Ancient Planter and First Fleeter
South Carolina, USA
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Aedanus Burke retweeted
Defending the realm, maintaining public order and hanging criminals is the natural vocation of an aristocracy.
Doing the exact opposite is the goal of a usurper class.
Nature will win btw.
Aedanus Burke retweeted
Emory Thomas, on the political views of Robert E Lee:
"At base Lee was more Southern than he was American, at least in terms of the way the majority of Americans defined 'American' in 1861. He believed in social hierarchy, however much he tempered his belief with generosity and noblesse oblige. He was a politically conservative neo-Federalist Whig who did not believe the world was ready for democracy. He believed slavery was evil; but he owned slaves and resented criticism of the South's peculiar institution. He may not have believed in state sovereignty; but he did believe that Southern rights were in peril. Lee would likely have asserted that he and other Southerners remained the "real" Americans; the North had departed from traditional American values and the faith of the Founding Fathers. Certainly Lee shared these and more characteristic feelings and beliefs with other Southerners."
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The Marine Corps almost court-martialed one of its best pilots for stopping a mass shooter.
His crime was not asking permission first.
New Orleans, January 7, 1973. Sunday morning. A 23-year-old named Mark Essex gets into the downtown Howard Johnson's with a .44 carbine and a bag of ammunition.
Police already knew him, they just didn't know his name. A week earlier, on New Year's Eve, someone had ambushed New Orleans officers and vanished into the night. That was him.
This time he isn't planning on running.
He moves floor to floor shooting whoever he finds. A couple from out of town. The hotel manager. The assistant manager. He lights fires in the rooms as he goes. Then he climbs to the roof and settles into a concrete stairwell enclosure that might as well be a pillbox.
From up there he can see the whole street, and the whole street can see him. They just can't hit him.
Cops fire up at the roof all afternoon. Essex waits, leans out, shoots, disappears. Officers go down. One of them is the deputy superintendent of the department.
Ten miles away, at the Marine air station in Belle Chasse, Lt. Col. Chuck Pitman is watching it on the news.
He's a Vietnam helicopter pilot with three combat tours behind him. Silver Star. Purple Heart. Four Distinguished Flying Crosses. He looks at that rooftop and sees the obvious answer nobody on the ground has.
Get above him.
Pitman doesn't wait for orders. He finds three Marines who'll go, takes a CH-46 Sea Knight and flies it into the middle of a major American city. He lands near the unfinished Superdome and picks up a team of police sharpshooters.
Then he goes to work.
Pass after pass over the roof. Essex keeps hiding when the helicopter comes in and stepping out to shoot at it as it leaves. Pitman notices.
On one run, instead of flying off, he spins the helicopter around and comes straight back.
Essex is out in the open with nowhere to go.
The shooters on board and on the nearby rooftops all fire at once. When it was over, the autopsy counted more than 200 wounds.
Nine people were dead across the week, five of them police officers. Nobody else would be added to that list.
New Orleans made Pitman an honorary police chief.
The Marine Corps opened talks about a court-martial. A lieutenant colonel had just taken a military aircraft into a domestic shootout on his own authority.
It took F. Edward Hébert, the New Orleans congressman who happened to chair the House Armed Services Committee, to recommend the Corps let it go.
It did. Pitman went on to help plan the 1980 hostage rescue attempt in Iran and retired a lieutenant general.
Not bad for a guy who once stole a helicopter.
Correct, this needs to stop. Maxcy Gregg was the grandson of Johnathan Maxcy, the first president of South Carolina College (later The University of South Carolina) and the great grandson of Esek Hopkins, Commodore of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution. Gregg is a fascinating individual, and shouldn’t be reconstructed into something alien and irrelevant.
This is the kind of thing that drives me to a red rage.
In the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, the marker of the spot where Confederate General Maxcy Gregg was mortally wounded was updated in 2008.
Originally it was headlined "Death of Maxcy Gregg", but a pinhead named John Hennesssy decided that "additional context" was needed, and revised the headline to "Death of a Southern Radical".
The original full text of the marker contained a brief description of Gregg's uncompromising stances on slavery and states' rights, and followed with a retelling of his final moments of battle.
The revision, as you might expect, leans more heavily into slavery, ignores states' rights, and changes the final line from:
"Two days later he died, having assured the governor of his state, “I yield my life cheerfully, fighting for the independence of South Carolina.”
to "Two days later he died, consumed by the war he helped provoke."
Hennessy is a full-bore revisionist, aligned with other subpar scholars such a Kevin Levin, who have been working for 40 years to overturn the agreed-upon interpretation of the Civil War. Mercifully, he's now retired, but there's nearly half-a-century of damage left in his wake to repair.
Infuriating.
Aedanus Burke retweeted
This is the kind of thing that drives me to a red rage.
In the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, the marker of the spot where Confederate General Maxcy Gregg was mortally wounded was updated in 2008.
Originally it was headlined "Death of Maxcy Gregg", but a pinhead named John Hennesssy decided that "additional context" was needed, and revised the headline to "Death of a Southern Radical".
The original full text of the marker contained a brief description of Gregg's uncompromising stances on slavery and states' rights, and followed with a retelling of his final moments of battle.
The revision, as you might expect, leans more heavily into slavery, ignores states' rights, and changes the final line from:
"Two days later he died, having assured the governor of his state, “I yield my life cheerfully, fighting for the independence of South Carolina.”
to "Two days later he died, consumed by the war he helped provoke."
Hennessy is a full-bore revisionist, aligned with other subpar scholars such a Kevin Levin, who have been working for 40 years to overturn the agreed-upon interpretation of the Civil War. Mercifully, he's now retired, but there's nearly half-a-century of damage left in his wake to repair.
Infuriating.
Many such cases
The funniest story on this comes from the end of the Civil War, when a leftist 48er officer from Germany started haranguing a Confederate officer descended from Founding stock and son of President Zachary Taylor, about "American values". Here's how Gen. Taylor described it:
"There was, as ever, a skeleton at the feast, in the person of a general officer who had recently left Germany to become a citizen and soldier of the United States. This person, with the strong accent and idioms of the Fatherland, comforted me by assurances that we of the South would speedily recognize our ignorance and errors […] and rejoice in the results of the war. […] I apologized meekly for my ignorance, on the ground that my ancestors had come from England to Virginia in 1608, and, in the short intervening period of two hundred and fifty-odd years, had found no time to transmit to me correct ideas of the duties of American citizenship. Moreover, my grandfather, commanding the 9th Virginia regiment in our Revolutionary army, had assisted in the defeat and capture of the Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and I lamented that he had not, by association with these worthies, enlightened his understanding. My friend smiled blandly, and assured me of his willingness to instruct me."
Aedanus Burke retweeted
My brother was in an SEC fraternity about 10-15 years ago and he told me, “We don’t fuckin care if he’s the coolest, richest dude from New Jersey. If he ain’t from down here, he ain’t getting in.”
Aedanus Burke retweeted
South Carolina has no need of upstate New Yorkers, Ohioans who think they're Conservative, Pittsburgh Yinzers who fell in love with Myrtle Beach, or New Jersey tax refugees.
You all may as well be Somali fraudsters, Indian help-desk workers and fresh-off-the-boat Muslims looking for sympathy in a new land.
I dont care for your bagels, greasy floppy pizzas or scrapple any more than I do the halal garbage the Somali immigrants crave.
Your Buffalo Bills team garb may as well be a hijab. Your stupid Buckeye banner may as well be a Palestine flag.
You're all invaders, as far as I'm concerned.
You can be South Carolinian when you renounce your previous state, Choose to be a Gamecock or a Tiger, and start eating fried chicken like decent people do.
Assimilate or beat it.
The House in the Horseshoe is near Carthage North Carolina. During the American Revolution it was the scene of a battle between Whigs and Tories led by David Fanning. The lady of the house negotiated a surrender and probably saved the defeated Whig’s lives.
Aedanus Burke retweeted
Well, would you have guessed that a Habsburg can also be a descendant of Lafayette, and thus a... Son of the 🇺🇸 American revolution?
Also, see you next time, D.C.!
Aedanus Burke retweeted
Per capita wealth in 1860 vs 1870. Tell me again what The War was really about …
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Red Hills and Cotton is far more than a piece of local history. I beseech you, Southerner- tolle lege. It is one of the clearest and most luminous distillations of Southern thought that I have encountered.
And certainly don’t neglect to read your Bible.
Four books that have heavily influenced my worldview:
- The Bible: The ultimate source of all truth. Nothing in this world can be properly understood if it is not viewed through the lense of the God’s Word. What’s more, by reading this book and believing what’s inside it, you already know how it ends, and the answer is- we’re going to win.
-I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition by Twelve Southerners: This is the Nashville Agrarians’ manifesto on the South and what it means to have an agrarian society. This does not mean everyone farms, but it means that connection to the land inspires everything, from the economy, to architecture, to education, to art, and beyond.
-A Republic, Not an Empire by Pat Buchanan: In this book, Buchanan lays out the America the Founders intended vs. the America that we have today, which was established in 1865 at Appomattox. Our Constitution and personal liberty itself is incompatible with an “Empire.” We must choose, are we a Republic, or are we an Empire? We cannot have both, and either choice will affect us directly.
- Red Hills and Cotton by Ben Robertson: This is a book that I firmly believe every Southerner should read. Other than the Bible, Robertson’s book has probably impacted me the most of any on this list. Through family stories and personal anecdotes, it addresses so many of the issues that we face in the South to this day, and what’s more, touches on what I view to be the Southern version of “The Good Life.” This book in many ways has shifted my personal perspective and even goals in life since reading it a few years ago.
Aedanus Burke retweeted
Sabine Hall, seat of the Carter family of Virginia, is one of the few old Virginia plantation homes to remain in family hands from colonial times into the present day.
"The manor-house of Sabine Hall, named presumably for the noted villa of Horace at Tivoli, is built on early Georgian lines, and was erected by King Carter for his son in 1730, since when it has passed direct from father to son. A clearly emphasized fact is that throughout its existence the plantation has remained in the possession of the original line of Carters; which is particularly gratifying, as in only too many beautiful old homesteads some stranger fills the Stuarts' throne."
-Manors of Virginia in Colonial Times by Edith Tunis Sale
