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The Prattville Dragoons, Camp 1524, Sons of Confederate Veterans, are preserving the history and legacy of the heroes who fought tyranny to preserve their constitutional rights.

James Madison argued that the Federal Union was not analogous to social compacts among individual men but "to the conven...
07/03/2025

James Madison argued that the Federal Union was not analogous to social compacts among individual men but "to the conventions among individual states." Then, again drawing upon the ancient law of contracts, he concluded, "Clearly, according to the Expositors of the law of Nations, that a breach of any one article, by any one party, leaves all other parties at liberty to consider the whole convention to be dissolved, unless they choose rather to compel the delinquent party to repair the breach."

(Max Farrand, ed., Records of the Federal Conventions of 1787, 3 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), 1:315.)

"Our country is too large to have all its affairs conducted by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, ...
07/02/2025

"Our country is too large to have all its affairs conducted by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, & from under the eye of their constituents, must, from circumstances of distance, be unable to administer & overlook all details necessary for the good government of the citizens, and the same circumstances, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder & waste. And I do verily believe, that if the principle were to prevail, of a common law being in force in the U.S., (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the State governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government) it would become the most corrupt government on the earth."

~ Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, August 13, 1800

Many use Alexander Stephens' "cornerstone" speech as some sort of "gotcha" that his opinion on the condition of slaves w...
07/02/2025

Many use Alexander Stephens' "cornerstone" speech as some sort of "gotcha" that his opinion on the condition of slaves was Confederate policy. Yet this policy was never voted on, ratified, or passed as an extraordinary law, by the Confederate government.

Stephens gave a speech on June 28, 1856, on the floor of the House of Representatives, concerning a bill to admit Kansas as a state. He used similar verbiage to describe the slaves' condition in the United States. However, this speech is never brought up in argument to define United States policy on slavery, when it was also codified constitutionally.

Here are a few excerpts from that speech:
"The condition or slavery of the African Race, as it exists among us, is a fixed fact in the Constitution."

"That liberty which recognized the inferior condition of the African race among them."

"African slavery, as it exists in the South, either a violation of the laws of nature, the laws of nations, or the laws of God? I maintain that it is not."

"The negro is inferior to the white man; nature has made him so; observation and history from the remotest times, establish the fact. and all attempts to make the inferior equal to the superior is but an effort to reverse the decrees of the Creator, who has made things as we find them..."

"In the social and political system of the South, the negro is assigned to that subordinate position for which he is fitted by the laws of nature. Our system of civilization is founded in strict conformity to these laws. Order and subordination, according to the natural fitness of things, is the principle upon which the whole fabric of our southern institutions rest."

Nothing changed with the Confederate government as it related to slavery as previously in the United States.

Most of the regulations we live under are not passed by Congress at all but spring from executive bureaucracies under th...
07/01/2025

Most of the regulations we live under are not passed by Congress at all but spring from executive bureaucracies under the Imperial presidency. Agencies with Orwellian names such as the IRS, FDIC, FSEC, FDA, EPA, FCC, and FTC (not to mention the many presidential "czars") make laws and regulations that can skirt the will of Congress or frustrate it.

As if this were not enough, the Supreme Court, through the power of "judicial review" (which is nowhere found in the Constitution), has usurped the "police powers" of the States over law enforcement, morals, speech, religion, education, health, and voting-the very essence of republican life. Nine unelected Supreme Court justices with life tenure, sometimes by votes of five to four, make major social policy for 305 million people. Political issues that are reserved to the States, such as abortion, have been taken out of the policy arena and magically transformed into "constitutional rights." This means, in effect, that the Court can rewrite the Constitution at will, entirely bypassing the amendment process, which requires ratification by three-fourths of the States. To speak of republican self-government and rule of law in such a regime is Orwellian.

The Constitution as written, did not change as a result of the Confederate loss in Lincoln’s War. A contract doesn’t cha...
07/01/2025

The Constitution as written, did not change as a result of the Confederate loss in Lincoln’s War. A contract doesn’t change by military force; contracts only change by the agreement of the parties involved. The Constitution is still a “constitution between the States!”

~ Article IV

In 1811, on the bill for the admission of Louisiana as a State of the Union, the Hon. Josiah Quincy, member of Congress ...
06/30/2025

In 1811, on the bill for the admission of Louisiana as a State of the Union, the Hon. Josiah Quincy, member of Congress from Massachusetts, said:

“If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation–amicably if they can, violently if they must.”

Sarah Knox Taylor the second child of Zachary Taylor and his wife, Margaret, was given the nickname "Knoxie," which orig...
06/28/2025

Sarah Knox Taylor the second child of Zachary Taylor and his wife, Margaret, was given the nickname "Knoxie," which originated from her middle name and from Fort Knox II in Vincennes, Indiana, where she was born.

At age 17, Sarah fell in love with Jefferson Davis, a recent graduate of the United States Military Academy, and a newly commissioned lieutenant in the United States Army, who was second to General Taylor at the fort.

After Sarah turned 21, she married Davis on June 17, 1835. Both of the newlyweds contracted malaria on a summer visit to Davis's sister, Anna Davis Smith, in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Sarah Taylor Davis died of the tropical illness just three months into her marriage to Jefferson Davis.

Many historians have suggested that Lincoln’s interest in colonization ended, or "evaporated," with his Emancipation Pro...
06/28/2025

Many historians have suggested that Lincoln’s interest in colonization ended, or "evaporated," with his Emancipation Proclamation and that his final speech shows that he was looking toward a future of equality, But Lincoln’s active support of colonization did not end when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

After the initial Chiriqui project and other Central American possibilities floundered, Lincoln’s administration had signed a contract with Bernard K**k, This rather shady promoter had promised to settle blacks on Ile-a-Vache, a small island near Haiti, When Secretary of State Seward uncovered evidence in january 1863 that K**k was a swindler, Lincoln was forced to cancel that contract.

But in April 1863 the president again moved forward, He approved a new contract with two New York financiers who were allied with K**k, and they promptly transported five hundred colonists - the first wave of a projected five thousand - to the island. Thus, four months after the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln acted on the views that he had expressed on the races being unable to peacefully exist together under the same government.

The effort to promote separation on lle-a-Vache proved a failure, as things went badly there. It was 1864 when the Interior Department recalled the survivors of a failed project.

Finding legal authority for Lincoln's invasion of the C.S.A. did not sanction the postbellum punitive policies against t...
06/27/2025

Finding legal authority for Lincoln's invasion of the C.S.A. did not sanction the postbellum punitive policies against the former Confederates. If Southerners were U.S. citizens, the constitutional protections in Article I, section 9, clauses 2 and 3, which prohibit the suspension of habeas corpus, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws, could be invoked on their behalf. The congressional legislative designation of Southerners as insurrectionists was a bill of attainder, because it punished them without due process.

~ Marshall DeRosa, Rethinking the American Union for the 21st Century, 98

Shepherd Hayward, a free black who worked as a station porter, walked out on the bridge to find out what was wrong with ...
06/27/2025

Shepherd Hayward, a free black who worked as a station porter, walked out on the bridge to find out what was wrong with the train. "Halt!" shouted one of the guards on the bridge. The confused Hayward ignored the order and tried to retreat. A bullet thudded into his back and exited under his left ni**le. He staggered into the station crying: "I am shot!” It would take Hayward twelve agonizing hours to die. The first victim of John Brown's insurrection was a free black man.

Lincoln rhetorically explained that he launched the U.S. into a war of aggression against the C.S.A. in order to re-foun...
06/25/2025

Lincoln rhetorically explained that he launched the U.S. into a war of aggression against the C.S.A. in order to re-found America without the Southern defilement; this is what he meant by a "new birth of freedom." The physical and political evidence lay all around him in Gettysburg that Southerners were not to have a government of, by, and for the Southern people but a coercive government based in Washington, D.C. Lacking empirical and theoretical evidence that his war was either constitutional or moral, his rhetoric moved the souls of his supporters then and continues to do so. As a successful rhetorician, Lincoln instilled in a portion of Americans the idée fixe of a utopian government "of, by, and for the people." In the 1860s, the idée fixe emotionally moved them to action against the C.S.A., while currently it moves them to "make the world safe for democracy" by foreign interventionist excursions.

~ Marshall DeRosa, Rethinking the American Union for the 21st Century, 94

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