free-trade arguments, as eloquent and advanced as they were, were no match for the federal military arsenal. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, July 15, 2002 [Mises] Calhoun Foresaw This We had better begin seriously considering nullification, peaceful secession, and every other means possible of checking the ability of the federal government to loot the taxpaying population. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, November 13, 2000 [Mises] Clement Vallandigham - northern defender of liberty [top] "Through a tax law, the like of which has never been imposed upon any but a conquered people, they [the Republicans] have possession...of the entire property of the people of the country." Executive Usurpation A speech by the Honorable Clement Laird Vallandigham, Congressman from Ohio. Clement Laird Vallandigham: American Constitutionalist - Robert C. Cheeks [Southern Partisan Magazine] Contemporary secession - a tool for liberty [top] The California Revolution Begins - Russ Stein, November 19, 2004 [LewRockwell.com] Free Virginia! - Joseph Sobran, January 13, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

Abolitionists "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other." - Harriet Tubman [top]

The Economics of Slavery ...antebellum slavery was propped up by such laws as the federal government’s Fugitive Slave Act (which Abraham Lincoln strongly supported) and that the abolition of that law would have greatly reduced the profitability of slavery and quickened its demise. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, September 21, 2002 [LewRockwell.com] A Copperhead Abolitionist If we seek to practice the ethics of liberty Rothbard delineated so passionately and prolifically, we would do well to ponder his Copperhead abolitionism. - Myles Kantor, April 26, 2001 [LewRockwell.com] Harriet: The Moses of Her People - free online text Disarming Harriet Tubman The Associated Black Charities of Baltimore, which had initially offered to display the mural on its downtown building, flat-out rejected sketches of a gunslinging Tubman. - Sara Rimensnyder, December 2000 [REASON] The New Abolitionists "Fortunately for us, there were brave pioneers who gave us an example of how to eliminate a pervasive but unjust institution, in only a few generations. They were the abolitionists, and the institution was slavery." - Gene Callahan, June 22, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]