The Colorado Confederatarian

A Rocky Mountain Rebel Bloggerizin' 'Bout Liberty, Damn Fool Libruls, No-Account Neocons, 'n th' State of They Union

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I. The sentiments of this website.

"All we ask is to be let alone." (Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America .)

“We may be very quiet. But we are everywhere, we cantankerous, contrarian members of the Leave Me Alone Coalition.” (“Claire Wolfe”, noted libertarian.)

"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in another form . . . . The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.” (Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America .)

"But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—"that government of the people, by the people, for the people," should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle free; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and veto of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that veto was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely more liberty, in the political sense, than so many convicts in the penitentiary". (H.L. Mencken, noted libertarian and kurmudjeon, on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.)

"Lincoln's war implied, and the Gettysburg Address set to words, a firm message to the States of the Union - I love you, and if you leave me, I'll hunt you down and kill you. The Address was not the sagely comments of a wise statesmen, rather the vain, obsessive ranting of a power-hungry demon engaging in a blood-thirsty mission of self-aggrandizement, no matter the volume of corpses required to attain it." (Lewis Goldberg, author)

"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." (Charles Dickens, noted literary figure.)

"Were it not for the wounds that Lincoln inflicted upon the Constitution, it would have been infinitely more difficult for Franklin Roosevelt to carry through his revolution, for the coercive welfare state to come into being and bring about the conditions against which we are fighting today." (Frank Meyer, paleolibertarian political filosofer)

"(As a result of the War Between the States), the old federal republic in which the national government had rarely touched the average citizen except through the post-office gave way to a more centralized polity that taxed the people directly and created an internal revenue bureau to collect these taxes, drafted men in the army, expanded the jurisdiction of federal courts, created a national currency and a national banking system, and established the first national agency for social welfare- the Freedmen's Bureau. Eleven of the first twelve amendments to the Constitution had limited the powers of the national government; six of the next seven, beginning with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, vastly expanded those powers at the expense of the states." (James M. McPherson, damn Yankee historian, but quite honest here)

"America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South." (G.K. Chesterton, noted literary figure and Christian philosopher.)

"The cause of the South is the cause of us all." (Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States of America .)

Con-fed-er-a-TAR-i-an: 1) confederate + libertarian; 2) an individual who tells every tyrant to go to hell, not just Yankee tyrants, but who does so preferably from within the confines of Dixie.

LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL

This here 19th-century image is one of "Honest Abe" Lincoln as th' "Federal Phoenix" arisin' from th' ashes of th' US Constitution, Commerce, Credit, Habeas Corpus, States Rights and a Free Press, all named in th' burnin' logs below him. Most of "Honest Abe's" modern emulators are historic'ly ignurnt 'n tharfore don't realize wut opposition thar wuz to him back in th' day, not ohnly in th' Confederate states, but in th' North too. Th' man wuz a cad 'n a despot, but later generashuns of Americans wud become hornswaggled by th' orficial National Myth and Piety, gittin' all patriotic feelin' when th' Battle Hymn of th' Republic Empire is played 'n whin they gaze upohn his Zeus-like image in-att temple thar at Rome ohn th' Potomac. 'N now we got the Lincoln Bicentennial comin' upohn us from th' storage bin of th' grapes of wrath, with all sorts of silly celebratin' 'n honorin' t' be done by both libruls 'n so-called conservatives alike(which is fittin' since it's both th' Evil Party and th' Stupid Party which are the ideological heirs of Lincoln). Well, as cud be expected, ol' Jones is one-a many-a paleocon who'll be observin' this here bicentennial by flyin' Confed'rate flags and tellin' th' truth t' Americans 'bout who ol' Abe really wuz. I am lankin' a series of my own posts as well as those of other Confed'rate truth tellers here. We report, y'all decide.

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Daily Rocky Mountain News

The Official Paper of the United States for the Territory of Colorado

THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE TERRITORY, BY ELECTION OF THE LEGISLATURE

OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY

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1862 Aug 10

Startling News from the South.

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A messenger arrived from the southern part of the Territory on Saturday last with the news that a guerilla band was in active operation at the head waters of the Huerfano and San Carlos, and in the vicinity of Fort Garland. They number thirty-five men under the leadership of a Captain Matteson, who claims to belong to the rebel army of Texas. Their avowed object is to harass and rob the government in every possible way, but not to molest privated property or persons, unless they see something they want.

A few days since they captured the Fort Garland mail, and kept the mail carrier prisoner for four days, then they released him, but kept his horse, arms, and all the mail matter. A gambler known as Snaggle-Tooth Jones, Capt. Wm. M. Pierson and several other Denver men are said to belong to the party. Prompt steps should be, and doubtless will be, taken to ferret out these marauders and meet (sic) out to them their just punishment. Such service would just suit some of the Colorado boys, of either the First or Second Regiment.

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("The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in another form . . . . The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.” - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America)