| Emancipation Proclamation Many believe the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Lincoln, made slavery illegal in this country. It did not. The proclamation made slavery illegal in the Southern states only. Lincoln listed the states by name and even went so far as to exclude certain counties in those states that were occupied by the North at the time. He also gave the Confederates 100 days to lay down their arms and end the war, in which case the proclamation would be lifted. Of course, as history tells us, the South continued to fight. Why? If popular mythology is to be believed, the South was fighting to preserve slavery and the North to end it. Why would the South not take Lincoln's offer and end the war, keep their slaves and live happily ever after? Because the South wasn't fighting a war to preserve slavery any more than the North was fighting a war to end it! Abraham Lincoln was fighting a war to preserve the Union and thus the taxes and tariffs on which the North was so heavily dependent. This is just one of the many inconsistencies in the on going campaign to slander the good names of our Confederate Ancestors. The men of Carpenter's Battery, Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1927, encourage you to use Confederate History and Heritage Month to learn the truth about the War for Southern Independence. Our school systems won't teach our children their history. Government bodies like the Town Council of Clifton Forge are so afraid of being "politically incorrect" they would not even consider a proclamation to encourage their citizens to study Civil War history. Join with us now and help us educate those who are ignorant of the truth and to fight those who know the truth but continue the lies because it is politically expedient and profitable. |
| Did Lincoln wage war to abolish slavery? …this Northern hostility to emancipation explains Lincoln's rebuke of General Fremont in August 1861, when Fremont emancipated the slaves in his theatre of operations, Missouri. Fremont also ordered any civilian found with arms to be tried by a military tribunal and then shot. Lincoln had to cancel both orders and return the slaves to their masters. Fremont immediately went to Washington and sent his wife to the White House late one evening to demand an immediate audience with the president. Lincoln expressed to her his disapproval of Fremont's attempted emancipation order: " It was a war for a great national idea--the Union, and General Fremont should not have dragged the negro into it." Fremont was relieved of his command. Excerpt from the book "When in the Course of Human Events" By Charles Adams, Rowan & Littlefield Publishers ************* There are many examples of Mr. Lincoln's personal views on slavery and blacks in general. The President was very vocal on these issues and throughout his presidency expressed his opinions freely to the press. There are countless quotes and accounts available to verify that he had no interest what-so-ever in making free men of slaves. Further, President Lincoln has to be characterized as a racist and white supremacist regardless of what standard you choose to use. We had initially planned to run some quotes made by Abraham Lincoln in our advertisement campaign but ultimately decided they would be so offensive to African-Americans that we cut those ads. These other books may give further insight into the man behind the myth: Forced Into Glory by Lerone Bennett Jr., The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. Dilorenzo or The South Was Right by James and Walter Kennedy. |
| Quotes I hope the day will never come that my grandsons will be ashamed to own that I was a Confederate Soldier. Private A. Y. Handy, 32nd Texas Cavalry, CSA ************* If we of the North were called upon to endure one half as much as the Southern people and soldiers do, we would abandon the cause and let the Southern Confederacy be established. We pronounce their cause unholy, but they consider it sacred enough to suffer and die for. Our forefathers in the Revolutionary struggle could not have endured more than these rebels. Private John H. Haley, 17th Maine Regiment, USA ************* …the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision.... Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne CSA ************* "The rank and file were chiefly farmers and small merchants, comparatively very few were owners of slaves; but they were all descended from ancestors whose fortunes and blood had been freely spent in the war of the revolution; they volunteered in obedience to the call of their state to resist invasion; they came with a firm determination to do their full duty." Capt. Wm. H. S. Burgwyn, 35th Regiment, North Carolina Troops |
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