April 10, 2021 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
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And this is our Confederate History Month series.
And a mainstay on this program, whether it's Confederate History Month or not, but always during Confederate History Month is Dr. Michael Hill, a retired university professor of history and the author of two books on Celtic warfare, which we have talked about on this program at length in the past.
He returns to the broadcast this evening to reflect on our shared past and our shared future.
He is the chief of the League of the South.
Michael Hill, how are you?
I'm doing fine, Brother James.
Always good to be on with you, especially during April, sir.
Absolutely.
April has, in fact, become synonymous around here with Michael Hill's name, as it were.
And it's great to have you too.
You know, we had Gene Andrews on in the previous hour, and you always feel such an affinity and a kinship for the people who share all of your story, not just part of it, but all of it, going all the way back to what you call the Anglo-Celtic nations, the British Isles.
So I know, Michael, we've had you on to talk about this at length.
We won't talk the whole hour about this, but I do think it's history.
When we're talking about Confederate history, it's interesting when we're talking about Confederate history to talk about all of the history, and I mean the history that even predates the Confederate years, because of course, they were a production of their past and of their ancestors, as are we.
So let's go back to the beginning.
Where did the Southern people come from originally?
Well, James, you know, I know that they migrated from somewhere, probably, probably somewhere between the Baltic, excuse me, the Black and Caspian Seas, at some time way, way, way in the past.
But they ended up in the British Isles.
And that's where I trace them from, from the Celtic regions of Scotland and Ireland and Wales and even across the Channel in Brittany, various places in Western and Northern Europe where the Celts ended up.
I've done a good deal of research and traced the passages of many of these people, including my own family, over here to this side of the Atlantic.
And it's a marvelous story, you know, and a lot of times we southerners get accused of living in the past.
We don't live in the past, but the past certainly lives in us.
Amen.
I love that way.
We remember who we are because that has made us the people that we are today.
And it's just like you said so effectively and rightly at the beginning of this.
We don't concentrate just on four years, 1861 through 65, although we do pay special heed to that because that was our attempt to be a nation with a state.
We've always been a nation, that is a distinct people.
But we haven't always had our own state.
And that was an attempt by our nation, our people, to have themselves a state from, you know, in 1861.
We were unfortunately kept from doing that by very superior military power.
You know, one of the things I always try to point out to people is it wasn't just the Yankees who defeated us.
They had to bring in somewhere around 800,000 mercenaries from Europe to also help them out.
And, you know, the struggle that our people put up for those four years was certainly heroic, and it was not in vain.
I don't know why we lost.
I don't know why a good God would let such godly men as Lee and Jackson and Davis end up on the losing side, but he did.
But, you know, maybe it's because he had something in the future planned for their descendants.
And maybe we're to look back at that and draw inspiration from it.
But we have much more history than just those four years.
And I spent my career as an academic looking at the antecedents of the South in those Celtic areas of the British Isles.
And that's a heroic story in itself.
And always, James, we're fighting against great odds and heroically against great odds.
And maybe that's what God wants his people to do, is to trust in him and fight no matter what the odds and no matter what the outcome, never to give up.
Well, Michael, you said so much there.
Oh, my goodness, that was moving.
Number one, we don't live in the past.
The past lives in us.
I don't know if I've ever heard it quite put that succinctly, but that's something I'm going to use going forward.
And you certainly quite rightly differentiated between a nation, which is a group of people or a race of people, and a governmental entity known as a country, which, of course, here it's already even said that we exactly have that.
And the fact that our Confederate heroes, our Confederate ancestors, are very flesh and blood lost doesn't mean that they weren't right.
And in God's wisdom, we're not omnipotent.
He is.
There was a reason for that.
But because they lost doesn't mean they were wrong.
And you were talking about the holiness of these people.
And I have visited, we were talking about Jefferson Davis in the last hour too.
Of course, I've been to his home in Mississippi, and they have a marker outside of this majestic oak tree.
I mean, it's just the biggest tree you've seen where he would go and read the Bible every day, even in those post-war years.
And so these were very good, godly people, but they were a fighting people.
And it goes all the way down to us.
And I know, Michael, we talked about this.
I believe it was just in last year's appearance that you made on Confederate History Month.
So we can trace our ancestry all the way back to the windswept British Isles.
And obviously here to the south, I know that my ancestor and yours were together 159 years ago this very week on the battlefield of Shiloh.
And here we are now, 159 years later, carrying on their cause, a similar cause, in the best way that we can at this particular time.
And then, of course, you talked about how even the Confederate soldiers that we make mention of brought their fighting.
Yeah, go ahead.
Councillor.
You know, we don't understand why God allowed our effort not to succeed at that time.
But that's the case.
You know, it didn't succeed.
But that doesn't mean that we're absolved from fighting ourselves in our own day.
And God places men in the day that he wants them, and he expects them to do their duty.
And so, of course, we are.
And we are doing our duty.
And a man who is doing his duty, a great friend of mine, and a hero of our people now, Michael Hill, will be with you.
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And follow with resistance to the tyrants never yield.
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Our disappearance forever.
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We will ride around the fight, like the rally once again.
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It's a wonderful thing, folks, to be able to say that you descend from fighting men.
Not everybody can say that, but that is something that I hold as a birthright, and their very blood, to have that flowing within me, is indeed a treasure.
And it's worthy of our very best efforts, and it's worthy of being preserved, and it's worthy of passing down and passing on many, many, many generations henceforth.
I could have the conversation I'm having with Michael Hill for the full three hours.
He's always one of our favorite guests.
But what we're talking about right now is that something transcendental almost.
The way our blood flows and leads us to where we are and how we can trace that back to the past.
And we've had these conversations with Michael about how the fighting Scotsmen and the fighting Celt, their warlike ways and the way that they conducted their warfare was passed down even to the Confederate era.
And even though the technology and the weaponry had changed, they still used some of the same tactics.
And we've talked to Michael Hill about that extensively.
But one of the things I was trying to ramrod into the conversation before the commercial break came in a moment ago, Michael, was the fact that, and I like to make mention of this, our ancestors were together 159 years ago on the battlefield of Shiloh.
We're together now doing the best we can with the opportunities available to us at this time.
I don't think that's a mistake.
I mean, and it certainly wasn't as if our southern ancestors left notes that were passed down saying whatever male heirs we have in the 2000s need to find each other and work together.
I just don't think it's a mistake.
We're working together.
They work together and on and on and hopefully into the future.
That's something, that's a continuity that just really makes you think.
James, that is an amazing thing.
You know, we're big, and our ancestors in the old country and here both were big on this idea of blood and soil as being the foundations for a true nation state, which in various forms.
You know, talking about Shiloh, I was with a couple of my friends at an operation we were doing up in Tennessee.
I think it was back in 2017.
And we were riding along on the way back to where we were staying after it was over, and we all followed together like mine and yours did.
Incredible.
That's an amazing thing with flesh and blood who is descended from the very flesh and blood with on the battlefield.
And here we are today taking up the mantle again in defense of the blood and soil of That's a blessing that people who have not experienced this simply cannot fathom.
And see, that's the thing about it, Michael.
I still don't think I've hit the nail right on the head in a way that fully verbally expresses my wonder at this thing.
Let me just try it in this way.
So, our ancestors were together, and you just made that wonderful testimony to the people you were with at that day at Shiloh, and they had all been together.
And then, yet, we found each other.
We didn't know each other, but we found each other.
We were led together.
Yeah, so anyway, it's a common past, and we will share a common future.
And a future is perhaps what we make of it.
We don't necessarily have to be along for the ride on this.
We have something that we can say about it, and we have something we can do about it.
Not necessarily the same form as our Confederate ancestors.
If and when the southern states secede and they call forth an army, that's a different story.
But right now, we don't have that opportunity.
We do the best we can with what we've got.
So, we talked about our common past, Michael.
Now, let's talk for a few minutes about a common future.
I think that the suppression of southern pride is still there underneath the surface.
It has been so suppressed because, of course, nobody wants to be a martyr.
Nobody wants to lose a job.
Nobody wants to not be able to provide for their children.
But, do you think, or is this just wishful thinking?
I'm not talking about the urban areas because we know even in the south, there's a huge difference between the urban south and the rural south, even amongst white southerners.
Do you think that southern pride, do you think if it was allowed or encouraged again that it would be something that would spread like a wildfire?
Yes, I do.
That it's just buried under a very shallow veneer that people have adopted themselves to protect their jobs, protect their family.
But if that end veneer be a burst like you probably hadn't seen since 1861, it's there, it's latent,
but I think there will be something that's bursting forth here, I believe, within the next if things continue like they are in the current administration.
It's going to bring it out in people.
I see it.
I see it.
I'm sure you do the same.
You not only see it, but you can feel it.
There's something that isn't dignity.
It's something that's just sleeping.
I say that, and I wonder when I say it, and I say it regularly.
If I've, you know, listen, I've been at this 16 years now, 20 years as a public activist and leader.
You've been at it longer than that.
So I'd like to think that most of my naivete, whatever youthful naivete I may have brought into this cause as a teenager with Pat Buchanan or when I was 22 running for the state House of Representatives here in Tennessee, I'd like to think that all of that youthful naivete has bled away.
And yet, still, I see that.
And in fact, I said that even earlier tonight, that this whole woke culture, this dystopian, godless, reasonless, completely process completely devoid of truth and science and just everything.
I believe it will collapse under the weight of its own gravity and stupidity.
And I believe that our people are still with us in spirit, somewhere deep, maybe not so deep, somewhere latent, as you mentioned.
And I think that that's there.
It's just a matter of getting them mobilized.
Which begs another question, though, Michael.
I mean, we talked about, yes, quite rightly, people don't want to be martyred and not be able to go to work tomorrow.
It wasn't as if our Confederate is, it just said, well, I'll sign up for the war as long as I don't get shot or hurt.
You know, they didn't say that.
You're not saying that.
We talked about you being a university professor.
You could have had a relatively easy life.
You could have gotten a tenure.
You could have been an academic and lived comfortably.
You didn't have to engage in this struggle.
You didn't risk any more or less than anyone else is asked to risk.
What leads a man like you to make those decisions?
Well, James, you know, I remember that this all sort of congealed in my mind.
I was teaching a class at the University of Alabama on American colonial fathers and what they were willing to risk in standing up to the British for own freedoms.
And I just got to think, well, gee, you know, he's standing here talking about all these guys from the past.
What are you doing?
I went back to my office after class is over and I sat there and thought about it for some time.
And that was pretty much the genesis for profession and starting the league and all that kind of stuff.
The way I look at it, if it can do it, anybody can.
I'm no more special.
All it takes is the determination.
And I just kind of put it new this ward, make a path for me.
And he has.
Hold on right there, my friend.
That's an interesting testimony, a wonderful testimony.
One I don't think I've heard even after all these years of friendship and working with Michael Hill on the radio and elsewhere.
We'll continue to hear his story when we come back.
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Ladies and gentlemen, always great to be with you during Confederate History Month here on TPC now in our 16th year.
It'll be 17 come October.
And Michael Hill has been with us since the very beginning.
He was with us since before the beginning, with us 150 years ago, back over into Europe hundreds of years before that.
We have always been together.
And that's the thing about this that we're talking about.
Nobody can be us but us.
And if they're successful in eradicating, and I mean, not just in mind, but in spirit and in body, the Southern people, the people, the real Southern people, the people who settled the South, I mean, the people who came from Scotland and Ireland and England and Wales.
People like Michael Hill.
And let me tell you something.
If you don't believe in genetic payloads manifesting themselves from hundreds of years past, just take a look at Michael Hill.
You put on a little blue face paint and a kilt, and it would be hard to imagine Michael Hill fighting the Romans as a Celtic warrior.
No, and that's the thing, Michael.
Nobody can be us but us.
We are a unique people group.
We deserve to have a place on this earth where our history and our culture and our heroes can reign supreme.
We are unique people.
We should take great pride in it.
You also should be very thankful to a spirit of resistance, tyranny, a spirit.
The freedom that he has given us, this beautiful land he has given us.
You know, you were speaking just then.
One of the great theologians of the Confederacy and also an aide-de-camp to Stonewall Jackson said after the war, said there's no shame in being defeated.
He said that that's happened to me and a lot of good people throughout history.
Losing your spirit.
And he said, you know, that's something that the South, I think he wrote this in the 1870s.
spirit, that spirit of the fighter.
And, you know, by that's a powerful message.
And there's so much truth that these men had and passed down.
And it's as true today.
This is the thing that people forget.
It's as true now as it was then.
Truth is truth.
I mean, truth doesn't have to change with society's trends.
And I'm reading now from the Barnes Review, which is a great magazine, a magazine, a publication that I subscribe to.
And they always, well, not always, not every issue, I mean, but very regularly, they have featured pieces.
And I'm reading one right now, Why We Must Honor Southern Soldiers.
And it talks about how the left is targeting, of course, our monuments for removal and destruction, sinister efforts to eradicate American history.
But it does more than just offend us, the living.
They're an insult to the honor and the memory of one of the most courageous and patriotic American servicemen the world has ever known, that being the Confederate soldiers.
So, again, when we talk about heroism and valor and duty and honor and all of these traits, these chivalric traits that again go back into our ancestral memory and to Europe and so on.
Those are traits that true men would want to emulate today and should want to emulate today.
And again, we go back to what you were talking about earlier, Michael.
I mean, you have faced all sorts of incredible attacks, horrific attacks, for standing up and being proud and being strong and setting an example for other men to follow.
That's an example that they fear.
And I think a lot of this isn't just because they hate us.
I mean, and make no mistake about it, they do hate us.
Our enemy does hate us.
But it's not just out of hatred.
What manifests their hatred?
Well, envy, resentment, opposition to beauty and all that is good.
I mean, this is real, and it is a battle of good and evil.
And so we go back to you, Michael.
We were coming up on the break in that last segment.
You made this decision to leave a career.
You could have been, you know, we would have never had Bill Gates' money, but you would have lived very comfortably, the royal we, I guess.
You would have lived very comfortably.
But you didn't.
You serve a higher calling, and it's been a hard life.
I know it's been a hard path, but it has been a rewarding one.
We talk about this a lot in terms of leading an animating existence on this temporal plane, being able to work with the descendants of the people our ancestors fought with, meeting interesting people, and serving a cause higher than how much monetary assets or pats on the head we can get from our enemies, one can accumulate here on this life.
That's what we do.
That's what you do.
And you've set an example for the rest of us to follow.
That's why we always want to work so closely with you and the League of the South.
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Go to their website, leagueofthesouth.com, and Michael, take it from there any direction you'd like.
James, I thank you for those kind.
You know, it has been hard in a way.
It's been my family.
I knew what I was getting away.
I wouldn't take anything for having done it.
I wouldn't anything except maybe undo some mistakes through the organization.
I have made from them.
I wasn't to do this, and I'm sure you weren't born knowing how to teen years, but you figured out a way to do it, and I figured out a way to do this too.
And great adventure, and I hope I've got a few years left in it.
I mean, I'll be 70 on my next birthday, but I don't feel and my wife tells me, I'll take y'all's word for that, but I do feel good, and I feel no, I feel just absolutely, completely blessed down this path.
My duty was, and animated me ability.
And I've been blessed to have been around such good folks for, well, it's almost, it'll be 27 years this June since we started the league.
And during that time, we've been around the best that you could imagine.
You, of course, you're one of my oldest buddies in this.
And that's the kind I like.
I've run people who talk a good game, but when the time comes to do things, you can't find them.
You're not one of those people.
And I'm glad to say that I've run into a lot of Southerners and people who are not Southerners who believe in our cause as well and worked with them over this more than quarter of a century.
Supreme.
I would not trade it for anything.
Yet, I mean, it is, listen, no one's going to make it out of here live, and it's just a matter of the time that you've got.
And I would rather be serving a cause.
We say this every show, I guess, a cause greater than ourselves.
I would rather my ancestors be proud of me, and I would rather be able to honor my ancestors and honor God.
And we just had, of course, last week was Easter, and we had a great message from Pastor Brett McAtee on this program.
And that is another thing that is unique, not obviously only to Southerners, but in this country, Christ lives in the South.
Predominantly, I mean, the South is known as the place that is predominantly Christian, not so much, at least not in any sort of literal sense in other parts of the country.
Obviously, you do have Christians, yes, in other parts of America, but not like you do down here.
Not people who really believe it.
Not by and large.
I mean, obviously, there are exceptions, but you wouldn't mistake Alabama, Main Street, USA, Alabama, for Oregon or Washington or California, obviously.
So that's another thing that goes into it.
It's baked into the cake of our people.
It's baked into the cake of our identity in the very fiber of our beings.
And that is, of course, one of the things here that makes this radio program what it is.
We are here to talk about truths from a pro-white perspective with regards to contemporary political issues and news and headlines.
We'll give you our trend and our commentary from that perspective.
But also, of course, we're going to honor the South and we're going to honor Jesus Christ.
Identity, faith, our people, past, present, and future.
We stand for them all here, and we stand with them together with shoulder to shoulder with some of the best men and women I've ever met.
And those are the people we feature as guests on this program each and every week.
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Lift up rifle, pike, and saber.
To arms, wife, to arms, wire, to arms, wine, in Dixie.
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder.
Let the odds make each heart bolder.
To arms, wife, to arms, to arms in Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie.
Hurrah, hurrah.
For Dixie's land, we take our stance and live or die for Dixie.
The Lord warns his Lord, watch and conquer peace for Dixie.
The Lord warns his Lord and Conquer.
Peace for Dixie.
Ladies and gentlemen, back with Michael Hill to close out tonight's show.
This Saturday evening, April 10th, our producer told me that there was a little bit of disruption with Dr. Hill's audio in the last segment, so we have called him back, and I think we're back again at 100% strength to close things out tonight.
What a great show, and what another fast show it's been.
Still two more weeks forthcoming during our Confederate History Month tribute and salute to the South.
So stay tuned for all of the great guests we have coming your way for the remainder of the month of April.
I don't know what I'm going to do when we get to May.
We've had the special series, our March Around the World and Confederate History Month.
When it gets time for May, we're going to have more time to know what to do with.
Who knows what we're going to do?
We might have to come up with another series.
But anyway, Dr. Hill, my dear friend and fellow warrior and patriot, let's talk.
This is Confederate History Month.
We've been talking about the ties that bind, ancestrally speaking and genetically speaking, and where we came from and how it lives today, just as real as it was in the 1860s and even hundreds of years before that.
But let's talk about that period during which our ancestors fought, 1861 to 1865.
Tell us about your ancestors.
We always talk about Confederate heroes, but they don't have to be people you can necessarily read about in a book.
My ancestors were heroes, and so were yours.
And they might not have been Robert E. Lee or Nathan Bedford Forrest, but they were men who fought with them, and they fought just as bravely, and they sacrificed just as much.
Tell us the story of your Confederate ancestors, Michael.
Well, the place I'm sitting right now is about five miles south.
I mean, Killen, Alabama, and five miles north of here is a place called Green Hill, which was named after my ancestors, one who was named Green Hill.
But there's a cemetery there, and I've got quite a few ancestors buried there.
And one of them was a Confederate soldier named Henry Randolph Hill.
And he joined the 16th Alabama Infantry, which mustered here around Florence, Alabama, in 1861.
He was 16 years old.
He fought for four years in the Army of Tennessee and fought at Shiloh and among other places.
And when the war was over, he walked back home from North Carolina and married and had a child who was my great-granddaddy in 1866.
He was a very brave man.
I go every Confederate Memorial Day this month and various other times during the year and place Confederate flags on his grave.
And they always stay there, too, around here.
They don't get removed.
And he was a hero, James, just like your ancestor War.
He's not known in the history books, but he'll always be known in my heart.
And I look forward to meeting him one day.
And I look forward to meeting General Forrest one day, too.
And I hope I can look General Forrest in the eye and say, sir, I did my duty.
So, you know, and I've got other ancestors, but that's the one that's closest to me.
Yeah, I believe we will, Michael.
I believe one day we will see them and see them.
Well, I would say again, but really for the first time in that sense.
Although, if it wasn't for their actions, and certainly if it wasn't for them reproducing, which is a whole nother topic that we need to get into, it's not appropriate necessarily for Confederate History Month, but my God, white people, you've got to have more children.
And if they didn't have children, we wouldn't be here to carry on the fight.
And so that is an important thing that they did above beyond.
But if it wasn't for their actions, obviously, during the war, it wouldn't have set that bar so high to where we felt compelled to try to try.
And our efforts may be filthy rags compared to somebody who's fought and bled and died in battle, but we do the best we can.
And there are so many stories, like the story of your ancestor, Michael, story of mine, the story of Keith's, the story of so many of our friends who appear this month, Gene Andrews, God knows.
But there are other stories of heroes that you may not know about that are certainly worth reading.
And you can look them up.
How about the story of the Confederate spy, Belle Boyd?
I mean, look her up, ladies and gentlemen.
Look up that woman's story.
How about the Confederate sniper Jack Henson?
I mean, he was just wearing them out, lining them up, packing them up like one of my grandmother's brothers used to say, packing them up like Cordwood, Jack Henson.
So there are heroes out there.
It's not just the dozen generals.
We always, you know, of course, talk about, and rightly so.
I mean, how could you have a Confederate History Month without invoking the names of Lee and Jackson and Forrest and some of these other people?
But Jack Henson, Bell Boyd, there are so many stories out there.
The story of, and we've shared this one on the show before, of course, but D.S. Job, the Confederate scout, who was tortured mercilessly, tortured in beyond ways you can even imagine, and never gave up the position of his fellow troops.
I mean, there are so many stories out there that people need to know.
There's never enough time in commercial radio.
We've only got four shows during the month of April.
Well, yeah, we could cover this stuff all year long, but we've got to, you know, obviously be engaged in the current battle that's raging outside as well.
But it is important, always important, Michael, that we spend at least this month, at least Confederate History Month, talking about just hopefully leaving a breadcrumb trail for people to go and do their own research.
Hopefully we whet the appetite and stir the mind to go and learn more throughout the year because it's always appropriate.
It's never a bad day to celebrate your Confederate history.
That's right.
And we're honoring men that deserve to be honored, but for our own benefit, we draw inspiration from them.
You know, I can't look back at what my ancestors did, what they were willing to sacrifice, and look at myself in the mirror if I'm not willing to make the ultimate sacrifices that they were willing to make.
And that's why I said I hope I can look General Forrest in the eye and have him say, you know, welcome.
You did your duty.
You know, General Lee, too, General General Jackson, all the heroes that you mentioned, but General Forrest has always been a favorite of mine.
You know, he was kind of rough around the edges like I am.
And I just always admire that quality about him.
Nobody was ever going to accuse me of being a Virginia gentleman like Robert E. Lee that I can identify with a rough around the edges guy like Forrest.
So, yeah, I mean, James, there's never a bad time to talk about these people because, A, they deserve it.
And as I said, B, it's always an inspiration to us.
It makes us realize that we are in a long line of men who have done their duty, and we dare not break that chain.
No, absolutely right.
That is why we do it.
And again, every day is an appropriate day to have these conversations, but we always make it a special mission to do this during the month of April.
And we explained last week why April is Confederate History Month.
We didn't make that up for the purposes of this radio program.
Now, again, Michael Hill's from northern Alabama.
My confederate ancestors were from northern Mississippi, and they met together in southwestern Tennessee at the Battle of Shiloh.
And now here we are now continuing it all and continuing it on.
We've mentioned, and I think this is key, we have a common past.
We also have a common future.
That future has not yet been written.
We can have a say in it, and people like Michael Hill will have a say in it.
Michael, with three or four minutes remaining, what encouragement and words of advice would you give our audience as we move forward into that uncertain future?
Don't quit.
Don't stop doing your duty.
You know, God is in control.
Stonewall Jackson said, you know, we act, but the consequences of our actions are up to God.
And that's true.
We never know what little action that we may be taking, which may seem insignificant to us and others, may be just the catalyst that God uses to start the ball rolling to have greater and greater things accomplished.
So we need to get up every day and we need to define our duty and we need to do it.
We don't need to get discouraged.
I mean, obviously, sometimes we're going to have setbacks.
We've got to remember that God's providential hand controls history.
It is his story that is being unfolded here, and we're the players in it, and we should take that seriously.
History is an unfolding thing that we are a part of.
We're not just observers.
We're a part of it.
And we need to get up every day with that in mind.
Don't despair.
God is in control of this, and he can do a lot with a little.
You know, as one of my old friends said, God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick.
And we're all crooked sticks in that we're, you know, we're tainted by original sin and very imperfect.
But God uses men all the way from King David until now.
And, you know, David did all kinds of things that you look askance at, but he was a man after God's own heart.
And I can't help but believe that Robert E. Lee is the same kind of person, was the same kind of person.
We should strive to be like that, knowing that we can't be perfect, but we can do our duty as God lays it before us, and we can trust in him for the right outcome, which is victory.
And we know that through the efforts of Jesus.
No, Michael, sorry, pardon the interruption, my friend.
I knew the music was about to come.
I just wanted to make mention of the fact there are not very many men worthy of your support in this country.
There are even fewer organizations.
Right here, you've got both.
Michael Hill, president, chief of the League of the South, League of the South.com.
Support their work.
Support this man.
He's a dear friend and a brother.
He won't lead you astray.
We're thankful to talk to him in April, as always, but it won't be another year before we have him back on.
He's a regular guest and a mainstay of this program and a pillar of our community, Michael Hill.
Godspeed, Brother Hill, for Gene Andrews, Keith Alexander, the rest of the staff and team here at TPC.
We'll be back with you next week as Confederate History Month Cateau.