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In today’s increasingly politically correct environment, there is much ado about Southern Heritage. Oh yes, the
liberals and politically correct go to any lengths to provide you with a proper education on this subject, an education very
carefully crafted to suit their agendas. And one that sadly hides and obscures the principles upon which these united States
were founded. But how many of you, have given some thought as to what the actual truth is on some of these issues? Are you
satisfied to settle for such a self-serving education, especially when it is being taught to your children and
grandchildren?
To cover the entire subject would take volumes so lets start with just one facet, one that is very relevant to your
day to day life and has a great bearing on the world that you will leave to your future generations. What
is the Role of the federal government?
Perhaps a good place to start looking for some truth would be with Thomas Jefferson. Not only did this Southern Man
pen the Declaration of Independence, but he was elected as our third President and had the opportunity to
practice the very ideas that were the basis of the Independence of the seceding Colonies. Lets take a look at part of his
First State of The Union Address at the end of his first year in office:
“When
we consider that this Government is charged with the external and mutual relations only of these States; that the States
themselves have principle care of our persons, our property, and our reputation, constituting the great field of human
concerns, we may well doubt whether our organisation is not too complicated, too expensive; whether offices and officers
have not been multiplied unnecessarily and sometimes injuriously to the service that they were meant to promote.”
Was not this government founded on the principle of “limited government”? Was not this government founded on the
principle of a central or federal government limited to only those powers delegated to it by the States? Right there in the
words of Jefferson, “that this Government is charged with the external and mutual
relations only of these States”. Here in his administration we see our foremost Founding Father stating some of these
principles, “, we may well doubt whether our organization
is not too complicated, too expensive; whether offices and officers have not been multiplied unnecessarily and sometimes
injuriously to the service that they were meant to promote”. But for the skeptics, who would call this just idle
political rhetoric, lets now look at what he had just previously stated in this same Address:
“.. we may now safely dispense with all of the internal taxes, comprehending excise, stamps, auctions, licenses,
carriages, and refined sugars, to which the postage on newspapers may be added to facilitate the progress of information,
and that the remaining sources of revenue will be sufficient to provide for the support of the government, …”
Now, by today’s
standards, this may be just a bit hard to understand. In fact to those who have been indoctrinated by 132 years of
Reconstruction, in fact all of us, the significance of this statement probably whizzed about ten feet over our heads. This
was not as many Republicans propose, a reduction or shifting of these taxes, this was an elimination
of these taxes. This was not as the Democrats of today propose increased tax credits for those who pay no tax, this
was ending the collection of these taxes.
A
similar situation and opportunity was presented just a couple years ago, and lets look at how far we have drifted from the
very principles of our Founding Fathers. It was decided that the Welfare system needed reform. That the current system had
become counter productive, was overly bureaucratic and needs to return to the States. Did the federal government follow the
example of Jefferson and quit collecting the taxes used to support this system? Of course not, the federal government
collects the taxes and then re-allocates them to the states. In today’s world we, the people, have become so accustomed to
this direct theft of our property right out of our paycheques and wallets that we do not even understand the principles of
our Founding Fathers, nor do we demand that these founding principles be adhered to.
Well
the politically correct are determined that you, and your children or grandchildren, will not understand the principles
espoused by our Founding Fathers, nor that it is the South which has always been the staunchest defender of those
principles, in 1776, in 1860 and today.
Leaving
Jefferson and moving a few years forward to another Southern man, Congressman Davey Crockett we can learn a lesson on the
distribution of public funds. What follows is a dialogue between Congressman Crockett and one of his constituents.
" 'Well, Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see
how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have no capacity to understand the
Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it.
" 'In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for
expressing it in that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a
candidate for the purpose of insulting or wounding you.
" 'I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the Constitution is
different from mine; and I will say to you what, but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be
honest ... but an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I cannot overlook because the Constitution, to be
worth having, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it
is the more dangerous the more honest he is.' "
Crockett
responds: "I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake about
it, for I do not remember that I gave any vote last winter upon any constitutional question."
Crockett's
vote on bill recalled
" 'No, Colonel, there's no mistake. Though I live here in the backwoods and
seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers
say that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. Is that
true?"
"Well, my friend, I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly no
one will complain that a great and rich country should not give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering
women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and am sure, if you had been there, you would have
done just as I did."
" 'It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In
the first place, the government ought to have in the treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has
nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that
can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by tariff, which reaches every man in the
country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is, the more he pays in proportion to his means.
" 'What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight
centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see that
while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he.
" 'If you had the right to give him anything, the amount was simply a matter of
discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20 million as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you
have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to
give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think
proper.' "
Wide
door to robbing people
" 'You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and
corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people, on the other. No, Colonel. Congress has no right to
give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a
dollar of the public money for that purpose.
Somewhat
lengthy story, but demonstrates once again the principle that the Role as envisioned by our Founding Fathers was one of a
“limited” government. Fraud and corruption are the end results when the government begins to become addicted to your
property and has become accustomed to theft from your wallet. One of our Great Southern Patriots, John C, Calhoun, had a few
words to say about the handling of our property and money by the central government:
“The two, disbursement and taxation, constitute the fiscal action of the government. What one takes from the community
in the name of taxes is transferred to the portion of the community who are the recipients under that of disbursements …
The necessary result, then of the unequal fiscal action of the government is to divide the community into two great
classes, one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bar exclusively the burthen of supporting
the government; and the other, of those who are then recipients of their proceeds through disbursements, and who are,
infact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers.”
These
Southern Men, from three different periods of our history were all stating their views on the evils that follow obsession by
government on the disbursements of increasing amounts of our property and wealth. Simply put these evils are “a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people, on the
other”.
Well
today we are being robbed. It is estimated that government at all levels takes an average of around 50% of the working
family’s income. The disbursement of this wealth stolen from our family’s does in fact show favoritism, fraud and
corruption. It is dividing this country and the US into the tax-payers and the tax-consumers.
The
effects on our society are dramatic. I recently saw a poll that stated that in 68% of all two parent families, both spouses
are now in the workforce. The children of our land are growing up without the care of their Mothers that so many of us have
benefited from. And you are surprised at the increase in youth crime? We have become so irresponsible that the US has gone
from the world’s greatest creditor nation to the world’s largest debtor nation, passing on $6,000,000,000,000.00 of debt
to our grandchildren.
The
disbursements of your property seized in the form of a multitude of taxes now support such a multitude of programs,
agencies, institutions, grants, and other forms of federal, state and local polices that it is virtually impossible to even
get a list of how it is spent. It is as predicted not only impossible to determine exactly how much you pay to government,
but how it is spent. Would you voluntarily give your money to these policies? If not, then why do you not object to your
involuntary contributions?
So
when you see today’s politically correct go to such extreme limits to discredit Southern Heritage, you do need to
understand some of the real reasons. Those
people do not want you to
understand, what Southern Men stood for in 1776 or in 1861. For they know that you would quickly come to the conclusion that
they were right in 1776, 1861 and today! Suddenly the light would shine through the darkness and you would say, “I don’t
like this and we need to do something!” And without your property, wealth and apathy, those people
can not complete their re-definition of American Liberty.
King
George failed to stamp out American Liberty. But he would be proud of today’s liberals and the politically correct for
they are on the verge of accomplishing what he could not do. If those people
are successful, who will the real losers be? … Your future generations! By our inaction, their birthright is being
discarded and destroyed.
The
Southern Party of Georgia
would like to be your voice as we strive to restore the principles of your Founding Fathers here in our land.
For
the Southern Party of Georgia
Mike Crane
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