Independence or Extinction
"We the People of the Sovereign States and Territories constituting and entitled the Confederate States of America hereby proclaim before Almighty God and all who may read these presents that as our forefathers law-fully, peacefully and constitutionally seceded from that voluntary union of States entitled the United States of America and formed a new nation, according to their reserved political rights, and the inalienable rights endowed them by their Creator, so the aforementioned States and Territories were, are, and remain now Sovereign political entities within a voluntary national Confederation, conjointly constituting one independent nation amongst the nations of this world, and styled 'The Confederate States of America." --- Proclamation of Independence
We as a people shall either achieve our indendepence or our extinction; the choice inevitable and cannot be avoided. * * * We need only do nothing and the extinction of all things Confederate or Southern will come to pass, * * *Time is slipping away and the opportunity will have come and gone!
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.'' --- President Jefferson Davis
Do we have the will to achieve independence or shall we procrastinate in complacency and compromise?
"Victory is for those with the persistence and fortitude to resist the temptation to withdraw or whose resolve has been tempered, when conditions worsen and the cost rises. It is not for the weak hearted, nor those who are softened by the ease and comfort of a gilded cage, provided by the enemy at the cost of liberty. It is for those who continue to fight the good fight, even after others who have gone before, having faced overwhelming numbers and firepower found themselves unable to complete the mission." --- Jay Buckner
"The time will soon come wherein the Southern People will find their options limited and they shall face unavoidable choices. Either they shall be among those who rule or stand with those who are ruled by others. They shall become a world class power or become subservient to those who have. If they are to avoid becoming subservient to a harsh tyrannical empire, they must combine the characteristics of honor, nobility and grace, with that of the mighty warrior. Both must be embraced with equal zeal or else the Southern People shall be reduced to slavery, howbeit by another name. Then once again they shall have earned their national title of Confederate." --- Gile McCade
