February 2010 Palmetto Partisan Jounal

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: confederate, soldier, sons, veterans, south carolina

f T^eaders might remember that in M\^May, 2009, a couple of Yankee "bottom feeders" named Ed Sebesta and James Loewen, wrote a letter to Obama asking him to cease the annual presidential tradition of sending a wreath for placement at the Confederate monument in the Arlington National Cemetery. The activist duo cited several reasons for their request, not the least of which was that after the war, the Southerners resisted what they called the "multiracial democracy" of "Reconstruction" which Republican radicals had rammed down the South's throat

Heaven forbid that anyone should utter criticisms of anything "multiracial" (or multicultural) in this day and age. Today, the common practice of simply placing that adjective in front of any noun automatically makes it a good thing, and we are then expected to run around screaming its praises regardless of whether or not it has any actual merit. It seems that the actual track record of the ex-slaves and black and white northern transplants who ran the South into the ground between 1867-76 has become irrelevant. The fact that this coalition was multiracial in nature makes it something to be praised. In a 2000 Seminar entitled "Rally on the High Ground," then Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit, praised the period as a time when black people went to the polls in extraordinary numbers and elected numerous black "leaders" who were "leaders in anti-discrimination legislation, public housing accommodations, and social services." Liberal historian Eric Foner, on several occasions, has praised "Reconstruction" as "a remarkable experiment in interracial democracy," and in at least one of the mini-movies at the new visitor's center in Gettysburg, built with your tax dollars and mine, "Reconstruction" is touted as a wonderful "biracial democracy."

Truth is truth, however. You can cover your eyes or put on blinders, but you can't take a cow chip and turn it into a piece of gold. Much about the period has been left out by these folks, and the average contemporary reader, unfamiliar with Reconstruction Period's merits (or lack of such), might need to be enlightened just a bit. So let's roll the historical "videotape!" For argument's sake, we'll use the term that our letter-writing agitators have given it - a "Multiracial Democracy." "Reconstruction" was:

A "Multiracial Democracy" which excluded most of the native Southern white population. As per the 14th amendment -anyone who had engaged in "participation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States " was disenfranchised, thereby leaving state governments in the hands of Yankee transplants, ex-slaves and a few compliant Southerners who were willing to "swallow the dog,'™

A "Multiracial Democracy" administrated, in part, by a people who had been slaves not more than 3 years before. This mysterious, and unbelievable leap of progress in so brief a time, unequaled in all of human history, has never been fully explained by Sebesta, by Loewen, by Foner, by Babbit, by the Gettysburg Visitor Center, or anyone else for that matter. Yet, its incongruity was noted, even by Northerners of the period, who wondered at the curious nature of the Freedmen's bill.

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