14. The Federal Government: Its True Nature and Character, Abel P. Up-shur, St. Thomas Press, Houston, Texas, 1977. Judge Upshur refutes those of the Story and Webster school who believe that the Constitution made the federal government the supreme ruler of the people of the United States.
15. The Gray Book, Arthur H.Jennings, Chairman, The Gray Book Committee, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Originally published immediately after World War I and republished during the 1950s, it attempted to correct the anti-Southern slander issuing from the Yankee myth-makers.
16. The Last Rebel Yell, Michael A. Grissom, Rebel Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1991. The author picks up where he left off in Southern by the Grace of God.
17. The Southern Tradition at Bay, Richard Weaver, Regnery Gateway, Inc., Washington, D.C., A history of postbellum thought. A must for all serious students.
18. The Tragic Era, Claude Bowers, Halcyon House, New York, New York, 1929. A documented account of Reconstruction.
19. The Real Lincoln, Charles L. C. Minor, Sprinkle Publications, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1992. Lincoln’s use of brute force against his enemies both North and South is documented in this study.
20. The Uncivil War: Union Army and Navy Excesses in the Official Records, Thomas B. Keys, The Beauvoir Press, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1991. The United States’ own records are used to demonstrate how cruelly and viciously the Yankee invaders treated the Southern people.
21. Time on the Cross, Fogel 8c Engerman, Little Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974. A contemporary study of African-American slavery that has caused the Yankee liberals to howl!
22. Yankee Autumn in Acadiana, David Edmonds, The Acadiana Press, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1979. An in-depth study of the outrages committed by the Yankee invaders of Louisiana using the federal government’s own records.
23. War for What?, Francis W. Springer, Bill Coats Ltd., Nashville, Tennessee, 1990. An honest appraisal of why the North invaded and conquered the South.
The Southern Nationalist should also study the works of John Stuart Mill (On Liberty and Representative Government) and the works of John C. Calhoun (A Disquisition on Government and Discourses on the Constitution) to form a better idea of the Southern National political ideal.
Notes
CHAPTER ONE
1. Grady McWhiney, Journal of Mississippi History, “Jefferson Davis the Unforgiven,” vol. XLII, May 1980, p. 124
2. Michael A. Grissom, Southern by the Grace of God (Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA: 1988), p. iv
3. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and the Discourses (Modern Library, New York, NY: 1950), pp. 18-19, 153, 197
4. Richard M. Weaver, The Southern Tradition at Bay (Arlington House, New Rochelle, NY: 1968), p. 116
5. Varina Davis, The Davis Family Newsletter, Vol. I, # 11, Rosemont Plantation
6. General Stephen D. Lee in an address to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1896
7. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), preface
8. J. L. M. Curry, The Southern States of the American Union (B. F.Johnson Publishing Company, Richmond, VA: 1890).
9. Sons of Confederate Veterans, The Gray Book, p. 3
10. Ibid
11. Davidson, Fletcher, et al., I’ll Take My Stand (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1983), p. 61
12. Ibid, pp. 66-67
13. Ibid, p. 63
14. Ibid
15. Frank L. Owsley, Plain Folk of the Old South (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1982), p. 2 [Also see Andrew Nelson Lytle, et al., I’ll Take My Stand (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1983), p. 211]
16. Ibid, pp. 36-39, 44-48
17. Ibid, p. 134
18. Ibid, p. 19
19. Fogle, R. W. and Engerman, S. L., Time on the Cross (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA: 1974), p. 250
20. Ibid, p. 255
21. Ibid, p. 254
22. Ibid, p. 256
23. Ibid, pp. 248-49
24. Bruce Catton, Picture History of the Civil War (Bonanza Books, New York, NY: 1982), p. 25
25. Grady McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL: 1988), p. xvii
26. Davidson, Fletcher, et al., I’ll Take My Stand (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1983), p. 112
27. Sons of Confederate Veterans, The Gray Book, preface by Dr. William D. McCain
28. Anthony Trollope, as cited in Grant as a Military Commander, General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY: 1970), p. 5.
29. Anthony Trollope, North America (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY: 1951), p. 351
30. David H. Fisher, Albion’s Seed (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York: 1989), p. 6
31. Ibid
32. Ibid
33. Ibid
34. John Adams, as cited in Lagniappe, A Journal of the Old South, Spring 1974, Oxford, MS, p. 32.
35. Grady McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL: 1988), p. 2
36. Ibid
37. Michael A. Grissom, Southern by the Grace of God (Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA: 1988), p. v
38. Abraham Lincoln, “Emancipation Proclamation” as cited in The Gray Book, Sons of Confederate Veterans, p. 9
39. Ibid
40. Ibid. p. 36
41. Abraham Lincoln, as cited in The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, edited by R. W. Johannsen (Oxford University Press, New York, NY: 1965), pp. 162-63
42. Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Speeches, Letters, and State Papers, vol. I, p. 458
43. Raleigh (NC) News and Observer, as cited in The Memorial Volume of Jefferson Davis, William J. Jones (W. M. Cornett and Company, Dallas, TX: 1890), p. 352
44. Confederate Veteran, March-April 1990, p. 19
45. Official Records: War of the Rebellion (hereinafter cited as O.R., Series I unless otherwise noted), vol. XVI, pt. II, p. 6
46. O.R., Ser. II, vol. I, p. 186
47. O.R. vol. XVI, pt. II, p. 80
48. Ibid, pp. 273, 274, 275, 277
49. Ibid, p. 277
50. David A. Nichols, Lincoln and the Indians (University of Missouri Press, Columbia & London: 1978), p. 117
51. C. C. Burr, ed., Abel P. Upshur, The Federal Government: Its True Nature and Character (1840, St. Thomas Press, Houston, TX: 1977), pp. 104-105
52. John S. Tilley, Facts Historians Leave Out (Bill Coats, Ltd., Nashville, TN: 1990), p. 9
53. Sons of Confederate Veterans, The Gray Book, p. 36
54. Ibid
55. Thomas McGuire, McGuire Papers (Mrs. Herman McGuire, Louisiana Society, N.S.D.A.R., 1966), pp. 19-20
56. George Washington Bolton, as cited in In Defense of My Country, Eakin and Peoples (Corney Creek Festival, Bernice, LA: 1983), p. 27
57. Ibid, p. 28
58. Daniel Smith, as cited in E. M. Graham North Louisianian, W. Y. Thompson (Southwestern University Press, Lafayette, LA: 1984), p. 60
59. History of Livingston Parish Louisiana (Curtis Media Corp., Dallas, TX: 1986), p. 23
60. John D. Winters, Civil War in Louisiana (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1963), p. 418
61. Georgia Comptroller General’s report, 1911
62. John D. Winters, Civil War in Louisiana (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1963), p. 428
63. Ibid
64. David King Gleason, Antebellum Homes of Georgia (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: 1987), p. 117
65. Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney, “The South From Self-Sufficiency to Peonage,” p. 1113
66. Gavin Wright, Old South, New South (Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY: 1986), p. 35
67. Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney, “The South From Self-Sufficiency to Peonage,” p. 1113
68. Charlotte (NC) Obs
erver, April 25,1982
69. Lord Acton’s letter, original on file, Washington-Lee University, Lexington, VA
70. Ibid
71. Ibid
72. Ibid
73. Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale of Texas, as cited in The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, Thomas C. Johnson (Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland: 1977), pp. 497-500
74. Ibid
75. Ibid
76. Records of the National Archives, Washington, D.C., John W. Kennedy
77. Ibid
78. Lincoln as the South Should Know Him, Third Edition (Manly’s Battery Chapter, Children of the Confederacy, Raleigh, NC), p. 15
79. Ibid
80. Confederate Veteran, January-February 1989, “The Trial of Major Henry Wirz,” p. 27
81. Ibid
82. Ibid, p. 29
83. Ibid
84. Ibid
85. Ibid
86. General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, Grant as a Military Commander (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY: 1970), p. 4
87. Lyon G. Tyler, A Confederate Catechism (Holdcroft, VA, 1935), p. 6
88. Ibid, p. 37
89. Jesse T Carpenter, as cited in A History of the South, Francis Butler Simkins (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY: 1959), p. 93
90. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 60
91. Sen. Thomas H. Benton, as cited in Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), pp. 57-58
92. Mildred L. Rutherford, Truths of History (M. L. Rutherford, Athens, GA: 1907), pp. 44-45
93. Ibid, p. 98
94. George Lunt as cited in Mildred L. Rutherford, Truths of History (M. L. Rutherford, Athens, GA: 1907), p. 12
95. Ibid
96. Abraham Lincoln, as cited in Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 59
97. Patrick Henry, as cited in Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes (The Blue and Gray Press, Secaucus, NJ: 1987), p. 61
98. Lyon G. Tyler, A Confederate Catechism (Holdcroft, VA: 1935), p. 37
99. Merrill Jensen, The New Nation (Northeastern University Press, Boston, MA: 1981), p. 418
100. Ibid, p. 10
101. The New York Times, “The Great Question,” March 30, 1861, p. 4
102. The New York Times, “An Extra Session of Congress,” March 23, 1861, p. 4
103. Union Democrat, “Let Them Go!” Manchester, NH, February 19, 1861, recorded in Northern Editorials on Secession, Howard C. Perkins, ed., 1965, pp. 591-92
104. Evening Post, “What Shall Be Done for a Revenue?” New York, NY, March 12, 1861, recorded in Northern Editorials on Secession, Howard C. Perkins, ed., 1965, pp. 598-99
105. Alexis de Tocqueville, as cited in Truths of History, Mildred L. Rutherford (M. L. Rutherford, Athens, GA: 1907), p. 92
106. Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY: 1973), p. 166
107. Ibid, p. 168
108. Ibid, p. 180
109. Ibid, p. 185
110. Professor McMaster, as cited in Virginia’s Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession, Beverly B. Munford (L. H.Jenkins, Inc., Richmond, VA: 1915), p. 162
111. William Lloyd Garrison, vol. I, pp. 253-54, as cited in Virginia’s Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession, Beverly B. Munford (L. H. Jenkins, Inc., Richmond, VA: 1915), p. 163
112. Ibid, p. 169
113. George H. Moore, A History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), pp. 228-29
114. Beverly B. Munford, Virginia’s Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession (L. H.Jenkins, Inc., Richmond, VA: 1915), p. 171
115. Ibid
116. Ibid, p. 172
117. Ibid
118. Ibid, p. 173
119. Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY: 1973), p. 184
120. Ibid, p. 182
121. Ibid
122. William H. Seward, as cited in Truths of History, Mildred L. Rutherford (M. L. Rutherford, Athens, GA: 1907), p. 92
123. Ibid, p. 99
124. Ibid, p. 98
125. Ibid, p. 93
126. David A. Nichols, Lincoln and the Indians (University of Missouri Press, Columbia & London: 1978), p. 87
127. Ibid, p. 96
128. “Legal Lynching,” Bryant Burroughs, Southern Partisan, Third Quarter, 1991, p. 44
CHAPTER TWO
1. J. Julius Guthrie, as cited in The Gray Book, published by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, pp. 16-17. This was the son of Capt. J. Julis Guthrie C.S.N. [Authors’ note: The Gray Book has been revised several times, without benefit of notation.]
2. George F. Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (Kennikat Press, Inc., Port Washington, NY: 1969), pp. 1-4
3. R. L. Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South (Sprinkle Publications, Harrisonburg, VA: 1977), p. 27
4. W. E. B. DuBois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America (Russell and Russell Inc., New York, NY: 1965), p. 3
5. James Walvin, Slavery and the Slave Trade (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS: 1983), p. 40
6. Ibid
7. Ibid, p. 41
8. R. W. Fogel and S. L. Engerman, Time on the Cross (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA: 1974), p. 17
9. James Walvin, Slavery and the Slave Trade (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS: 1983), p. 152
10. R. W. Fogel and S. L. Engerman, Time on the Cross (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA: 1974), p. 131
11. Terry Alford, Prince Among Slaves (Oxford University Press, New York, NY: 1986), p. 23
12. Ibid. p. 5
13. Larry Koger, Black Slaveowners (McFarland and Company Inc., Jefferson, NC: 1985), p. 1
14. Ibid, p. 3
15. Ibid, pp. 1,144-45
16. Ibid, p. 1
17. Ibid
18. Ibid, p. xiii
19. Ibid
20. George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), p. 31
21. Ibid, pp. 32-34
22. Ibid, p. 34
23. Ibid, p. 5
24. Daniel P. Mannix, Black Cargoes (The Viking Press, New York, NY: 1962), p. 166
25. Ibid, p. 160
26. Ibid
27. Ibid
28. Ibid, p. 161
29. Ibid
30. R. W. Fogel and S. L. Engerman, Time on the Cross (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA: 1974), p. 14
31. Daniel P. Mannix, Black Cargoes (The Viking Press, New York, NY: 1962), p. 245
32. Ibid, p. 202
33. Ibid, p. 201
34. Ibid, p. 205
35. Henry A. Wise, as cited in Virginia’s Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession (L. H. Jenkins, Inc., Richmond, VA, 1915), p. 39 [Also see W. E. B. DuBois, Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, pp. 147-48 and John R. Spears, Scribner’s Magazine, vol. XXVIII, No. 1, July 1900, p. 456]
36. President Zachary Taylor, as cited in Virginia’s Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession (L. H.Jenkins, Inc., Richmond, VA: 1915), p. 39
37. Daniel P. Mannix, Black Cargoes (The Viking Press, New York, NY: 1962), pp. 162-66
38. Ibid
39. Ibid. p. 166
40. Ibid, p. 162
41. Ibid, p. 30 [Also see John R. Spears, Scribner’s Magazine, vol. XX-VIII, No. 1, July 1900, pp. 10-11 and James Walvin, Slavery and the Slave Trade (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson MS: 1983), pp. 40-46]
42. Daniel R Mannix, Black Cargoes (The Viking Press, New York, NY: 1962), pp. 104-30
43. W. E. B. DuBois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America (Russell and Russell Inc., New York, NY: 1965), p. 2
44. George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), p. 11
; 45. Ibid, pp. 1-5
46. Ibid, p. 47
47. Ibid
48. Ibid, pp. 3-6
49. R. L. Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South (Sprinkle Publications, Harrisonburg, VA: 1977), p. 36
50. W. E. B. DuBois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America (Russell and Russell Inc., New York, NY: 1965), p. 14
51. Ibid
52. Ibid
53. R. L. Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South (Sprinkle Publications, Harrisonburg, VA: 1977), p. 44
54. Ibid
55. Ibid, pp. 57-58
56. Ibid, p. 85
57. Ibid, p. 81
58. George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), pp. 228-29
59. R. L. Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South (Sprinkle Publications, Harrisonburg, VA: 1977), p. 342
60. Ibid, p. 343
61. Ibid
62. Daniel P. Mannix, Black Cargoes (The Viking Press, New York, NY: 1962), p. 205 [Also see Isidor Paiewonsky, Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies (Fordham University Press, New York, NY: 1989) p. 62]
CHAPTER THREE
1. Charles Stewart, as cited in Harper’s Magazine, “My Life as a Slave,” Vol. LXIX, No. CCCCXIII, October 1884
2. J. Steven Wilkens, America: The First 350 Years (Covenant Publications, Monroe, LA: 1988), p. 153
3. George H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (D. Ap-pleton and Company, New York, NY: 1866), pp. 30, 88
4. Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY: 1973), pp. 1-3
5. John Adams, as cited in The Negro in Colonial New England 1620-1776, Lorenzo Johnston Green (Kennikat Press, Inc., Port Washington, NY: 1966), pp. 113,322
6. Frederick Law Olmsted, as cited in Civil War, the Magazine of the Civil War Society, “Calico, Black and Gray: Women and Blacks in the Confederacy,” by Edward C. Smith, vol. VIII, No. 3, Issue XXIII, pp. 11, 12
7. Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY: 1956), p. 323
8. John W. Haley, The Rebel Yell and Yankee Hurrah, edited by Ruth L. Silliker (Down East Books, Camden, ME: 1985), p. 163
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