Tag: Emancipation Proclamation
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Did Secession Hasten the End of Slavery?
“ANOTHER POLITICAL MANEUVER” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 31, 2016) — *Author’s note: There is a question which deserves much more attention than it receives: Considering Lincoln was willing to make slavery perpetual and to remove it from even congressional action with the Corwin Amendment in order to “preserve the…
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The Democrats and Civil Rights
IS “RACISM” A PRODUCT OF FACTIONALISM? by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 18, 2016) — This piece is not intended to be a dissertation on civil rights. However, this nation has had to deal with the problem of slavery since 1619. History records that on one day in late summer of…
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Jade Helm 15 – 1861 Version
“AN EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (May 10, 2016) — About this time last year, there was much speculation on a projected military operation that would be carried out within the confines of the United States that was being called Jade Helm 15. Here is what the Washington Post had…
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It’s Not Your Flag!
“RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Apr. 13, 2016) — “Some wear the color of the sky in the winter Some were as blue as the night They came like a storm with the light of the morn And they fell through the whole day and night Colors flew…
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Lying to Our Children — And Ourselves
“THE MEANING OF SUBJUGATION” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Mar. 23, 2016) — (Author’s note: About two years ago I wrote a series of articles under the title of this piece in order to bring the light of truth to the events in our history known incorrectly as the Civil War.…
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Should Secession Be Given Credit for Ending Chattel Slavery in America?
“A MILITARY INVASION” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jan. 12, 2016) — (Author’s note: A question that has not been addressed but should be is this: had 7 Southern states not seceded in late 1860 and early 1861 and brought about the threat of economic chaos in the North, a North…
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Union or Death
“MONEY AND POWER” by Michael Gaddy, ©2015, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Dec. 31, 2015) — “There were two Lincolns—the myth and the man. The man is dead, the myth lives. The war he made was no myth. The War to Prevent Southern Independence is a cancer in the very living marrow of America.” ~ Charles…
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It Started in 1787 (Part One)
“CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED” by Michael Gaddy, ©2015, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Dec. 29, 2015) — (Author’s note: I continue to be flabbergasted at how many people in this country call for demonization of all things Southern and the removal of all images and symbols of the South based on lies and distorted history.…
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Lying to Our Children and to Ourselves
A “TYRANNICAL, MURDEROUS WAR” by Michael Gaddy, ©2015, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Dec. 14, 2015) — I want to bring back some of the articles I have done in the past on this new (for me) forum. Below is one of a series I believe to be most critical to understanding how we got…
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Why Are Black People So Angry?
HAVE THEY REALLY BEEN GIVEN “CRADLE-TO-GRAVE ECONOMIC SECURITY?” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2014 (Aug. 28, 2014) — Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri prove, if nothing else, that a great many black people are very angry these days and some will use almost any perceived slight as justification for rioting, looting, and arson. So who or what…
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Be a Birther!
“NOT ELIGIBLE!” by OPOVV, ©2013 (Nov. 22, 2013) — Indentured owing to the Company Store, and the Company is Royalty or an out-of-control government. Goodbye to the markers that kept score of passing generations. Farewell, my Homeland that treated me badly, toiling for want, never able to save anything. But I saved enough to escape across…
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The 13th Amendment Repealed In Secret
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Nov. 17, 2013) — “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. …
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“My People”
IS AMERICA ASHAMED YET? by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet, ©2012, Presidential Candidate (Mar. 26, 2012) — Eric Holder got it right: for once in his life he didn’t lie when he referred to the Black Panthers as being “my people,” a distinct group whose problem- solving techniques run the gambit from intimidation, bounties on the wrongfully…
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When the Inmates Rule the Asylum
AMERICA IS UPSIDE-DOWN AND INSIDE-OUT by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet (Feb. 10, 2012) — The end result of what happens when the inmates rule a country is what happened in Uganda ruled by Idi Amin in the 1970’s. One can make a direct comparison of what is transpiring in America today with the end result of…