When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.”
― King Baldwin IV in Kingdom of Heaven
Traces of Texas gives us an example today that this lady should have read.
One of her party shot by a soldier for laughing, her baby dies on a winter trip, starving; she splits a wild hog's head open with an axe while her dog keeps it at bay...
These people are too stupid to have access to mass communication much less make films.
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As I've said before, this page exists to illuminate all aspects of Texas history, the good and the bad. The Texas Quote of the Day is a pretty hard read:
"It was in the winter of the last year of the civil war that Melissa May Williams of Saragosa, Texas and her sister, Mrs. Matt Jones, of brought thirteen negro children from the northern part of Arkansas to Texas. There men were at war, and they did so to escape the certain starvation as the war hit Arkansas hard. Mrs. Williams tells the following story:
“We had three yoke oxen, two wagons, and thirteen negro children to take to Texas. Sister Matt drove one of the wagons, my faithful negro, Mehala, drove the other wagon and I rode on ahead on horseback to find the way to go and the food to eat while we were going.
“We were heading toward Little Rock through rain and snow almost freezing and starving when my baby took sick. I made camp near the little settlement and soldier-camp, Paraclifte. The second night we were there my baby died. I rode horseback to the soldier camp and had them make his coffin and bury him. When I got back to the camp I found that some soldiers had passed and one of them had shot my negro, Mehala, because she had laughed when the little fice [sic] dog, Fido, snapped at the heels of one of the soldier’s horses while he was riding through our camp. I had to go back to Paraclifte for soldiers to some [come] to the camp and wrap Mehala in a blanket and bury her by the side of the road.
“I broke camp as quickly as possible and was crossing a muddy bottom when the wheels of one of the wagons fell through a bridge. Again I had to ask the help of the soldiers and we were there three or four days getting away from there. We were nearly starving. There had been no meat to eat since we left Arkansas and we were living on sorghum molasses and corn-bread when Fido found some wild hogs. I heard his barking and went to see what was happening to him when I saw that he was barking at hogs. I split two of the hogs heads open with an axe. Getting close enough to the hogs to kill them was easy because they had no idea what Fido and I were and I was m[a]king no noise while Fido was doing enough barking to keep the attention of anything. "
“I got an ox and a log chain from the camp and dragged the hogs in to where we could clean them. Sister Matt helped me cut pine saplings to lay the hogs on and when we got them cleaned they looked as pretty as any hogs I have ever seen. We began broiling livers to feed the hungry children and before we went to bed that night we had the hog’s heads and feet cooking. This good luck helped to raise our hopes and spirits and we started as early as we could the next morning to try to make Red River before night.
“This day’s ride put us in the Red River country that had been captured by the Yankees. It was about dark when we reached Old Colbert’s Ferry and asked him to set us across the river. He looked at the sun and told us that it was too late for him to take us over. “
‘But,’ he said, ‘do you see that yellow pun’kin over there on that drift?’ “
‘Yes,’ I told him. “
‘Well, I’ll set you over the main stream and you head straight for that pun’kin and the water will swim you over. Stay on the drift because either other way will put you in deep water.’
“I rode one steer and drove one of the wagons while Sister Matt rode a steer and drove the other wagon and we got over the water all right. That night after we had belted our oxen and turned them loose the pine drift caught fire and we were about to be burned out before we could locate the oxen to move our wagons off the burning drift.
“The next night one of our oxen died. I rode horseback to see if I could buy another one. I was lucky enough to find two but they were wild and had never been driven before and I had to hire a man to come to the camp and tail the wild oxen to the tame ones to keep from turning the yoke while I broke them to driving. I paid for them with home-made ‘jeans’ which was worth about twelve dollars a yard.
“We went along very well the next day but that night another oxen died. The change of climate and the cold weather was too much for the starving animals. I tried to find another one to help carry our load on rest of the way but could not find a workable animal.
“Our first camp the Texas side of the line was on Blossom Prairie about thirty miles from Clarksville. Here our last oxen died and I paid forty dollars in gold for another one.
“In April of the year 1864 General Pierce’s [Price] army got to Texas and about the first of May they stacked arms. My man was in the division that stacked arms at Clarksville under General Mormaduke [sic] and old Colonel Joe Selby [Shelby]. My man came to us there and we made our home near Clarksville and lived there for some time.
“And that is how Sister Matt and I caried [sic] our thirteen negro children to Texas.”
Mrs. Melissa May Williams is now living in Saragosa, Texas. She is eighty-five years old. Occasionally she visits her brothers, Mr. John Winnfield Batts and Mr. William Batts of Lone Oak, Arkansas. Mrs. Williams says that traveling today is “some” different from what it was in the old days.
---- Frontier Times Magazine, Sketch of Mrs. Melissa May Williams of Saragosa, Texas, 1927. Melissa may was born in 1837 and died almost 100 years later, in 1937. Here is a photo of her in 1911, when she was 74 years old
Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens:
"I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity."
Is a story about settling the American frontier supposed to avoid masculinity?
🇺🇸 GOP Sen. Thom Tillis on the SAVE America Act:
"I'm AGAINST it because people are selling you a bill of goods!"
Here's what he's talking about:
As much as the U.S. needs to fix its election security issues, it is logistically near IMPOSSIBLE to implement this bill ahead of the Midterms.
With little more than 100 days to go, and 50 states having 50 different systems in place, that's a TALL ask.
At least, that's his argument. Is he wrong?
Writer: Michael
We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.
The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.
Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").
Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.
And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.
I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.
Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.
Communism, in a nutshell.
It was all a smokecreen.
Look at the russians while dems game the dead, elderly and homeless registrations. Then came the covid mail-in bonus to match them all up.
There was a two year, $50 million bogus investigation into "Russian election interference," all because Obama and others decided that they wanted to undermine the incoming President.
Trump give's a 20 minute speech and declassifies some documents and Democrats are furious. 😂
At today’s ministerial combatting political terrorism, @SecScottBessent cold-opened by inviting left-wing journalists, who are reflexively derisive of any opposition to left-wing terror, to attend the upcoming sentencing of the leftist who tried to assassinate Scott Bessent.
The New Republic responds:
Willful ignorance because of who presented the finding.
If one of her statist heroes presented the same info it would be a 3 alarm fire.
Pull their license.
The President offering up these emails, etc. is ok but it also misses the central point. I see reports daily of voter reg being purchased or faked. And we know the VZ system was the basis for a lot of the voting machine software in use.
So the attn paid to CN and RU doing what you'd expect they would do is wasted effort at a public level.
I've seen nobody meaningful indicted for the actual damage to our elections. These low-level street people giving out gift cards and cash are NPC's. Jailing them does nothing.
Until we make a move on the consultants and lawyers behind it all nothing will change.
BREAKING: GasBuddy data showing national diesel prices have just hit $5/gal again. diesel powers the trucks that move nearly everything you buy — groceries, goods, supplies. higher diesel = higher prices down the line.