THUNDERBIRD WILL DO JUST FINE OPEN POST
I'M AFRAID SO, MY FRIEND
It’s been a few days since the last open post and I know everyone has been hanging around just waiting for one. So be of good cheer, my fellow dudes! It is open post time. And for the dude who comes up with the best post gets a brand new, genuine Nobel Peace Prize!
And for you music lovers, here’s AWD’s momma’s fav-o-rite Texas country, gooder n’ hell band Eleven Hundred Springs from right here in Dallas. AWD’s momma just moved out to Arizona (trouble with the law, you understand) from Dallas and is missing some Eleven Hundred Springs. I think she had something going with Matt the singer after she got out of prison. Anyway, here is my fave EHS song, Thunderbird Will Do Just Fine:
If you don’t like that, you might be a comm-a-nist!
I don’t know what the world may need,
but I’m sure as hell that it starts with me.
And that’s a wisdom
I’ve laughed at.
I don’t know what the world may want,
but a good stiff drink it surely don’t.
So I think I’ll go and fix myself a tall one.
Cause, what the world needs now
is a new kind of tension.
Cause the old one just bores me to death.
Cause, what the world needs now
is another folk singer
like I need a hole in my head.
I don’t know what the world may need,
but a V8 engine is a good start for me.
Think I’ll drive to find a place,
to be surly.
I don’t know what the world may want,
but some words of wisdom could comfort us.
Think I’ll leave that up to someone wiser.
Name that tune.
SnakeOiler:
Great post on the “racist” Confederacy. Why I love this site: I learn at least one new thing every day.
Anyway, I’ll re-pay the favor. We’ve all heard stories of people who can “send” their spirits (out of body experiences) to some other place and observe what’s going on in another place hundreds of miles away. Typically, these people claim they can see and hear the people they’re visiting, but of course, the people at the other end can’t see them. I’ve always been skeptical of these stories. But guess what? We all can do it, along with actually talking to the people at the other end.
If you and the people your visiting with hundreds of miles away have the small, built-in web cam on your lap top, along with the Skype software, you can see and communicate with your visitors in real-time. Is this not an “out of body” experience? We take so much for granted today that we can’t even see the modern miracles when they bite us in the rear-end.
Olds & Snake Oiler,
It took some doing,but I managed to dig these links out of my mess of a favorites list:
http://www.phalange.com/blackneo.htm
http://www.phalange.com/phalange.htm
Yankee meddler go home,the real “Sons of Dixie” whether white or colored have no use for your ways or love for your kind.
Hillbilly Jack
Hillbilly Jack – God bless you for those links, my friend! To follow up on what Dr. Williams mentioned in his segment.
In 1862 Dr. Lewis Steiner, chief inspector of the United States Army Sanitary Commission, was an eyewitness to the occupation of Frederick, Maryland, by Gen. Thomas J. (“Stonewall”) Jackson’s army. Steiner makes this statement about the makeup of that army: “Over 3,000 negroes must be included in this number [Confederate troops]. These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in the rebel ranks. Most of the negroes had arms, rifles, muskets sabres, bowie-knives, dirks, etc…and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy Army.” Can anyone doubt that these blacks, well-armed and many mounted, were with this army because some “mean old Southerner” was forcing them to be there? Of course not. They were there because, just like their white counterparts, they were fighting an invader.
Private John W. Haley, Seventeenth Maine Infantry, U.S., gives this account of black resistance to the Yankee invader by a black sharpshooter: “There seemed to be a fatality lurking in certain spots…It wasn’t long before Mr. Reb made his whereabouts known, but he was so covered with leaves that no eye could discern him. Our sharpshooter drew a bead on him and something dropped, that something being a six-foot n***** whose weight wasn’t less than 300 pounds.” both officers and private Union soldiers report the “impact” that the black Confederates had on the invader.
HBJ, I thank you very much for those links. I am glad you dug through the archives. I love to have information like that to send to the Confederacy haters that want the Stars and Bars removed from all the southern historical sites where it has flown with honor for years because of their ignorance of the facts.
rnr – you may get more than you bargained for:
“Almost fifty years before the (Civil) War, the South was already enlisting and utilizing Black manpower, including Black commissioned officers, for the defense of their respective states. Therefore, the fact that Free and slave Black Southerners served and fought for their states in the Confederacy cannot be considered an unusual instance, rather continuation of an established practice with verifiable historical precedence.” – “The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell” by Lt. Col[Ret.] Michael Lee Lanning
And we haven’t even gotten into what many would consider to be a very strange spectacle – the black southern slaveowner.
Snake Oiler:
Why I love this site: I learn MANY new things every day.
The classic NOVEL, “Gone with the Wind”, was an unbiased account of events that had occurred barely seventy years earlier. GWTW is 100% more historically accurate than the heavily biased American History TEXTBOOKS of today.
olds – don’t get me started. There was probably no one more reviled by yankee historians than Nathan Bedford Forrest. I present this for your inspection:
Memphis Daily Avalanche, July 6, 1875,1.
July 4,1875 – Memphis, Tennessee -
Nathan Bedford Forrest was invited to speak by the Jubilee of Pole Bearers, a political and social organization in the post-war era comprised of Black Southerners. Miss Lou Lewis was introduced to General Forrest then presented him with a bouquet of flowers and said: “Mr. Forrest – allow me to present you this bouquet as a token, of reconciliation, an offering of peace and goodwill.”
General Forrest received the flowers with a bow, and replied:
“Miss Lewis, ladies and gentlemen – I accept these flowers as a token of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the South. I accept them more particularly, since they come from a colored lady, for it there is any one on God’s great earth who loves the ladies, it is myself.
This is a proud day for me. Having occupied the position I have for thirteen years, and being misunderstood by the colored race, I take this occasion to say that I am your friend. I am here as the representative of the Southern people – one that has been more maligned than any other.
I assure you that every man who was in the Confederate army is your friend. We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live in the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters.
When the war broke out I believed it to be my duty to fight for my country, and I did so. I came here with the jeers and sneers of a few white people, who did not think it right. I think it is right, and will do all I can to bring about harmony, peace and unity. I want to elevate every man, and to see you take your places in your shops, stores and offices.
I don’t propose to say anything about politics, but I want you to do as I do – go to the polls and select the best men to vote for. I feel that you are free men, I am a free man, and we can do as we please. I came here as a friend and whenever I can serve any of you I will do so.
We have one Union, one flag, one country; therefore, let us stand together. Although we differ in color, we should not differ in sentiment.
Many things have been said in regard to myself, and many reports circulated, which may perhaps be believed by some of you, but there are many around me who can contradict them. I have been many times in the heat of battle – oftener, perhaps, than any within the sound of my voice. Men have come to me to ask for quarter, both black and white, and I have shielded them.
Do your duty as citizens, and if any are oppressed, I will be your friend. I thank you for the flowers, and assure you that I am with you in heart and hand.”
From a Baltimore newspaper, May 1863:
“But we are told the negroes are to be colonized. We must remember, however, that the consent of the negro himself must be obtained to this scheme, and probably he will prefer to live in the United States. He will have the power, backed by an army of three hundred thousand of his own race, and he will use it. After this war is over, the negro will live just where he pleases. But suppose this should not be the case, colonization has proved a miserable failure. The President and the Secretary of State tried the experiment, during the last year. A colony was sent to the Isle De Vache, we believe one of the West Indies, and news has already been brought back that it is on the verge of ruin. An agent of the government has returned and reports the colonists well nigh starved to death, and unless the government sends a steamer to return them to the United States very soon, not one of them will be left alive. The island is fertile, the climate genial, the colonists were well equipped with all the necessaries of life and labor; but ignorant, thriftless and improvident, they have sunk beneath the weight of their own independence. Thus ends the first experiment of establishing a grand African Utopia. Truly may we say, in view of these facts, that the Abolitionists have wrought out for the negro nothing but evil and that continually.”
Nothing like Yankee compassion for the negroes.
Congress announced to the world on July 22, 1861, that the purpose of the war was not “interfering with the rights or established institutions of those states” (i.e., slavery), but to preserve the Union “with the rights of the several states unimpaired.” At the time of Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861) only the seven states of the deep South had seceded. There were more slaves in the Union than out of it, and Lincoln had no plans to free any of them.
The North invaded to regain lost federal tax revenue by keeping the Union intact by force of arms. In his First Inaugural Lincoln promised to invade any state that failed to collect “the duties and imposts,” and he kept his promise. On April 19, 1861, the reason Lincoln gave for his naval blockade of the Southern ports was that “the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed” in the states that had seceded.
Thomas Di Lorenzo – “The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War”