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by Walter Kennedy


  36. James Madison, as cited in The George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds. (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA: 1990), p. 268.

  37. Rawle, p. 234.

  38. Article II, Section I, United States Constitution.

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  1. For the text of President Davis's two inaugural addresses, see Kennedy and Kennedy, The South Was Right!, pp. 321-26.

  2. This quotation is taken from Lincoln's first inaugural address in 1861. In 1860, at the Republican Convention, Lincoln stated that "... the maintenance innovate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to . . . control its own domestic institution . . . exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." J. D. Randall and David H. Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction (D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington, MA: 1969), p. 370.

  3. Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America. This constitution was superseded by the Constitution of the Confederate States of America on February 22, 1862. The same provision limiting the African slave trade in the provisional constitution was incorporated into the final Confederate constitution.

  4. Jefferson Davis, p. 7.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid., p. 12.

  7. Ibid., p. 30.

  8. Alexander H. Stephens, as cited in The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States, Hunter McGuire and George Christian, eds. (1907, Boonton Bookshop, Boonton, NJ: 1994), p. 179.

  9. Jefferson Davis, p. 12.

  10 Appleman, p. 21

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  1. Devereaux D. Cannon, The Rags of the Confederacy (Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA: 1988), p. 73.

  2. John R. Spears, "The Slave-Trade in America," Scribner's Magazine, July 1900, Vol. III, No. 1, p. 456.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Nichols, p. 87.

  5. Ibid., p. 95.

  6. Ibid., p. 87.

  7. Ibid., p. 97.

  8. For a more complete look at the campaign of cultural genocide against the South after the War, see Kennedy and Kennedy, The South Was Right!, Chapter 13.

  9. Nichols, p. 180.

  10. Forrest McDonald, A Constitutional History of the United States (Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL: 1986), p. 153.

  11. Justice Henry B. Brown, as cited in ibid.

  12. Ibid.

  13. Abram J. Ryan, POEMS: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous (D. L. Brill Publishing Company, Mobile, AL: 1894), p. 74.

  14. Ibid., p. 60.

  15. Ibid., p. 64.

  16. Ibid., p. 111.

  17. Bettersworth, p. 234.

  18. Early in the War, it was not unusual for a flag to be presented to an infantry company (approximately one hundred men and officers). As the war progressed, many of these companies and their flags were incorporated into a regiment. Many company flags then became regimental flags. Also, these units were organized around an all-volunteer force; therefore, each of these regiments was designated as a "volunteer" regiment.

  19. Daniel Webster, The Great Triumvirate, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, Merrill D. Peterson, ed. (Oxford University Press, New York, NY: 1987), p. 483.

  20. Walter E. Williams, "Black Slavery Is Alive and Well," Southern Partisan, Vol. XX, 3rd Quarter 2000, p. 42.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Spears, p. 9.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Ibid. Also see Dubois, p. 298.

  CHAPTER NINE

  1. Representative Moore, Daily Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS, February 23, 1890.

  2. William Chambers, as cited in Leon P. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL: 1961), pp. 30-31.

  3. Ibid., p. 36.

  4. Senator John Holmes, as cited in ibid., p. 37.

  5. Senator Robert Y. Hayne, as cited in ibid., p. 39.

  6. David Wilmot, as cited in ibid., p. 47.

  7. Representative Henry C. Murphy, as cited in ibid.

  8. Kennedy and Kennedy, The South Was Right!, p. 57.

  9. Keith B. Richburg, Out of America, A Black Man Confronts Africa (Basic Books, New York, NY: 1997), p. xiv.

  10. U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Median Household Income by Race and State. Prepared by: Income Statistics Branch/HHES Division, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC.

  11. Ken Hamblin, Pick a Better Country (Simon and Schuster, New York, NY: 1996), p. 249.

  12. Profile of the Country's African American Population, U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census.

  CHAPTER TEN

  1. Richburg, pp. 145-46.

  2. Walter Williams, "Blacks Need an Equal Chance," The News-Star, Monroe, LA, April 6, 2001, p. 13-A.

  3. Samuel Francis, "The Truth about Guns and Race," The Southern Partisan, 2nd Quarter 1994, p. 48.

  4. The Color of Crime (New Century Foundation, Oakton, VA: 1999), p. 2.

  5. Ibid., p. 3.

  6. Samuel Francis, "Hate crimes against whites blacked out by media," SF Online, [email protected], January 16, 2001.

  7. Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South, p. 85.

  8. John Adams, as cited in Greene, pp. 113, 322.

  9. Joseph H. Ingraham, The South-West by a Yankee (Harper and Brothers, New York, NY: 1835), reprinted by Readex Microprint Corporation, 1966, Vol. II, p. 269.

  10. Ibid., pp. 265-66.

  11. Ibid., p. 270.

  ADDENDUM I

  1. For a complete text of this pamphlet, see Clyde N. Wilson,

  2. Ibid., p. 402.

  ADDENDUM II

  1. Moore, p. 87.

  2. Ibid., pp. 83-87. This tract is reproduced as closely as possible to the way it was written in 1700. Therefore, some words and style of writing may appear somewhat unusual.

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  Index

 

 

 


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