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Advanced $50 annual membership includes above plus subscription to Al Benson's Copperhead Chronicles.
Platinum $100 annual membership includes above plus a signed copy of Al Benson's book Lincoln's Marxists.
American Statesman, Soldier, Senator, Secretary of War, President of the Confederate States of America.
forwarded with permission from: Bernhard Thuersam www.ncwbts150.com
A West Point graduate, Davis distinguished himself in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of the Mississippi Rifles volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in the Pierce Administration, he served as a US Senator from Mississippi. As senator he argued against secession but believed each State was sovereign and had an unquestionable and constitutional right to secede from the voluntary Union of the Founders, just as they had seceded from England seeking political liberty. Davis resigned from the Senate in January 1861 after receiving word that his State of Mississippi had voted to leave the voluntary Union. Davis explained his actions saying:
“[To] me the sovereignty of the State was paramount to the sovereignty of the Union. And I held my seat in the Senate until Mississippi seceded and called upon me to follow and defend her. Then I sorrowfully resigned the position in which my State had placed me and in which I could no longer represent her, and accepted the new work. I was on my way to Montgomery when I received, much to my regret, the message that I had been elected provisional President of the Confederate States of America.”
Davis was a great and patriotic American who tried to save the old constitutional republic from abolitionist revolutionaries, and who left the old union with the old constitution intact to form a "more perfect Union" and with the consent of the governed. He contended that he would rather be out of the Union with the Constitution than to be in the Union without the Constitution. Davis remarked in July 1864:
"I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have....Slavery never was an essential element. It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination. It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded. There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations.”
Reminded during the war of the destruction of his Mississippi plantations by occupying Northern troops, we dismissed it as the cost of war, yet confessed that he pitied his poor Negroes, who had been driven off by those troops and abandoned to misery or ruin. He resisted arming the slaves as they were not trained as soldiers, were needed to raise food for the armies in the field, and he would not use them as mercenaries and cannon-fodder as Lincoln was doing to avoid conscripting unwilling white Northerners.
At the end of the War, when a fellow traveler remarked that the cause of the Confederates was lost. Davis replied:
“It appears so. But the principle for which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
We may be experiencing his prediction now in the midst of State sovereignty resolutions and 10th Amendment reaffirmations across the country. In 1881, Davis was critical of the Gilded Age corruption and ignorance of the United States Constitution and remarked:
“Of what value then are paper constitutions and oaths binding officers to their preservation, if there is not intelligence enough in the people to discern the violations; and virtue enough to resist the violators?”
Davis was guilty of no treason and demanded a fair trial in order to argue the constitutionality of the South’s actions in 1860-1861. This was denied by his tormenters, the reason was revealed by Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase, in 1867. Chase admitted that:
"If you bring these leaders to trial, it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution, secession is not a rebellion. His [Jefferson Davis] capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one. We cannot convict him of treason."
President Davis died on December 6, 1889
A West Point graduate, Davis distinguished himself in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of the Mississippi Rifles volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in the Pierce Administration, he served as a US Senator from Mississippi. As senator he argued against secession but believed each State was sovereign and had an unquestionable and constitutional right to secede from the voluntary Union of the Founders, just as they had seceded from England seeking political liberty. Davis resigned from the Senate in January 1861 after receiving word that his State of Mississippi had voted to leave the voluntary Union. Davis explained his actions saying:
“[To] me the sovereignty of the State was paramount to the sovereignty of the Union. And I held my seat in the Senate until Mississippi seceded and called upon me to follow and defend her. Then I sorrowfully resigned the position in which my State had placed me and in which I could no longer represent her, and accepted the new work. I was on my way to Montgomery when I received, much to my regret, the message that I had been elected provisional President of the Confederate States of America.”
Davis was a great and patriotic American who tried to save the old constitutional republic from abolitionist revolutionaries, and who left the old union with the old constitution intact to form a "more perfect Union" and with the consent of the governed. He contended that he would rather be out of the Union with the Constitution than to be in the Union without the Constitution. Davis remarked in July 1864:
"I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have....Slavery never was an essential element. It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination. It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded. There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations.”
Reminded during the war of the destruction of his Mississippi plantations by occupying Northern troops, we dismissed it as the cost of war, yet confessed that he pitied his poor Negroes, who had been driven off by those troops and abandoned to misery or ruin. He resisted arming the slaves as they were not trained as soldiers, were needed to raise food for the armies in the field, and he would not use them as mercenaries and cannon-fodder as Lincoln was doing to avoid conscripting unwilling white Northerners.
At the end of the War, when a fellow traveler remarked that the cause of the Confederates was lost. Davis replied:
“It appears so. But the principle for which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
We may be experiencing his prediction now in the midst of State sovereignty resolutions and 10th Amendment reaffirmations across the country. In 1881, Davis was critical of the Gilded Age corruption and ignorance of the United States Constitution and remarked:
“Of what value then are paper constitutions and oaths binding officers to their preservation, if there is not intelligence enough in the people to discern the violations; and virtue enough to resist the violators?”
Davis was guilty of no treason and demanded a fair trial in order to argue the constitutionality of the South’s actions in 1860-1861. This was denied by his tormenters, the reason was revealed by Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase, in 1867. Chase admitted that:
"If you bring these leaders to trial, it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution, secession is not a rebellion. His [Jefferson Davis] capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one. We cannot convict him of treason."
President Davis died on December 6, 1889
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Confederate battery section at Sharpsburg. South Mountain in the distance where General D. H. Hill's Tar Heels held on against overwhelming numbers and gave General Lee the time to form a line near the Antietam and Potomac Rivers.
The Confederate society is an honorable and legendary society that has existed over 22 years- born of fellow minded people who believe in the love of liberty, sovereignty and the pursuit of happiness. These simple values which were promised to all by the declaration of independence, have been usurped and degraded since the middle of the 19th century.
The society provides the opportunity for all Southern Confederate groups to come together and discover the common links which bind us all. Those links of heritage, history and love of our country provide fellowship for establishment of common concerns and beliefs that in one another our differences are not as great as our challenges.
The society advocates the restoration of the Confederate government in which President Jefferson Davis never did surrender during his incarceration after the war had been suspended. The existing occupation that ensued after the Confederate Armies capitulated has seriously eroded the culture, heritage and historical pride that southern people should naturally have for their country.
Society membership has its privileges! To realize you are a member of a society which brings all of our brethren under one tent for the expansion of our cause is an honor unto itself. The weight of our en-devour is no doubt a heavy one, but one which many will gladly help to promote and provide for enabling the perpetuation of our nation, our cause and our destiny, the reason perhaps that God has brought you to our camp. The existing government can exist in exile or in our minds, it has the right to exist as it was never extinguished, like much in the South, after the war.
A membership in the Society allows for the funding of our cause, and while not tax deductible, provides you with a realization of purpose that our cause is not dead, never was and can continue to grow. The ethical stewardship of membership requires a basic understanding that the cause was based on our nations independence and that while all can look into history with the view of a Monday morning quarterback, the secession of the Southern Confederacy was entirely legal at the time. Our rights were absconded in 1865 and the country then allowed a leviathan to take hold.
Now as people begin to realize the results of perpetual government growth it should surely see its own demise much like the terminally ill patient. Unlike the dignified patient, the govern-mentally ill patient is morbidly obese in either want or need, has no resources to pay for that lifestyle and decides to overwhelm caregivers by expanding the welfare state while not supplying the offset economic growth to pay for the entitlement.
Today as southern Americans watch the slow motion crash of the economy, the elimination of the founding principle's as well as the elimination of God from the courtroom, the classroom and the family room, it only helps to remind us of the warning President Davis left for us when he said to a fellow traveler regarding the Confederates lost cause.
“It appears so. But the principle for
which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at
another time and in another form.”
Commenting on the end of the
Founders’ republic, Davis stated in 1881 “Of what value then are paper
constitutions and oaths binding officers to their preservation, if there
is not intelligence enough in the people to discern the violations; and
virtue enough to resist the violators?” Jefferson Davis...
Come now forward and join the Confederate Society and reclaim a small portion of what once was, what still is and what can be!
The society provides the opportunity for all Southern Confederate groups to come together and discover the common links which bind us all. Those links of heritage, history and love of our country provide fellowship for establishment of common concerns and beliefs that in one another our differences are not as great as our challenges.
The society advocates the restoration of the Confederate government in which President Jefferson Davis never did surrender during his incarceration after the war had been suspended. The existing occupation that ensued after the Confederate Armies capitulated has seriously eroded the culture, heritage and historical pride that southern people should naturally have for their country.
Society membership has its privileges! To realize you are a member of a society which brings all of our brethren under one tent for the expansion of our cause is an honor unto itself. The weight of our en-devour is no doubt a heavy one, but one which many will gladly help to promote and provide for enabling the perpetuation of our nation, our cause and our destiny, the reason perhaps that God has brought you to our camp. The existing government can exist in exile or in our minds, it has the right to exist as it was never extinguished, like much in the South, after the war.
A membership in the Society allows for the funding of our cause, and while not tax deductible, provides you with a realization of purpose that our cause is not dead, never was and can continue to grow. The ethical stewardship of membership requires a basic understanding that the cause was based on our nations independence and that while all can look into history with the view of a Monday morning quarterback, the secession of the Southern Confederacy was entirely legal at the time. Our rights were absconded in 1865 and the country then allowed a leviathan to take hold.
Now as people begin to realize the results of perpetual government growth it should surely see its own demise much like the terminally ill patient. Unlike the dignified patient, the govern-mentally ill patient is morbidly obese in either want or need, has no resources to pay for that lifestyle and decides to overwhelm caregivers by expanding the welfare state while not supplying the offset economic growth to pay for the entitlement.
Today as southern Americans watch the slow motion crash of the economy, the elimination of the founding principle's as well as the elimination of God from the courtroom, the classroom and the family room, it only helps to remind us of the warning President Davis left for us when he said to a fellow traveler regarding the Confederates lost cause.
“It appears so. But the principle for
which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at
another time and in another form.”
Commenting on the end of the
Founders’ republic, Davis stated in 1881 “Of what value then are paper
constitutions and oaths binding officers to their preservation, if there
is not intelligence enough in the people to discern the violations; and
virtue enough to resist the violators?” Jefferson Davis...
Come now forward and join the Confederate Society and reclaim a small portion of what once was, what still is and what can be!