April 13, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Southern men, the thunders mutter.
Northern flags and south winds flutter.
To arms is one.
To arms is line.
To arm is fighting Dixie.
Send them back your fierce defiance.
Stamp upon the cursed alliance.
To arms is one.
To arm is one.
A militant take on our national anthem here in the South.
Welcome back to the third hour of tonight's live broadcast of TPC as we continue Confederate History Month 2019.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
And what a privilege, what a pleasure it is to welcome back to the show Dr. Michael Hill, president of the League of the South.
He, of course, is a retired university professor of history.
And, well, of course, he's much more than that.
I'll tell you, Michael Hill is the guy I could win a battle with.
He's a guy who you'd want to be in a foxhole with when the shooting starts and when war breaks out.
And perhaps that may very well be our fate.
But he is a man who makes proud his southern ancestors.
And that is what we are all here to do this month on this particular radio show.
Michael, welcome back.
Oh, thank you, Brother James.
I'm always glad to be with you, sir.
Well, of course, it's always great to have you with us, especially during the month of April.
So we've got a lot to talk to you about tonight, and it's vast and varied.
So let's start at the beginning, as we're asking each of our guests to do this month.
Talk to us about your own Southern heroes, not just your heroes at large, but I mean the heroes who share your very DNA, your own Confederate ancestors.
Well, I've got several of those, but I'll pick out two.
One is on my grandmother's side, her own grandfather.
She passed away at the age of 92 back around 2002.
So, you know, she was a living link.
She knew her grandfather, and I knew her.
So I had an actual living link.
His name, they called him, his name was William.
They called him Willie, like a lot of Southerners were called back then, white Southerners.
He was a Mississippi artilleryman and served in the Army of Tennessee.
And I had another ancestor on my daddy's side, Henry Randolph Hill, who was from right here where I'm living right now in Killen, Alabama.
And he's buried about five minutes up the road here in a little cemetery.
And I'm planning to go up there very soon within a week or so and redecorate his grave with some nice Confederate flags.
He fought with the Army of Tennessee as well, the 16th Alabama Infantry, fought at Shiloh, Chickamauga, among other places.
He surrendered, well, he didn't surrender.
He was with the Army that surrendered in North Carolina at the very end of the war in April of 1865.
And he walked all the way back from the Carolinas here to North Alabama to a devastated region.
And I figure if my ancestors were courageous enough to go to war and fight for four years and come back and try to rebuild their lives after the war and the subsequent Reconstruction, what little bit I can do in my lifetime here would be a pitiful little sacrifice compared to what they did.
But we do what we can do in the time the good Lord has put us here on this earth.
So I'm very proud of you.
Please finish, and I've got to echo in on something you were saying.
I'm just saying, James, I think we ought to be very proud of that blood that we have coursing through our veins.
It's the blood of heroes.
Well, it is indeed.
And that's to put it mildly, but it is to at once say it all.
And I said almost word for word what you just said.
I said in last week's broadcast that we're dealt with the circumstances of our times, and we do the best we can with the options available to us in this day and age in which we live.
Certainly, if we had the ability to join ranks with an army, we would do that.
But we don't.
And so we do what we can.
You with the League of the South, me with its radio program.
And above all, we do it to bring honor to our ancestors.
And I just, I can't help but take note of the fact that 157 years ago last week, seven days ago, this very, 157 years ago last weekend, our ancestors were fighting together at the Battle of Shiloh.
And so mine was Private Levi Smith, my great-grandmother's great-grandfather, was fighting with the 4th Battalion of the Mississippi Cavalry at the Battle of Shiloh.
And so there too was your Confederate ancestor fighting with Forrest and with the other heroes at Shiloh.
And then here we are tonight on the radio together.
There's just something special when you put that into that particular context that really I don't have the words to articulate.
I know, James, I don't have the words to articulate either.
It's a mystical thing.
We're tied by these generations of blood in the past and that blood yet to come in our future.
And it's a magical thing that only God himself can understand.
Isn't that the truth?
I mean, they found each other in that time and we found each other in our time.
And I don't mean to be a friend.
It isn't.
And I hope it doesn't sound hokey to anyone listening tonight, but it is the truth.
There they were together on that battlefield 157 years ago this week.
And then here we are tonight continuing the battle in the best way that we can and the only way that we can right now.
But our ancestors were there, and so now here we are, their progeny fighting together.
But there's so many.
I mean, you talk about the heroes.
Of course, our own personal heroes, our own family stand out.
But there were so many heroes.
And I think that I talk about these.
It's a cross-section.
And I bring these people up these names.
Every Confederate History Month series we've had, I think.
But I think of there too at Shiloh was the sitting governor.
I mean, can you imagine the sitting governor of a state fighting with his kinsmen in battle?
But there was Governor Isham Harris of the state of Tennessee fighting at Shiloh with his countrymen.
We talk about the sacrifices of people like the Confederate scout D.S. Job, who had his eyes gouged out and his tongue cut off, and he never betrayed the location of his fellow soldiers.
People like Breckinridge, the former Vice President of the United States, he left all of that.
He left that power.
He left that position to command cadets who had no shoes at the Battle of Newmarket, and they won that battle.
People like the crew of the Hundley, who, of course, the first submariners to sink an enemy vessel in naval combat.
How many people died in the Hundley before Lieutenant George Dixon took over that crew and sunk the USS Tonic?
These are our heroes.
These people exemplify Southern valor and gallantry, but who would you add to that list?
I mean, there's so many.
The names you know, the Lees, the Forrests, the Jacksons, et cetera.
Some of the names we just mentioned, the names of our own ancestors.
But who would you add to that list that really exemplifies Southern valor and gallantry?
Well, I would add the, I'll be a little Alabama-centric here, and I'll add the great John Pelham, the young artillery commander.
Well, hang on right there, Dr. Hill.
We're going to let you expound upon that when we come back.
You mentioned that name right before the break began.
So we're going to come back and let you pick up there.
And then we're going to talk a little bit more about why we honor the South here, Confederate History Month, especially.
And then we're going to get to Dr. Hill, the core of what he's appearing for tonight, where we got our fighting spirit from.
Stay tuned.
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Fear no danger, shun no labor.
Lift up rifle, pike, and saber.
To arms one who arms who arms is Dixie.
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder.
Let the odds make each heart mover.
To arms one who arms who arms.
Arms is Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie.
Hurrah, hurrah.
For Dixie's land, we take our stand and live or die for Dixie.
To arms, arms, who arms, arms, and conquer.
Peace for Dixie.
To arms, arms who arms and conquer.
Peace for Dixie.
Well, I'll tell you this.
If the Confederate forces had had a handful and just a handful more men like Dr. Michael Hill, that whole thing would have turned out, I think, quite differently.
But what a treat it is to have him back on with us tonight during Confederate History Month.
Michael, you're with us a few times every year.
But it's always great to have you on during the month of April.
So we were asking you just before the break, other heroes, other legends, other men who exemplify Southern heroism and gallantry and valor.
And you were making an example right before the commercial break broke you off.
So continue, please.
Yeah, the gallant Pelham, John Pelham from Alabama.
You know, he was a very young man.
I think he may have been in his early 20s when he was given command of artillery units in Lee's Army in Northern Virginia and acquitted himself very, very well.
He's always been one of my heroes because he's a fellow Alabamian.
And I've always liked Patrick Clayburn.
We have a county in Alabama named after him.
And he was an Irishman.
My ancestry is in part Irish.
And I've always been very proud of him as well.
He was quite a fighter.
Well, I'll tell you, Michael, I got to tell you, you mentioned the name Patrick Clayburn.
I have to interject.
I don't know if there was a quote uttered throughout all of history that moves me as much as that which Patrick Clayburn made.
And I don't have it in front of me, so I hope I don't butcher it, but I'm going to try to recall it from memory.
If this cause that is so dear to my heart is doomed to fail, I pray that heaven may let me fall with it while my face is toward the enemy and my arm is battling for that which I know to be right.
That's what he said.
That's right.
Just shortly before his death.
What a quote.
What a man.
That is a southerner.
He was a great Irishman, a great southern patriot.
He's always been one of my heroes because he comes from my own blood, my own stock.
Well, we're going to be talking about that.
Interestingly enough, ladies and gentlemen, in the final two segments of this hour-long interview with Dr. Michael Hill, how that, I'll just call it genetic predisposition from our Celtic ancestors trickled all the way down to our Confederate forebears and then, indeed, all the way down to people like yours truly and Dr. Hill, who you're listening to tonight, and how that blood, how that spirit transcends generations.
We're going to talk to Dr. Hill about that in the final half hour of this, our third and final hour of tonight's live broadcast.
But in any event, Michael, you wrote some years ago, and we always revisit this particular article during our Confederate History Month series, but you wrote a love letter to Dixie.
It's entitled Why My Heart Is in Dixie.
Explain to the audience exactly why it is that we do what we do here on the radio every April, why it is that you do what you do every day as you lead your organization, the League of the South, which we want to plug in just a moment.
But why is it so important that not only we celebrate it in our hearts and in our minds and in our homes, but why we celebrate it publicly, this love for the South, this love for our heroes, this love for our family?
Well, it's who we are, James, fundamentally.
You know, I forget who the protagonist in this novel was, but he said, you know, stick with your blood, son.
You know, you come from generation after generation of a people who have always fought for their rights and for their liberties.
And that tide of blood washes up continually on the shore of your civilization.
And it is a precious thing to know who we are, where we came from, and to know the heroes and the blood that we share with those heroes in this present day.
And the blood that, God willing, that our descendants will share for us and look back, share with us and look back on our exploits, be they good or be they bad.
And pray to God they will be good exploits and that those future generations can live free and prosperous.
But if we forget that long chain of being there that links one generation with the other, we become rootless, deracinated.
We forget who we are.
We don't have a place.
We don't have the blood and soil element that is so necessary for us to be a real, true, living people generation after generation.
And that's kind of what I was talking about in that article that you were so kind to bring up, is that I was taught this from a very early age, who I was and why I should be proud of that.
Not that we were perfect.
I mean, we were and are sinners like everybody else, but we loved our own because they were our own.
And, you know, we were following the fifth commandment to honor thy father and mother in a broad, general sense.
We do that when we honor our ancestors.
And that's what I was taught to do as a boy.
And I was taught well by my parents and both sets of grandparents and my great uncles and aunts and all.
And like you, I had a lot of those in North Mississippi.
And I'm so proud, you know, when I run into people like you, James, and others that I rub shoulders with in this larger movement, so the Nationalist movement, who had ancestors that my ancestors fought right side by side with.
When you think about that, that is a bond between us that can never be broken.
I don't care what the opposition tries to do to us.
If we remember that bond, we are strong and we can't be broken.
We will have that connection, connection, that rootedness to who we are.
And if a man knows who he is, he will fight to the death to defend that civilization that he and his ancestors have created to pass on to their progeny.
So it's so important for us to remember who we are, not just every April, but as you pointed out, James, every day that we get up to fight this battle for our people, that we remember who we are.
Well, amen, brother, and that's the truth.
I mean, we put a spotlight on it each April during this particular broadcast, but we do that for a couple of reasons, of course, but not the least of which is the fact that we want people to remember this and explore this and learn more about this the year round.
And so we highlight it in April, but it is something that people should learn more about throughout the year.
And I tell you, if you want to be part of the solution, there is an organization you can join that is working towards that, and it's the League of the South.
I am a member, not only a member, but a proud member.
I have spoken, you know, I have spoken at a lot of events over the years, over my career.
One of the most memorable took place last summer in Alabama when I spoke to the League of the South conference.
It was a truly transcendent experience.
It was the best people I've ever met.
And it was, well, it's one that I won't forget.
And so I want you to have the opportunity to support and be a part of that organization.
Dr. Hill, tell them how they can do that.
Well, first, before I do that, let me say this.
I'd just like to remind you, James, I want you back this year.
We'll more than likely have our conference in September of this year.
We have got some legal things going on during the summer that I think precludes us having it then.
But I think we're going to shoot for September, and I would like for you to be back as one of our speakers this year, sir.
Well, I'll tell you what, if you would do me the honor of the invitation, I will absolutely be there, and it would be my honor to do so.
So you can count me in.
You give me a date.
Well, consider it's accepted.
You just tell me when and where, and I'm there, and I am there with skipping my step and a joy in my heart.
But let other people know how they can be a part of that organization, how they can contribute, how they can join.
Well, I'll tell you what, we'll do that when we come back, and then we're going to listen to the main event of this hour.
How the Southerners got their fighting spirit and their fighting style.
Where did it come from?
Well, that too transcends generations, and it came from their Celtic ancestors going back many centuries.
They're still a part of us, ladies and gentlemen.
Confederate History Month continues on TPC with Dr. Michael Hill right after this.
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Swear upon your country's altar never to submit or falter to arms by arms by who arms by Dixie.
Till the spoilers are defeated.
Till the Lord's work is completed.
To arms, by two arms, by who arms by his Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie.
Hurrah, hurrah.
For Dixie's land, we take our stand and live for life for Dixie.
Lord, my peace for Dixie.
Lord Lines and Conquer Peace for Dixie.
Well, I could have played the traditional version of the national anthem tonight, but not with a fighter like Dr. Hill on the program.
No, tonight we were going to play the war version of Dixie.
And if you want to join an organization that is full of similar fighters, well, we can tell you how to do that.
Dr. Hill, take it away.
Well, James, they can get in touch with me here in the league office by calling our phone number, which is get ready to write this down, folks.
256-757-6789.
And I will be glad to answer any questions you have.
Send you out a packet of information.
Or you can go to the League of the South website, which is www.
Excuse me, League of the South, Leagueofthesouth.com.
That's www.leagueofthesouth.com.
And there is an email link on there, and you can email me, and I will send you an information packet as well.
You can read articles.
You can read the latest news about the league on there.
And if you want to download an application and print it out, you can do that and mail it in.
We have our qualifications on there.
So we are an organization for our own people.
Every other people have their organization.
We got ours.
And we're very proud of standing up for the Southern people.
And we have a lot of people who are not from the South who are supporters because they believe in what we're doing.
And we have a lot of people who are exiled or transplanted Southerners who, because of work or family situations, are living outside of Dixie.
But we welcome them too.
And we actually have members, James, in Europe and Australia and Canada and South Africa.
So, you know, we got people all over the place.
And we'll be glad to have any of you folks out there listening tonight if you fit our qualifications and if you're serious.
This is serious business we're undertaking here because we want a free and independent South.
And we know that the powers that we're fighting against to get this are not going to let us go easily.
So it's the same battle our ancestors had to be free and to be self-governing.
And that's a battle that we think is worth fighting and winning in the 21st century.
Well, amen to that, Dr. Hill.
And all I can say is if an endorsement matters, I'm a member of the organization and I heartily recommend it.
So we're happy to have you, James.
We certainly are.
I appreciate your unflagging support for what we do.
No, no, no.
We don't run.
We don't run when the shooting starts.
In fact, we close ranks.
And so I was honored to have spoken at that event last year and be honored to do it again.
And I appreciate the invitation to do so.
But, you know, Dr. Hill, we've had you on so many times.
There was one appearance you made in particular that really stands out to me.
And it was an appearance that you made last June.
And I revisited it, in fact, in advance of tonight's interview in our broadcast archives.
It was last June.
I remember it was June because it was the show nearest my birthday, and you were on.
And we were promoting that month your book, Celtic Warfare.
That was, in fact, our fundraising incentive for that particular appeal that year.
It was the book, Celtic Warfare.
And so I wanted to bring you back tonight to talk just a little bit about that.
We don't have a lot of time.
We don't have the time to do a deep dive into it as we did in that appearance that you made last summer.
But we were talking about how our ancestors found one another on the battlefield at Shiloh, how we have found each other through our activism over the course of the last few years and again tonight.
But there is something about that fighting spirit of the Celts that trickled down all the way from, well, it was a name that I mentioned in that speech that I gave to the League of the South last year, Queen Boudica of the Celts, all the way down to the Confederates of the 1860s, all the way down to us today.
That fighting spirit, you can call it genetic predisposition.
Let's talk about that.
Just something that is in the blood, in our DNA, that compels us to fight for our people, to fight for our women, to fight for our land.
What is it that the Southerners have that really other people throughout America don't have?
Well, you hit the nail on the head, James, when you said it was that Celtic blood, that Celtic ancestry.
And, you know, I would go a little bit further and say that it is a general Northern European ancestry because, you know, our Celtic ancestors admixed with the Franks and the Anglo-Saxons and the Scandinavian peoples and all.
But, you know, it's largely Celtic.
And I was fortunate enough to study, get to study Celtic history when I was a younger man and became a student after having done some other things in my life.
And I found that studying my own people, particularly the Scots, Irish, and Welsh, gave me this sense that studying other people did not give me.
There was just this closeness about it.
And, you know, it just, I began to see what made my people special.
And when I began to see that they were not the sole group, but the largest group that populated the American South in the 17th and particularly the 18th and early 19th centuries, I began to kind of put two and two together.
And I began to understand why Southerners, among all other American regions, the South was unique.
And it is because of that exclusively, almost exclusively Northern European bloodline that we have, and particularly the Celtic aspect of it.
Our people have always been a fighting people.
They've been a pastoral, agricultural people.
And they've been a people to whom honor and military prowess meant a lot.
They're very, very masculine, a very manly people.
And you mentioned fighting for our women and for our land.
That protective spirit of our people comes forth in our history.
We do fight for these wonderful God-given blessings of our women and our children and our land and our civilization, which is a good, pure, and I think very attractive civilization as compared to some that we see in this modern world.
And that's why I think that we ought never lose sight of where we came from because, you know, we should try to replicate those things as best we can in the 21st century.
And the thing that I hate to see disappear more than anything else besides our Christian faith and heritage is our fighting spirit.
And I just look around at a lot of the young men today in the South, and it's just very depressing to see some of them having given in to this anti-anti-white, anti-male campaign in particular to emasculate them, you know, to make them into something that they were not intended to be, and that is emasculated slaves.
You know, our people have fought, and not always successfully, but we fought sometimes against great odds, James, to preserve our civilization, our freedoms, our future as a people.
And that's what the South did 150 years ago.
And unfortunately, for whatever reasons, we weren't successful then, but that doesn't mean the fight was not worth fighting then and now because it is continuing.
And it's a continuation of a long struggle that you mentioned.
You know, you went back to Queen Boudica.
But our people have fought for these things for not just centuries, but for a couple of thousand years at least.
That's a long track record, and it's a good track record.
Not always victories, as I said.
But you'll never find an instance where our people were not brave and wouldn't stand up and fight against the tyranny that faced them.
And sometimes that's all a man can do.
He's not asked to win.
He's just merely asked to fight, James.
And people have been asked to fight.
They fought.
No, man.
I'm telling you, how inspirational is this?
What an honor it is to bring you this radio tonight.
To bring you Dr. Hill.
This is why we do what we do, folks.
This is it right now.
What you've heard these last few minutes is everything I ever dreamed 15 years ago.
And it has been 15 years since I started this show, but this is what it was all about.
This was what the dream was, to bring a man like Dr. Hill to deliver a message like this.
We might not always win, but we are always right.
And we're always right by our people, and we're always right by our God, the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ.
We'll be back to wrap up.
Man, it's going by far too quickly.
We'll be back.
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Isn't this great?
Just the two of us.
No work, no interruptions, no phone, no TV.
Finally, we have a chance to just talk.
I mean, how long has it been?
Well, first of all, we should talk about your schedule.
There are a few things that could use some adjusting, but overall, I think it's going all right.
Basically, I think we're doing a pretty good job of communicating, which is good.
You're doing a really good job of letting me know how you feel about things.
I just, I want to keep the lines open, if you know what I mean.
Jerry, it's four o'clock in the morning.
What are you doing?
Oh, I was, I was just giving Emily a bottle.
Who are you talking to?
Emily.
She's only three weeks old, and she's asleep.
I know.
I was just practicing.
Family, isn't it about time?
Isn't this great?
Just the three of us.
No work, no interruptions, no phone.
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You fought all the way, Johnny Rip.
Saw you marching with Robert E. Lee.
You held your head high, trying to win the victory.
You fought for your folks, but you didn't die in vain.
Even though you lost, they speak highly of your name.
Because you fought all the way, Johnny Rip, Johnny Rip.
You fought all the way, Johnny Rip.
I heard your teeth chatter from the cold outside.
Saw the bullets open up the wounds in your side.
I saw the young boys as they began to fall.
You had tears in your eyes, cause you couldn't help it all.
But you fought all the way, Johnny Rip, Johnny Rip.
Thank you, Johnny Rep. Johnny Horton.
What a great song.
Welcome back.
It's Confederate History Month.
Ain't that the truth?
You know, you can remember, Dr. Hill, you were more fortunate than I, born in 1980.
You can remember back in the day when they actually had little rebel toy cannons that they would feature on commercials that the boys could buy and go out.
Oh, yes, James.
It was a different in 1951.
A different world.
Just one generation, you know, my father's generation.
So literally one generation before mine.
A totally different world.
But we're talking tonight with Dr. Hill about that fighting spirit.
That fighting spirit that the Celts had, who gave the Romans all they could handle, that our ancestors in the Confederacy had, who gave the Union menace all they could handle.
We love to fight the enemy.
Sometimes we love to fight ourselves.
You know, Dr. Hill, there's a legend that goes in my own family.
Of course, my dad is an Edwards, so I'm an Edwards, but just my mother's side was a McGregor.
And the story goes that as they were on their way over, and I don't know if this is true, but this is the story that so many of my ancestors had told me, that as they were on their way over to America, the McGregors got into a family quarrel.
And when they got off the boat, half of them spelt their name the way that it was spelt in Scotland and in Ireland, M-C-G-R-E-G-E-R.
But the other half changed the spelling to M-C-G-R-E-G-O-R.
So they got into a, my side spelled it M-C-G-R-E-G-E-R.
But in any event, the story goes, they got into a fight on the boat over, and then half of them decided to change their name.
So, hey, one way or another, our people love to fight.
And so that's the fighting spirit that transcends generations.
It's in our blood.
It's in our DNA.
We have that spirit to fight.
But we also have a style and a tactic.
And Dr. Hill, you told me in that interview from last summer that when you stepped foot on European soil over there in Northern Europe, that it hearkened to your ancestral memory.
And I don't think I've ever heard the words ancestral memory spoken until I heard you tell it.
And I've used that term time and time again since last year.
The ancestral spirit, the ancestral memory.
But we're talking about the spirit, the blood, the DNA.
Let's talk about the style because as you write in your book, Celtic Warfare, which we gave away to lucky donors last summer, the style, the very style that the Confederates fought with was a style they mimicked from their ancestors hundreds of years ago in Europe.
How did they take that fighting style and apply it to the war between the states?
Well, you know, a martial, very high testosterone, alpha male society, more than likely James is going to want to attack.
And that's what our Celtic ancestors did.
I mean, it was a, and they had something called the Highland Charge that they perfected.
And it was very formidable.
I mean, it's not something that you would want to be standing there with a smooth bore flintlock musket trying to turn back, you know, these wild Irishmen or Highlanders coming at you with very sharp steel in their hands and, you know, screaming this bloody war cry, which where the rebel yell came from.
And they just overwhelmed the basically English armies and Lowland Scott's armies that they fought for so many decades, even centuries.
And they were successful over in the old country largely because they were fighting against an enemy that was armed with flintlock muskets, which are not long-range weapons.
I mean, they're not accurate except at fairly close range.
And you only had a chance to get off maybe one shot, maybe two, before these Celts were on top of you with this sharp steel.
But by the time of the War Between the States, the Union forces were armed with rifles, which were more accurate over a much longer distance.
And this sort of attack tactics, in some cases, were suicidal, like the third day at Gettysburg, Pickett's Charge, of course, and other instances like that.
So, you know, the Confederates took this Celtic Highland Charge and adapted it to conditions in the 1860s.
But it was still the same very aggressive attack on the battlefield, and it didn't fare too well up against more modern-type weapons.
And I think that's one reason that we suffered so many casualties and in the end, perhaps lost the conflict.
But that's the way our people, a very aggressive people, have always fought.
And sometimes, you know, discretion is the better part of valor, as they say.
Sometimes maybe we ought to maybe lure the enemy into attacking us and then launch a counterattack against them.
Well, you know, I got to say, I confuse sometimes Charlottesville from Chancellorsville, but it did work.
There were times that it worked in the war between the states.
Oh, there were.
I mean, there were times that aggression like that simply overwhelms the enemy.
But, you know, we ran up against too many instances where, toward the end of the war, where it didn't, and we bled ourselves dry from it.
But, you know, it's an admirable way of fighting.
I mean, it's the kind of fighting that gets, you know, sagas and poems and songs and stories written and told about you.
And I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what.
If you didn't fight that way, you wouldn't be remembered.
And why are we remembering?
Why are you and I so proud of our ancestors?
Because they did fight that way.
Because they had the gun that way.
They'll be remembered in ways that the so-called leaders of today will never be.
Oh, that's right.
And you were mentioning earlier all of these politicians, all of these elected officials who actually, you know, put on their uniforms and grabbed their weapons and went out and fought.
Can you imagine politicians doing that today?
A sitting governor, a former vice president leading against all odds, risking life, limb, everything they ever had, all of their fortune.
Like Nathan Bedford Forrest risked all of his fortune, you know, captains of industry.
No, they don't make men like that anymore.
Well, they do.
And they're on the radio right now.
But, you know, they don't make people like that leading Fortune 500 companies anymore.
No.
It's certainly not in our criminally corrupt government anymore.
That's right.
And, you know, James, you know, a man can choose to live his life in one of several ways.
And, you know, you choose to, I've always thought that you choose to live your life as honorably as you can and in service to something.
And obviously, the first thing that we as Christian Southerners are in service to is our God, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
But then the second thing is to our blood and our soil.
And, you know, we've always been, almost always been outnumbered, outgunned, outmoney, out everything, except outcouraged.
You know, that's what we have is that courage, that bravery, that audacity, that aggression.
And it doesn't always win, but more times than not, it does.
And what a story it makes, my friend.
Well, you know, by our future generations.
Isn't it the truth that the duty is ours, the results are God's.
To do one's duty is all one can ask.
And whether we win or lose, we can go to our grave knowing.
And we can go to our Savior knowing.
That's right.
We did our part on this earthly world.
Faithful servant.
And I can't think of a better way to end it to one week prior to Easter.
And we're going to have an Easter message for you next week on this show, ladies and gentlemen, as Confederate History Month continues.
But what a great prelude to that, Michael Hill, that last comment tonight.
Leagueofthesouth.com.
Dr. Hill, with just seconds remaining, how would you like to close the show?
Well, I would like to thank you, James.
You're always so kind and considerate as to bring me on every April.
And I appreciate you, brother.
I really do.
If we didn't have you on in April, it means we're not on the air.
Well, I thank you for that.
And God willing, we'll have a whole bunch of Aprils in the years to come to do this, my friend, preferably in a free and independent South.
The Hope Springs Eternal, and we're fighting towards that end.
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Folks, for Michael Hill, for my co-host, Keith Alexander, for the rest of the staff and crew, I'm James Edwards.
Confederate History Month continues next week with a special Easter message.