Let's take some time to escape from the insanity of the Empire. (A tip of the hat to The Rebellion Blog for "The Old Unreconstructed" by Waylon Jennings:

I rode with old Jeb Stuart, and his band of Southern horse,
And there never were no Yankees, who could meet us force to force.
No they never did defeat us, but we never could evade,
Their dirty foreign politics, and cowardly blockade.

Well we hadn't any powder, and we hadn't any shot,
And we hadn't any money to buy what we ain't got.
So we rode our worn-out horses, and we ate on plain cornmeal,
And we licked em where we caught em, with Southern guts and steel.

We sunk the ship at Sumter, and we broke her plumb in two.
We showed them bully Yankees, just what we aimed to do.
At a little creek called Bull Run, we took their starry rag,
To wipe our horses down with, and I ain't here to brag.

Well there aren’t as many left of us as rode out at the start,
And then there are the weary, weak, and body sad of heart.
We fought a fight to tell about and I am here to say,
I’d climb my horse and follow Marse to hell come any day.

We may have not succeeded last time, but remember --
      If at first, you don't secede, try, try again!

From Solitude,
David O Jones

Because February is recognized as Black History Month, I thought I would provide some information which is not generally available. Most of the information provided in schools is politically correct trash.

The selection below is from the FreeTennessee.org website, but does not include a selection of Tennessee Supreme Court decisions which accompany the full article.

SLAVERY IN TENNESSEE
information presented to the
Tennessee House State & Local Government Committee
April 2009.
by Rev. David O. Jones

The language of HJR 7, sponsored by Rep. Brenda Gilmore, in which the Tennessee Legislature is to express a “solemn apology” (or “profound regret”), is both inflammatory and expresses a biased view of Southern history.

Paragraph three (3) states that “Africans forced into slavery were brutalized, humiliated, and dehumanized.” While domestic slavery was and is a humiliating situation which very few would ever want to revive, the laws of Tennessee protected them from being “brutalized” and “dehumanized.” Tennessee law required slave-owners to feed, clothe, house, and provide medical attention to their slaves. The decisions of the Tennessee Supreme Court in upholding the conviction of men who violated those laws is evidence that those laws were taken seriously. (9 Tenn 156-William Fields v. State of Tennessee. Nashville, January 1829; 29 Tenn 268-Lunsford and Davie v. Baynham, Nashville, December, 1849; 30 Tenn 171-Wherley v. The State. Nashville, December, 1850; and many others.)

Later, in paragraph six (6), it is stated, “the system of slavery, having been sanctioned and perpetuated through the laws of Tennessee and the United States, ranks as the most horrendous depredation of human rights in our nation’s history.” I would counter that the forced removal of the Cherokee known as “The Trail of Tears” in which 4,000 of 15,000 Cherokee died takes on all comers as “the most horrendous depredation of human rights in our nation’s history.”

Paragraph seven (7) states, “the Civil War, which was fought over the slavery issue.” Renowned historians do not agree on the cause of that war, therefore the statement cannot be used as a basis in fact for any argument.
A final objection from a specifically Biblical point of view. Paragraph eleven (11) asks government to repent. Government can’t repent, only individual souls can repent.

Positive argument for Tennessee:
In 1860, out of a total white population of 8 million people, only 385,000 were slaveholders (or 4.8%). And according to the 1830 census, more than ten thousand slaves were owned by free-Blacks in the states of South Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia, and Maryland.

Fact #1. Yankees controlled slavery. The center for the slave trade was Newport, Rhode Island. In 1850, the port boasted a fleet of 170 slave ships each of which could carry 60 to 150 slaves across the Atlantic. They carried approximately 20,000 slaves per year.

FACT #2. The earliest activists in abolishing slavery were Southerners. The first paper published exclusively in the interest of freeing slaves was “The Emancipator” published in 1820, in Jonesboro, Tennessee. By 1826, there were 143 emancipation societies in the United States and 103 of those were in the South. In 1817, the American Colonization Society was founded by slave-holders from Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland to provide an opportunity for Africans to return to their native soil.

From Solitude,
David O Jones

For my last post of the year 2009, I would like to have some great and profound statement which would cause the political players and economic manipulators of the Empire to sit up and take notice. But I don’t wield the sword of the New York Times nor the bludgeon of the Washington Post. I am not ABC, NBC, CBS, TNN, or CNN. On the other hand, the self-inflated egos and supposedly influential men and women of the Empire are not all the important in the grand scheme of things.

I am reminded of a couple of lines from the Introduction to an 1879 history book entitled, The Story of Liberty. So I write to my neighbours and friends.

You will notice that the events which have given direction to the course of history have not always been great battles, for very few of the many conflicts of arms have had any determining force; but it will be seen that insignificant events have been not unfrequently followed by momentous results. You will see that everything of the present, be it good or bad, may be traced to something in the past; that history is a chain of events. You will also notice that history is like a drama, and that there are but a few principal actors.

Recognizing that all history is in the hand of God and that the events of history will accomplish God's purposes regardless of the machinations of men, we sit secure in knowing that He will work all things for good to those who are called according to His purpose. God delights in the faithfulness of individual men and women, as should we. He will disregard those who only exalt themselves and their selfish purposes.

What are the insignificant events of history? They are the events which we involve ourselves, but fail to realize their great significance – a mother teaching her child to read; a father kneeling in prayer; a pastor leading his flock into an understanding of Biblical principles of government; an employee standing firm for honesty and truth against the threats of an employer; an entrepreneur deciding that getting rich is not nearly so important as providing true service to his community.

In order for us to have true liberty, we need to learn to be true people before God and each other. We all need to learn more and do more of the insignificant things and as a result the yoke of bondage which is being set upon us by the Columbian Empire will be only temporary. Faithful lives will be rewarded with the “liberty with which Christ has made us free.”

Because of the lives and actions of faithful men and women, I am confident that we will have a Tennessee Nation, and that we will have it soon.

From Solitude,
David O Jones