SouthernSecession

HardCore Southern | est 2007 | We just want to be left alone | Non Sibi, Sed Patria -2theCorps-8652/0323

[SouthernSecession @South_Secession]

Had to resurrect it from scratch!

[Abbeville Institute @AbbevilleInst]

New paint scheme renderings for @realDonaldTrump's Air Force One have just dropped. It's beautiful.

[Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen]

Today, I decided to leave my church.

I can't sit through another political sermon where the phrase "White Supremacy" is used again and again, and I'm told I'm not doing enough for the LGBTQ+++ crowd.

I want a church that has more crucifixes than rainbow flags and whose bishop doesn't send videos to play about how he protests at whatever the church's politics-du-jour is.

And thus, I am no longer a member of the United Methodist Church.

[The Old World Show @theoldworldshow]

Our ancestors were not evil

We must fight for their memory and legacy, particularly on America 250

[JayRock @JayRock_QueenCi]

There are still large swaths of true North Carolinians in the Tar Heel State, if you’re paying attention

[CSA Appreciator @csa_appreciator]

Good morning Dixie. Let's make this a great day for the South!

[South Doc @GeorgeDAndrews2]

After the surrender of Confederate forces under Confederate General Richard Taylor in Citronelle, Alabama, on May 4, 1865, the respective staffs of both sides met at a social luncheon. Union General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, a recent "German 48er" immigrant, approached General Taylor and spoke in broken English. Osterhaus told Taylor that Southerners would now be instructed in the true American principles to learn to become good Americans.

Taylor, the son of a President and the grandson of a Revolutionary War soldier, responded with biting, witty sarcasm.

From Taylor's memoirs,
"I apologized meekly for my ignorance, on the ground that my ancestors had come from England to Virginia in 1608, and, in the short intervening period of two hundred and fifty-odd years, had found no time to transmit to me correct ideas of the duties of American citizenship. Moreover, my grandfather, commanding the 9th Virginia regiment in our Revolutionary army, had assisted in the defeat and capture of the Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and I lamented that he had not, by association with these worthies, enlightened his understanding. My friend smiled blandly and assured me of his willingness to instruct me. Happily for the world, since the days of Huss and Luther, neither tyranny nor taste can repress the Teutonic intellect in search of truth or exposure of error. A kindly, worthy people, the Germans, but wearing on occasions."

The absurdity of an immigrant Union officer, ignorant of American Founding principles, political history, and culture, lecturing an old-stock Southerner, whose family had been here from the very beginning, on Americanism.

[Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson @jjfThompson]

Let’s put Lincoln’s war on the South into perspective.

Lincoln would have waged a war against any state who tried to secede for any reason. It doesn't matter if it was a southern state or a northern state. It doesn't matter if secession was to protect slavery, tariffs, subsidies, misuse of the military, or abuses of the banks, etc. Lincoln would have invaded any state and would have been willing to imprison or kill the entire population of that state if that was what was necessary to end secession.

Or as he put it "to preserve the union.”

[Wanjiru Njoya @WanjiruNjoya]

Why is everyone saying the South was right and then not apologizing to the South.

When you realize you were wrong you should apologize, and do your best to make amends.

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

And here is a Yale article from 1911 criticizing this great monument. The animal class was attacking NORTHERN monuments to the war even before the Southern ones were ripped down. The animal class is opportunistic. Everything will be taken down!
https://t.co/1OiXVxPbQq

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

For info on the Yale Civil War Memorial, dedicated to the Blue and Gray, see below. This is really more evidence that the Arlington Memorial has nothing to do with slavery. Taft clearly cared about honoring all soldiers who fought in the war.
https://t.co/NehTW6Hik1

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

"We have reached a point in this country when we can look back, not without love, not without intense pride, but without partisan passion, to the events of the Civil War. We have reached a point, I am glad to say, when the North can admire to the full the heroes of the South, and the South admire to the full the heroes of the North. There is a monument in Quebec that always commended itself to me—a monument to commemorate the battle of the Plains of Abraham; and on one face of that beautiful structure is the name of Montcalm, and on the other side the name of Wolfe. That always seemed to me to be the acme of what we ought to reach in this country, and I am glad to say that in my own alma mater of Yale we have established an association for the purpose of erecting within her academic precincts a memorial not to the Northern Yale men who died, not to the Southern Yale men who died, but to the Yale men who died in the Civil War. And so it is that I venture, without unduly obtruding in something that is none of my business, to hope that the project suggested by my predecessor in office, President Roosevelt, may be alluded to by me with approval and the expression of the hope that it is coming to fruition, to wit, that there should be a great memorial in honor of General Robert E. Lee in the establishment of what he himself would value most highly, a great school of engineering at Washington and Lee University, and I take this opportunity in this presence to express my deep sympathy in that movement and my desire to aid it in every way possible and proper on my part."
-President Taft 11/10/1909
#history #ushistory

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

@SecWar @HASCRepublicans @GOP Taft could love all participants in the "Civil War!" Heck, he even renewed Teddy Roosevelt's call for a Lee statue!

Can't the media find any of these details? Can any journalist do a fact check?
https://t.co/ZfyVP1l9xn

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

"The bitterness of conflict is passed. Time has softened it; discretion has changed it. Your country respects you for cherishing the memory of those who wore the gray. You respect others who cherish the memory of those who wore the blue. In that mutual respect may there be a firmer friendship, a stronger and more glorious Union."
-President Coolidge (R-VT 5/25/1924)
#history #ushistory #quoteoftheday

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

Calvin Coolidge said the bitterness from the war was over. So why is Bacon bitter? Because he is a political hack with no knowledge of history. We can't let children run policy. @SecWar @HASCRepublicans @GOP
https://t.co/tbtQyglaXX

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

Here is the newspaper article about the Senate adjourning in 1917 to honor Confederate veterans. There was unanimous support. So yes, 1000's of men are rolling in their graves--but it is because of the disgusting insults of anti-American nutcases.
https://t.co/11FsHo6S1K

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

Another Republican Insults American Heritage

In the latest act of historical erasure masquerading as patriotism, Rep. Bacon (R-NE) and his stenographers at Military Times have teamed up to ram through a House panel vote reinstating the Naming Commission’s sanitized, non-Confederate base names while pretending the 1917 christening of those installations never happened. Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general who should know better, whined to the outlet that his Union ancestor would be “rolling in his grave” over Confederate-named bases, as if the entire post-Civil War reconciliation era was some fever dream invented by Southern cranks. Military Times dutifully amplified this tripe without a shred of pushback, framing the vote as a righteous rebuke to Trump’s “stunt” reversals rather than the latest chapter in a deliberate campaign to airbrush away any reminder that Union and Confederate veterans once shook hands as Americans. This isn’t journalism or oversight—it’s propaganda with a Pentagon byline, peddling the fiction that 1917’s base-naming was some Jim Crow plot instead of a bipartisan embrace of shared valor.

The facts Bacon and Military Times are so desperate to bury are damning precisely because they’re irrefutable. In 1917, the very year those bases were named after leaders from both sides, the U.S. Senate adjourned out of respect for a Confederate veterans’ reunion in Washington. The Grand Army of the Republic’s own chief praised the “man’s fight” of his former foes and called modern pacifists the real traitors. Teddy Roosevelt had already demanded a Lee monument, and President Taft extolled the “bravery and valor of both sides” at a Union monument dedication. Union and Confederate old soldiers mingled at the Reconciliation Memorial unveiling just three years earlier, their shared heritage celebrated in the Washington Post. None of this is obscure; it’s documented history that any serious lawmaker or reporter could verify in minutes. Yet Bacon and Military Times treat it like classified intel that might offend the wrong voters, preferring instead to let the Naming Commission’s ideological hit list stand as gospel.

What makes Bacon’s performance especially nauseating is the proof he already knows he’s peddling garbage. He personally replied to this account on X last year, sneering “You lost their Davis. No rebel base names” in response to a detailed thread laying out the NDAA’s narrow legal limits and the Commission’s blatant overreach. That exchange alone confirms he’s familiar with the 1917 reconciliation record, the state-rights context of Confederate service, and even the fact that men like Dwight D. Eisenhower—hardly a “Lost Causer” by modern standards—kept a Robert E. Lee painting in his office and openly admired Lee and Jackson as exemplars of American military genius. Bacon’s ancestor might roll in his grave, but Ike would be spinning at the sight of a Republican congressman whitewashing the very history that allowed Union and Confederate veterans to heal a fractured nation. The man has no excuse; he simply chooses the convenient lie.

This isn’t about base names or military tradition; it’s about political gain dressed up as moral hygiene. Bacon and Military Times understand that acknowledging the 1917 spirit of fraternity would expose the entire Naming Commission charade as the partisan hack job it always was—illegal overreach cheered on by the same crowd that now needs Republican cover to keep the erasure rolling. Hiding these facts lets them posture as the adults in the room while they torch the shared heritage that actually built the U.S. Army. The rest of us are left with sterile, focus-grouped installations and a military increasingly allergic to its own past. If Bacon truly respected his Union forebear, he’d stop lying about history and start defending it. Instead, he and Military Times have chosen the low road of selective amnesia, proving once again that some “conservatives” are every bit as eager as the left to memory-hole inconvenient truths for a few poll points and media pats on the head. Pathetic.

[SouthernSecession @South_Secession]

Ahhh… the glorious black woman

[Anthony Cumia @AnthonyCumia]

This is really a great example of why Karmelo Anthony is on trial for murder. A complete lack of the ability to have a civil conversation even if you disagree.
Also, she actually says she’s hurting. You’re supporting the murderer! Holy shit.

[Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson @jjfThompson]

FEELS GREAT WAKING UP EVERY DAY KNOWING I’M NOT A YANKEE!

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

"General Bragg received me at the steps, and took me to his private room, where we remained for a long time in conversation. He had retired from the United States army after the Mexican war — in which, by the way, he played a distinguished part, his name being generally coupled with the phrase " a little more grape, Captain Bragg," used in one of the hottest encounters of that campaign — to his plantation in Louisiana ; but suddenly the Northern States declared their intention of using force to free and sovereign States, which were exercising their constitutional rights to secede from the Federal Union.

Neither he nor his family were responsible for the system of slavery. His ancestors found it established by law and flourishing, and had left him property, consisting of slaves, which was granted to him by the laws and constitution of the United States. Slaves were necessary for the actual cultivation of the soil in the South ; Europeans and Yankees who settled there speedily became convinced of that ; and if a Northern population were settled in Louisiana to-morrow, they would discover that they must till the land by the labor of the black race, and that the only mode of making the black race work, was to hold them in a condition of involuntary servitude. " Only the other day, Colonel Harvey Browne, at Pickens, over the way, carried off a number of negroes from Tortugas, and put them to work at Santa Rosa. Why ? Because his white soldiers were not able for it. No. The North was bent on subjugating the South, and as long as he had a drop of blood in his body, he would resist such an infamous attempt."
-William Howard Russell 5/14/1861 (Published 1863)
#HistoryMatters

[Jefferson Davis @Jeff_Davis1808]

But what about the King’s Revenue? Didn’t SC still owe the King his taxes?

The King only sought “to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties.”

Ummm…now you see why VA opposed coercing SC in 1861, right?