Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on Secession

April 11, 2012 Hunter Wallace Uncategorized 7

South Carolina

H/T Palmetto Patriot

The celebration of Confederate History Month 2012 continues:

“I am a secessionist – I am a disunionist. Others may submit: I will not. I will secede, if I can, from this Union. I will test, for myself and for my children, whether South Carolina is a State or an humbled and degraded province, existing only at the mercy of an unscrupulous and fanatical tyranny.”

Few people understand how the discourse of Confederate nationalism evolved over the intervening 147 years into the present day incarnation of White separatism. The core elements are the same: the culture of honor, voluntary union, the siege mentality, radicalized white supremacy, revolutionary conservatism, etc.

Robert Toombs:

“They say, and well say: This is our question; we want no negro equality, no negro citizenship; we want no mongrel race to degrade our own; and as one man they would meet you on the border with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other. They would drive you from our borders, and make you walk over the blighted ruins of our fair land.”

Alexander Stephens:

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

Is this Derb or Stephens?

“We have heard much of the higher law. I believe myself in the higher law. We stand upon that higher law. I would defend and support no Constitution that is against the higher law. I mean by that the law of nature and of God.”

It is the direct ancestor of so much that exists today.

The fantasy of negro equality that underpins all of BRA will always be in an irrepressible conflict with the laws of nature or the laws of reality. It is on the same level of absurdity as a constitution based on the repudiation of gravity.

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6 Comments

  1. The Confederates might still have a country had they realized that Black Slavery, though it might not have been all that bad for the blacks, was in the long term death for whites-because no two peoples, no two interfertile species of any type, can exist on the same territory without eventual mixing and the elimination of both as distinct species.

    Cats and dogs can coexist, because they can’t interbreed. As a practical matter they can’t even copulate. I’ll spare delicate sensibilities the details, but although they share a similar gross anatomy within the sexes, the mechanics would be most awkward, and the mating triggers so different they wouldn’t recognize them. But all of the various species called human can interbreed.

    Physical separation is the only long term answer.

  3. We should have shipped the slaves back across the pond and then enslaved the Yankees.

    Preferably directly after the Revolutionary war. If any race on planet earth deserves perpetual enslavement, it is the Puritan Northeasterner and their faggotty SWPL progeny.

  4. Hobby, put yourself in the time and place of the Confederates and you’ll understand why they acted as they did. They didn’t create the situation, they inherited it.

    Eric, I may have a crush on you.

  5. Stephens:

    This principle of the subordination of the inferior to the superior was the “corner-stone” on which it was formed. I used this metaphor merely to illustrate the firm convictions of the framers of the new Constitution that this relation of the black to the white race, which existed in 1787, was not wrong in itself, either morally or politically; that it was in conformity to nature and best for both races. I alluded not to the principles of the new Government on this subject, but to public sentiment in regard to these principles. The status of the African race in the new Constitution was left just where it was in the old; I affirmed and meant to affirm nothing else in this Savannah speech.

    My own opinion of slavery, as often expressed, was that if the institution was not the best, or could not be made the best, for both races, looking to the advancement and progress of both, physically and morally, it ought to be abolished.

    http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/cw/cw223.htm

  6. Bill: I’m telling you, this is what happens when natural slaves rule over natural masters. SWPLs love blacks because they identify with them, they are natural slaves given to their passions and insecurities, hell bent on crushing and defiling their natural betters: white men. White. Men.

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