Authentic News with Jim Fetzer, February 6, 2026 Hour 1

“When the Constitution was adopted by the votes of States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.” (Henry Cabot Lodge; Daniel Webster (1888); chap. VI)

“The first act of secession dates as far back as 1789, when eleven of the States, becoming dissatisfied with the old articles of confederation made in 1778, seceded and formed a second union. When in 1861 eleven of the States again seceded and united themselves under the style of the Confederate States of North America, they exercised a right which required no justification….” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 144)

“I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy…. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.” (Lord Acton to Robert E. Lee, November 4, 1866)

“secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy”

“But I cannot agree that this Union cannot be dissolved. Am I to understand that no degree of oppression, no outrage, no broken faith can produce the destruction of this Union? Why, sir, if that becomes a fixed fact, it will itself become the greatest instrument of producing oppression, outrage, and broken faith. No, sir! the Union can be broken.” (John C. Calhoun; March 7, 1850 (The Old Guard; March 1864, p. 54))

“In 1828 the North put still heavier burdens upon the South, and proudly named its oppression ‘The American system,’ and plainly gave the South to understand that this system of southern depletion for northern plethora was one of the fixed institutions of the land. This system really divided the confederation into two sections—one of which was the recipient of constant increasing bounties from the government, and the other was compelled to pay them. It was a sharp financial war between the sections….” (The Old Guard, April 1865)

“If the South had been as restless and as factious in its character as we of the North, the conflict would have come in 1816, or in 1820, or in 1824, or in 1828—at any time after the inauguration of a system of federal legislation which was designed to enrich the North by robbing the South…. We had no right to expect that the Union would last, with one half making war upon the interests and institutions of the other half….

“[W]e [of the North] seek for conquest and plunder, and are willing to murder millions of men to satiate this unquenchable appetite.” (The Old Guard, April 1865)

“The right of secession is, of course, implicit in the Constitution and was properly recognized by the New Englanders when it coincided with their own financial interests…. Years later, with characteristically Puritanic hypocrisy, the same people, threatened with loss of their lucrative exploitation of the South, claimed that the Union was sacred and indissoluble, and they eventually found and elected a backwoods politician who was willing to ‘save the Union’ by a war of aggression that was fought with a barbarity that horrified the civilized world—and, when successful, spread a moral and mortal infection to Europe.” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell; Jan. 1987; “WHY THE CONSTITUTION FAILED”)

“a war of aggression that was fought with a barbarity that horrified the civilized world”

“A State is not the subject of the Federal Government. It is a sovereign body…. Judge Ellsworth, explaining the Constitution of the United States (which he helped to frame) … says: ‘This Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies—States in their political capacities; no coercion is applicable to such bodies.’ … A sovereign body may resume lent powers, but it cannot rebel. Surely the attempt of a State to resume its sovereign powers … is not rebellion. Those powers, in the language of Mr. Madison, the Father of the Constitution, were never surrendered, for, as he says: ‘a delegated is not a surrendered power.’ … The Union was created upon the voluntary principle. It can never stand upon any other…. There is a necessity, as unconditional as that of death, that this Union must perish the instant it ceases to be a voluntary bond of fraternal States. To attempt to keep it in existence by the sword, is to make war upon the fundamental principles of liberty and government established by our fathers…. There is no middle ground here. The war is the eternal destruction of the Union—is despotism—is death to the great principle of self-government established by Washington. It is a crime against liberty which admits of no action but that of uncompromising and implacable hostility to it.” (The Old Guard, April 1864, pp. 88–90)

“The documents we shall produce in this ‘History of Northern Disunion,’ prove, beyond dispute, that this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people. The spirit of hate aroused in New England against the South, because the Southern statesmen defeated their favorite notions of government, by giving supremacy to the Democratic principles, has never slumbered…. The seeds of the present civil strife were sown then by the mischievous hand of New England. These puritan malcontents have ever balanced between one of two determinations—either to murder the Union by setting up a Northern Confederacy, or to exterminate the white people of the South, and divide their fruitful lands between themselves and the negroes.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1864, p. 246)

“This is the temper of Puritanism…. When the Puritans obtained the control of Parliament, almost the first act they passed was one which doomed to death every man and woman who dared to oppose their opinions. Wherever it obtained power it inaugurated a reign of terror. At the same time, it cut off the heads of those who disputed it in Holland, burnt them alive at Geneva, drowned them in Zurich, and hanged them in England and Scotland. And all the time that they were committing these crimes against freedom, they took to themselves the title of ‘Friends of civil and religious liberty.’ … They bored holes through Quakers tongues with red hot irons at Boston, drowned the Baptists at Salem…. Governor John Endicott said to some harmless Quaker women who came from England to Boston: ‘Take heed that ye break not our ecclesiastical laws, for then ye are sure to stretch by the halter.’ …

“December 22d, 1662, Ann Coleman, Mary Tomkins, and Alice Ambrose, for being Quakers, were sentenced to be tied to the cart-tail, and whipped on their naked backs, through eleven towns, a distance of nearly eighty miles. Whatever disagreed with the opinions of the Puritans, was held as a crime to be punished with imprisonment and death. That is the moral temper of Puritanism still…. It has always been an element of discord and persecution on this Continent…. It burned down a Catholic Convent near Boston a few years ago.” (The Old Guard, March 1863, pp. 58–59)

“This party … elected Mr. Lincoln in 1860, according to the legal and outward form of the Constitution, though against the will and wishes of two-thirds of the American people. This combination of certain States against certain other States of the American Union … is the most astounding anomaly in the history of mankind, for, while preserving the forms of Union, it was in substance the most absolute disunion possible, and while acting within legal formulas, it aimed at a revolution, wider, deeper, and deadlier than any the world has ever yet witnessed.” (The Old Guard; February 1864, pp. 32–33)

“it aimed at a revolution, wider, deeper, and deadlier than any the world has ever yet witnessed.”

“The ranting and lying of the Abolitionists made possible the formation of the Republican Party, which was dominated and largely financed by many Jews, of whom the most important were the eight Seligman brothers….” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell; November 1984, page 5)

“A religious exchange attributes all the cruelties of this war to Adam’s fall…. We are more inclined to saddle Father Abraham with the whole thing.” (The Old Guard; February 1865, p. 96)

The States created FedGov to be their servant; FedGov didn’t create the States. Some of the States recalled the authority they had delegated to FedGov and formed a country named The Confederate States of America. This country had its own constitution, currency, etc. A Stalinist type named “Honest Abe” Lincoln assumed dictatorial powers in the north and launched a savage, satanic invasion of the C.S.A.

“Most Americans have no idea that Lincoln and [Karl] Marx corresponded…. When Lincoln was re-elected in 1864, Marx sent a congratulatory letter to Lincoln … and it basically says ‘We are fighting on the same side for the same thing.'” (archive.org/details/Duke.20180306)

“This new government, complete in all its parts, went smoothly and successfully into operation. The people were happy, justice was regularly administered, enterprise was stimulated, trade would have flourished, and prosperity overspread the land, but the people were early called away from these peaceful and profitable pursuits to employ their resources and energies in resisting a hostile invasion.” (The Old Guard, Dec. 1867, p. 947)

“The white population of New York and Pennsylvania was greater than that of the Confederate States. Manufacturing establishments of all descriptions rendered the North a self-sustaining people for all the requirements of peace or war, and, with these advantages, they retained those of an unrestricted commerce with foreign nations.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War)

“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 the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.” (H.L. Mencken)

“The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination”

“it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”

“What equitable reason can be assigned for the action of the Federal power in violently overthrowing the government of the late Confederate States, founded, as it was, on the consent of the governed, and fully answering all the purposes for which human governments are instituted? … If we conscientiously believe that the popular consent is a necessary condition of all legitimate government, how shall we justify the compulsory imposition of Federal authority on the southern people … ?” (The Old Guard; Dec. 1867, p. 942)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“The very principle of the war overthrows the Democratic idea of consent in government.” (The Old Guard, Jan. 1867, p. 41)

“To conquer, to subjugate, to wipe out one-third of the States, so far from saving the Union, would be precisely to destroy the Union. And it would be a destruction a thousand times worse than secession, because it would not only destroy one-third of the States, it would destroy the Federal Government itself, and substitute a State-annihilating, colony-holding despotism in its place.” (The Old Guard, Jan. 1864, p. 18)

“substitute a State-annihilating, colony-holding despotism in its place.”

“In a war of the Federal Government upon its sovereign makers and masters, the States, the pure Democracy was peace. The very moment it took a hand in such a war, it ceased to be Democracy. It went over to Plutocracy.” (The Old Guard, February 1868, p. 87)

“The greatest good of a people is their liberty. Liberty is to the collective body what health is to the individual. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man. Without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society. The obligation, therefore, to defend liberty is greater than all others…. Mr. Lincoln has forced upon Gen. Lee the honor … of fighting the battle of defensive liberty on this continent, while Lincoln and his party carry on a war of offensive despotism. Lincoln’s war is not upon the South alone; it is upon the North also. It is a war against a great principle—the principle of liberty and self-government.” (The Old Guard, August 1864, p. 190)

“Mr. Lincoln has forced upon Gen. Lee the honor … of fighting the battle of defensive liberty on this continent, while Lincoln and his party carry on a war of offensive despotism.”

“I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization”

The Yankee soldiers did such an incredibly poor job of defending their country. They ignominiously failed to capture Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Paris.

“Are you out of your mind?” you say. “There were no armies from those cities trying to conquer the Northern states.”

“Are you out of your mind?” I say. “There were no armies from the Southern states trying to conquer the Northern states. It was not a civil war. The Confederacy was simply defending itself from savage, satanic invading armies.”

Here’s what I would have said to the psychopathic Yankee punks in “Honest Abe’s” army.

“You want to serve and defend your states? Here’s what you have to do to ensure the safety and freedom of your states and yourselves. Go home. Understand? Stop being grovelling lickspittles and murderous slaves of a Marxist regime. Return to your homes and shoot anyone who tries to stop you. Then rid your states of the minions of FedGov.”

But, of course, those punk-monkeys were far, far too mindless and cowardly to do that. Those punk-monkeys didn’t really want to serve and defend their states. They just wanted to make sure that their satanic lord, “Honest Abe”, didn’t frown at them. They were the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible.

“Lincoln’s war is … upon the North also. It is a war against a great principle—the principle of liberty and self-government.”

“Lincoln’s ghastly war against the South … startled Europe by its bloody barbarity, so outrageous that Lord Palmerston for some time refused to believe the news from the United States, saying that such savagery was impossible for civilized men.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Beginning of the End”; Liberty Bell, Aug. 1988)

Satanic.

“A leading organ of public opinion—of Northern, or New England public opinion—says: ‘We have the power to subjugate, or to annihilate, the South, and one or the other we are going to do.’ This programme is plainly announced. No robber ever stated his point more boldly; and we suppose we must take it as a correct declaration of New England morality. The principle, though shocking, has the merit of simplicity. Let us test it in another relation. A man may say, ‘I have the power to whip my father and to beat my mother, and I am going to do it.’ This may suit New England politics, and New England Christianity, but can it pass for an enlightened public morality? The question is not what we have the power to do, but what we have the right to do.” (The Old Guard, Feb. 1865, p. 49)

“to subjugate, or to annihilate, the South”

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

Satanic.

“They called this bloody strife a ‘war for the Union.’ That was the stupendous fraud. There is, there can be, no war for the Union. War is necessarily and inevitably disunion. It is a cutting away of the fraternal tie, the voluntary bonds, that make union. Thus sundered, the Union is gone, and what remains is a mass of States standing in their original separate sovereignty….

“[They] have at last dropped the hypocritical cry of war for the Union, and have boldly run up their own true black and piratical flag of war for subjugation and extermination….

“‘The South shall be destroyed!’ is the hellish watchword inscribed upon the black banners of the Republican party. ‘The South shall be destroyed!’ is the damnable eloquence of Congress. ‘The South shall be destroyed,‘ is the brutal jargon of the pulpits! ‘The South shall be destroyed,‘ is the cry of slavering ignorance in the streets! These accursed words of barbarism are everywhere belching forth like hot flame out of the bottomless pit.” (The Old Guard, July 1864, pp. 146–147)

“war for subjugation and extermination”

“The South shall be destroyed!”

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

Satanic.

“The German writer correctly describes the aggression against the Southern states as ‘one of the most dreadful wars in the history of the world’…. The German author, by the way, perceives the hypocrisy of the pretense that the South was invaded ‘to save the Union.’ That pretext reminds one of the man who had religious scruples against divorce and accordingly saved his marriage by murdering his wife.” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell, Feb. 1992; “TO SEE OURSELVES”)

“saved his marriage by murdering his wife.”

Satanic.

“This malevolent and venomous spirit … pervaded … Northern society. It was not only the utterance of such mobs as, in New York city, adopted as their war-cry against the South, ‘kill all the inhabitants,’ it found expression in the political measures, military orders, and laws of the government; it invaded polite society, and was taught not only as an element of patriotism, but as a virtue of religion.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 88)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

Satanic.

“‘[W]hen any female shall by word, gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.’

“This in essence was a ‘right to rape’ order which he [General Butler] issued to his troops…. Palmerston, the British Prime Minister, wrote to Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister in London the following concerning Butler’s order:

“‘I will venture to say that no example can be found in the history of civilized nations till the publication of this order of a general guilty in cold blood of so infamous an act as deliberately to hand over the female inhabitants of a conquered city to the unbridled license of an unrestrained soldiery.‘” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“no example can be found in the history of civilized nations till [this of handing] … over the female inhabitants of a conquered city to the unbridled license of an unrestrained soldiery.”

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

Satanic.

“On July 8, the entire town, including the homes of the workers, was burned to the ground. Having destroyed the entire town, only the population remained, most of them women and children with a few men. The women and children were separated from the men and herded into wagons. The wagon train then set off for Marietta, Georgia, some 16 miles away. During the journey the women were forced to endure the sexual advances of the Union soldiers. [They were raped.] In Marietta the group was joined by a similar group of deported women from Roswell, Georgia. On July 20, the entire group of women and children were shipped by train from Georgia to Louisville, Kentucky. Not one woman or child is known to have returned to New Manchester.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“The Yankee—who has followed up an extravagance of bluster by the vilest exhibitions of cowardice—who has falsified his prate of humanity by the deeds of a savage—who, in the South, has been in this war a robber, an assassin, a thief in the night, and at home a slave fawning on the hand that manacles him—has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 303)

“a robber, an assassin, a thief in the night, and … a slave fawning on the hand that manacles him”

Satanic.

“The despatches found on the body of Col. Dahlgren, who was killed near Richmond, will be quoted in disgrace of the name of the United States as long as our name shall last. They prove that the object of the last ‘raid on Richmond’ was to set fire to the city, full of women and children, without notice, and to murder its inhabitants…. This is not warfare; it is assassination. By the laws of war all who were taken in the act of attempting to execute such a plot were liable to be treated, not as prisoners of war, but as spies and assassins. Their lives were forfeited, if the Confederates had chosen to adhere strictly to the laws of war.” (The Old Guard, April 1864, p. 95)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“a robber, an assassin, a thief in the night, and … a slave fawning on the hand that manacles him”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“The Anglo-Saxon population of the whole western tier of counties in Missouri were deported from their homes by General Ewing’s General Order Number 11, which depopulated the region by forcibly evacuating the women and children on the shortest of notice, along with burning their houses and stealing their property.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

And remember that Missouri was not even part of the Confederacy.

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“Sherman used Southern prisoners of war to clear mine fields by marching them back and forth across land outside Savannah where mines were suspected. Southern prisoners were also herded in front of Northern emplacements under Confederate artillery fire so as to force Southerners to fire on their own men. Thus in the siege of Charleston, 50 Confederate officers were placed in a holding pen in front of Fort Wagner on Morris Island, so as to expose them to the fire of Confederate batteries shelling the Northern positions.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“Southern prisoners of war also seemed to have escaped Lincoln’s much acclaimed magnanimity. The death rate of Southern prisoners in Northern prison camps was much higher than the rate of Northern prisoners in Southern P.O.W. camps. To this disparity must be added the fact that the North could not claim lack of food or medicine as a reason for the horrifying high death rate in the prisons. In fact, the North refused to permit the shipment of medicine or food to Union prisoners in Southern hands. Jefferson Davis offered to pay two or three times the market price for medicine in commodities such as cotton, tobacco, or even gold for the exclusive use of Northern prisoners, to be dispensed by Northern surgeons. This offer was ignored by Lincoln. Finally, the Confederates offered to release 13,000 of the most desperate cases without an equivalent exchange by the Lincoln government. The Lincoln administration waited from August to October to collect the prisoners. After they were released, atrocity photographs of the men were circulated in the North to show how the typical prisoner in Southern hands was supposedly treated.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

Satanic.

“The most appalling stories, the most horrible lies, of ‘southern barbarity,’ were invented, and published in a hundred newspapers…. The brutal acts of the Abolitionists were published as the deeds of Southerners, and an army of correspondents … kept busy at the vile work of manufacturing instances of southern cruelty.” (The Old Guard, Jan. 1864, p. 4)

“The city of Atlanta, after its surrender, was burned to the ground, and only a handful of churches and a few outlying residences escaped the holocaust…. Captain Daniel Oakey of the Second Massachusetts Volunteers recounted the burning of Atlanta as follows: ‘Sixty thousand of us witnessed the destruction of Atlanta, while our post band and that of the 33rd Massachusetts played martial airs and operatic selections.'” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“‘Straggling through the country, and stealing every thing that they can lay their hands on, (says the correspondent,) whether of use or not to them, goes on. Helpless women and children are robbed of their clothes and bedding, their provisions taken from them, and by men who have no earthly use for them whatever.’ …

“‘A private letter received here not long since, from a soldier in one of our western armies, states that their march South was characterized by acts of vandalism, and wanton outrage, and fiendish cruelty disgraceful to a civilized people. Burning houses, desolated fields, and homeless households marked their path; while unlicensed robbery, indiscriminate plunder, and, not unfrequently, assassination completed the woeful picture presented by an invading army, which appeared to be without restraint, and whose only purpose would seem to be … to burn, pillage, and destroy as it went.‘

“Men who behave in this manner are not soldiers, but brigands…. It is painful to publish such things; but the people ought to know them, in order that they may understand why it is that the Southern people fight with such unnatural desperation, and why they have come to entertain such a sincere horror of Northern people. Generals who allow these crimes on the part of their soldiers, it is certain, are not fighting to restore the Union….” (The Old Guard, September 1863, pp. 234–235)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“Before the torches in the hands of his troops, houses, barns, mills, farming implements, all disappeared in flame. Women and children were seen flying by the light of burning dwellings; corn, wheat, and forage—the only supplies left the inhabitants—were seized or destroyed; the very ploughs and rakes were broken up, and rendered useless. From the women, greybeards, and children, threatened with starvation, went up a cry to God for vengeance on the author of this enormity.

“‘I have destroyed,’ said General Sheridan, in his official report, ‘two thousand barns filled with wheat and hay, and farming implements; over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over four thousand head of stock; and have killed and issued to the troops not less than three thousand sheep. This destruction embraces the Luray Valley, and the Little Fort Valley, as well as the main valley.'” (The Old Guard; Dec. 1867, p. 893)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“Among things cited by Burke Davis in The Long Surrender was the fact that after the Battle of Sharpsburg in Maryland, the Northerners announced that they would not permit anyone to accord Christian burials to the Southern soldiers of war—they ordered the bodies to be left out to rot and to decompose. Only after the rot had gotten to the point where the public’s health was being endangered were the rotted remains scooped together and buried in unmarked common ground.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

Satanic.

“Likewise, after the war … the North posted soldiers at military cemeteries to prevent Southern women from putting flowers on the graves of their deceased husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

Satanic.

“If the northern States have a right to conquer the southern, then the southern States have also a right to conquer the northern, and so there is nowhere a principle of security, safety and rest. If we have a right to steal their spoons, and smash to pieces their pianos, to burn their dwellings and destroy their private property, they have the same right to do the same to us, and there the terrible doctrine hangs like a murderer’s sword over our heads, and the heads of our children, for all generations. The people of South Carolina have as much right to burn Boston, as the people of Massachusetts had to burn Charleston.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1867, p. 804)

“The people of South Carolina have as much right to burn Boston, as the people of Massachusetts had to burn Charleston.”

“Never, until we relinquish all right to coerce sovereign and co-equal sister States, shall we begin the work of restoration. That is precisely the point for which those States are contending—the right not to be coerced, not to be plundered, not to be murdered, whenever the Federal Government chooses. That point must be settled, and settled against the monstrous claims of the Federal Government, before there can be, or ought to be, any peace. Peace means simply a withdrawal of our invading armies. That, and that alone, is peace. Any other programme for peace is either a delusion or a fraud.” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1864, p. 206)

“the right not to be coerced, not to be plundered, not to be murdered, whenever the Federal Government chooses”

“Peace means simply a withdrawal of our invading armies.”

“I went to a Lieut.-Colonel … and asked him what he expected me to do; they had left me no provisions at all, and I had a large family, and my husband was away from home. His reply was short and pointed—‘Starve, and be damned, madam.’ … They hunted for whisky and money—their search proving fruitless, they loaded themselves with our clothing, bedding, &c.; broke my dishes; stole my knives and forks; broke open my trunks and chests, and took everything they could lay their hands on…. Then they came with their torches to burn our house, the last remaining building they had left. That was too much; all my pride … forsook me at the awful thought of my home in ruins…. I looked over the crowd, as they huddled together to give orders about the burning, for one face that showed a trace of feeling, or an eye that beamed with a spark of humanity, but finding none, I approached the nearest group, and, pointing to the children, I said, ‘you will not burn the house, will you? You drove these little children from one home and took possession of it, and this is the only remaining sheltering place they have.’ ‘You may thank your God, madam,’ said one of the ruffians, ‘that we have left you and your d—d brats with heads to be sheltered.’” (Mrs. Ricks (The Old Guard, August 1864, p. 171))

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“[T]he Second Massachusetts negro infantry, 700 strong, Col. Draper, a white man, commanding, with one hundred white cavalry, … started for the Northern Neck….

“On the route six negroes violated the person of Mrs. G. eleven times, she being the wife of a soldier of the Ninth Virginia cavalry….

“Where they went they were led by their officers and told, ‘You can go loose and do as you please.’” (The Old Guard, September 1864, p. 200)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“‘Two weeks ago 300 rebels passed 7 miles south of Waynesboro at night. At daybreak, 2 rebel prisoners were brought in. I felt much chagrin that the pickets had brought in the 2 and I reprimanded … [the lieutenant] for not having obeyed my orders and yours which were to bring in no prisoners. Lieutenant Kerr … took the 2 prisoners out of the guard tent and shot them dead.‘” (www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org/the-rebel-and-the-renegade-roundtable-w-mike-gaddy-steven-douglas-whitener-november-23-2025 ; 35:51)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

The men of the South who fought to defend their country and their states from a savage invading army of psychopathic punk-monkeys weren’t “rebels”. The states created FedGov to be their servant; FedGov didn’t create the states. A creator cannot rebel against its creature. A master cannot rebel against his servant. The Southern states simply reclaimed the powers that they had temporarily delegated to FedGov; they didn’t “rebel”.

“Since these are the latest recognized rules of civilized warfare, can we wonder that all Europe agree in expressions of surprise and horror at the barbarities we have perpetrated upon the people of the South, from the very commencement of this war? Our army correspondents, who have written for the New York Times, Tribune, and Herald, have spread a knowledge of our brutality and barbarism broadcast over the whole world. A correspondent in Grant’s army, for the New York Tribune, in a letter published June 20th, gives the following between Gen. Butler’s Chief of Staff and a negro sergeant:

“‘Well,’ said Gen. Butler’s Chief of Staff to a tall sergeant, ‘you had a pretty tough fight there on the left.’ ‘Yes, sir; and we lost a good many good officers and men.’ ‘How many prisoners did you take, sergeant?’ ‘Not any alive, sir,’ was the significant response. Gen. Smith says, ‘They don’t give my Provost Marshal the least trouble, and I don’t believe they contribute toward filling any of the hospitals with Rebel wounded.’

“The amount of all this is that Butler’s Chief of Staff and the New York Tribune chuckle over the account the ebony devil gives of murdering wounded soldiers. It is a source of delight to them that these negroes take no prisoners, but assassinate their victims in cold blood. In any other country such acts would be punished with death; here, in this land demonized with the implacable, the hellish spirit of Abolitionism, they are sources of delight to all who keep company with the Republican party.” (The Old Guard, August 1864, pp. 172–173)

“all Europe agree in expressions of surprise and horror at the barbarities we have perpetrated upon the people of the South”

“have spread a knowledge of our brutality and barbarism broadcast over the whole world.”

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

Satanic.

“At Palmyra, in Missouri, General McNeil murdered, in cold blood, ten soldiers of the Confederacy [prisoners of war]…. President Davis ordered by telegraph the execution in retaliation, of ten Yankee prisoners…. [T]he telegraphic order was never executed; … and the Palmyra massacre was … unavenged….” (Edward A. Pollard; The Third Year of the War (1864); p. 199)

Satanic.

“Before the eyes of Europe the mask of civilization had been taken from the Yankee war; it degenerated into unbridled butchery and robbery.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 88)

“this Northern party has been industriously at work ever since 1790 to frame excuses for murdering the Southern people.”

Satanic.

On the part of the North, the war was pure, monstrous, satanic aggression.

On the part of the South, the war was purely defensive.

“Japan was not really ‘opened’ to foreign commerce until after a British fleet had bombarded the city of Kagoshima and reduced it to rubble, and another British fleet, with a few American, French, and Dutch vessels added to make it seem international, levelled Shimonoseki in 1864….” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Yellow Peril”)

The Yankees and the English sailed halfway around the world in 1864 to destroy a city in a country that was no threat to them, a country that had no modern weapons with which to defend itself.

Imagine this. After the shelling of their city begins, a Japanese couple and their little girl hastily seek shelter in their cellar. As the bombardment continues, the girl hears the yelping of her terrified puppy who is tied up in the yard. Before her parents can stop her, she runs outside to rescue him. A Yankee with a telescope in the crow’s-nest of his ship sees her and yells to the crew, “A little Jap bitch thinks she’s going to save her dog! Come on, men! Give her hell!” As she is carrying her pet and running back to the cellar, she is brought down by a piece of shrapnel in her guts. As she lies screaming in agony, the Yankee yells triumphantly, “She’s down! The Jap bitch is down!” And then all of the Yankees on the ship laugh and spontaneously begin singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

“She’s down! The Jap bitch is down!”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

Satanic.

“Under the reign of Lincoln, everybody who opposed him was hunted down with the most merciless tyranny; they were thrown into bastiles, by telegraphic despatches, without any form of law, their property destroyed, and, in many instances, the most blameless citizens murdered.” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1867, p. 649)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

Satanic.

“Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus throughout the nation. He assumed the power to close newspapers and in fact closed hundreds of them in the North which dared criticize his policies. He arrested elected officials, including former members of Congress, who opposed him.” (Sam Dickson, “Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln”)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“At a recent Lincoln campaign meeting in the village of West Hoboken, N.J., the speaker said: ‘We have to complain of Mr. Lincoln that he has not built a bastile in every school district, and erected a gallows at the corner of every street in the North, to punish the opposers of his government.‘ This speech was applauded by the Republican crowd that listened to it.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1864, p. 264)

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

“All vestiges of constitutional liberty have long ago been lost in the North. The very term of ‘State rights’ is mentioned with derision … and the forms and ceremonies of a republic are the disguises of a cruel and reckless despotism.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); pp. 303, 304)

“In Mr. Lincoln’s letter, attempting to vindicate his arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, he says:—‘Arrests are made not so much for what has been done, as for what probably would be done.‘ … The American people have made themselves the wonder and the laughingstock of all Europe that they have so tamely submitted to such an intolerable despotism….” (The Old Guard, June 1863, p. 142)

“made themselves the wonder and the laughingstock of all Europe”

“Mr. Lincoln has undertaken to use his provost-marshals as a local police all over the country, who have set aside the laws and officers of the States, even to the regulation of the kind of preaching to be had in the churches. These provost-marshals have imprisoned or banished ministers for refusing to pray for Lincoln. They have driven congregations out of their pews and closed the doors of the church, for the crime of keeping silence upon the question of the war.” (The Old Guard, May 1864, p. 106)

“The Mentor, a literary and political paper published at Kittanning, Pa., in a late issue appeared in mourning. The editor says:

“‘We are in black to-day to remind our democratic friends that

“1. The Union of the States is destroyed.

“2. That the Constitution of our country is trampled upon and despised.

“3. That the freedom of Speech and of the Press is gone.

“4. That the security of Property, Reputation, and Life is gone.

“5. And that the Party which has wrought all this seeks to perpetuate itself by a Reign of Terror.‘

“The Republicans of that village kept the night of Lincoln’s fast-day by breaking into and destroying the office of the Mentor.” (The Old Guard, June 1863, p. 144)

“Mr. [Jeremiah] Mason is regarded, after Daniel Webster, as the ablest lawyer and statesman which New England has produced. In his great speech showing the unconstitutionality of conscription, he uttered the following defiant language:

“‘In my opinion, this system of military conscription, thus recommended by the Secretary of War, is not only inconsistent with the spirit and provisions of the Constitution, but also with all the principles of civil liberty.

“‘Such a measure cannot, it ought not to, be submitted to. If it could in no other way be averted, I not only believe, but I hope, it would be resisted. The most odious and cruel slavery would be the inevitable consequence of submission.‘” (The Old Guard, May 1864, p. 112)

“Governor Brough, of Ohio, in his late message states that more than twenty thousand men have fled from Ohio to save themselves from the draft. He says in many places ‘there are not men enough left to fill the quotas.’ The same we know to be true of some townships in New Jersey. It is an awful sight to see men fleeing from their homes to avoid being seized by ‘the government,’ and dragged away to be murdered for the benefit of negroes. A sight which ought to make the cheek of every American burn with shame! The man who can glory in such a state of things deserves a halter or a straight jacket.” (The Old Guard, April 1865, p. 190)

“The negroes have first rate tents with stoves in them —get soft bread to eat most of the time, and don’t have to do night work. The white men have no stoves, have to eat hard tack, and do night work…. I do not believe we will have an abolitionist in our regiment when we go home, although there were plenty when we came here. A white man in this army cannot go anywhere, nor get anything, while a negro goes where he pleases, and gets whatever he wants. The negroes are paid every month, while there are plenty of regiments here which have not been paid a cent in six months.” (The Old Guard, February 1863, p. 36)

“A soldier in Gen. Grant’s division writes to his sister in Williamsburg that: ‘God knows I am sick and ashamed of this army, if any such a mob of thieving marauding vagabonds ought to be called an army. You would blush for human nature if I could with decency tell you things which I have seen. I want you to see —- and get him to use his influence with —- to procure me a furlough to go home long enough to recruit my health, for if I do not I shall die. If I was a negro I could go wherever I asked; but I am a white man and must be left to die without pity. It serves me right, for a white man has no business here, stealing, burning houses and fighting for niggers.'” (The Old Guard, February 1863, p. 36)

“Of forty-one men drafted in Clinton County, Michigan, thirty-two have escaped to Canada….” (The Old Guard, May 1863, p. 117)

“[T]his provision of the Constitution has been cruelly violated by the administration, by withholding from the victims of its persecution ‘the right of a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury’: for it has criminally refused any form of trial for months, while the accused were dying in prisons pleading to be tried, and demanding in vain to know what were the charges against them, and who were their accusers. And, whenever a trial did come, it was not by jury, but by a ‘military commission’ appointed by the President, and which conducted its mockings of justice in secret, without allowing the accused to be present, or to call a single witness in his defence.” (The Old Guard, Jan. 1863, p. 16)

“But the ballot has not been left to the people of Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware. There the people have been forced to vote, if they voted at all, with thousands of gleaming bayonets pointed at their breasts…. In New Hampshire and Connecticut the last elections were carried by federal soldiers, picked out and sent home for that purpose. In Wisconsin, after the election by legal voting had been carried against the usurpers at Washington, the results were reversed by illegal and fraudulent votes returned from the federal army. The same thing is to be attempted in Ohio, to defeat the popular choice there. It is to be carried out in every State where there is a republican government to aid the stupendous treason.” (The Old Guard, Aug. 1863, p. 198)

“Even before he [Lincoln] reaches the Capital, he pretends to discover a plot to destroy him on his way by rail at night from Harrisburgh. That was when he made his grand entrance into Washington like a thief, disguised in a Scotch cap and cloak…. But the trick was so bunglingly played that everybody … laughed at the too palpable fraud; for he sent his wife and children on the doomed train that was to be thrown off the track for the purpose of dashing him to pieces.” (The Old Guard; March 1864, p. 63)

“We compelled you [‘Honest Abe’] to take an oath to support and obey the Constitution. How have you kept that oath? Let the thousands of citizens thrown into your abolition dungeons, in violation of the constitution, answer. Let the suspended courts of justice answer. Let the incarcerated Judges answer. Let imprisoned clergymen answer. Let violated women answer. Let a bleeding and dying nation answer.” (The Old Guard, June 1863, p. 139)

“Mr. Lincoln professes to an admiring clergyman that he ‘will submit to any sacrifice for the good of the country.’ Then let him submit himself to be hanged without delay.” (The Old Guard, Oct. 1864, p. 237)

“Then let him submit himself to be hanged”

“He [Lincoln], and the instruments of his tyranny, would long since have fallen by the hands of some of those whom he has illegally seized and plunged into bastiles, but for the earnest counsel of friends who thought it better to endure until, under a new Administration, redress could be had by law. It was for the sake of the peace of society, and the preservation of property, and not from any idea that Lincoln had not forfeited his right to live, that such counsel was given. He has made himself an outlaw by systematically overthrowing the Constitution, and denying the protection of the laws to the victims of his oppression.” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1864, p. 196)

“There is not a nation on earth that does not despise or laugh at us. The loudest in our boasts of freedom, we have patiently crouched under a despotism that no other people endure….

“Abraham Lincoln is a patricide. He has tried to kill his country…. He has made places for five hundred thousand more office-holders than this government ever knew before. He has trampled under his feet every clause of the Constitution that guarantees our most sacred personal rights…. For every man that voted for him in 1860, he has sacrificed a life. He has sent a corpse into almost every family in the land…. Personally he is a Satyr; socially, a goul. And yet it may be questioned if Abraham Lincoln … is not behind his party in the more positive qualities of brutality and vice. Unless they belie themselves, they are burning with a cannibal thirst for the blood of every Democrat in the land. They never open their mouths but to malign and threaten us…. If they are not assassins to-day, they profess that they will be to-morrow. They talk as familiarly of hanging us as they do of eating their daily bread. If we do not hold them to be braggarts and cowards, we must be ready to defend our lives from the murderer’s hand at every hour of the day and night.” (The Old Guard, Dec. 1864, p. 274)

“Abraham Lincoln is a patricide. He has tried to kill his country.”

“There is not a nation on earth that does not despise or laugh at us.”

“we have patiently crouched under a despotism that no other people endure”

“Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the greatest and bloodiest rebellion ever recorded in the annals of mankind. His whole course was a rebellion, or a war, against not only the fundamental principles of liberty, but it was a war upon civilization and upon society. His generals not only plundered private property, but they murdered nonbelligerent and unarmed people, not even sparing women and children.” (The Old Guard, June 1867, p. 460)

Satanic.

“[I]n four brief years [Lincoln] did more evil to mankind than the worst man that ever lived accomplished in a lifetime. The cause he led is the most unnatural, impious, and sinful that has ever afflicted the world, and the means of its accomplishment the vilest, most dishonest, and devilish that ever degraded our race, or stained the earth since time began.

“It is always so—an evil cause necessarily employs evil means….

“On the contrary, the real (though not assumed) cause, led by Jefferson Davis, is the noblest, most beneficent, true, and glorious cause that men ever battled for on this earth, and the means employed were the grandest, most Christian, and chivalrous ever witnessed in the world’s history.

“In short, on one side was untruth, impiety, and crime against God as well as His creatures, nameless and unfathomable, and its success the ruin of liberty, republicanism, Christianity itself, all that men have battled for and hoped for, for a thousand years, while that upheld by Mr. Davis was founded by Washington and rendered a glorious success for nearly a century, and which, if lost now, all is lost, our institutions, liberty, and indeed civilization itself, for several centuries to come.” (The Old Guard, Nov. 1867, p. 844)

“did more evil to mankind than the worst man that ever lived accomplished in a lifetime.”

“By supporting the war, the Democratic party blindly entered into a conspiracy against its own life. It helped to guide the assassin’s hand to its own throat. It made itself a party to the overthrow of the State Governments, and consequently to the enslavement of the citizen….

“A Democratic member of Congress said to Mr. Lincoln, ‘I shall vote you all the men and money you want, and then I mean to hold you responsible for the use you make of them.’ ‘Well,’ replied the mountebank wit, ‘you give me all the men and all the money I want, and I will whip the rebels and you too.'” (The Old Guard, Feb. 1868, p. 82)

The satanic tyrant openly promised to use the army against the Democrats in Congress as well as against the sovereign Southern states.

“Only in a community, demoralized and debased by the vices of war, and the lusts of illegal power, could a monument to such a man as Lincoln long stand to insult the sunlight and blast the vision of decent men!” (The Old Guard, Sep. 1867, p. 650)

“The following resolution, read by a leading clergyman of the Methodist Church, at the late annual session of that body, is a fair specimen of the intelligence of the now dominant political party of our country:

“‘Resolved, That all government is based upon the religious ideas of those who carry it on, and that the Northern Methodists have acquired by conquest the right to control the religion of the South. That it is just as wrong to allow the Southern Methodists to meet and worship in their way as it would be to allow Lee and Johnston to call together and drill their armies again. They will soon be prohibited from so doing. The religion of the North is bound to rule this continent, and it proposes to make a proper application of our Bible to all the Southern States and people. A subjugated people have no more right to apply their own peculiar moral ideas, than to use their physical implements of war.‘” (The Old Guard, August 1868, p. 561)

“the Northern Methodists have acquired by conquest the right to control the religion of the South“

“the everlasting contempt of the world.”

Satanic.

“Then, how can we do otherwise than to look with pity, to say nothing of contempt, upon these southern men, who so weakly, so ignorantly, or so infamously concede that they lost the rights of their States in the war? No right was lost in the war. No right can ever be lost by war. Wrongs may win, but defeated right is not lost. Its principle is eternal. It is the same in defeat or victory.” (The Old Guard; Dec. 1867, p. 885)

“In one word, the work of this war must be cancelled, must be wiped out, must be repented of and repudiated, or the Union and the Government of our fathers must be acknowledged as gone forever.” (The Old Guard, February 1868, p. 87)

“And when the war that had appalled civilized mankind was over and the bandits who brazenly called themselves a ‘Republican Party’ imposed on the conquered and prostrate South the vengeance for their own crimes that they called ‘Reconstruction,’ there were many Americans who still had a conscience and some sense of human decency, but they were obliged to acquiesce, at least by silence, in the national hypocrisy….” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Beginning of the End”; Liberty Bell, Aug. 1988)

Dear reader, please don’t forget. The world’s contempt and hatred for the Yankees who inflicted this satanic war on the South—and for their posterity—must be everlasting.

“Mr. Lincoln has proved that we neither understood nor respected liberty. We no more understood, no more appreciated liberty than the submissive slaves of despotism did two thousand years ago….

“We have seen citizens, our respected neighbors and friends, handcuffed, dragged through these streets, to bastiles. We asked what crime? Who accused them? What witnesses had they? When were they tried? The answer was, there was nothing of all these—there was a dispatch from Washington. We said, ‘it is well—let us go to Crook & Duff’s, and drink!’ Then it is after that fashion, O, boasters and varlets, that you love liberty! All hail, Lincoln, that he has torn the mask from your cowardly faces, and shown yourselves and the world what dastard stuff you are made of!” (The Old Guard, June 1864, p. 144)

“In every age where a people is found fit to wear chains, a class will spring up to put them on.… [H]elp us to laugh at fools, who still prate of freedom under their chains!—who talk of national honor out of the very bowels of crime! … —who, delighting in human blood, … think they are ‘advancing to a higher civilization!’ … Widow and orphan makers calling themselves ‘philanthropists!’ Ministers of Christ doing the work of Satan! … The people supporting a war that devours them by conscriptions! … Why foolishly expose ourselves to the heels of an ass, or vainly attempt to enlighten his intellect? Let the ass go its ways; and, in the meantime, I will sit down here and laugh.” (The Old Guard, April 1865, p. 187)

“History has some instances of the servile and unnatural joys of a people in the surrender of their liberties; but none grosser than that in which has been inaugurated the throne of Abraham Lincoln at Washington.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 302)