The observations made by the thinkers during the War for Southern Independence are astonishing. Men like Alexander Stephens and R. L. Dabney made observations and predictions with uncanny accuracy.

Dabney commented that the more public schools you build, the more prisons will be needed.

"The parents are the real architects of their children’s destiny, and the State cannot help it"

"If it (the censoring of textbooks) is not corrected the liberty of the citizens is gone"

"The Government has no mission from God to make the community; on the contrary the community should make the Government."

"There can be, therefore no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity."

"To educate the mind without purifying the hear is but to ‘place a sharp sword in the hand of a madman’".

"(Government) has no money except by taxation."

"while man is mortal, the cause is immortal"

"the only possible result of this (women’s) movement will be, not the independence and equality of women, but the substitution of the savage dependence of the slave-concubine, the ‘weaker vessel’ held and abused by brute force.." (If you don’t believe this one, examine the words of a modern hip-hop album or watch TV for a few hours).

"Women’s Rights’ mean the abolition of all permanent marriage ties" (Do we not see this with a 50%+ divorce rate. If that does not say that marriage ties are not permanent I do not know what will persuade you).

I encourage you to read and ponder the insights of Dabney, Stephens and others. They will help you put modern life into perspective.

Free Dixie, Not Iraq!

J Murrah

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