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LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD

I am so tired of hearing the whines of the naacp and everyone else about how our Confederate Flag stands for hate, slavery and oppression. As we all know, those of us who are true Southerners.... this is a used issue. Now everyone is jumping in on the band wagon and using it for anything they can. The politicians are having a field day. The NAACP claims that the Battle Flag which flies over the South Carolina dome is a flag of slavery, hate and oppression. It is time we as Southern people stand up and demand that the truth be told about the history of the War for Southern Independence from more than a northern and liberal view. WE MUST DEMAND THIS.

Recently at an antique store I purchased a NC history book written by Jule B. Warren and copyrighted 1941 and 1942. It states that this book is the property of the State Textbook Commission Raleigh, NC. I was amazed to read what was taught in the school during this time about as they call it "The War Between the States." I would like to quote from page 183 what was taught about the slaves during the War. "Thousands of negro slaves stayed on the farms and helped take care of their masters families during the War. Many of the slaves followed their masters into the army as servants, laborers, cooks and general help. Most of the negroes remained loyal during the whole war, otherwise the suffering and horrors of the war would have been even worse than they really were." In today's history books you will not see anything taught that tells of this....only that the slaves ran away because of their mistreatment and how much they hated their masters. However we know that all during the war it is documented about the blacks who fought for the Confederacy and how they took care of the families on the plantations. Now let us all wonder why this isn't taught today.

We are taught the War was fought because Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, he was so concerned for the black people. Well now if this were true, and he was the "Great Emancipator" his thoughts on this seem to be quite different from that of those that are taught. In this NC history book pages 190 and 191 it states that. "Many wise people like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln thought that if the slaves were freed it would be necessary to send then back to Africa or colonize them in another part of the world, however we have learned now that both races can live and work in the same community." Why is it that if the War for Southern Independence was fought over freeing slaves that it was not until the later part of 1862 that Lincoln issued the "Emancipation Proclamation" which only freed slaves in the states that had seceded which he had no rule over and not in the northern states?

Lincoln's attitude toward blacks is revealed even more in 1858 in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. If one were to read the debates one might find them quite interesting. On September 18, 1858, in Charleston, Illinois, Lincoln made a statement which he made clarification to in the sixth debate at Quincy, Illinois on October 13, 1858. These are from the words of Lincoln. "This he quotes from me as being delivered at Charleston, and I believe correctly: I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." So we now see that Lincoln wanted the negroes sent back to Africa, colonized and felt that they were an inferior race. So are we to believe that the War was fought over the freeing of slaves? Absolutely not. Lincoln's quote to Horace Greely of the New York Tribune on August 22, 1862 tells exactly why Lincoln waged war on the South, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union". I wonder now if all slaves had been set free before the South seceded would Lincoln still have waged war against them? Absolutely he would have!

So when the South decided to exercise their Constitutional Rights to secede from the Union instead of being controlled by a tyrannical government, war was waged against the Confederate States of America. On April 12, 1861 shots were fired at Fort Sumter, SC and for 4 long years the Southern men, women and children, white and black fought,suffered, bleed and died against unbelievable odds to defend their Southland that was being illegally invade by the Union. They were fighting for their Constitutional Rights and not slavery. Yes, the Confederate Flag which flies over the dome in SC should fly over the dome for the very reasons it is there and that is to honor the Confederate soldiers white and black who fought, suffered, bleed and died defending their Southland. To call the Confederate Flag a symbol of hate, slavery and oppression is not true. Slaves were sold by their own people and brought to America on slave ships which flew the American Flag and this was far before the Confederate Battle Flag even existed. The kkk used the American flag far before they used the Confederate Battle Flag. So you see some where along the line the NAACP has gotten it confused and all wrong about which flag it is that represents hate, slavery and oppression.....and it most certainly isn't the Confederate Battle Flag under which my ancestors along with the other Confederate Soldiers fought for their Constitutional Rights and in defense of their Southland against the illegal invasion of the north.

Wake up naacp and all others who condemn our Confederate Flag...one day you won't be able to hide behind the lies that are now being told to all. For one day the South will once again be a Free and Independent Nation.

God Save Our South
Vickie Poston,Founder of Southern Heritage of the Carolinas

Letter to Horace Greeley

Executive Mansion,

Washington, August 22, 1862.

Hon. Horace Greeley:

Dear Sir.

I have just read yours of the 19th.addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here,controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable [sic] in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was". If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery,and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Yours,

A. Lincoln.

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NAACP 1991 Resolution
At their 1991 national convention, the NAACP passed the following resolution:

VII. INTERNAL AFFAIRS

1. Resolution abhorring the Confederate Battle Flag on State Flags Approved WHEREAS, the tyrannical evil symbolized in the Confederate Battle Flag is an abhorrence to all Americans and decent people of this country, and indeed the world and is an odious blight upon the universe; and,

WHEREAS, African-Americans, had no voice, no consultation, no concurrence, no commonality, not in fact nor in philosophy, in the vile conception of the Confederate Battle Flag or State Flags containing the ugly symbol of idiotic white supremacy, racism and denigration; and,

WHEREAS, we adamantly reject the notion that African-Americans should accept this flag for any stretch of the imagination or approve its presence on State Flags;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the national office of the NAACP and all units commit their legal resources to the removal of the Confederate Flag from all public properties.

NAACP Partial Corporate Supporters List

Our Southern Heritage is under attack by the NAACP. These are supposedly corporate sponsors. Contact these sponsors and show your disapproval of their support of this racist institution.

1.K-Mart, 3100 W. Big Beaver, Troy MI
CEO - Floyd Hall
248-643-1000

2.JC Penney, 6501 Legacy Dr, Plano TX
CEO - Gale Duff Bloom
972-431-1000

3.Food Lion, PO Box 1330, Salisbury NC
CEO - Bill McCanless
800-210-9569

4. Century21, 6 Sylvan Way, Parsippany NJ
CEO - Robert Moles
973-428-9700

5. Bank of America, 100 N. Tryon St, Charlotte NC
CEO - Hugh McColl
704-386-5000

6. Wachovia, 301 N. Main St, Winston-Salem NC
CEO - Will Spence
704-378-5365

7. Wendy's International, 4288 W. Dublin-Granville, Dublin CO
CEO - J. Schuessler
800-829-3639

8. Budweiser, 1 Busch Place, St. Louis MO
800-342-5283

9. Coca-Cola, PO Box 1734, Atlanta GA
CEO - Douglas Ivester
404-676-2121

10. Coors, 311 10th St, Golden CO
CEO - WK Coors
800-642-6116

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

By the President of the United States of America:

A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

"That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States."

Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:

Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.

By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

PROUD TO BE SOUTHERN!