“I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.” ~ Douglas Southall Freeman

Best,
RGW

I guess me and Jeff could be defined as Neo Yankees, if there is such a thing.

As for the going back to the Mayflower, it just means your family stayed in the same area. That can be good and bad.

That is indeed interesting. Thanks for passing that along.

Eric

“Montview”, also known as the “Carter Glass Mansion”, was built in 1923 on his farm, which was then outside Lynchburg in Campbell County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as an administration building on the grounds of Liberty University within the expanded city limits of Lynchburg, an independent city.” – Wikipedia

Dr. Falwell is buried on the grounds behind the Carter Glass mansion.

My point precisely.

It’s fun knocking out the underpinnings of neo-Confederate dogma….. 🙂

Eric

Regarding the Federal Reserve Act, I highly recommend that you read this:

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3616/FedReserveFacts.html. It disproves your theory, and all of the other myths about the Federal Reserve, quite coherently, with supporting authority. I might also add that the author is a Ph.D. in economics, so presumably he has some clue of which he speaks.

Eric

Apology accepted. Unless you are the moron who made the insulting statement that I quoted, then nothing I said was directed at you or personal to you. You chose to read it that way and left personally inappropriate comments on my web site. So long as you don’t do it again, you’re fine.

Now, with all due respect….

I asked you to provide me with proper authority and proper legal analysis to show me how the ratification of the 14th Amendment and the passage of the Federal Reserve Act were illegal and you failed to do so.

I want to separate the two.

Arguably, there may be some element of truth to what you say about the 14th Amendment due to the circumstances of Reconstruction. I’m not conceding the point, as the fact remains that duly authorized representatives voted to ratify.

I fail to see how the Federal Reserve Act is even remotely applicable to the discussion, however. Reconstruction was LONG over by that point, and the Congressional representatives who created and passed the legislation were freely elected. The legislation has passed constitutional muster. How, therefore, can you claim it (a) is even relevant to the discussion and (b) is illegal? Please, enlighten me. Sending me to one person’s OPINION is not proof of the point.

Thank you.

Eric

Thank you Richard for your clarification of the labels applied to the Southern people by their detractors, you made the point of where I was coming from.

The 1867 14th amendment was approved by coercion of the Southern Representatives who disapproved and were forced to approve or they would not be allowed in the union that they were not allowed to leave. Thus began reconstruction. Look it up. Consider the break up of the Soviet union, independent Georgia comes to mind, and other empires around the world over the centuries, who have had to let their people go. In 1861-1865 The South was forced into the union by gun and bayonet.

As to all Southernors owning slaves – no way. We got em, we had em, we did the best we could with em. I don’t apologize for it or feel shame, Obama’s ancestors owned em and he is nth cousin to Dick Cheney.. Robt E. Lee’s ancestor returned from school in England and denounced slavery in the Virginia legislature and a message was sent to the king to stop the importation of slaves, Also Georgia sent pleas to the king to stop the importation of slaves, both pleas were denied by the king, so whose flag is the flag of slavery? People were really tired of dealing with it so by the time 1861 rolled around only about 7% owned slaves in the South (they were expensive, it was the poor whites who were sent to clear the swamps and got malaria). Some of these plantations were owned by north easterners, of which some were absentee owners and some who came South remained because they loved the South and supported the Confederate States of America. The plantation owners were feeding the NE mills (see book c 2007 COMPLICITY, they name names you will recognize today) (see, Jefferson Davis’s wife’s family in Natchez, Charles Dahlgren, brother of John A. Dahlgren the famous inventor of the yankee naval gun used in lincoln’s war to slaughter my people).

There are many books that have come into print since 2000 by educated people who do have real sources and facts that prove my points. Google Sen. Linbergh of MN on the 1913 Federal Reserve.

There is also a fascinating read of a mystery novel by Thomas Moore “The Hunt for Confederate Gold”. He is a former Pentagon officieal in the Reagon Administration who served on the professional staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee and directed defense and foreign policy studies at The Heritage Foundation.

I apologize eric if i gave like for like on your blog.