Remembrances for November – 2026

 

Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.  Many thanks.

But one may ask:  ‘What good does it do to pray for the departed?’  An answer is offered here:  https://orthochristian.com/130608.html

Along with prayers and hymns for the departed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6je5axPodI

4^th – Gabriel Manigault, an influential architect in South Carolina.

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/manigault-gabriel/

Examples of his designs may be viewed at these sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Manigault

http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710069/

5^th – Carrie Tuggle.  ‘Mrs. Tuggle was a person of unique strengths. She excelled in the areas of education, social work, and religion.’

http://www.awhf.org/tuggle.html

9^th – Colonel Jose Benavides, a major figure in Texas’s economic and political circles in the 19^th hudredyear, he was undefeated in 100 battles during the War.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-merchant-prince-of-the-rio-grande-who-chose-the-confederate-cause/

9^th – Pierre Laffite, the gentlemanly, rascally pirate of Barataria Bay, Louisiana.  He and his brother Jean are well-known for their role in the Battle of New Orleans and other acts of mischief.  Quintessential lovable rogues.  New Orleans’s Grace King gives details of their life:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/New_Orleans/_Texts/KINPAP/10*.html

10^th – Lott Carey, Colin Teague:  Both were slaves in Virginia who purchased their freedom and then became missionaries in West Africa.

https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/lott-carey-11630295.html

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylor/taylor.html

https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/t-u-v/teague-colin-collin-teage-c-1780-1839/

12^th – Synaxis of the 12 Southerners of I’ll Take My Stand.  In celebration of the original publication of this noteworthy book on Nov. 12^th, 1930, we remember and pray for the contributors to it:  Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren.  The opening Statement of Principles from the book may be read here:

https://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/agrarian.html

14^th – Booker T. Washington, a prominent leader in the postbellum South.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/booker-washingtons-bucket/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1073/booker-taliaferro-washington

15^th – Ambrose D. Mann, a colorful character who worked in the Confederacy’s diplomatic corps.

http://www.chab-belgium.com/pdf/english/Mann.pdf

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74906039/ambrose-dudley-mann

15^th – Roy Clark, a talented musician and comedian, perhaps best known for his work on the TV show Hee Haw.

https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/roy-clark/

20^th – John Lejeune, a Cajun fellow who had a big impact on the uS Marine Corps.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/the-greatest-of-all-leathernecks/

22^nd – Mary Boykin Chesnut, a valuable author and historian of the South.

https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chesnut/bio.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8574/mary-boykin-chesnut

23^rd – Louisa McCord and Marion Montgomery, a couple of very versatile and talented writers.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/a-lady-champion-of-free-trade/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9685397/louisa-susanna-mccord

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/marion-montgomery-1925-2011

24^th – John William Corrington, another notable recent Southern author, hailing from NW Louisiana, one who unapologetically loved his Southern roots.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/john-william-corrington-and-southern-conservatism/

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-better-men/

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/are-southerners-different/

30^th – Gen Patrick Cleburne, Irish-born, he loved his new home at the South and fought valiantly for her during the war.  He died in 1864 at the Battle of Franklin.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/patrick-r-cleburne

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4430/patrick_ronayne-cleburne

Also, to celebrate some of the saints of November from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, visit these web pages:

https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-november/

https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2019/12/happy-feast-for-saints-of-november.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘Why the Receding Support for Republicans in Federal Elections?’

 

Some folks seem genuinely surprised that voters, even in reliably conservative/Republican States like Ohio and Texas, are leaning towards the Democrats in this year’s elections for the federal government.  The reasons for that aren’t a profound mystery, but to find them we have to go back to the 2024 presidential election.

In that election, folks were surveying the nightmarish years of the Biden presidency – harsh covid measures, rampant inflation, DEI reverse racism, the federal apparatus turned against parents who attended school board meetings, pro-life advocates, and traditional Christians.  Donald Trump was campaigning on a turn away from them and other destructive policies.  And enough voters were persuaded that he offered a better path forward than Kamala Harris that he won the election.  It wasn’t a landslide, but there were narrow victories in a lot of States.  That closeness was further borne out by the small Republican margins in the federal House and Senate.

Trump’s second term got off to a good start, with promises to conduct his administration with class and competence and the signing of numerous beneficial executive orders on everything from ending support for transgenders in women’s sports to winding down a lot of the green energy sham.  But then came the obstacles.

 . . .

The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2026/10/garlington-why-the-receding-support-for-republicans-in-federal-elections/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘The Head of the South’

 

From Jamestown till the sundering of Seventy-Six,

The head of the Southern people wore a monarch’s crown,

James the First to George the Third,

With the Puritan interregnum

An unnatural interruption

Of the patriarchal order.

In the new dispensation after independence,

Still was there a head on Dixie’s body,

An agrarian aristoi of country gentlemen,

Led by a trio of Johns –

Taylor of Caroline, Randolph of Roanoke,

And the mighty Calhoun of South Carolina –

And the finest of them all, the chivalric Lee.

Upon the death of the General

Came the times of calamity,

Without a head to lead and guide the South.

After the decay of the old planter class,

A dozen brothers led for a time.

Then Strom Thurmond tried but was denied.

Today we have only scattered voices

Raised in protest of an aberrant order,

While our old traditions are banished from the land,

Exiled further by far than Alfred the King was in Athelney.

Yet in that blessèd man is all our hope,

The first king of all the English folk,

Who saved them from an alien foe

And raised up the prostrate Church.

The headless South a head once more has found in him,

Crowned with the garland of God’s Grace,

Fairest of the line of English kings.

Beseech him, brothers and sisters,

Beseech him on bended knee

To be our father, our patriarch,

This day and all succeeding ones,

To restore wholeness and vitality

To a family shattered and weak.

The twilight of death is nigh upon us,

And soon total darkness,

If the Light of that deified head we reject.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Protestants Misunderstand the Church

 

Evangelical Protestant Alex McFarland made a curious statement recently on American Family Radio – namely, that it is not important what church you belong to but that you belong to Christ.  This is a terrible mangling of the nature of the Church.  It makes the Church superfluous, unnecessary.  It destroys the idea of the Church as the actual Body of Christ of which He is the Head.  Instead Mr McFarland presents us with the grotesque image of a disembodied head connected to individual believers by a slender thread or artery of some kind.  It likewise undermines the idea of any kind of visible, identifiable, corporate body of faith and practice here in the world that has kept the True Faith through the centuries since the days of Christ and His Apostles.  This of course leaves us with the ‘invisible church’ that Protestants are so fond of, whose boundaries are unknown and unknowable here in the world, but will only be revealed in the next life and the next age (this is their way of papering over their perennial disagreements on doctrine).

None of this is correct.  Christ is inseparable from His Body, which is the Church, and not just any generic ‘church’ but the Orthodox Church of the Apostles, Martyrs, and Prophets.  To be a part of Christ is to be a part of that Church, and vice versa:  To be united to the Orthodox Church is to be united to Christ.  One cannot be a churchless Christian, belonging solely to Christ but not His other members.

Once again, we appreciate the zeal of Protestants like Mr McFarland, but their pride in not submitting themselves to an authority other than their own private interpretation of the Bible (or such books as they have left within it after throwing out several during the Reformation) leads them and their followers into the pit of false teaching – over and over again.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!