AN EASY TO SWALLOW SYNOPSIS OF THE SO-CALLED

"CIVIL WAR"

By Richard Lee Fulgham

Author of:

("The Hogs of Cold Harbor":)

http://www.whitmorebooks.com/hoofcohaciwa.html

("Appalachian Genesis"):

http://www.overmountainpress.com/newpages/books/appalachiangenesis.html

These revisionists are helped by a Northern established school system which has removed true American history from its curriculum, thus denying multiple generations since World War II the truth about the Confederate States of America.

If they knew the truth, they might realize that the country we call America today might in fact have been cut into two countries -- the United States and the Confederate States. The United States has, as everyone will agree, become lost in licentiousness and well-intended but back-firing egalitarianism. The Confederate States, had it been allowed to grow, could well have become a modern Camelot.

In this context, we can say with certainty that virtually all citizens of the Deep South realized in the early 19th Century that something perverse had happened to the United States. There grew an aristocracy in the North which enslaved its citizens, deprived them of land, bled their wallets and banished God from their lives. This aristocracy became malignant and grew deeper into the tissue of the state, cutting off the blood cleansed by their founding father's vision of human dignity. The subsequent malignancy sent its tentacles deep into the South, sucking out vital nutrients and corrupting everyone it touched with promises of riches. The South watched as this malignancy took form and shape and finally spoke, saying "We shall become a world power by taxing to death those slow-thinking hayseeds south of the Mason/Dixon line."

The Northern aristocracy knew its survival depended on the U. S. federal government then holding all states in bondage. In fact, the aristocracy was the federal government-- then as now. They were one and the same. The average Southerner lived on his own land, raised his own sustenance, worshiped as he saw fit, and was governed as Jefferson had intended -- by preponderance of vote. But the North would not hear of this free life. It placed a noose around the South's neck, tightening it every time the South lurched for freedom. The North had no choice because it needed Southern taxes to pay off the National Debt.

The South was a separate culture, seeped in Elizabethan etiquette and North European justice. It was elegant, where as the North was brutish, made coarse by the dehumanization of its citizens -- who had to survive by working daylight to nightfall in windowless factories for starvation wages. The typical Southerner worked on the land, in the free sun, breathing free air -- and was rewarded with a bounty unheard of on this earth, a bounty of Cornucopias dimensions, fresh healthy food, natural sun-warmed weather, boundless acres of rich land for every soul. And Christ was with these Southerners, in their mornings and in their evenings, in their comings and in their goings, in their souls and in their hearts, in their children, in their jobs and in their leisure . . . .

This separate culture thrived at first, until an "aristocracy of New Money" (with roots in the North) decided to reap what it had not sown. Cotton was the major cash crop in the South, having immense value to countries around the world. So the Northern aristocracy/government passed laws demanding that the South sell its cotton only to the North, who then would sell it on the world market for a huge profit. Thus did the North benefit more than the South f! rom slaver. Also -- to spit in the Southern faces -- these same aristocrats used the South's rightful earnings to build Northern industry, educate Northern children, pave Northern roads, build Northern government buildings, and finance Northern businesses. Thus the North enslaved the South and called it equality.

The great irony in all this is that the South also had within it a malignant aristocracy -- and this malignant aristocracy enslaved humans of African descent. The facts are that importing African natives to work as slaves had been made illegal in 1838. The practice was dying out. The North also knew that only three percent of the Southern population practiced slavery. Most found it abominable. World opinion was already against this Southern aristocratic dynasty of slave holders. Each and every state in the South has already drawn up legal procedures to free its slaves, despite the super-

rich Southern hogs who slept in bed with the Northern foe.

Meanwhile, the North's border was opened to entice cheap labor to emigrate to the Northern United States. Millions were told they could achieve the so-called "American Dream" through hard work -- working in Northern factories, from which there was really no escape but disease and death. The North also needed emigrants to stop bullets if war was to come. And indeed, hundreds of thousands of these emigrants, few of whom spoke English, were ultimately put in uniform and thrown at Southern fighters for independence.

The slaves of the Southern rich were indeed deprived of their liberty. But they could not flee to the North because the Northerners, especially the emigrants, hated the darker skinned human beings worse than the Southerners. It is a fact that I grew up in Manchester, Georgia, before integration. The black folks I hung around with were happy enough and seemed to hold no resentment toward me. This, I believe, is because the Black population was rarely mistreated in the South, as it certainly and horribly was in the North. I fished with them and had huge picnics with them and worked with them and generally had much grand fun with them -- and, I hope, they with me. I often yearn those day down on Pigeon Creek a' fishing for catfish all night -- the flambeau lighting things up and chasing off the skeeters -- waiting till dawn so we could fry them fish up and have us a feast!

Such friendships were rare in the North, especially in the early 1800's. The North despised its Black population, though they were technically "free". This is historical fact and easy to prove. The Blacks were competitors for a hard labor market. Individuals among them were lynched and beaten much more often than in the South. We must always remember that history -- even in the lurid magazine and newspaper articles -- was written by Northerners, not Southerners. Of course we come off as the villain. The facts prove otherwise.

Also, the reason the South could not issue its own Proclamation Declaration –– thus retaking the moral high ground –– was simply fear of violent reprisal if all the slaves were released at one time, flooding the South with homeless, bitter freedmen. The South fear internal chaos and mass retaliation. Ironically, when this actually happened at the end of the war, the freed slaves in general did not retaliate, but remained peaceful citizens, usually living on their ex-master’s estates –– as if nothing had happened. This indicates without a doubt that the so-called "slaves" were, on the whole, treated decently by their "owners" and considered their respective states their homes. The South had a long history of race relations long before the North interfered. It was the North which could not accept integration, not the South.

The hatred so ugly in the North becomes evident when one realizes the "Underground Railroad" did not take Southern slaves to the Northern United States -- it took them all the way to Canada because the Northerners despised them and feared them. They would have been mercilessly killed by the Yankee laborers, who were known for their lack of! compassion and culture.

The North was in no way more moral than the South for its law to call the African-descended men and women "free". All Northern men and women, no matter what color, were slaves if they didn't have trades or family fortunes. Only entrepreneurs with no ethics could make money up North because their philosophy was "Sell things for more than they're worth." (It still is.)

Upon the declaration of independence of the Confederate States of America -- basing its foundation on the Articles of Confederation, written years before the Constitution -- the North reacted with paroxysm of violent hysteria, realizing its major source of free income would be lost if the South was incorporated into a true Jeffersonian nation. Upon the pretext of Fort Sumter, the North launched an invasion such as the world had never seen, mobilizing millions of young men to trample down the South's lofty aspirations of human dignity and self worth and independence. The North went into convulsions at the mere suggestion that they could no longer parasitize their southern states.

No one seriously doubts today that the War for Southern Independence was fought so desperately by the North to preserve the union, not "free the slaves". I have discovered for myself that the decedents of the enslaved population now know this is true. All illusions have been dissolved about a moral basis to the war. It was not moral; it was economic, as with all wars.

For this reason, the North can only be said to be cynical when it issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The North knew they had to give its people more than they were to keep them volunteering to die for their rich people. So they proclaimed that they were invading the South to "free the slaves". This absurd justification is transparent today but was quickly swallowed by the less educated and more gullible souls of the 19th Century. It doomed the South because no sovereign! nation on earth would back a new country which seemed to be fighting to retain slavery in its economic scheme. The South, as I've said, was already drawing up plans to free its slaves when Lincoln suddenly pretended it was the only issue at stake. Without allies, the Confederate State of America was overwhelmed by a N! orth which put no value on individual life or Christian morality, prov ing these lacks of honor by sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives without blinking an eye.

I have presented this brief capsule of the origins for the War for Southern Independence because my intention is to preserve American history as it really happened, not as revisionists wish it had happened. The truth is the truth and cannot be changed by words.