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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Contra Abraham Hamilton, III

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:

https://afr.net/podcasts/the-hamilton-corner/2021/january/why-is-the-republican-party-described-as-the-party-of-lincoln-and-then-the-party-of-reagan-re-air/

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’:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/30/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections-463976

(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.

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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!

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