We like a
lot of what the American Family Association fights for, so we are unhappy that
we have to speak against one of its members.
But Mr Hamilton told some real whoppers about the North and the South in
the episode of The Hamilton Corner that aired on Friday, 29 Jan. 2021,
and some correctives are in order:
First is his
presentation of the South as initiating an offensive war of conquest against
Washington City. This is false. The South left the Union by a peaceful vote
of secession. It is Pres Lincoln who
invaded the South to keep her in his Blessed, Mystical Union; it is he and his
forces who began a war of conquest against the South. Dixie was fighting a defensive battle, a war
to protect her homeland from in-breakers.
She was not trying to conquer Washington City.
Second,
because of this first misconception, Mr Hamilton implies that it was perfectly
lawful for Southerners to have their land confiscated by the Union military
conquerors and redistributed to others without due process. However, since he was wrong in point one, he
is wrong here as well. The Southerners
were not in rebellion, and thus there was no legal ground to justify stealing
their land. President Andrew Johnson,
whom Mr Hamilton scolded for doing so, was actually right in cancelling General
Sherman’s Field Order No. 15 and returning the land to its rightful owners:
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15
Third, Mr
Hamilton speaks of the Jim Crow South as if its forms appeared out of the
aether without any kind of precedent in American life. What he and others do not realize is that it
was actually an import from the North, where the virtue-signaling Abolitionists
talked a big game about love for the black man but actually made life miserable
for free blacks. See especially page 20
of this essay by Dr Donald Livingston:
https://www.carolannwilson.net/Livingston.pdf
The South
has always been much more integrated than the eugenicist North, which has made
Dixie a target for depopulation and resettlement by the ‘pure bloods’ of New
England. Jim Crow was an aberration for
the South, brought about because of the violent overturning of her social order
by the Abolitionists. Slavery would
likely have ended peacefully in the South like it did in other parts of the
world, but the radical Abolitionists couldn’t let things alone. They had to hurry the hands of Providence to
bring about ‘justice’, even if it meant the spilling of rivers of blood. Now, the spiritual descendants of the
Abolitionists - Black Lives Matter, Antifa, etc. - are clamoring for the same
thing: quick, violent justice.
It should
also be noted that the black freedmen fared quite poorly under the care of
their ‘liberators’:
https://shotwellpublishing.com/catalogue/emancipation-hell/
And the black
family fared much better under Jim Crow than it has during the Civil Rights
era:
‘The
undeniable truth is that neither slavery nor Jim Crow nor the harshest racism
has decimated the black family the way the welfare state has.’--Prof Walter E.
Williams, https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/09/17/the-welfare-states-legacy
The South is
not without blame, though. Lynchings, fire-hosing
black children trying to go to school, and these sorts of things are a stain on
the soul of the South and should be repented of in a proper manner. However, as we said just above, the social
justice warriors bear some blame for these events. The sudden overthrowing of the South’s social
order by them created the conditions in which they could occur. Had they left well enough alone, they likely
would not have happened (one will note the absence of such widespread outbursts
of violence towards black folks during the era of slavery).
And just as
relevant for the current moment, accepting Mr Hamilton’s version of American
history (that Southerners were in ‘rebellion’ against Washington City) also
creates a justification for the federal government/Big Tech/etc. targeting of
Trump supporters, those discontent with COVID restrictions, etc., as
‘insurrectionists’:
(Thanks to
the nameless person who sent us this story.)
To borrow a
line from others, fake history is just as pernicious as fake news. We hope Mr Hamilton and others who promote
the Puritan-Lincolnian view of American history (with its Neoplatonic/Hegelian
determinism that an Indivisible Yankee American Empire is fated to dominate geopolitics so
that all the world can be pressed into the mold of zombifying, atomizing,
materialistic Yankee capitalism) will trade what is false for what is true.
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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