Why Virginia Seceded. Seems to have been over the issue of slavery.

Virginia

The Virginia State Library in 1965 published the four volume set, Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, and in 1866 the supplementary three volume set Virginia Journals and Papers: Virginia State Convention of 1861. The subject of slavery rages through it. The Virginia Convention had a committee on Federal Relations which proposed 14 resolutions which were adopted by the Convention and a proposed13^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect slavery which had eight sections. The Convention was interrupted in its endorsement of the entire proposed 13^th Amendment by the start of the Civil War during the debate over section 5, and sections 6  through 8 never came up for discussion.

Jubal A. Early, who would later be the president of the reorganized Southern Historical Society, was a member of this convention voting on the resolutions and amendments to the resolutions and participating in the debates.

Also at the Convention, former President Tyler spoke to the convention at great length, critical of the Washington Peace Convention’s proposals as being insufficient to protect the interests of slavery. One of his criticisms is that the proposed amendments to the United States Constitution would prevent carving up the Caribbean into slave states and I have the extract of the speech following the resolutions and the sections of the proposed 13^th Amendment.

Of the 14 resolutions, only the resolutions pertaining to slavery are included here. The others concern matters such as the 5^th resolution to take possession of the forts of the United States.

The following are three sections, first the Resolutions, second the proposed 13^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the third section, former President Tyler’s speech.

The resolutions are as adopted. The Proceedings includes the original Resolution as introduced, but subsequent pages may and usually only mention proposed changes and whether they are adopted. The pages listed are the pages which cover the introduction, discussion and final adoption of the resolution.

RESOLUTIONS

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 2 pp. 562-3 March 28, 1861. Adoption mentioned prior to the resolution on page 562.

Resolution 1: Be it resolved and declared by the people of the State of Virginia in Convention assembled, That the States which composed the United States of America, when the Federal Constitution was formed were independent sovereignties, and in adopting that instrument the people of each State agreed to associate with the people of the other States, upon a footing of exact equality. It is the duty therefore, of the common Government to respect the rights of the States and the equality of the people thereof, and, within the just limits of the Constitution, to protect, with equal care, the great interests that spring from the institutions of each.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 2 pp. 563 March 28, 1861

Resolution 2: African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the States wherein it exists, and as that form of servitude existed when the Union was formed, and the jurisdiction of the several States over it within their respective limits, was recognized by the Constitution, any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority, or by the authorities of other States, or by the people thereof, is in derogation from plain right, contrary to the Constitution, offensive and dangerous.

Vol. 2 pp. 568 March 28, 1861 The adoption is on this page with no amendments.

The following refers to the Republican Party.

Third Resolution. Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 127 April 4, 1861. Adoption on page 127 without amendment.

The choice of functionaries of a common Government established for the common good, for the reason that they entertain opinions and avow purposes hostile to the institutions of some of the States, necessarily excludes the people of one section from participation in the administration of Government, subjects the weaker to the domination of the stronger section, leads to abuse, and is incompatible with the safety of those whose interests are imperiled; the formation therefore, of geographical or sectional parties in respect to Federal politics is contrary to the principles on which our systems rests, and tends to its overthrow.

Fourth Resolution. Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 127, amended Resolution 4 passes on page 144, April 4, 1861.

The Territories of the United States constitute a trust to be administered by the General Government, for the common benefit of the people of the several States, and any policy in respect to such Territories calculated to confer greater benefits on the people of one part of the United States, than on the people of another part, is contrary to equality and prejudicial to the rights of some for whose equal benefits the trust was created. If the equal admission of slave labor and free labor into any Territory, excites unfriendly conflict between the systems, a fair partition of the Territories ought to be made between them, and each system ought to be protected within the limits assigned to it, by the laws necessary for its proper development.

Seventh Resolution. Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 189, page 195 April 5, 1861, amended.

7. To remove the existing causes of complaint much may be accomplished by the Federal and State Governments; the laws for the rendition of fugitives from labor and of fugitives from justice shall be made more effectual, the expenditures of the Government may be reduced within more moderate limits and the abuses that have entered into the Administrative departments reformed. The State authorities may repeal their unfriendly and unconstitutional legislation, and substitute in its stead such as becomes the comity and is due to the rights of the States of the same Union. But to restore the Union and preserve confidence, the Federal Constitution should be amended in those particulars wherein experience has exhibited defects and discovered approaches dangers to the institutions of some of the States.

Vol. 3 pp. 203 April 5, 1861, adopted as amended.

VIRGINIA’S PROPOSED 13^th AMENDMENT

After the resolutions were considered, a 13^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed and each of its sections discussed and voted on. In this listing I review the final sections adopted for proposed Sections 1 through 4, the additional section adopted to be intercalculated between the proposed Section 3 & 4, and Section 5 as amended in debate but not adopted. For the remaining sections 6 through 8, I include them as proposed by the Committee on Federal Relations. They weren’t adopted because with the outbreak of the Civil War, a 13^th amendment became irrelevant.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 659-660, adopted page 692 April 13, 1861 as amended.

Section 1: In all the present territory of the United States, north of the parallel of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes of north latitude, involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, is prohibited. In all the present territory south of that line, involuntary servitude, as it existed on the first day of March, 1861, shall remain, and shall not be changed; nor shall any law be passed by Congress or the Territorial Legislature to hinder or prevent the taking of persons held to service or labor, from any of the States of this Union to said Territory; nor to impair the rights arising from said relation; nor shall said rights be in any manner affected by any pre-existing law of Mexico; but the same shall be subject to judicial cognizance in the Federal courts, according to the remedies and practice of the common law. When any Territory north or south of said line, within such boundary as Congress may prescribe, shall contain a population equal to that required for a member of Congress, it shall, if its form of government be republican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, with or without involuntary servitude, as such Constitution of the State may provide. In all territory which may hereafter be acquired by the United States, involuntary servitude is prohibited, except for crime, north of the latitude of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes; but shall not be prohibited by Congress, or any Territorial Legislature, south of said line.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 692 April 13, 1861.

Section 2: No territory shall be acquired by the United States, except by discovery and for navel and commercial stations, depots and transit routes, without the concurrence of a majority of all the Senators from States which allow involuntary servitude, and a majority of all the Senators from States which prohibit the relation; nor shall territory be acquired by treaty, unless the votes of a majority of the Senators from each class of States hereinbefore mentioned be cast as part of the two-thirds majority necessary to the ratification of such treaty.

Vol. 3 pp. 710 April 13, 1861, adopted as amended. However, no amendments that passed are found between pages 692 and 710. The debates revolved about the wording, but not the substance of this section.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 710 April 13, 1861

Neither the Constitution, nor any amendment thereof, shall be construed to give Congress power to legislate concerning involuntary servitude in any State or Territory wherein the same is acknowledged or may exist by the laws thereof, nor to interfere with or abolish the same in the District of Columbia, without the consent of Maryland and Virginia, and without the consent of the owners, or making the owners, who do not consent, just compensation; nor the power to interfere with or prohibit representatives and others from bringing with them to the District of Columbia, retaining and taking away, persons so held to labor or service, nor the power to interfere with or abolish involuntary servitude in any State or Territory of the United States or any other State or Territory thereof, where it is established or recognized by law or usage; and the right during transportation by sea or river, of touching at ports, shores and landings, and landing in case of need shall exist, but not the right of sojourn or sale in any State or territory against the laws thereof. Nor shall Congress have power to authorize any higher rate of taxation on persons held to labor or service than on land.

The bringing into the District of Columbia persons held to labor or service for sale, or placing them in depots to be afterwards transferred to other places for slave as merchandise is prohibited.

Vol. 3 pp. 711 April 13, 1861 Adopted.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 711 April 13, 1861

Section 4: The third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution shall not be construed to prevent any of the States, by appropriate legislation, and through the action of their judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from labor to the person to whom such service or labor is due.

Vol. 3 pp. 713-14 April 13, 1861 adopted.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 711 April 13, 1861

Additional Section between Section 3 and 4: In all cases where property in persons held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the States or in the District of Columbia has been or hereafter may be taken for public use as in the case of impressments in war or otherwise, the owner thereof shall be justly compensated as in the case of other property taken; and in all cases involving the question of property in said persons, the rights of property in them shall be recognized and protected by the United States and other authorities, as rights to any other property are recognized and protected.

Vol. 3 pp. 713 April 13, 1861 adopted

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. 3 pp. 714 April 13, 1861

Section 5: The importation of slaves, coolies or persons held to service or labor, into the United States, and the territories, from places beyond the limits thereof, is hereby forever prohibited.

Vol. 3 pp. 714 April 13, 1861 amended to add the following:

But this section shall not be so construed as to prohibit the introduction of persons so held to service or labor into the United States, from the Confederate States, or any territory they may hereafter acquire.

The amend text would then be as follows:

Section 5: The importation of slaves, coolies or persons held to service or labor, into the United States, and the territories, from places beyond the limits thereof, is hereby forever prohibited. But this section shall not be so construed as to prohibit the introduction of persons so held to service or labor into the United States, from the Confederate States, or any territory they may hereafter acquire.

Not adopted, the Civil War breaks out. Motion to suspend in Vol. 3, pp. 740, April 15, 1861.

The remaining Sections proposed but not adopted are as follows.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. II pp. 37 March 19, 1861

Section 6: Congress shall provide by law that the United States shall pay to the owner the full value of his fugitive from labor, in all cases where the marshal, or other officer, whose duty it was to arrest such fugitive, was prevented from so doing by violence or intimidation from mobs, or riotous assemblages, or by violence, or when, after arrest, such fugitive was rescued by like intimidation or violence, and the owner thereby deprived of the same.

Section 7: The elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether Federal or Territorial, shall not be exercised by persons who are of the African race.

Section 8: No one of these amendments nor the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the Constitution, nor the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article thereof, shall be amended or abolished without the consent of all the States.

PRESIDENT TYLER

This is an extract from President Tyler’s speech to the convention as previously explained. Critical of a proposal to amend the constitution to have concurrent majorities of slave and non-slave states be necessary to acquire additional territory. This is the “check” Tyler refers to.

Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, Vol. I pp. 652-4 March 13, 1861

But my friend supposed that our Northern friends would come down in hordes and take possession of Central America, unless we had this check upon them. Dear me! Sir, the law of climate as applicable to races, forbids this. A man of the Caucasian race pledged to go and work under a burning sun? Why, these dreamers of the North seemingly know nothing of the influence of climate. They talk of your cotton fields, of your burning sun, it is true. They estimate well the wealth that comes up from these sources. They talk of it, and they talk of free labor. Now I beg to know, while the burning sun is upon the West-India Island, the lands, the richest in the world, and although a so called free soil (under emancipation acts) exists there, and although labor commands the highest prices and a greater demand for it exists than anywhere else, why is it that the vast tide of emigration which rolls in from Europe makes no halt there, but passes on until it reaches a high Northern latitude, where the Caucasian is found enacting the part of herdsman or engaged in the cultivation of the cereals? Where he flourishes, the African perishes. Child of the sun, the last luxuriates under tropical heat; creature of a Northern latitude, the Caucasian man perishes where the African flourishes; and so he of Africa’s sultry land drags out a brief and wretched existence where the white man becomes vigorous and strong. And attains the full perfection of mental and physical development. Such is the law of climate, and that law negatives the supposition indulged in by the gentleman from Kanawha.

You rarely ever find the Caucasian day laborer in South America, and if an exception presents itself, he is a stranger in a strange land. And to guard against this imaginary acquisition of territory, on the part of the North, you require concurrent majorities which effectually precludes all hope of acquisition on your part. You must have a majority of nineteen States now, soon to be thirty-six; and a majority of your own Senators which would readily obtain, and from those majorities make up the two-thirds before you can get Cuba, or the West India Islands, or any one foot of additional territory.

{Discusses Henry Clay.}

… Well, sir, I am a disciple of his, to some extent, on the subject of the African race. He did not limit his view to the then confines of the United States. He looked from Maryland, Virginia and the other border States in the direction of the West India Islands, or Central America, with the idea that the slave populations might ultimately find their outlet in that direction. And yet, in my firm belief, you cannot acquire a foot of land under the provision of the Peace Conference, for it effectually closes the door to further expansion on the part of the South. The only way in which you have heretofore acquired territory has been by a great party in the free States coming to the aid of the South. You could have acquired it in no other way. Louisiana and Florida were obtained in that way. New England opposed them, as she opposes now everything that pertains to the interest of the South, or tends to give it political strength. In like manner, she opposed the acquisition of Texas; and yet it was through the medium of a controlling majority, made up of Northern and Southern  votes we obtained the acquisition of that country.

An attack on a Synagogue next? Literature the Sons of Confederate Veterans sells.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans has been praising and selling "The South Under Siege" by Frank Conner for some time.

The following is an ad in the May/June 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran.

The text praises the book. The ad says:

This important new book by SCV member Frank Conner examines the true relations between the North and South from 1830 to June 2000. It identifies the real history of each region, and the lies and distortion by which the Northern liberals have created totally false stereotypes of both the Northern liberal and the traditional white Southerner. It tells what the North has done to the South, and why the North claims to have done it, why the North really did it, and what the consequences have been. An excellent defense against the official history currently taught in the government schools. 

What does Frank Conner think is the real history?

Conner’s book argues that the 20th century Civil Rights movement was a Jewish conspiracy carried out against the South and that the idea of racial equality was itself a part of a Jewish conspiracy.

On page 392 in his book Connor states:

Until after the turn of the 20th century, anthropologists had routinely recorded genetic as well as cultural differences between races and ethnic groups – that being the whole point of anthropology. The highlighted differences among the races hand included those of intelligence. But as Kevin MacDonald points out in The Culture of Critique, a German-Jewish-immigrant named Franz Boas changed all that. At Columbia, Boas arbitrarily claimed that biological differences between races were miniscule – that environment alone shaped the behavior of the different races and ethnic groups (a la Rousseau). A number of other Jewish anthropologists swiftly adopted Boas’ position; and soon the Jews dominated the field of cultural anthropology. As MacDonald points out, by 1915 the Jews had gained control of the American Anthropological Association; and by 1926 they were chairing the anthropology departments at all of the major universities.

One page 396 Conner explains:

— Jews will excel in society and the economy if allowed to compete fully. The only way the Gentiles can maintain superiority is by discriminating against the Jews; and so, discrimination against Jews is a common tactic in most countries — including the U.S.

On page 397 Conner explains:

— Second, under the concept of pluralism, the Jews can select whichever “victim” group is demonstrably being discriminated against the most (i.e. the Blacks) and run a full-blown civil-rights campaign to guilt-trip the white Gentiles into ending discrimination against that group. This approach offers two powerful advantages: first, if there is a blacklash of violence against the civil-rights campaign, it will erupt all over the blacks, not the Jews. Second (as is hinted delicately but consistently by a number of Jewish authors), the Jews as a group are quite a bit smarter than the blacks – or any of the other candidate “victim” groups; accordingly, the Jews themselves will be poised to take full advantage of each new anti-discrimination law or ruling or social taboo ostensibly created to benefit the blacks, while the blacks are still fumbling around; and the Gentiles won’t even notice what’s happening.

On page 398 in the book Conner titles a paragraph as follows:

Northern Jews Wage All-Out Ideological Warfare Against the White South. [Underline in the original.]

The chapter is just filled with material like that quoted with the following on page 406, last page of the chapter:

Look well at the Northern Jewish intellectuals/activists, O South, for they – who by rights should have been your closest friends – are by their own choice your dedicated and deadliest enemy.

With this type of language I can well imagine a person deciding to take a gun and go to a synagogue.

The SCV has not just been selling this book in their latest issue of Confederate Veteran.  They have been selling this book for some time now.


This is why I sent the following letter to the Museum of the Confederacy asking them to not hold a reception for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and why if they do we are going to protest.

Letter:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1586690974922773/permalink/1586692588255945/

Planned Protest at the Museum of the Confederacy. :
https://www.facebook.com/events/1586690974922773/

By the way, the book "Southern By the Grace of God" is a book which praises the Ku Klux Klan and hold up as a positive civic action a lynching in Ada, Oklahoma, and recommends the movie Birth of a Nation.

Headline speaker at Sons of Confederate Veteran's 2015 author of a book "Rekilling" Lincoln where he wants to "Rekill" Lincoln, any wonder there are shootings by people with Confederate flags?

THESE CLOWNS ARE HEADING UP THE "HERITAGE" LUNCHEON FOR THE SCV 2015 REUNION

http://kennedytwins.com/books.htm

This is the latest book of Walter Kennedy, "Rekilling Lincoln." They are so hostile they can just say "Revised" or something. They want to "re-kill" him, to make their book a second assassination.

http://www.jebstuartcamp.org/…/Speakers%20and%20Performance…

The "Heritage" is hateful.

Yet the Museum of the Confederacy is giving a reception for the SCV.

https://www.facebook.com/events/15866909749227

Rhodesia and the Neo-Confederates and Dylann Roof

Dylann Roof's identification with both the Confederacy and African white supremacist regimes like Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa isn't unique to himself. This isn't an outlier.

One set of examples are these web pages at the League of the South.

http://leagueofthesouth.com/the-proper-response-to-tyranny/

http://leagueofthesouth.com/told-you-so-a-commentary/

http://leagueofthesouth.com/in-defense-of-our-blood/

http://leagueofthesouth.com/the-continuing-war-against-the-south/

You might say that the League of the South is just a small part of the neo-Confederate movement and you would be right. I will be doing more blogging on the extent of the neo-Confederate support for white supremacist regimes in African.

Also, the heated and inflammatory rhetoric of the neo-Confederate movement which encourages violence even though the individuals who talk it up might not themselves engage in it.

At their 2013 League of the South Conference they had planned on an Afrikaner speaker to tell the "truth" about Zimbabwe and South Africa, but the speaker backed out and they go someone else to give them a presentation.

http://dixienet.org/rights/2013/2013_conference_agenda.php

This is a sample to show that the neo-Confederates have an interest in the former white supremacist regimes in Africa.

Facebook Event Page for the protest at the Museum of the Confederacy

https://www.facebook.com/events/upcoming?ref=46

Information is still being added to the page.

John Sims asks me to ask H.K. Edgerton a question.

John Sims asked me to ask H.K. Edgerton what he thought of John Sim's Memorial Day (2015) art project in which Confederate flags were burned in former Confederate states.

I promised that I would ask the question if I got a chance to ask H.K. Edgerton at the 2015 Sons of Confederate Veteran (SCV) Reunion in Richmond, Virginia when I am down there.

This will be additional question to the set of questions I am going to ask H.K. Edgerton to ask.

https://www.facebook.com/13flagfunerals

I look forward to filming H.K. Edgerton's answer if I can get him to answer.

White Houses of the Confederacy, hotels that host Sons of Confederate Veteran Events

I have been compiling which hotels host the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) events and the event of the Stephen D. Lee Institute which is run by the SCV.

One interesting thing has become apparent, the hotels of the Hilton Corporation, are by far the hotels most frequently used by the SCV versus other hotels of other corporations.

Most interesting is that there seems to be a trend for a Hilton hotel to be chosen more in the last few years than the brands of other hotel corporations.

I would think it must be degrading for the service personnel of the hotel to have to serve these people. Also,

It should be understood that these corporations often offer inducements to be chosen by the SCV to be their hotel. It isn't a matter that they are open to all comers, but that they often offer discounts.

You might want to check the SCV page when you reserve a hotel to make sure you don't end up surrounded by Confederate flags and neo-Confederates. In particular a Hilton hotel, which includes Embassy Suites and Hampton Inns.

CLICK ON THE GRAPHS TO MAKE THEM POP OUT OF THE BLOG

The following graph is for hotels hosting the Stephen D. Lee Institute.

Neo-Confederates the original neoreactionaries, the original Dark Enlightenment practicioners

There is a new movement called neoreactionaries and they also call their views the Dark Enlightenment (which is a self-contradictory term, Dark Enlightenment.)

It has gotten more attention since recently a technical conference invitation to a neoreactionary was rescinded when his neoreactionary advocacy under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug became known. This is his blog: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/,

There are some articles giving an explanation of their views.

http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/01/occupying-the-throne-justine-tunney-neoreactionaries-and-the-new-1-percent.html

They believe in a society where a few dominate the many and are anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian.

Reading about their views you can see that they are largely the same as those of the neo-Confederates. They share neo-Monarchist views with the www.lewrockwell.com people.

It may be that some neo-Confederates are consciously self-identified as neoreactionaries, I don't know, I just discovered the movement.

It seems that one of my critics, J. Arthur Bloom, opinion editor of the Daily Caller, a right wing website, is a neoreactionary or close to it. Though with this article it seems that he is writing about neoreactionaries as if he wasn't part of their movement. It is hard to tell:

https://theumlaut.com/2014/02/15/to-mayberry-minerva-or-the-matrix/

I had blogged about J. Arthur Bloom's writing about myself in these blog posts.

http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/06/daily-caller-jordan-bloom-opinion.html#.VXxqCvlViko

http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2014/08/daily-caller-opinion-editor-j-arthur.html#.VXxqSPlViko

It appears that his forum at which posted his attacks on me is neoreactionary or a forum for these views or a forum with neoreactionary contributors.. This is one posting. http://mitrailleuse.net/2014/09/03/towards-a-neoreactionary-aesthetic/

This is one of Blooms postings. He would like to see Lindsey Graham stage a coup.
http://mitrailleuse.net/2015/05/07/lindsey-graham-the-neoreactionary-candidate/

I don't know how much of a threat this movement really is. If you go to http://mitrailleuse.net/about/ and read the descriptions you see a list of people who really think they are so very clever.

Now that the neoreactionaries are in the news the neo-Confederate movement will likely be interested, though some of the views of the neoreactionaries will upset the neo-Confederates. I think www.lewrockwell.com will be most receptive to them.

One reason the neoreactionaries are in the news and the article by which I discovered their existence is the following Slate article in which the author David Auerbach is upset that neoreationary Curtis Yarvin was dis-invited from a technical conference.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/curtis_yarvin_booted_from_strange_loop_it_s_a_big_big_problem.html

David Auerbach doesn't see the relevance of Yarvin's views to the technology conference. However, there are several.

One is that it is the purpose of most STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) organizations to work to get URM's (Under Represented Minorities) involved in STEM fields. Giving Yarvin a platform to enhance his credibility would undermine a goal broadly shared by the STEM professions. Yarvin has a right to freedom of speech, but not a right to be invited by an organization.

A great many people in the STEM fields are in these fields by a series of measures of a democratic American society over the centuries to enable people to get a scientific education starting with free public education, land grant colleges, G.I. Bill for veterans to get a college education, the system of Community Colleges, etc.  The ability to pursue interests and a career in STEM fields is not limited by caste or privilege. It should not be surprising that a speaker who advocates a political system where the majority or at least a large minority of the people in STEMs fields would be rejected or excluded is not going to be welcome by people in the STEM fields.

Finally, science was a central part of the Enlightenment so if you are an advocate of the "Dark Enlightenment,"if you are anti-Enlightenment, don't be surprised that the STEM societies don't want you.

Letter to Edward Ayers, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Civil War Museum of which the Museum of the Confederacy is a part.

The Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) is hosting the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) on July 15, 2015 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. This event is part of the SCV 2015 National Reunion in Richmond, VA.

A protest is planned from 5pm to 9 pm as one of the counter activities against the SCV 2015 Reunion in Richmond, Virginia. More information will be forthcoming.

A certified letter was sent to Edward Ayers, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Civil War Museum of which the MOC is a part. Copies were sent to all the members of the board of directors by proof of mailing.

It should be noted that Ms. Ruth C. Streeter of "CBS 60 Minutes" is a board member.

June 12, 2015

                                                                                    edwardsebesta@gmail.com

Edward Ayers

Chairman Board of Directors

American Civil War Museum

490 Tredegar St.

Richmond, VA 23219

Dear Dr. Ayers:

I read with great regret that the Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) is holding a reception for the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Wednesday July 15, 2015 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.  The scheduled event is announce online at http://www.jebstuartcamp.org/jebstuartcamp.org/2015reunion/docs/2015_Schedule.pdf and http://www.jebstuartcamp.org/jebstuartcamp.org/2015reunion/docs/Speakers%20and%20Performances.pdf.  Note that the SCV “Heritage Luncheon” involves presentations by the neo-Confederate Kennedy brothers.  I enclose copies of each.

As you probably already know, but for the benefit of those to whom this letter is copied, I am an investigative researcher into the neo-Confederate movement published by university presses, peer-reviewed academic journals, Black Commentator, and other venues.  My curriculum vitae is online at www.templeofdemocracy.com.

What type of organization the SCV is documented online in these two articles: 1) A dossier at Black Commentator, http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html; and a recent article in Politico, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/civil-war-american-south-still-loves-confederacy-116771.html#.VXlrXflViko.  I enclose copies of each.

That the MOC would hold a reception for the SCV is not surprising. People point out the exhibit and book “Before Freedom Came” to defend the MOC. What people don’t know is that the MOC had an event at the MOC where Ludwell Johnson gave a racist screed as an acceptance speech upon being made a MOC fellow about the same time as the exhibition of “Before Freedom Came.”  My four part series on the MOC is online at Black Commentator. The first installment is at this link http://www.blackcommentator.com/441/441_museum_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html from which you can go to the other three installments. Or you can find a link to it through my curriculum vitae at www.templeofdemocracy.com.

However, unlike in the past where the activities of enabling the neo-Confederates, enabling the Lost Cause, and being a shrine for the Confederacy was an activity of the Museum of the Confederacy, this activity now is an activity of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia and this activity defines what type of institution the American Civil War Museum is.

For the American Civil War Museum, which purports to be an educational institution, to be enabling the SCV whose activities are an attack on the very integrity of history is a travesty. For the American Civil War Museum, which might purport to being an institution for a modern multi-racial America, enabling the SCV which promotes racist and pro-slavery literature and defends the white supremacist and pro-slavery Confederacy is a travesty.

Giving the SCV space to have a reception would be the mode of operation of an institution whose guiding principle is maximum merchandising of the Civil War to the maximum audience heedless of consequences.

I should like to give an example of the type of history that the SCV promotes.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) in their magazine, merchandise catalog, and online sells and promotes the book, “The South Under Siege, 1830-2000,” by Frank Conner, Collards Press, 2002.

The SCV is selling the book to its members in the Jan./Feb. 2015 and the May/June 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran, the official publication of the SCV.

In both the Jan./Feb. 2015 & May/June 2015 issue the book is sold along with other things as “Confederate Gifts from GHQ” (GHQ, General HeadQuarters).  It is sold in the merchandise catalog insert in the Sept./Oct. 2013 issue of the Confederate Veteran.

The SCV recommends this book as follows:

This important new book by SCV member Frank Conner examines the true relations between the North and South from 1830 to June 2000. It identifies the real history of each region, and the lies and distortion by which the Northern liberals have created totally false stereotypes of both the Northern liberal and the traditional white Southerner. It tells what the North has done to the South, and why the North claims to have done it, why the North really did it, and what the consequences have been. An excellent defense against the official history currently taught in the government schools. [italics in the original, Jan./Feb. 2015, Confederate Veteran, Vol. 73 No.1, page 70, and the same text in May/June 2015 Confederate Veteran, Vol. 73 No. 3 page 70]

This book has been sold by the SCV starting as early with an advertisement in the Sept./Oct. 2004 Confederate Veteran, as a “Confederate Gift from IHQ,” with the same book notice.

The book is sold by the SCV Online as of 5/25/2013 with the same book notice. As well it is sold in the Sons of Confederate Veterans Merchandise Catalog for 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2011-2012. [https://scv.secure-sites.us/store.php, printed out 5/25/2013.  Sons of Confederate Veterans Merchandise Catalog 2004-2005, page 29; Sons of Confederate Veteran Merchandise Catalog 2005-2006, page 29; Sons of Confederate  Veteran Merchandise Catalog 2008-2009, page 28; Sons of Confederate Veteran Merchandise Catalog 2009-2010, page 28; Sons of Confederate Veteran Merchandise Catalog 2011-2012, page 28. Note, the author only possesses five of these catalogs, there may be others which might also have this book listed.]

Southern Mercury is a magazine that was published by the Foundation for the Preservation of American Culture, listed as “the educational foundation of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.” [Vol. 5 No. 3, June 2007, Southern Mercury, full page advertisement back outside cover.]

Conner’s book is positively reviewed by Anne Rives Zappa in the Southern Mercury who opens the review stating, “’The South Under Siege’ is a masterful volume of work painstakingly researched by Frank Conner.” [Zappa, Ann Rives, “The South Under Siege 1830-2000,” pages 30-31, Southern Mercury, Vol. 1 No. 2, September/October 2003.]

Conner’s book argues that the 20th century Civil Rights movement was a Jewish conspiracy carried out against the South and that the idea of racial equality was itself a part of a Jewish conspiracy.

On page 392 in his book Connor states:

Until after the turn of the 20th century, anthropologists had routinely recorded genetic as well as cultural differences between races and ethnic groups – that being the whole point of anthropology. The highlighted differences among the races hand included those of intelligence. But as Kevin MacDonald points out in The Culture of Critique, a German-Jewish-immigrant named Franz Boas changed all that. At Columbia, Boas arbitrarily claimed that biological differences between races were miniscule – that environment alone shaped the behavior of the different races and ethnic groups (a la Rousseau). A number of other Jewish anthropologists swiftly adopted Boas’ position; and soon the Jews dominated the field of cultural anthropology. As MacDonald points out, by 1915 the Jews had gained control of the American Anthropological Association; and by 1926 they were chairing the anthropology departments at all of the major universities.

One page 396 Conner explains:

— Jews will excel in society and the economy if allowed to compete fully. The only way the Gentiles can maintain superiority is by discriminating against the Jews; and so, discrimination against Jews is a common tactic in most countries — including the U.S.

On page 397 Conner explains:

— Second, under the concept of pluralism, the Jews can select whichever “victim” group is demonstrably being discriminated against the most (i.e. the Blacks) and run a full-blown civil-rights campaign to guilt-trip the white Gentiles into ending discrimination against that group. This approach offers two powerful advantages: first, if there is a blacklash of violence against the civil-rights campaign, it will erupt all over the blacks, not the Jews. Second (as is hinted delicately but consistently by a number of Jewish authors), the Jews as a group are quite a bit smarter than the blacks – or any of the other candidate “victim” groups; accordingly, the Jews themselves will be poised to take full advantage of each new anti-discrimination law or ruling or social taboo ostensibly created to benefit the blacks, while the blacks are still fumbling around; and the Gentiles won’t even notice what’s happening.

On page 398 in the book Conner titles a paragraph as follows:

Northern Jews Wage All-Out Ideological Warfare Against the White South. [Underline in the original.]

The chapter is just filled with material like that quoted with the following on page 406, last page of the chapter:

Look well at the Northern Jewish intellectuals/activists, O South, for they – who by rights should have been your closest friends – are by their own choice your dedicated and deadliest enemy.

I enclose documentation. I find it hard to believe that the Museum of the Confederacy is unaware of this book and further Frank Conner may very well be at the reception at the MOC since he is a prominent neo-Confederate and SCV member.  

I ask the American Civil War Museum to not host the Sons of Confederate Veterans, stop pandering to neo-Confederates or enable them in any way.

                                                                                    Sincerely Yours,

                                                                                    Edward H. Sebesta

CC: See table on next page.

No.	Name	Affiliation
1	Mr. Dennis I. Belcher	McGuire Woods
2	Mr. George C. Freeman III	Universal Corporation
3	Mr. Bruce C. Gottwald Sr.	NewMarket Corporation
4	Mr. Bernard Grisby	The Pines
5	Dr. Monroe E. Harris Sr.	Virginia Oral and Facial Surgery
6	Mr. David C. Johnson Jr	Marketfield Asset Management
7	Mr. Donald E. King	McGuire Woods
8	Mr. William H. Luke	Mead Wesvaco
9	Mr. Robert N. Mayer	Rothschild Foundation
10	Dr. Elisabeth S. Muhlenfield	Retired
11	Mr. Roswell Page III	McGuire Woods
12	Mr. Walter S. Robertson III	Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc
13	Mr. O. Randolph Rollins	Drive-To-Work
14	Mr. S. Buford Scott	Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.
15	Ms. Ruth C. Streeter	CBS News "60 Minutes"
16	Mr. Brandt Surgner	Altria Group, Inc.
17	Mr. Matthew G. Thompson Jr.	CSC Leasing Company
18	Mr. Lacy Ward Jr.	International Civil Rights Center and Museum
19	Mr. Mario M. White	Virginia State University
20	Mr. Samuel B. Witt III	Retired

American Civil War Museum & the Museum of the Confederacy is Richmond is scheduled to host the Sons of Confederate Veterans

The Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) is hosting the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV)  Wednesday, July 15, 2015 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm as part of the SCV's 2015 Reunion in Richmond, Virginia.

They are doing this even though it is fairly well known, that the SCV is, as can be concluded by any reasonable person, as racist and extremist group.

You can read one dossier on the SCV at:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

This is nothing new, the Museum of the Confederacy might be better called the Museum for the Confederacy or perhaps the Museum for Merchandising the Confederacy. I had a 4-part series at Black Commentator about this. You can go to this free guest link and read the series from there.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/441/441_museum_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

You can read about the upcoming reception of the SCV by the MOC here.

http://www.jebstuartcamp.org/jebstuartcamp.org/2015reunion/docs/Speakers%20and%20Performances.pdf

Many people when you bring up the MOC's activities, including activities enabling neo-Confederates start babbling about the "Before Freedom Came" exhibit. But the exhibit was tokenism, at the same time there were having extremist neo-Confederate lectures given by a person who they granted a MOC Fellowship. The cover of the book "Before Freedom Came" uses a sculpture done by an African American Union soldier of a freed African American woman. In short the cover was a fraud.

However, this time it is different, the American Civil War Museum bears responsibility for this. If they go through with this, it just shows their Freedom exhibits are a nothing but tokenism so they can continue their marketing of the Civil War as they have always done.

It will also show that there is no academic, moral or intellectual integrity to the American Civil War Museum and that their guiding principle is maximum merchandising to the maximum number of audiences even if it means enabling neo-Confederates.

I fully intend to write all the officers of the American Civil War Museum to not host the SCV.

I am also organizing a protest of the MOC that night. More information later.

Sons of Confederate Veterans doesn't get user agreement for Confederate Memorial Chapel in Richmond, they refuse the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts offer of a "use agreement"

Some good news. The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) doesn't get a "use agreement" for the Confederate Memorial Chapel from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)

The story is here:

http://www.richmond.com/news/local/article_eeaab916-a211-543d-93ce-95864fb37c9b.html

The VMFA has had the locks changed. The VMFA did offer the SCV a "use agreement" but the SCV refused it. So now there is no agreement at all. Nor does it seem that the VMFA is now obligated to offer any agreement.

I knew about the Confederate Memorial Chapel but I had the impression that the SCV owned it and I only learned about the real situation rather late. I did however send a certified letter to the President of the Board of Trustees and copied  all the other trustees on the board. It very well could have been too late since a user agreement was sent to the SCV. I was writing for the future when the agreement came up for renewal.

However, now that the SCV has rejected the use agreement the future actions of the VMFA are open and they might be persuaded not to make any further effort to make any further offers to the SCV or even actively avoid it. The VMFA knowing what they know now and knowing that their actions will be part of record and might come before the press probably have one more reason to keep the SCV out.

I also sent a copy of the letter I sent to the VMFA with a cover letter to Virginia Gov. McAuliffe. The SCV said they were going to appeal to him. I don't think McAuliffe will want pandering to the SCV to be on his resume.

The SCV is having their 2015 Reunion in Richmond, but it is a city that really doesn't want them around.

World News Daily CEO proposes secession to avoid a possible Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage

WORLD NEWS DAILY CEO CALLS FOR SECESSION OVER GAY MARRIAGE

The author of the following article is Joseph Farah, CEO of World News Daily.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/does-same-sex-marriage-warrant-secession/

I can't say that secession has become mainstream in conservative politics, since among conservatives WND is seen as being crazy, but WND does have some following and it shows the creeping acceptance of secession into conservative politics. Though in this case it is still somewhat fringe.

There are left-wing secessionists also. When a person calls for secession I don't think they can at the same time claim to be patriotic.

Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Declare "Little Mary Phagan Day" UPDATE:

Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans declare a LITTLE MARY PHAGAN DAY in Georgia.

I am not making this up. I just got the news. This is the link to the web page announcing the Little Mary Phagan Day.

http://gascv.org/little-mary-phagan-day-in-georgia/

I have written about the Sons of Confederate Veterans promoting the book, "The South Under Siege" by Frank Conner. It is an anti-Semitic book and recently they have very strongly promoted it and they are selling it.

They have come up with some Confederate "heritage" tie in.

I think though it is very possibly part of their agenda regarding Jewish people. Conner's book portrays the Civil Rights movement as a Jewish conspiracy against the South. The case of Mary Phagan's murder is remembered since in resulted in the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish person who moved to Georgia from Brooklyn, New York.

It is a day of infamy in the history of Georgia.

The "Daily Beast" has an article about the lynching of Leo Frank. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/02/america-s-only-anti-semitic-lynching.html.

Of course the Georgia Division SCV will deny that it has some anti-Semitic baggage. They will claim that they are just remembering a young woman who was murdered.

UPDATE:

I was informed that the Ku Klux Klan was organized very shortly after the Mary Phagan case. The hysteria over the murder, inflamed by the governor, lead to an environment where the Ku Klux Klan was born.

AMAZING COVERAGE: John Sims' Flag burning and burying event getting major media coverage, such as the "Wall Street Journal." UPDATING AS RESULTS COME IN

John Sim's event to burn and bury a Confederate flag in every former Confederate state is underway.

The twitter hash tag is #13flagfunerals

The Wall Street Journal has a major article on the upcoming event.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/battle-stirs-over-confederate-flag-1432332336

3,628 shares on Facebook alone.

It has also been covered at Grio.

http://thegrio.com/2015/05/22/artist-john-sims-burn-bury-confederate-flag/

35,000 people have liked the article.

On the Blaze 4,600 people have done Facebook shares.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/05/22/that-part-of-our-history-needs-to-be-buried-college-professor-plans-memorial-day-event-to-burn-the-confederate-flag/

Confederate flag burnings are scheduled on Memorial Day in New Orleans, Florida, Georgia, and Missouri.

This is his Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/john.sims.39142?fref=photo

This is his web page.

http://www.johnsimsprojects.com/home4.html

Given Medal and Award by African American Civil War Museum. Not garbage from the Museum of the Confederacy. UPDATED:

Saturday, May 16, 2015, I was given  a medal and an award by the African American Civil  War Museum.

I  was down  in Washington,  DC for the  Sesquicentennial celebration of the Grand Review that  was held this weekend.

During  a lecture  I was called  up before the audience  in the front of the auditorium and given the medal and award. It was a  complete surprise.

I am deeply appreciative of  being  given the award and medal and treasure  them.

After seeing the parade and getting the award  I really realized  how wretched an award  from  the Museum of the  Confederacy  (MOC) is and how appalling  it is  that people  accept awards from the MOC.

UPDATE: http://www.blackcommentator.com/441/441_museum_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

This is the first posting I have ever done from my cell phone and I just didn't know how to copy in a link. So the above is the link to the four part expose of the MOC.

I wrote an essay  about the  MOC but haven't  done  much with it.  I think it is  about time  I do.  I also think that it's appalling  that the African American Civil War Museum  struggles on a shoe string budget but the MOC has so many  resources.