I looked for the article, “Honor, Violence and Civilization” but could not find it (although I did find several references to it). It certainly sounds like one of those classic essays that we all need to be reminded of on a regular basis. I will continue searching for it.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your speech - I would encourage anyone who is following this to click on the link and read it carefully.

“This is something we could work together to explore and update. What passes for role models for young people these days is a crime and a travesty. We can do much better for our young people, and must.”

We can, indeed, learn much from each other. I have posted several links on the Confederate Colonel forum to articles on the League of The South’s web sites, and will be posting more as I find appropriate articles there. Yesterday, I sent an email to an official of a state chapter of the LoS asking for more information on a project so that we could post that information on Confederate Colonel so that more Southern Gentlemen can benefit from it.

In your speech you referred to the book, “Born Fighting”. That trait is both our strength and our downfall. At some point, we have to realize that we are not all going to agree on even the basic strategy. We need to utilize the best points of each other’s work and just agree to disagree on how best to get there. That is why I try to just state my position, clarify it as needed, and let it go at that. Because I see the political aspects of our shared efforts to strengthen The South differently from official League of The South policy does not mean I should verbally attack the League. Ideas should stand or fall on their own merits - not on who can post the strongest attacks. The LoS has a number of fine programs that I wholeheartedly support. After stating my opposition - and more importantly, my reasoning and specific alternatives - it is time to set aside the differences and remember that all true Southerners are on the same team.

Just as the individual states in The Confederacy did not agree on everything, but united in a common cause, we, as descendants of those great men, need to show the same sense of honor and humility and work toward a better, stronger, and more Southern South.

Again, thank you sir.

I do have my stubborn streak.

However, I will admit that your site has piqued my interest. I was delighted to read through your thread on the Southern Gentleman. There’s a different kind of ideal for Southern men, and I think we’d all benefit from understanding and realizing it better. Michael Hill had a great article entitled “Honor, Violence and Civilization” with the significant subtitle, “Things worth dying for.”

Dr. E. O. Wilson of Alabama, who studies social organizations, lauded Southern men who uphold ideals of “altruism and devotion to duty” as they exhibit the “strength ordinary people possess that held civilization together in dangerous times.”

http://www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2008/05/confederate-memorial-day-address-in.html

This is something we could work together to explore and update. What passes for role models for young people these days is a crime and a travesty. We can do much better for our young people, and must.

We clearly agree that Southern culture is under attack. Hollywood presents us as unenlightened barbarians who deserve extinction, and DC works to bury us under a Third-World invasion it orchestrates. How best to reassert that culture and rescue it?

In fact, there is more resiliency there than we realize. The red state-blue state divide is very real, and a recent article on the most liberal and most conservative cities said this:

“The list of Americas most liberal cities is dominated by cities with large African American populations that are concentrated in the Northeast, Midwest and California.

Conversely, the study found that the staunchest conservative cities are clustered in the South and interior West and have extremely low numbers of African American residents.”

So we continue to confound those who wish us dead.

As to reinvigorating Southern culture, I believe we’re doing many of the right things, inclduing organizing political action while also working on the cultural and educational fronts. We’ve conducted Hedge Schools, based on the models used by the Irish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our leaders have published numerous books and articles on the Southern political and cultural traditions.

As we agreed early on, it’s a mutually reinforcing cycle of communication and action, of cultural renewal and political activism. That’s how the successful independence movements of the past were brought to fruition, and how we, too, will ultimately succeed.

I appreciate both of your posts, but I have decided not to approve that reply because I don’t want this to serve as a place that those who hate The South can point to and gloat over the fact that we can’t get along among ourselves. There are other forums, I suppose, that are appropriate for Southerners fighting among themselves. That, however, is clearly not what we are trying to do at Confederate Colonel.

I am convinced, now more than ever, we have taken the right road by dismissing any and all such Southern nationalist organizations, and the whole idea of advocating any sort of Southern nation.

I will be glad to approve any further replies as long as they are on the subject and are written/spoken as Southern Gentlemen.

(As a note, when I refer to “we” and “Confederate Colonel”, I am referring to the group of Southern Gentlemen and Ladies at the Confederate Colonel forum.)

I suspect that there are also other groups working to create a new Southern nation in one form or another. For those who find that appealing, they will have to make their own judgment as to which to support. One thing that Confederate Colonel will not be doing is getting involved in the pros and cons of the different Southern political plans/strategies/philosophies. We explicitly do NOT support any sort of movement for a Southern nation - either a resurrection of the dormant Confederate States of America or a completely new Southern nation. That is not what we are about here. It is an interesting discussion, and it is good to hear from representatives of the different organizations, but it is not our battle.

We will assume that those who organize and back these movements are honorable and well-intentioned men. It is our opinion that they are simply misguided. Unfortunately, misguided movements are easily used by those pursuing raw political power; that would be a very real danger if there were any realistic chance that they could actually gain any significant political muscle. That isn’t going to happen though.

If there were a strong revival of Southern culture that would support such a Southern political movement, then we would need to be looking closely at the different “parties” and decide which one to support. As it is, there is simply no significant cultural support for such a movement. That means that the discussions either 1) are irrelevant, or 2) are about which new form of tyranny (even more brutal than what we now suffer under) we want to rule over us.

True power and authority comes from the bottom up (ultimately, all power and authority comes from God). That means that the culture must be restored first before any sort of political movement could even be considered. Do we think there is any realistic possibility of that happening on a wide enough scale to support such a political movement? No. That is why we here at Confederate Colonel emphasize the revival of Southern culture on a small scale. We have no influence over the larger things affecting this country, but we do have influence over our own families and friends and associates. We cannot stop the rest of the world from wallowing in the mud and feeding on the rotting corpse of America, but we can control our own lives. That is what Confederate Colonel is all about.

First, their intent appears to be to stop, foil, confuse and confound any effort to restore a Southern Nation in Dixie called the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (CSA) and create as much dissension as possible among the various Confederate organizations. Their stated desire is to create for themselves a “Southern Nation” in Dixie they call the Confederation of Southern States (CSS) which will be similar to that Federalist government in Washington, D.C. only with a Southern flavor.

Second, they hope to gain great power and money by setting up this “New Southern Nation” and remaining at the top.

Third, they intend to quietly maintain the present Establishment Control over the South by creating Federal type courts, personal wage taxes, and a Federal Reserve type central bank which will all be reduced in the extent which they tax and control the people of the South in order to sell the program, but in reality will play into the hands of the internationalists who have long planned to divide up the United States into districts for more effective control of the people. This “New Southern Nation” should be quite acceptable to these internationalists but defeating and enslaving to the people in the South.

True Confederates should know or learn the difference between counterfeit Confederate organizations vying to build a new Southern Nation, based on top down enslaving control, and the legitimate Government of the Confederate States of America which is based on State’s Rights where States are established from the bottom up by the citizens and much more power is in the hands of the Citizens at the local and county levels.

Proof of the Federalist type rule and beliefs of a few establishment oriented men in the League of the South is not only in the history of their statements of Core Beliefs but their actions for the past decade or more, as well as shockingly proven in their current plans as published in their own “Grey Book”. Their name sounds good (League of the South) and they show Confederate flags at times on their web page, but the fruits of their type of government lets us know the truth. They are, in fact, very damaging to the Restoration of the Government of the Confederate States of America and they have misled hundreds of good Confederate people across the South. They have tried hard to disrupt the true Restoration for over a decade, initially covertly attacking the Confederate Society of America and later the Federation of States who sponsors the Southern Independence Parties in Southern States.

Today, the Citizens of the Confederate States of America, which is currently being re-staffed and resurrected by the Citizens from the bottom up, have the duty and the obligation to speak out on this matter. The Government of the C.S.A., whether in the infancy of re-staffing or later in its full restoration, should not become involved in politics. Such things as politics exists in all nations and political groupings naturally occur.

Responsible government should abstain and remain as neutral as possible in such matters as political differences of its citizens in order to avoid having a government violating the rights of the States and their citizens.

Since we, the Citizens of the C.S.A., are re-staffing our Confederate State Governments by registering southerners as voting C.S.A. State citizens, we have the duty to warn real Confederates against what we see as a direct threat against the Confederate States of America and the principles for which it stands, of State’s Rights and bottom up rule.

In fact, so bad is the deception that has been perpetrated, by the League of the South, against true Confederates and against the blood of the Confederate troops who died fighting for the principles of State’s Rights and thus our freedom that this deception must be exposed. The actions of this group of men is not only severe appeasement being handed to the controllers of the Federal Union, the Bank of England, but it smacks of out right TREASON against the Confederacy. The actions and plans of these traitors stabs such organizations as the SCV, the UDC and the Order of the Confederate Rose in the back while it works to misdirect true confederates away from the Restoration of our Nation which won its independence in 1861and now only needs re-staffing and liberation from occupation to restore our Nation, the C.S.A., to its place of sovereign Nations in the world.

Confederation:
1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance; particularly of princes, nations or states.
2. The United States of America are sometimes called the confederation.

Confederate:
United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy.

You will note that in the definition of “Confederation” from 1828, the US was sometimes called a confederacy. Up until Lincoln’s war, the states were sovereign states (nations), yet the collection of those sovereign nations (the United States) was also called a “nation”.

Also note that it says “The United States of America are sometimes called …” The word “are” refers to a plural - a collection of states. Today, after the War for Southern Independence, the phrase would be, “The United States of America is sometimes called…” That is a major shift in defining what the USA is.

I don’t have “the” answer, but I am satisfied with that as a good explanation.

What is threatening them? It’s an out-of-control Federal government, an alien, occupying force that’s assaulting basic Constitutional rights, brainwashing our young people into abject self-hatred, and engineering a demographic revolution — all while robbing us of our tax dollars and undermining our economic security. Those are the things that are destroying our culture, and they all stem from the same rotten source, the District of Corruption.

The Southern people are remarkably resilient, and are capable of restoring their culture to vitality to where it can again become self-sustaining.

But before the wound can begin to heal, we have to remove the foreign body that is harming it. Just like the American secessionists of 1776, and the Confederate leaders of 1860-61, we must energize our people with a clear message that wakes them up to what’s being done to them, and organize them to action.

In other words, we must organize politically. Once we have restored real self-government, and can then work for our values and our goals, rather than for the enrichment of a globalist elite, our culture will self-heal and self-organize around the existing elements that are still alive and fighting.

Your clear-headed analysis tells me you’re someone we need on our side. I hope this response shows our sincerity and commitment to reach out to you and others like you with similar questions.