In January 1864, Major General Patrick Cleburne said, our youth will be taught "... to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision..." And over 150 years later that is precisely what is happening.
I've grown to what can almost be called old, red clay of the piedmont squishing through my toes and longleaf pine whispering my name. I have fished for bass at night in the light of a double moon and still get a buzz from the scent of magnolia and the sound of a Southern woman. For a long time now, some cheap bastards have tried to corrupt how I feel about this place, insisting that things I’ve lived and cared a lot about are irrelevant. It bothers me, the gaping maw of cultural homogenization sucking the Southern out of our children. What a shame so many young people have been indoctrinated to think they must apologize for Dixie. The modernity of the New South, without clinging to any of the old values is no way to live. I’m not saying there’s no hope, but we do have to realize what’s going on.
How long, one might ask, will the Abbeville Institute survive? It seems one of the only places, except perhaps for Civil War Roundtables, where the legacy of the "Lost Cause" can be reasonably discussed by scholars. When will this website demonetize (if there is any monetization) such videos, scholarly though they may be? Only 10 comments? That is a sad foreboding (as of August 28, 2017)....as the inspirational (to some) street names, school names, and symbols that became so ubiquitous in the 1920s-1950s cannot be discussed today with any equanimity.
+AmBotanischenGarten : Don't worry ... anything as stupid as 'The left', and the sickening political correctness that comes along with it, cannot last forever. Eventually the mood will turn ... just in the same way that Communism was so suddenly overthrown in the USSR there will be a point when people start to say "actually, we've had enough of this" ... and the PC Left will voluntarily start to subside. I've watched many of these Abbeville lectures and there hasn't been one that has bored me ... they're a brilliant series ... helping to spread the words of reason and truth. So now there are twelve comments on the page ! Best wishes from England ... we are a 'trans-Atlantic' family ... some of my ancestors were early Colonial settlers (late 1500s) and eventually owned the famous Bolling Eldridge Plantation near Lynchburg VA ... there's another branch of the family down in Charleston SC. So don't forget you are often getting a lot of moral support from overseas ... for instance, there are millions of people here in the UK that are horrified at the prospect of removing General Lee's memorial in Charlottesville ... that is a BIG news story over here. We cannot believe the ridiculous stupidity of the Left in trying to apparently re-write history by tearing down statues.
+Mar Anzon who on earth wants anarchy??? we need decentralization, a decentralized Republic offers more freedom and more prosperity. Southerners in the 1860s had the same mentality as the founders. The only founder who was statist was Hamilton....
What an obnoxious piece of work this man is. Clearly considers it his God-given right to dismiss the plight of millions of slaves because he's emotionally attached to men he's never met, redundant semantics of the sacred 'constitution', and a flag. Pity.
Everyone is emotionally attached to ppl we never met. And he is not "dismissing" slavery. If no one talked about it at all, it would take two generations for ppl to even begin to forget that the South used to have slaves. Sheesh, it's all I ever hear about!!!!!! There was more to the South than their damn slaves!
Samwell the tyrant Lincoln considered black people contraband and wanted to ship them back across the pond the things the tyrant Lincoln did hurt black people way more than the south could ever have
@@bryanbridges2987 Yep. There was Jim Crow. Segregation. Fire-hoses. Bombings. Lynchings. Miscegenation laws. Civil Rights violations. There was indeed LOTS more to the Whitey White South than their damn slaves! YEE-HAW!
Your comment is why this country will never heal from the war of aggression. Learn your history and realize while the south was struggling with the history of slavery it was only in the south blacks could congregate with the whites and actually be called family!! while they were only a political ploy in to the north and more segregated in the majority of its states than all the states in the south. In the majority of the south before the war the black man would even be called friend, while in the north they were barely called human. Ask a northerner what they're grandfather in the 40s, 50s and even the 60s what they thought about blacks, most the time they'll say we really didn't associate ourselves with they're kind. Ask a southerner they'll say, "till the naacp came in and turned them against us WE CALLED THEM FRIEND"
John F. Harris, a black legislator in Washington County Mississippi came to speak on Senate bill 25 to erect a Confederate Monument in Jackson Mississippi and the Bill passed. On Feb 23, 1890 The Daily Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi printed his speech in full. Here is a part of that speech… “Mr. Speaker, I have arisen in my place to offer a few words on the bill. I have come from my sick bed. Perhaps it was not prudent from me to come, but Sir, I could not sit quietly in my room without contributing a few remarks of my own. I was sorry to hear the speech of the young gentleman from Marshall County. I’m sorry that any son of a soldier should go on record as opposed to the erection of a monument in honor of the brave dead, and Sir I am convinced that had he seen what I saw at Seven Pines in the seven days fighting around Richmond, the battlefield covered with the mangled forms of those who fought for their country and for their country’s honor, he would have not made that speech. When the news came that the South had been invaded, those men went forth to fight for what they believed, and they made no requests for monuments, but they died. And their virtues should be remembered. Sir, I too went with them; I too wore the gray, the same color my master wore. We stayed four long years and if that war had gone on till now, I would have been there yet. I want to honor those brave men who died for their convictions. When my mother died, I was a boy. Who sir then acted the part of a mother to the orphan slave boy but my ole misses. Were she living now or could speak to me now from those high realms where gathered the sainted dead, she would tell me to vote for this bill and sir I shall vote for it, and I want it known to all the world that my vote is given in favor of the bill to erect a monument in honor of the Confederate dead.” (Fact: Southern slaves willfully fought with their masters where the Northern slaves were forced into service).
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In January 1864, Major General Patrick Cleburne said, our youth will be taught "... to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision..."
And over 150 years later that is precisely what is happening.
There's SO much I need to learn about the South!!!!
I love these lectures and would love to attend a conference someday.
Ben Franklin on equality: We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
These lectures are always great to listen to.
Great presentation
Lee wasn't just "descended from" Light Horse Harry Lee, he was his son.
Very good cousin Brion.
Reading the title I hoped he would allude to Hank Jrs song. One of his most underrated songs imo
I've grown to what can almost be called old, red clay of the piedmont squishing through my toes and longleaf pine whispering my name. I have fished for bass at night in the light of a double moon and still get a buzz from the scent of magnolia and the sound of a Southern woman. For a long time now, some cheap bastards have tried to corrupt how I feel about this place, insisting that things I’ve lived and cared a lot about are irrelevant. It bothers me, the gaping maw of cultural homogenization sucking the Southern out of our children. What a shame so many young people have been indoctrinated to think they must apologize for Dixie. The modernity of the New South, without clinging to any of the old values is no way to live. I’m not saying there’s no hope, but we do have to realize what’s going on.
I hope your Southern "culture" dies the miserable death that it deserves.
Buster Biloxi it will never die that I can promise you see you in hell yankee bill
How long, one might ask, will the Abbeville Institute survive? It seems one of the only places, except perhaps for Civil War Roundtables, where the legacy of the "Lost Cause"
can be reasonably discussed by scholars. When will this website demonetize (if there is any monetization) such videos, scholarly though they may be? Only 10 comments? That is a sad foreboding (as of August 28, 2017)....as the inspirational (to some) street names, school names, and symbols that became so ubiquitous in the 1920s-1950s cannot be discussed today with any equanimity.
+AmBotanischenGarten : Don't worry ... anything as stupid as 'The left', and the sickening political correctness that comes along with it, cannot last forever. Eventually the mood will turn ... just in the same way that Communism was so suddenly overthrown in the USSR there will be a point when people start to say "actually, we've had enough of this" ... and the PC Left will voluntarily start to subside.
I've watched many of these Abbeville lectures and there hasn't been one that has bored me ... they're a brilliant series ... helping to spread the words of reason and truth. So now there are twelve comments on the page !
Best wishes from England ... we are a 'trans-Atlantic' family ... some of my ancestors were early Colonial settlers (late 1500s) and eventually owned the famous Bolling Eldridge Plantation near Lynchburg VA ... there's another branch of the family down in Charleston SC. So don't forget you are often getting a lot of moral support from overseas ... for instance, there are millions of people here in the UK that are horrified at the prospect of removing General Lee's memorial in Charlottesville ... that is a BIG news story over here. We cannot believe the ridiculous stupidity of the Left in trying to apparently re-write history by tearing down statues.
Decapitate Confederate statues!
@@nickeldridge9454 Thanks for your support
@@busterbiloxi3833 One might confuse you with a statue
@@busterbiloxi3833 I just increased my donation to the Abbeville Institute.
18:53 "Hanged," not "hung." I've no idea what his endowments were! 😉
I lived in Phenix City. This dude's alright.
Hey I’m related to the Crockett’s! Cool
you are wrong about Arizona its three main industries are copper cattle and COTTON
"There used to be good Connecticuters" didn't get much audience response. Maybe even some Southerners are tired of this spiel.
Speaker is a Lost Cause Dullard.
You are the dullard.
Compared with the alternatives it looks awfully good.
😀
slavers and neoslavers
actually the real slavers were northerners
No, south ideology was evil ,and today neo confederates /anti federalist, still be a real enemies of this great nation
+Mar Anzon lol no statist like you are the real evil.
anarchy it's just impossible!´
+Mar Anzon who on earth wants anarchy??? we need decentralization, a decentralized Republic offers more freedom and more prosperity. Southerners in the 1860s had the same mentality as the founders. The only founder who was statist was Hamilton....
What an obnoxious piece of work this man is. Clearly considers it his God-given right to dismiss the plight of millions of slaves because he's emotionally attached to men he's never met, redundant semantics of the sacred 'constitution', and a flag. Pity.
Everyone is emotionally attached to ppl we never met.
And he is not "dismissing" slavery. If no one talked about it at all, it would take two generations for ppl to even begin to forget that the South used to have slaves. Sheesh, it's all I ever hear about!!!!!!
There was more to the South than their damn slaves!
@kenny desee He owned ONE slave and freed him before 1861.
Samwell the tyrant Lincoln considered black people contraband and wanted to ship them back across the pond the things the tyrant Lincoln did hurt black people way more than the south could ever have
@@markmaccabees and blacks owned slaves and there were white slaves here in American soil.
@@bryanbridges2987 Yep. There was Jim Crow. Segregation. Fire-hoses. Bombings. Lynchings. Miscegenation laws. Civil Rights violations. There was indeed LOTS more to the Whitey White South than their damn slaves! YEE-HAW!
This guy would still own slaves if he could. Another apologist for the Jubal Early
You've just been spoon fed a narrative and not capable of questioning it
Your comment is why this country will never heal from the war of aggression. Learn your history and realize while the south was struggling with the history of slavery it was only in the south blacks could congregate with the whites and actually be called family!! while they were only a political ploy in to the north and more segregated in the majority of its states than all the states in the south. In the majority of the south before the war the black man would even be called friend, while in the north they were barely called human. Ask a northerner what they're grandfather in the 40s, 50s and even the 60s what they thought about blacks, most the time they'll say we really didn't associate ourselves with they're kind. Ask a southerner they'll say, "till the naacp came in and turned them against us WE CALLED THEM FRIEND"
Oh please
John F. Harris, a black legislator in Washington County Mississippi came to speak on Senate bill 25 to erect a Confederate Monument in Jackson Mississippi and the Bill passed. On Feb 23, 1890 The Daily Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi printed his speech in full. Here is a part of that speech…
“Mr. Speaker, I have arisen in my place to offer a few words on the bill. I have come from my sick bed. Perhaps it was not prudent from me to come, but Sir, I could not sit quietly in my room without contributing a few remarks of my own. I was sorry to hear the speech of the young gentleman from Marshall County. I’m sorry that any son of a soldier should go on record as opposed to the erection of a monument in honor of the brave dead, and Sir I am convinced that had he seen what I saw at Seven Pines in the seven days fighting around Richmond, the battlefield covered with the mangled forms of those who fought for their country and for their country’s honor, he would have not made that speech. When the news came that the South had been invaded, those men went forth to fight for what they believed, and they made no requests for monuments, but they died. And their virtues should be remembered. Sir, I too went with them; I too wore the gray, the same color my master wore. We stayed four long years and if that war had gone on till now, I would have been there yet. I want to honor those brave men who died for their convictions. When my mother died, I was a boy. Who sir then acted the part of a mother to the orphan slave boy but my ole misses. Were she living now or could speak to me now from those high realms where gathered the sainted dead, she would tell me to vote for this bill and sir I shall vote for it, and I want it known to all the world that my vote is given in favor of the bill to erect a monument in honor of the Confederate dead.” (Fact: Southern slaves willfully fought with their masters where the Northern slaves were forced into service).
Interesting.