Remembrances for September – 2024

 

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 September

General John Hunt Morgan, a very effective Kentucky cavalry leader in the War, doing much to disrupt Yankee supply lines and making an incursion deep into Northern territory.  Killed in battle in 1864.

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3531

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4433/john-hunt-morgan/photo

4 Sept.

Judge Spencer Roane, one of the best judges of his day, and an unsung hero for local authority.

http://roanefamilytree.com/Judge_Spencer_Roane.html

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/mcculloch-v-maryland/

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/spencer-roane-the-forgotten-founder/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18472831

9 Sept.

Bill Monroe, one of the pioneers of the Bluegrass genre of music.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/what-makes-this-musician-great-bill-monroe/

9 Sept.

Stand Watie, a Cherokee leader who became a general in the Confederate Army.  He was one of the last to surrender to the Yankees in the War.

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WA040

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4506/stand-watie

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/they-came-from-the-east/

15 Sept.

Robert Penn Warren, ‘at home in all the major genres–poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism–though poetry was his dominant mode. Warren was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes, a number unmatched by any other writer: one for his novel All The King’s Men (1947) and two for the poetry collections Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1978). He also received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters awarded him its Gold Medal for Poetry in 1985. In 1986 he was named poet laureate, the first in the United States to be given that title.’

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/robert-penn-warren/

https://www.robertpennwarren.com/

16 Sept.

James Oliver Rigney, Jr (aka Robert Jordan), the writer of a renowned series of fantasy books, The Wheel of Time, amongst other works.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/let-the-south-ride-again-on-the-winds-of-time/

17 Sept.

Gov Pedro Menendez, the first Spanish governor of Florida who founded the first permanent European settlement in the South (the city of St Augustine).  A good military commander (though a little too quick to shed blood), he negotiated with the Native Americans to trade peacefully and worked to evangelize them as well.

https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/menendz/menendz1.htm

20 Sept.

Richard Rowland Kirkland, the famous ‘Angel of Marye’s Heights’, he tended to the Yankee wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg.

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/kirkland-richard-rowland/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4063/richard-rowland-kirkland

24 Sept.

William ‘Singing Billy’ Walker, he helped popularize shape note/Sacred Harp singing in the South.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/not-just-whistling-dixie/

http://originalsacredharp.com/2013/12/31/william-walker-carolina-contributor-to-american-music/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32607297/william-walker/photo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(composer)#/media/File:Grave_of_William_Walker_(composer).jpg

27 Sept.

Gen. Braxton Bragg, a gifted commander in certain ways, but his ornery personality usually wound up antagonizing those around him.

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/bragg-braxton

28 Sept.

Sen. Thomas Bayard, Sr, a staunch defender of the South against Radical Reconstructionists.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/thomas-f-bayard-sr/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6653371/thomas-francis-bayard

Also, to celebrate some of the saints of September from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, use these links:

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

https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/10/happy-feast-for-saints-of-september.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!

Offsite Post: ‘America Owes Ukraine’s Christians a Tremendous Apology’

 

Earlier this year, folks on the Right pleaded with US House Speaker Mike Johnson not to pass a $95 billion aid package to support the war in the Ukraine.  He ultimately sided with the Swamp’s war faction, breaking his pledge not to support such funding measures until the Mexican border had been secured.  He and others sang to us the now-familiar refrain:  The States must support the ‘good’ democracy in the Ukraine in its battle with the ‘evil’ Russians, who will go on to invade other European countries if they aren’t stopped in the Ukraine.

Things haven’t quite worked out like they were presented back in March and April.

The Ukraine continues its transformation into a completely totalitarian country.  On 20 August 2024, Ukraine’s parliament overwhelmingly passed a hideous bill, No. 8371, to ban outright the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), by far the largest body of Christians in the country, because of made-up connections to Russia, part of the Zelensky regime’s efforts to impose a demonic, idolatrous nationalism on the Ukrainian people (this project is a carry-over of Zelensky’s predecessor, President Petro Poroshenko).  The fact that this vote took place when many people in the US were distracted by the clownish spectacle of the Democrats’ Chicago convention is probably not a coincidence.

Up to this point the UOC had already been facing terrible persecution from the ultranationalist regime (a recounting of many of these horrors may be read here).  The following is just a small sampling of it that happened in a town called Zadubrivka:

Local authorities initiated the expropriation process in January 2019, I was told, claiming that a parish meeting held on January 24 had decided to switch the parish to the OCU. Around that time, groups of people periodically came to the church premises and threatened the parishioners gathered inside. Parishioners stayed overnight in the church to protect it. The threats escalated.

 

On May 30, 2019, as a dozen parishioners were praying outside the church, individuals wearing masks invaded the church premises and began beating people for about 20 minutes and breaking items inside the church. “The police were not as strong in 2019 and because of this we could stand and defend our church,” a parishioner told me, pointing to the lack of trust in law enforcement. A few parishioners were injured and went to the hospital.

 

In April 2023, parishioners were violently expelled from their church. It happened during the funeral of a soldier from the parish. Attackers in military uniforms and balaclavas broke into the church, broke doors, and beat parishioners, sending many to the hospital. Parishioners identified some attackers as being from the village. Others were not. Police and military people cordoned off the church to prevent parishioners from returning.

We repeat:  This is far from an isolated incident.  And now that Bill 8371 has been passed, things will very likely get much worse for the Orthodox in the Ukraine.

While this was going on in the ‘good’ Ukraine, ‘evil’ Russia was opening her doors to the people of the West who are being harassed by their Leftist, anti-Christian governments:

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/08/garlington-america-owes-ukraines-christians-a-tremendous-apology/.

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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!

Offsite Post: ‘The Moloch Economy’

 

The Louisiana Association of Business & Industry (LABI) has released their manifesto on how to improve the economy and overall quality of life in Louisiana – LA23.  They summarize their key goals, of which there are four (located on p. 5):

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION

Enhance efforts to find and develop talent by expanding work-ready skills, providing more training for in-demand occupations, and increasing the number of Louisianans in the labor force.

TAX & BUSINESS CLIMATE

Improve tax policies and the business climate, and position Louisiana in the top tier of states on national rankings.

SAFETY & RESILIENCY

Improve safety and resilience by reducing crime while improving health and wellness.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Improve economic development outcomes through greater alignment, enhanced tools, and more support for innovation and entrepreneurship.

LABI deserves some credit for proposing items that don’t normally get much attention, such as incentivizing adequate housing construction to meet current demand, offering government grants to help current State citizens buy a home, and attention to the vitality of rural areas.

But at the same time, there is a lot missing.  Where is religion/culture in all of this?  Where is history?  And the higher goals of education beyond job preparation (i.e., initiating the current generation into the long, unbroken river of history, culture, and traditions of their forebears)?

The Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ says that man shall not live by bread alone (St Matthew’s Gospel 4:4).  LABI seems to suggest that we shall.

Those might seem like unfair questions to be asking of a business association, but they are not.  Throughout history, it has been the wealthy class of men and women who have built churches and monasteries, patronized the arts, and so forth.  Business owners in Louisiana occupy precisely this position of the wealthiest and most influential people in the State.  Because of this, in addition to their advocacy of business interests, it is also their duty to build up the culture as well.

But myopic attention to economic concerns leads inexorably to cultural decline.  Connor Tomlinson, writing at The European Conservative, observes,

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The rest is at https://identitydixie.com/2024/02/27/the-moloch-economy/.

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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!