Book Review: "Is Davis A Traitor?" By Albert T.
Bledsoe
(Apollonian, 20 Mar 16)
One of the very greatest of
all masterpieces of exposition is and was Albert Taylor Bledoe's "Is Davis a
Traitor? or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?";
Hermitage Press, Inc.; Richmond, Virginia; 1907, 263 pages text, viii; no index,
first published in 1866. In this great and most lucidly written book, Bledsoe
covers the exposition of secession and circumstances thereof, the Constitution
being a compact made by the states acting as agents of the people of the states,
etc.
Of course, this sort of Constitutional exposition, specifically
covering the topic of state secession fm the Union, had already been covered by
several authors, esp. Abel P. Upshur, the great lawyer and statesman fm
Virginia, in his "The Federal Government: Its True Nature and Character" (1840).
Upshur's magnificent, cogent, and brief work of around about 160 pages
specifically addressed the arguments advanced by US Supreme Court Justice Joseph
Story's work ("Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States"), which
denied the Constitution was a compact made by the states and asserting the US
was not a union but rather a national state of its own, having been made and
ratified as such by the "whole people," and NOT by the states (in convention)
acting as agents of the people of the states. And therefore, according to Story
and Webster, the states were NOT sovereign, parties to the Constituional
contract, capable of secession and nullification.
Daniel Webster then,
the prominent US Senator fm state of Massachusetts, took-up Story's basic
arguments (Story a collaborator of Webster, also fm Massachusetts) when, for
example, he debated in the US Senate against the S. Carolina Senator, Robert
Hayne, in 1830, regarding sovereignty of the states under the Constitutional
compact, Webster denying such "compact" and states' "sovereignty."
So the
pt. then is Upshur had brilliantly and quite sufficiently upheld the true nature
of the Union according to Const. compact of the states and the history thereof
in a positive manner, but didn't too thoroughly examine or attack the PREMISES
of Story's and Webster's arguments, merely the conclusions and assertions.
Bledsoe addresses these premises of Story and Webster and actually shows them up
for their gross ignorance and outright LIES. Bledsoe thus EXPOSES the amazing
lies told by Story and Webster, Webster nowadays and for over a hundred + yrs
lionized by northern propagandists as some sort of God of rhetoric, exposition,
and speechifying--when he was actually quite moronically mis-conceived and
plainly ignorant, and actually a LIAR for the false arguments he presented and
asserted--Bledsoe making this all most clear, Webster actually crass sophist,
bluffing blow-hard, con-artist, and LIAR.
For example, both Story and
Webster in their works assert the Const. convention of 1787 worked for and
achieved a "national" gov., this demonstrated by a supposed resolution passed by
six (6) of the states which had assembled before the full convention arrived,
but Story and Webster don't tell the full truth to effect this word, "national,"
was later explicitly objected to and expunged for the confederation of states
expressed by the substituted phrase, "gov. of the United States," as Bledsoe
pt.s out for us, Upshur having been too charitable, evidently, to call-out
Webster and Story as LIARS.
Webster, in his speech of 1833 denies US
Const. was/is "compact"; Bledsoe pt.s out how the Const. was called exactly
that, "compact," by noneother than Gouverneur Morris, Alex. Hamilton, and
Elbridge Gerry during the convention debates, and by Madison himself in his own
notes to the convention. Thus Bledsoe exposes another BALD-FACED LIE by Webster,
the supposed "silver-tongued orator."
Webster also objected to use of the
word, "accession" and "acceding" to the Constitution as he wanted to preclude
use of the word's opposite term, "secession." But Bledsoe pt.s-out how the word,
"accession," was widely used by James Wilson, G. Morris, Edmund Randolf, Patrick
Henry, John Marshall, George Washington, and again, Madison.
So this is
the great, additional service rendered by Bledsoe for his deeper research
showing-up the crass charlatanry, willful deception, and plain ignorance of
Story and Webster, upholding the theory of Southern patriots against the hubris
and lies of the northern murderers and conspirators. Thus the "factional" party,
as Bledsoe so well describes, of the northern Republicans in 1860 took complete
control of US government, including the Presidency even when Lincoln rec'd less
than 40% of the popular vote.
In looking-back, one must wonder how the
people of the north were so easily led by their corrupt politicians to illegal
war and mass-murder against THEIR VERY OWN COUNTRY-MEN (up to two million people
killed or dying, including up to a million blacks), the people of the south. But
the northern people were too easily persuaded they were under attack, and the
leaders were shrewd and sure of the break-away industrial development and
general economic prosperity, continuing to expand to the west, as the south was
relegated to a mere back-water now destroyed, decimated, and turned into an
internal colony for "carpetbagger" exploiters, criminal profiteers, and
social-engineers.
It was thus absolutely essential for the Southern
military effort, as recommended by Stonewall Jackson, to strike actively by
means of a pre-emptive attack strategy, a vigorous and active defense which
would have persuaded the north to agitate their leaders to making peace. But
Jefferson Davis unfortunately and tragically opted for a stand-pat strategy as
the North freely invaded the south while at same time applying an evermore
effective strangulating blockade of the coasts. Thus the victimized South was
steadily crushed even as the crazed and murderous northerners took fearful
casualties as they did so.
But never doubt THE WAR IS NOT OVER, and the
VERY SAME fight for states-rights based upon individual freedom and the
ascending model of political power, working and beginning fm the individual
people up to the more centralized levels, local to state to federal, goes on to
this very day (read the 10th Amendment, all 28 words), now even the people of
the north and all sections evermore grasping and understanding necessity for
resisting and removing this horrific centralized dictatorship, thus urgency of
application of states rights and nullification as means thereto.
And it's
notable and instructive how consideration of such states-rights is ALWAYS
countered by satanic spokesmen of world gov. and centralization by means of the
slavery issue and "racism," so totally irrelevant but ALWAYS so effective for
diversion of discussion, moralism seeking to over-shadow facts. Hence the only
aid for libertarians is, so ironically, the continuing economic collapse and
increasing misery of the people, north and south in face of present absolute
state and satanic "big-brother" working for genocide and further
mass-murder--"de-population" according to United Nations agenda-21 and now
"agenda-30."
