Shemang Yisroel, Ad-nay El-hainoo, Ad-noy Achod!
Oh G-d of the Universe!
Although unworthy through my manifestold transgressions, I approach the seat of
thy mercy, to crave thy favor, and to seek thy protection. I supplicate thy
forgiveness, O most merciful Father, for the many transgressions and the oft
repeated disobedience, which cause Thee to command destruction over me. Behold
me now, O my Father, supplicating Thy protection! Thou who art near when all
other aid faileth! O spare me, guard me from the evil that is impending!
This once happy country is
inflamed by the fury of war; a menacing enemy is arrayed against the rights,
liberties and freedom of this, our Confederacy; the ambition of this enemy has
dissolved fraternal love, and the hand of fraternity has been broken asunder by
the hands of those, who sit now in council and meditate our chastisement, with
the chastisement of scorpions. Our firesides are threatened; the foe is before
us, with the declared intention to desecrate our soil, to murder our people, and
to deprive us of the glorious inheritance which was left to us by the immortal
fathers of this once great Republic.
Here I stand now with many
thousands of the sons of the sunny South, to face the foe, to drive him back,
and to defend our natural rights. O Lord, G-d of Israel, be with me in the hot
season of the contending strife; protect and bless me with health and courage to
bear cheerfully the hardships of war.
O L-rd, Ruler of Nations,
destroy the power of our enemies! "Grant not the longings of the wicked; suffer
not his wicked device to succeed, lest the exalt themselves. Selah. as for the
heads of those that encompass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover
them. Let burning coals be cast upon them; let them be thrown into the fire,
into deep pits, that they rise not up again." (Psalm 140). Be unto the Army of
this confederacy, as thou were of old, unto us, thy chosen people— Inspire them
with patriotism! Give them when marching to meet, or, overtake the enemy, the
wings of the eagle— in the camp be Thou their watch and ward— and in the battle,
strike for them, O Almighty G-d of Israel, as thou didst strike for thy people
on the plains of Canaan—guide them O L-rd of Battles, into the paths of victory,
guard them from the shaft and missile of the enemy. Grant that they may ever
advance to wage battle, and battle in thy name to win! Grant that not a standard
be ever lowered among them! O L-rd, G-d, Father, be thou with us!
Give unto the officers of the
Army and of the Navy of the Confederate States, enterprise, fortitude and
undaunted courage; teach them the ways of war and the winning of victory. Guard
and preserve, O L-rd, the President of the Confederate States and all officers,
who have the welfare of the country truly at heart. Bless all my
fellow-citizens, and guard them against sickness and famine! May they prosper
and increase!
Hear me further, O L-rd, when
I pray to Thee for those on earth, dearest to my heart. O bless my father,
mother, brothers and sisters. (if married: my wife and children.) O bless them
all with earthly and heavenly good! May they always look up to Thee, and may
they find in Thee their trust and strength.
O L-rd, be with me always.
Show me the way I have to go, to be prepared to meet Thee here and hereafter.
My hope, my faith, my
strength are in Thee, O L-rd, my G-d, forever— in Thee is my trust. "For thy
salvation do I hope, O L-rd! I hope for Thy salvation, O L-rd! O L-rd, for Thy
salvation do I hope!" Amen! Amen!
Shemang Yisroel, Ad-noy El-hainoo,
Ad-noy Achod!
African
Reburial Rite Planned in NYC
By RICHARD
PYLE, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK -
With ceremonial honors that
they could not have imagined in life, more than 400 slaves
and free blacks will be reinterred next month in the
Manhattan graveyard where their bones previously lay unknown
for 200 years or more.
The skeletal remains have spent the past nine years in
Washington, D.C., at Howard University, whose laboratory
studies have led to a massive dossier of information on
slavery in colonial New York.
The remains will be returned to New York on Oct. 4 for the
reburial at the African Burial Ground, an 18th-century
cemetery rediscovered in 1991 during excavation for a new
federal office building and later set aside as a national
historic site.
Four symbolic coffins, hand-carved of wood in Ghana and
containing the bones of two adults and two children, will
leave Washington Sept. 30 and travel via Baltimore,
Wilmington, Del., Philadelphia and Newark, N.J., with each
city holding a commemoration.
From New Jersey the four coffins will be delivered by boat
to the site of a former Wall Street pier where slave ships
docked, then taken in a procession with 415 others up
Broadway's traditional Canyon of Heroes parade route to the
reburial.
"May these bones be a symbol to how insensitive humankind
can be," Rep. Charles Rangel (news,
bio,
voting record), D-N.Y., said at the news conference
outlining the plan.
Historians have estimated up to 20,000 people may have been
buried in a six-acre area of lower Manhattan, of which the
African Burial Ground is only one part.
Michael Blakey, a Howard University archaeologist, said he
and his team of 200 experts uncovered large amounts of new
data about slaves in 17th- and 18th-century New York,
including places of origin in Africa, work they performed
and health and mortality details.
Among the findings, Blakey said, were that black slaves had
about one-eighth the chance of living to age 55 as did
whites, and that fertility rates among them were so low the
population could grow only with further imports from Africa.
"Slavery in New York was not benign," Blakey said.
United Native America
The American Indian And The "Great Emancipator"
By Michael Gaddy
Published 01. 9. 03 at 21:31 Sierra Time
http://www.sierratimes.com/gaddy.htm
Perhaps
the veneer of lies and historical distortions that surround
Abraham Lincoln are beginning to crack. In the movie, "Gangs
of New York," we finally have a historically correct
representation of the real Abraham Lincoln and his policies.
Heretofore, many socialistic intellectuals, politicians and
historians have whitewashed these policies in order to
protect Lincoln's image because of their allegiance to the
unconstitutional centralization of power he brought to our
government.
The false sainthood and adulation afforded Lincoln has its
basis in the incorrect assumption he fought the war to free
an enslaved people. To believe this propaganda one must
ignore most everything Lincoln said about the Black race and
his continued efforts at colonization. Lincoln's treatment
of the American Indian has been very much ignored, though
not exactly misrepresented.
One would find it hard to refute that Abraham Lincoln's
political idol was Henry Clay. Lincoln would say of Clay;
"During my whole political life, I have loved and revered
Henry Clay as a teacher and leader." Lincoln delivered the
eulogy at the funeral for Clay. When elected President,
Lincoln set about implementing Henry Clay's political
philosophies.
Throughout Clay's political life he was a strong believer in
National Socialism and a complete racist in all references
to the American Indian. As Secretary of State Clay would
declare: "The Indians' disappearance from the human family
will be no great loss to the world. I do not think them, as
a race, worth preserving."
This mentality lead to the forced walk of all Cherokees from
the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia to
Oklahoma during the winter of 1838. Over 20,000 Cherokees
were dragged from their homes, which were then plundered and
burned. They were force marched most of them barefooted to
Oklahoma during the dead of winter with the sky for their
blanket and the earth for their pillow. Over 4,000 Cherokees
died on this march and it became known as the "Trail of
Tears."
Similar atrocities occurred all through the Lincoln
Administration. In 1862, the Santee Sioux of Minnesota grew
tired of waiting for the 1.4 million dollars they had been
promised for the sale of 24 million acres of land to the
federal government in 1851. Appeals to President Lincoln
fell on deaf ears. What made this even more egregious to the
Sioux was the invasion of this yet unpaid for land by
thousands of white settlers. Then, with a very poor crop in
august of 1862, many of the Indians were hungry and facing
starvation with the upcoming winter.
When Lincoln outright refused to pay the owed money,
remember he had a war to finance the Indians revolted.
Lincoln assigned General John Pope to quell the uprising and
he announced at the beginning of his campaign: "It is my
purpose to utterly exterminate the Sioux. They are to be
treated as maniacs or wild beasts, and by no means as people
with whom treaties or compromise can be made." Lincoln
certainly did not challenge this statement.
The Indians were quickly defeated in October of 1862 and
Pope herded all the Indians, men, women and children, into
forts where military trials were immediately convened. None
of the Indians tried were given any semblance of a defense.
Their trials lasted approximately 10 minutes each. All adult
males were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death
with the only evidence against them being they had been
present during a "war" which they themselves had declared
against the government.
The authorities in Minnesota asked Lincoln to order the
immediate execution of all 303 males found guilty. Lincoln
was concerned with how this would play with the Europeans,
whom he was afraid were about to enter the war on the side
of the South. He offered the following compromise to the
politicians of Minnesota: They would pare the list of those
to be hung down to 39. In return, Lincoln promised to kill
or remove every Indian from the state and provide Minnesota
with 2 million dollars in federal funds. Remember, he only
owed the Sioux 1.4 million for the land.
So, on December 26, 1862, the Great Emancipator ordered the
largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt
of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of
how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more
than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to
appease his political cronies in Minnesota.
Lincoln's western armies, using the tactics of murder, rape,
burning and pillaging, simultaneously being used against
Southern noncombatants by the eastern armies, turned their
attention to the Navajos.
In 1863-64, General Carleton and his subordinate, Colonel
Kit Carson, invaded the Navajo land, especially those
concentrated in the Canyon de Chelly area. Crops were
burned, innocents were murdered, women were raped and
general chaos was rained upon these noble people simply
because, like the Santee Sioux, they demanded from Lincoln
what they had been promised; their land and to be left
alone. General Carleton, believing there was gold to be
found in the area, stated: "This war, will be pursued
against you if it takes years until you cease to exist or
move."
Again, there was no protest of this policy from Lincoln, his
Commander in Chief.
The Navajo were forced to march over 300 miles to Bosque
Redondo in eastern New Mexico. Over 200 Navajos died on this
march and, eventually, over 2,000 perished before a treaty
was signed in 1868. While at Bosque Redondo, the Navajo
suffered the vilest conditions; bitter water, no firewood
and impossible growing conditions for crops. The soldiers
and the Mexican guards subjected the women to rape and
humiliating treatment. Children born at this "concentration
camp" were lucky to survive their first few months of life.
As our Founding Fathers did in our Declaration of
Independence from the British, the Cherokee Nation listed
its grievances with the Union when they declared their
unification with the Confederate States on October 28th
1861. These brave people had already observed the atrocities
of Lincoln's war criminals and saw through any so-called war
for liberation.
"When circumstances beyond their control compel one
people to sever the ties which have long existed between
them and another state or confederacy, and to contract new
alliances and establish new relations for the security of
their rights and liberties, it is fit that they should
publicly declare the reasons by which their action is
justified.
The Cherokee people had its origin in the South; its
institutions are similar to those of the Southern States,
and their interests identical with theirs. Long since it
accepted the protection of the United States of America,
contracted with them treaties of alliance and friendship,
and allowed themselves to be to a great extent governed by
their laws.
In peace and war, they have been faithful to their
engagements with the United States. With much hardship and
injustice to complain of, they resorted to no other means
than solicitation and argument to obtain redress. Loyal and
obedient to the laws and the stipulations of the treaties,
they served under the flag of the United States, shared the
common dangers, and were entitled to a share in the common
glory, to gain which their blood was freely shed on the
battlefield.
When the dissentions between the Southern and Northern
States culminated in a separation of State after State from
the Union, they watched the progress of events with anxiety
and consternation. While their institutions and the
contiguity of their territory to the states of Arkansas,
Texas and Missouri made the cause of the seceding States
necessarily their own cause, their treaties had been made
with the United States, and they felt the utmost reluctance
even in appearance to violate their engagements or set at
naught the obligations of good faith.
But Providence rules the destinies of nations, and
events, by inexorable necessity, overrule human resolutions.
The number of the Confederate States increased to eleven,
and their government is firmly established and consolidated.
Maintaining in the field an army of two hundred thousand
men, the war became for them but a succession of victories.
Disclaiming any intention to invade the Northern States,
they sought only to repel invaders from their own soil and
to secure the right of governing themselves.
They claimed only the privilege asserted by the
Declaration of American Independence, and on which the right
of the Northern States themselves to self-government is
formed, of altering their form of government when it became
no longer tolerable and establishing new forms for the
security of their liberties.
Throughout the Confederate States, we saw this great
revolution effected without violence or suspension of the
laws or the closing of the courts, The military power was
nowhere placed above the civil authorities. None were seized
and imprisoned at the mandate of arbitrary power. All
division among the people disappeared, and the determination
became unanimous that there should never again be any union
with the Northern States. Almost as one man, all who were
able to bear arms rushed to the defense of an invaded
country, and nowhere has it been found necessary to compel
men TO SERVE, or to enlist mercenaries by the offer of
extraordinary bounties.
But, in the Northern States, the Cherokee people saw with
alarm a violated constitution, all civil liberty put in
peril, and all rules of civilized warfare and the dictates
of common humanity and decency unhesitatingly disregarded.
In states which still adhered to the Union, a military
despotism had displaced the civil power and the laws became
silent amid arms. Free speech and almost free thought became
a crime. The right of the writ of habeas corpus, guaranteed
by the constitution, disappeared at the nod of a Secretary
of State or a general of the lowest grade. The mandate of
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was at naught by the
military power, and this outrage on common right, approved
by a President sworn to support the constitution. War on the
largest scale was waged, and the immense bodies of troops
called into the field in the absence of any law warranting
it under the pretense of suppressing unlawful combination of
men.
The humanities of war, which even barbarians respect,
were no longer thought worthy to be observed. Foreign
mercenaries and the scum of the cities and the inmates of
prisons were enlisted and organized into brigades and sent
into Southern States to aid in subjugating a people
struggling for freedom, to burn, to plunder, and to commit
the basest of outrages on the women.
While the heels of armed tyranny trod upon the necks of
Maryland and Missouri, and men of the highest character and
position were incarcerated upon suspicion and without
process of law, in jails, in forts, and prison ships, and
even women were imprisoned by the arbitrary order of a
President and Cabinet Ministers; while the press ceased to
be free, and the publication of newspapers was suspended and
their issues seized and destroyed.
The officers and men taken prisoners in the battles were
allowed to remain in captivity by the refusal of the
Government to consent to an exchange of prisoners; as they
had left their dead on more than one field of battle that
had witnessed their defeat, to be buried and their wounded
to be cared for by southern hands"
Lincoln's armies, after decimating and destroying the South
in the War for Southern Independence, turned its war
criminals loose on the Indians of the Great Plains and the
Southwest. The tactics of murder, rape and pillaging,
perfected in such places as Atlanta, the March to the Sea
and the Shenandoah Valley, were repeated in places with
names like Sand Creek and Wounded Knee.
Small wonder one of Lincoln's favorite Generals was William
T. Sherman, who wrote to his wife in 1862 that his goal was
the "extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least
of the trouble, but the people of the South." He said
while campaigning against the Indians: "The only good Indian
I ever saw was dead," and lamented to his son shortly before
his death that he had been unable to kill all of the "Red
Sob's."
Abraham Lincoln's "American System," adopted from Henry
Clay, brought about the necessity for the removal of the
Indians from the west. This concept of government had been
vetoed as unconstitutional by virtually every president,
beginning with James Madison.
The system called for the subsidizing of the railroads with
stolen taxpayer money. Lincoln had long been the primary
attorney representing the railroads before being elected
President. For the railroads to complete their lines into
the west, the Indian had to be either "neutralized" or
eliminated. Thus, Lincoln left his fingerprints on the
campaign against the Indian well into the 19th century.
Lincoln's policies of taxpayer-supported railroads would
lead, not only to the attempted annihilation of the Indian,
but to tremendous scandals in the administration of another
of Lincoln's war criminals, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant, like
Lincoln, handed out his "political plum" appointments of
Indian Agent to cronies who proceeded to gain tremendous
wealth by selling supplies and stealing money that should
have gone to the Indians.
Today, as we Southerners protest the conversion of the
Battlefields of the National Park Service into "the
beginnings of reparations for slavery," by Marxist
politicians and journalists, and challenge the erection of a
statue of Lincoln in Richmond, we might ask ourselves as the
Indian has done for years: Why, in the most sacred land of
the Sioux, is there a monument carved into the granite
mountain, a figure of Lincoln, who promised the annihilation
of a band of the Sioux to please his political cronies?
To continue to idolize Lincoln is to refute history and
intellectual thought and to worship at the foot of Marxist
government. Perhaps, in the not too distant future,
Americans will be able to see the Lincoln Administration and
its legacy of how we are governed today in the light of
truth. We may even be able to see its consequences as
clearly as the Cherokee Nation saw them in 1861!
BLACK CONFEDERATES
The NAACP,
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the rest of those hate
mongers that want to keep the race issue hot need to be
ashamed of themselves. Maybe they are not aware of their own
history. Is it that they are afraid that the average black
man in the street might find out what great things that
their ancestors did during the War of Northern Aggression?
Much of it I, myself, was not taught when I was going to
school in the 60’s. I was always a history buff and I find
this very interesting and too important to ignore.
The Negro
people with Southern heritage ought to be proud of it. Over
65,000 Severed in units of the Confederate Army under the
Flags that the NAACP are afraid of. Prior to the start of
the Civil War, the flag that flew over slavery was the Red,
White and Blue of good old USA.
A black
historian, Roland Young, explains:
"some if not all Black
Southerners would support their country, demonstrating it’s
possible to hate the system of slavery and love one’s
country". They fought with the colonist
during the Revolutionary War even though the British
promised to free them if they fought for the British.
Historian
Ervin Jordon explains that biracial units existed,
frequently organized by local Confederate and State militia
commanders. Dr. Leonard Haynes, an African American
professor at Southern
University stated
"when you eliminate the BLACK CONFEDERATE soldier, you
eliminated the history of the South".
In the
Northern army the colored troops were segregated with white
officers. In the South their were both biracial and
segregated units.
The
Richmond Howitzers at 1st Manassas was partially manned by
black militiamen with an addition of 2 black regiments, 1
FREE 1 SLAVE. Many blacks died in that battle fighting for
the south. James Washington, Co D 35th Texas Cavalry
Confederate States Army, became a non commissioned officer.
Higher ranking Black commissioned officers served in the
militia units.
Free black
cooks soldiers, teamsters and musicians earned the same pay
as white confederate privates. At the Confederate Buffalo
Forge in Rockbridge County, Va. skilled black workers earned
an average of 3 times the wages of white confederate
soldiers and more than most Confederate Army Officers.
There were
black Confederate units that fought and died at the battle
of Petersburg, Va. under Col. Shipp. 83% of Richmond’s male
slave population volunteered for duty. Over 180,000 Black
Southerners from Va. provided support for the Confederate
Military. Many more served in other states.
In 1913,
advocates for the United Confederate Veterans petitioned
congress for land promised. That fell on death ears. In 1920
some Confederate pensions were finally aloud to some still
living. In 1913, at the 50th anniversary of the battle at
Gettysburg accommodations were made for the black union
veteran. When black Confederate Veterans came the
Northerners were surprised. The black confederate veterans
were welcomed by their white comrades. their tents and other
needs were met by their comrades. Every Confederate reunion
included those black veterans that served with them, wearing
the Grey.
Instead of
the NAACP trying to destroy the history of the BLACK
CONFEDERATES who fought and died, they need to be proud of
this heritage and pass it on to future generations. You
ought to be proud to fly the Confederate Flag. Many black
men died for it and they deserve the respect and honor that
is given to any one that laid down their life for a cause.
We don’t
need those Yankees destroying what so many a brave man died
for.
For more
information on BLACK CONFEDERATES contact Dr. Edward Smith,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. N. W.
Washington D.C. 20016 Dean of American Studies. Dr. Smith is
a black professor dedicated to clarifying the historical
roles of the African American.
