From what I hear, they are everywhere nowadays.
For all of you that have been feeling a little down lately
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I love the outdoors way too much to go back to Michigan winters. Eff that! I still have a lot of family there, and will visit often. But NC is my home now. They can come visit me too and see what they're missing out on.
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OverMountainMan
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Interesting read. Thanks for bringing the subject to my attention.
-----The meeting with Lincoln, therefore, was less a dramatic mismatch be- tween an astute Lincoln and naive freedmen, as Quarles suggested, than a standoff among formidable men with strong and well-formed views. Indeed, Lincoln’s well-known speech to the delegates reveals that the president himself saw his interlocutors not as malleable former slaves but rather as educated men with well-defined interests of their own. The president ad- dressed the delegates as “freemen,” and speculated, “Perhaps you have long been free, or all your lives.” When Lincoln urged them “to do something to help those who are not so fortunate as yourselves,” he implied that the del- egates were among a privileged group whose members would be disinclined to emigrate. Lincoln went on to call the delegates “intelligent colored men,” and he added, “It is exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systemati- cally oppressed.” Lincoln’s allusion to black men “thinking as white men” was a slur on the intellectual capacities of black men, but his intention was to distinguish between the delegates’ intelligence and the supposedly lesser capacities of “those who have been systematically oppressed.”33 Lincoln cor- rectly viewed the delegates not as newly emancipated freedmen but, rather, as educated men of considerable stature. -----
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/emancipation/files/2012/07/Masur-article.pdf
-----The meeting with Lincoln, therefore, was less a dramatic mismatch be- tween an astute Lincoln and naive freedmen, as Quarles suggested, than a standoff among formidable men with strong and well-formed views. Indeed, Lincoln’s well-known speech to the delegates reveals that the president himself saw his interlocutors not as malleable former slaves but rather as educated men with well-defined interests of their own. The president ad- dressed the delegates as “freemen,” and speculated, “Perhaps you have long been free, or all your lives.” When Lincoln urged them “to do something to help those who are not so fortunate as yourselves,” he implied that the del- egates were among a privileged group whose members would be disinclined to emigrate. Lincoln went on to call the delegates “intelligent colored men,” and he added, “It is exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systemati- cally oppressed.” Lincoln’s allusion to black men “thinking as white men” was a slur on the intellectual capacities of black men, but his intention was to distinguish between the delegates’ intelligence and the supposedly lesser capacities of “those who have been systematically oppressed.”33 Lincoln cor- rectly viewed the delegates not as newly emancipated freedmen but, rather, as educated men of considerable stature. -----
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/emancipation/files/2012/07/Masur-article.pdf
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OverMountainMan
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As a rabid statist, maybe he was just really good at picking which line of BS he was feeding which group.
Mr. Davis, on the other hand, was a great man.
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^Americans. Veterans.
Oh Polly Oh Polly its for your sake alone,
I've left my old Father, my Country, my home
I've left my old Mother to weep and to mourn
I am a rebel soldier, and far from my home
The grape shot and musket and the cannons lumber loud
Its many a mangled body the blanket for the shroud
Its many a mangled body left on the fields alone
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
Here is a good old cup of brandy and a glass of wine
You can drink to your true love and I will drink to mine
You can drink to your true love and I will lament and mourn
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
I'll build me a castle on some green mountain high
Where I can see Polly when she is passing by
Where I can see Polly and help her to mourn
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
Oh Polly Oh Polly its for your sake alone,
I've left my old Father, my Country, my home
I've left my old Mother to weep and to mourn
I am a rebel soldier, and far from my home
The grape shot and musket and the cannons lumber loud
Its many a mangled body the blanket for the shroud
Its many a mangled body left on the fields alone
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
Here is a good old cup of brandy and a glass of wine
You can drink to your true love and I will drink to mine
You can drink to your true love and I will lament and mourn
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
I'll build me a castle on some green mountain high
Where I can see Polly when she is passing by
Where I can see Polly and help her to mourn
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
OverMountainMan
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A week after President Davis’ speech, Atlanta was in flames and Lincoln was reelected. Lee was soon to orchestrate his miraculous breakout of Petersburg: but as we know, he was soon caught at Appomattox, and the South’s war for independence came to an end. But if we think that this collapse of Southern armies contradicts the terms under which they fought then we too suffer what Jefferson Davis called the grand “delusion” that raw power can defeat a free people.
More here.
More here.
OverMountainMan
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Remember the huge flag that flew off I40 near Clemmons NC, I think near the Yadkin River, that disappeared and then a bunch of soccer/ball fields popped up there. What was the deal with that flag?
Remember the huge flag that flew off I40 near Clemmons NC, I think near the Yadkin River, that disappeared and then a bunch of soccer/ball fields popped up there. What was the deal with that flag?
OverMountainMan
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I don't know what happened there. Hopefully, the landowner there got a fat check for the property. New investment strategy: buy oddball chunks of land next to highway, erect mega-flag, and wait for SJWs, BLM-sters, and teeth-gnashing yankees to bid the price up. Cash in and repeat as necessary.
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On this date (edit: in 1863), native South Carolinian Daniel Harvey Hill took command of all North Carolina forces. Underappreciated warrior, I think. Educated at West Point, and had no love for yankees.
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OverMountainMan
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Hmmm. Looks like many of the images above are no-workee. Very sad. Note to self: need to post more Southern greatness.
Coincidentally, I just happen to havesome plenty.
Coincidentally, I just happen to have
Southerners were steeped in natural law and understood that man is fallible, but through repentance could move closer to the moral mark through family, faith, and custom. “Traditions are mighty influences in restraining peoples,” aptly spoke Richard Taylor, Confederate veteran, Southern author, and son of President Zachary Taylor.
True to its Puritan roots, the Northern zeitgeist was bound in Man’s law, and pushed that human infallibility was actually possible but could only be attained through collective enforcement. Yankees were sure they had all the answers, so purifying the native pests became part of the doctrine. This could include both conquest and/or annihilation.
-'Dissident Mama' at The Abbeville Institute
True to its Puritan roots, the Northern zeitgeist was bound in Man’s law, and pushed that human infallibility was actually possible but could only be attained through collective enforcement. Yankees were sure they had all the answers, so purifying the native pests became part of the doctrine. This could include both conquest and/or annihilation.
-'Dissident Mama' at The Abbeville Institute
Bought the set after hearing 'Two Brothers', and seeing the artists on it- Ricky Skaggs, Chris Stapleton, Taj Mahal, Loretta Lynn, Del McCoury, Vince Gill, Steve Earl, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Dolly Parton, Jamey Johnson, Lee Ann Womack, Ralph Stanley, T Bone Burnett, and many more I'm not familiar with. Glad I did, I see Amazon doesn't have it anymore.
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