April 27, 2024 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Southern men, the thunders mutter, northern flags and south winds flutter.
To arms is flying.
To arms is fired.
To arms, fire is Dixie.
Send them back your fierce defiance.
Stamp upon the cursed alliance.
To arms is fired.
To arms, fight, to arms, fire is Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie.
Hurrah, hurrah.
For Dixie's land, we take our stand in the middle of time for Dixie.
To arms, fire, two arms, once and conquer peace for Dixie.
To arms, fight, who are fighting and conquer peace for Dixie.
Obviously there, a little bit of a reinterpretation of our national anthem.
That's the war version of Dixie as we head back into the final two hours of our Confederate History Month coverage in 2024.
James Edwards and Keith Alexander revisiting a classic interview with Congressman Walter Jones as we were talking about the situation, the $95 billion or the latest $95 billion going abroad and serving zero of America's vital interests.
In fact, working against them.
Just bleeding astronomy, actually.
But we are getting back to this and we are going to wrap up Confederate History Month 2024 with gusto.
We wrapped up, I'm a little sad, Keith, I have to admit, that these two months are coming to an end because we have so much fun with these fantastic guests during March and April.
And we wrapped up March Around the World, interestingly enough, in Puerto Rico, but right before that, we had Taylor Young of Antelope Hill Publishing on.
And we work with Antelope Hill Publishing quite closely.
And at least one of their content creators, if not Taylor himself, is on with us every month.
And I asked Taylor, I said, what could you give us that would tie into the March Around the World theme?
And he was on to talk about a couple of books made available to you by Antelope Hill Publishing about the Spanish, particularly the fascist era in Spain's history, as we were talking about Spain from the age of exploration to World War II.
And Taylor did, I mean, he's been on with us a few times.
I thought it was the best appearance he's ever done.
And that's not to say that the others weren't anything less than excellent, but it was fantastic.
And I really enjoyed it.
And I said, Taylor, what can you give us for Confederate History Month?
And well, now he is here to show us or to tell us.
Anyway, Taylor, let us first say hello.
How are you tonight, my friend?
I'm doing great.
Very happy to be on here again.
Hope you guys are doing well.
We are, and we're always doing well when we're talking with you.
And so, while Antelope Hill Publishing doesn't have a book, particularly pertaining to the war years of 1861 to 1865, you said the best-fitting book of your catalog would be The Tyranny of Human Rights from Jacobinism to the United Nations.
And this is by author Kerry Bolton.
Now, it doesn't cover the war years of the South specifically, but it does talk about the removal of Confederate statues in a chapter entitled The Erasure of Memory.
And so we're going to slide back into Confederate History Month from that angle and that approach.
Take it away, Taylor.
Thank you.
Yeah, so the book is, like it says, by Kerry Bolton, who is also the author of Generation 68, the culture about the cultural revolution of the 1960s.
And you could see that book, which we talked about on the show a little while ago, as kind of like a zoomed-in view on that specific period of American history.
And Tyranny of Human Rights kind of takes a zoomed-out view, where it looks at the whole legacy of the European Enlightenment and the values of equality and, you know, that morphed into the values of social justice and human rights and the impact that they've had basically ever since on European history and on American history.
So, you know, it talks about like some of the early ways that this started being developed with even earlier than the French Revolution with the English Civil War and then with the French Revolution, obviously.
And then throughout American history, it played a large role then, you know, into the Soviet Union and the United Nations and so on.
But, you know, I think America is one of the places where this battle has been fought for the longest and in some ways, you know, most openly.
And not just the Civil War itself, but like you were saying, looking back or like from our perspective today and looking today at the way that Confederate history is treated and the history of the Civil War is treated in American culture and in American discourse,
you see again the impact of those centuries of liberalism and liberal thought which have, as they grow in power, as they become more hegemonic, you really see the fruition of those Enlightenment ideals of equality and of human rights and how they're used ultimately to destroy European heritage in all of its forms.
And that includes the heritage of the Confederacy, which is, I think, pretty widely recognized.
It's one of the most intrinsically American cultures that you can find.
And, you know, so there is a portion of the book that does talk about the Confederate statues being taken down as part of this kind of ongoing cultural revolution.
And this book, again, I'm going to toss it to Keith, but the name of the book is The Tyranny of Human Rights.
That is a provocative title, and you know exactly what the point of it is.
I get it immediately from the title.
It's available at antelopehillpublishing.com.
And what we're talking with Taylor Young about, he is one of the editors there, a part of the editorial board at AHP.
And it's a discussion about how the Confederacy and certainly Southern heritage especially is an intrinsic part of American history, which liberalism destroys as part of its attack on white racial identity.
I think that's the theme that we're tying into this book, right, Taylor?
Yep, that's it.
Taylor Keith Alexander here.
How are you doing, my friend?
Good to hear your voice.
Yeah, I'm doing great.
Let me just say this.
You were mentioned in passing Oliver Cromwell and his revolutionary forces.
And I learned fairly recently, I guess within the past five years, that one of his big things, once he gained control, was to let the Jews come back to England, which makes me think that the Jews probably provide him with some type of monetary support to keep his government afloat.
And then you consider if that happened, look at the American Revolution, look at the Civil War, look at what happened in World Wars I and World Wars II.
And what I'm seeing is that if the Jews align with you, you win.
And if the Jews do not align with you, you lose.
Now, in the Civil War, there was one prominent Jew in the Confederate government, Judah Benjamin.
And some people say he's the one who spirited off all the Confederate gold to England where he set up a very profitable practice as a barrister and wrote a law book on contracts, I believe.
So what is, and if you see any connection at all between Jewish power and influence and what happened in the Civil War with the Confederacy losing and the Union winning Yeah, well, I think that probably in the Civil War is one of the many examples of them basically playing both sides and seeing which one would come out on top.
I think you could certainly look at it from the perspective that ultimately the Confederacy was fighting to preserve a greater degree of European heritage and of a hierarchical social structure than the Union.
Although, you know, the Union was at that point in history, like most people in the Union didn't want to free the slaves any more than the Southerners did.
So, you know, there were other reasons for the war as well.
But I think you're right to kind of point out that on kind of the long view of history, it definitely was a blow against those ideals and for ultimately what would be Jewish interests in America and in general in European civilization.
So I think that's probably the tie-in there.
Now, it does also make me think of in Tyranny of Human Rights, one of the things that Kerry Bolton talks about is, again, going back to the attack on Confederate heritage and on American history with the statues that were removed, which started really with 2017 and then also accelerated in 2020.
It's something that, you know, like pointed out, there was big money behind it, basically.
This was things that there were grants obtained to do this from the Rockefeller Foundation and other organizations.
So there was big money behind it.
And, you know, like you point out, Jews have a lot of money and they use it for these kinds of causes, ultimately, that are destructive to the European heritage.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are wrapping up a Confederate History Month 2024.
As you listen in real time right now, if you're tuned in live, you catch us in the archives.
We're wrapping it up here on Saturday night with Taylor Young.
It's helping us do that for Antelope Hill Publishing.
We'll Right back with her.
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Fear no danger, shun no labor.
Lift up rifle, pike, and saber.
To arms, wide, to arms, warm, to arms, warm, Dixie.
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder.
Let the odds make each heart bolder.
To arms, wife, to arms, warms, to arms, warm Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie.
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For Dixie's land, we take our stand and live or die for Dixie.
To arms, warm, who arms, arms, and conquer peace for Dixie.
To our arms who arms, arms, and conquer peace for Dixie.
Ladies and gentlemen, back with our good friend Taylor Young, and I got to sing the praises of Antelope Hill Publishing just a little bit more here.
Number one, is there anything that they can't cover?
He's on, he's on the there's never been a guest that has appeared in both March around the world and Confederate History Month and done it well.
Well, they cover all the obscure parts of history and bring them to light.
And that's, you know, that's a Herculean task.
They and the Barnes Review, I think, are doing yeoman work for our service, for our cause by doing that and showing, for example, like we did in the last segment, the connection of Jewish power and influence from the English common, you know, the so-called glorious revolution, all the way through today.
I want to say this also.
I've got, you've got to check it out, folks.
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You love Anka, right, Keith?
Oh, yeah.
We had a great time with her and Philip DeWinter over here in Memphis, took them around, and it was really a high point of our show, I think.
Well, that was a few years ago, and we've stayed in touch with them ever since, and they make regular appearances.
Well, anyway, I've been talking with Anca the last few days.
And anyway, we get this Q ⁇ A for American Free Press.
Now, if you write for American Free Press, you get a preview of the current issues.
You can go back to the editor and say, let's change this, or here are my thoughts on that.
It's a fantastic interview with Anca, I got to say.
But when I was perusing the issue, I came across this full-page ad for Antelope Hill Publishing, and it looked fantastic.
And then I go to Amran.com and I see a digital ad for Antelope Hill Publishing.
And of course, we run ads for them and we work with them every month.
And we've been better for it.
The last year or two, going back a year or two, we've settled into this thing where we feature them every month.
And it's just been fantastic, a real powerhouse.
It is the intellectual stake, but you also get the sizzle because everything is so well produced.
It's revisionist history with plenty of substance behind it.
Well, they got that and a lot of other things.
I mean, they've got kids' books.
I mean, it really covers the entire broad spectrum.
I'm getting a little bit off course here.
But anyway, Taylor, I wanted to salute you because y'all are everywhere and for good reason.
Well, thank you very much.
We try to get all the partnerships and working together with everyone that we can just to keep this thing moving forward.
Well, that's a key thing, and that's something that I've always tried to do.
We've always tried to work well with others and dispense with beefs and fly above the turbulence and just working in a cooperative and a collaborative effort.
And you've been wonderful in that regard.
And so I hope it continues for a long, long, long time to come.
Back to the book we're talking about here, the tyranny of human rights.
The manner by which Enlightenment doctrines shaped liberalism and the bloody progenies of Jacobinism and Bolshevism.
The author Kerry Bolton, writing for Antelope Hill Publishing in this book, demonstrates that the inevitable consequences of these doctrines being predicated on the fallacy of universal equality is the need for increasingly draconian laws,
pervasive indoctrination, and where these are insufficient, color revolution and war, like Jacobin doctrine of liberty, equality, fraternity, so-called, I should say, and these are in quotations.
These measures undertaken in the name of so-called human rights and equality and social justice, God help us, are largely directed towards the destruction of the European peoples.
The ultimate aim behind the humanitarian facade is a world state where people, resources, technology, and capital can be moved about without any hindrance from nation-states, races, cultures, and even families.
So that's the book, The Tyranny of Human Rights, extensively sourced for word by Tom Sunich, our good friend.
He was on with us last month.
Professor Ed Dutton, Antelope Hill Publishing brings it to you.
Keith, you heard the back page description there.
Anything tickle your fancy?
Well, everything about them tickles my fancy, to tell you the truth.
It's just they are an indispensable, indispensable asset for our movement.
Because, for example, I think in the last month they started publishing works by some of the lesser-known figures in the Spanish Civil War.
Well, we talked about that last month.
And see, where else are you going to find that type of publication?
You would have to, you know, be combing through the archives of the British Museum or something probably to do that.
But instead, Antelope Hill brings these things out where they're accessible and reasonably priced.
Well, and I like where they're talking about the Jacobin doctrine of liberty, equality, and fraternity, human rights, equality, social justice.
Aristotle had a quote about this, and I'll turn it back over to Taylor to respond and give us a little more information about this book.
Aristotle, here's a quote.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Taylor, to you.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that's a big theme of the book.
And I think there was a part where Bolton cites, I think it was Solzhenitsyn who talks about the same issue, basically, and how it's kind of ironic that this was the motto of the French Revolution, the liberty, equality.
You know, that it will have liberty and equality side by side because they are, in fact, opposites of each other.
They're, you know, they're things that can't get along.
In fact, liberty will inevitably bring about inequality because the more freedom, the more liberty you give to people, the more they're going to express their own abilities and their own drive and their own hard work.
And it's going to necessarily create inequality.
So the only way to create equality is to drive everything down to the same common denominator.
You know, you can't raise everything up to some specific standard.
You have to just grind things down until they're all the same.
And that's going to inevitably end up destroying hard work and creativity, destroying innate natural talent and character.
So that's really what the promise of this kind of slogan or of the idea of human rights or the idea of liberty may, you know, it may be what it is, but we see, again, throughout the long view of history what it actually means.
And what it actually means is this, is greater tyranny in the name of equality and the continual grinding down of both individual freedom and individual creativity as well as on like a larger civilizational scale of the European civilization, which was foremost in so many ways.
But you know, Taylor, meritocracy has also been infiltrated and poisoned by the left.
For example, Jewish admissions to highly selective colleges like Harvard and Yale.
Ron Uns pointed out, he exploded the myth that Jews are just smarter than the rest of us with an article he did in 2012 about male.
Uns himself is Jewish, of course.
Right, yeah.
That, for example, he compared the Duke Talent Search winners with the admissions to Harvard and Yale and places like that and found out that basically white Gentiles are just as smart and probably a bit smarter than Jews, but Jews got all the admissions there.
So see, well, they also work as a collective instead of as individualists, and that's a big, big, huge advantage.
So whether it's equality, artificial equality, or an artificial meritocracy, they've got both sides of that coin covered.
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Final question to you on this, talking about these principles of freedom and liberty and so on and so forth.
I defend the American Founding Fathers more than some of our contemporaries, Taylor.
I don't think there's any way they could have foreseen in the 18th century transgenderism or America slipping into this Sodom and Gomorrah-like state that we're in.
But I will freely admit they were far too drunk on the Enlightenment principles.
And the final word to you on that.
Yeah, well, it's, you know, it's a complicated topic.
And I think maybe you can kind of bring it back around to the Civil War on this, you know, ultimately.
And back to Keith's question as well on how the Jewish influence factored in on that.
And, you know, they always are happy to see Gentiles fight amongst each other.
But, you know, ultimately, the Civil War was part of our history and we should be able to see these different forces and these different ideas that struggled throughout American history all the way since, you know, even before the Revolution and the ideas of the Enlightenment and as well as others that were present and acknowledge that this is all part of our history.
It is all worth preserving and worth exploring and debating.
And I definitely, I agree with you that we definitely, you know, I wouldn't support throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.
You know, America is an absolutely fantastic country.
And I was actually just at one of the kind of landmarks of the revolution with my wife the other day.
And it just kind of like reignited in me that love that I had when I was younger when I was growing up for the battles of that period and everything.
So we have an absolutely glorious history.
And it's not something that we should surrender either to iconic classes who want to destroy our statues or to people who want to, you know, say that, you know, the Bill of Rights means that we should have trannies reading to kids or anything like that.
Exactly.
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Stand up.
Stand up.
Stand up, Virginia.
Stand up, you man.
Stand up, you man.
We're going to drive them to Washington.
Stand up, Virginia.
Can I come with these 50-0s and keep them?
The bayonet!
And when you charge!
No, it's Every time I see it again, I got to mention it one more time.
Maybe only because Warner Brothers contacted us about 2011 and asked us to help work with them to promote the movie.
The re-release of the movie for the 158th anniversary of the War Between the States.
But that, again, I got to give this guy credit.
Stephen Lang is the actor.
He's a Jewish actor from New York.
And he said by the time he finished studying up to play Stonewall Jackson, he was a believer in the cause.
Jeff Daniels, who's a Gentile, played Joshua Chamberlain in the movie.
And he said when they saw each other, they couldn't even look at each other because he was so into character.
He said he would just look at him and frown and grunt.
But anyway, and he talked about the just effusive praise on Stonewall Jackson.
In that clip, he says, Rise up, Virginia.
We're going to charge him.
We're going to push him back to Washington.
This is at the Battle of First Manassas.
When you charge, yell like furies and give them the bayonet.
And that goes back to, of course, the genesis of the rebel yell.
This is Confederate History Month, and I want to talk about the Rebel Yell here.
That was a great strategy.
It's a shame that PGT Beauregard countermanded it.
Listen to the background of this.
I mean, of all the things we've talked about during Confederate History Month, and I mean, there's so many stories, so many heroes.
How could you ever do it in just a few hours of commercial talk radio one month a year?
You can't.
You can only just sort of just broad stroke it.
But the rebel yell.
Now, one of the earliest accounts of the yell being used in the war between the states is right there at First Manassas.
The Yankees call it Bull Run.
Stonewall Jackson gave the order to yell like furies.
And the rebel yell, of course, became a battle cry used by the Confederate soldiers.
They yelled when charging to intimidate the enemy and also to boost their own morale.
One description says it sounded like a cross between an Indian whoop and a wolf howl.
In Ken Burns' documentary, The Civil War, historian Shelby Foote noted that the yell was described as, quote, a fox hunt yip mixed with a scream of a banshee.
Former Union soldiers described the effect that hearing the yell had on them.
One Yankee veteran said, quote, a peculiar corkscrew sensation went up your spine when you heard it.
If you claim you heard it and you weren't scared, it means that you never heard it to have fought with brothers and to have had a fighting chance at victory.
What a wonderful thing that must have been.
They were the last people who fought that way on this continent for our race and to have had a chance.
In his own autobiography, my own story, Bernard Brock recalls how his father, a former surgeon in the Confederate Army, would at the sound of the song Dixie jump up and give the rebel yell no matter where he was.
Quote, as soon as the tune started, mother knew what was coming, and so did we boys.
Mother would catch him by the coattails and plead, shush, doctor, shush, but it never did any good.
I have only seen father, an ordinarily model of reserve and dignity, leap up in the Metropolitan Opera House and let loose that piercing yell.
Another claim that it was derived from the screams traditionally made by the Irish and Scottish Highlanders when they made the Highland charge during battle.
At the Battle of Killy Cranky, Dundee and the chiefs chose to employ the most effective free battle weapon in the traditional, I'm sorry, folks, it's hard to even read this arsenal, the eerie and discontenting howl.
The terror was heightened by their wild-plated appearance and that distinctive war cry, a high, savage, whooping sound.
You can't suppress who you are.
You can't suppress who you are, I should say.
But you have to embrace the best version of yourself.
Keith, this was the best that our people ever were on this continent.
And we've had heroes before and we've had heroes since.
But this was a do-or-die battle, an a do-or-die expression, that maniacal maelstrom of sound, that penetrating, rasping, shrieking, blood curdling noise that could be heard for miles and whose volume reached the heavens.
Well, two observations based on your commentary.
First of all, you mentioned Dundee.
That's our ancestral heritage finding expression in the Grevel Gale.
That Dundee you're talking about was the same Dundee who was featured in the traditional Scottish folk song Bonnie Dundee.
Not Crocodile Dundee.
Right, yeah.
But Bonnie Dundee, okay?
And that's a great song.
And if you're not familiar with it, I ask you to look it up and listen to it.
Then the other thing is, why, if we had right on our side, did we lose?
Well, I've got a very simple answer to that.
Leo DeRosher said it best, Nice Guys Finish Last.
It's not known widely, but only one Union town was burned to the ground by Confederate troops in the Civil War.
That was Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, which was accomplished under Jubal Early's troops to protest Sherman's march to the sea.
Meanwhile, burning down towns, crops, farmhouses, leaving people totally bereft of the ability to shelter themselves or to eat, that was standard operating procedure by Yankee forces like Sherman and Grant.
That's exactly what happened in, you know, for example, we said one Union town was burned to the ground.
43 towns were burnt to the ground in Mississippi alone in the Civil War, and Mississippi wasn't even a major theater in the war.
So consequently, imagine what happened in Tennessee and Virginia and places like that.
Also, Missouri, Arkansas.
It's just incredible that the South held to their principles like that.
And perhaps if they hadn't, if they had fought the guerrilla war that I think everybody now realizes would have been the better way to fight the war, they may have won.
But again, that's water over the dam.
There's no rewriting history.
But, you know, unfortunately, the reason we lost, I think, was because we're nice guys.
And the Yankees were not.
Yeah, well, I mean, Stonewall Jackson, Gene Andrews talked about it last week following Forrest's lead.
Stonewall Jackson wanted to raise the black flag even there in the early parts of the war.
He said the Bible is full of such wars.
That is the only way to win the war.
And they could have won it right there at First Manassas if PGT Beauregard had not called off the troops because they thought that somehow by pulling their punches the way that Putin is pulling his punches in Ukraine is the way to win the war.
No, the way to win the war is to go in and finish it off.
They should have done that.
See, PGT.
Well, they certainly could have captured Washington.
Whether or not they would have won the war by doing that, I don't know for sure.
They would have won the war had they captured Abraham Lincoln and held him hostage, just like the people in Texas at the Battle of San Jacinto captured Santa Devon.
Santa Ana.
Well, maybe, maybe.
I mean, you know, who knows?
But no matter what, they should have fought a guerrilla war forever, like Afghanistan.
America can't win a guerrilla war.
United States can't win over.
Beauregard had two crucial mistakes, which basically affected the outcome of the war.
First was at Bull Run, 1st Manassas, where he didn't allow the troops to continue routing the Union troops into Washington, D.C.
The second thing was at Shiloh, when Forrest and others were telling him, go down there and capture Pittsburgh Landing and prevent Don Carlos Buell's Union Army from crossing the river and landing there.
If they had done that, those troops wouldn't have been available and the South would have won.
But unfortunately, who took over Albert Sidney Johnson's position as head of the Confederate Army when Albert Sidney Johnson was killed on the first day?
None other than PGT Beauregard again.
So Beauregard's inherent conservatism and lack of attacking skills and reluctance to attack was responsible for both of those big losses.
And if the Confederacy had won both of those war battles and if they had captured D.C. and had captured at Bull Run Abraham Lincoln in D.C., that would have ended the war then and there.
What do you think it must have been like to have been amongst a company of brothers fighting a battle like that?
We've been deprived of being able to fight a battle we could win thus far here and now.
And this time, you can't fight that way.
Nick Griffin told me that years ago, and I'll never forget that.
You can't fight that way right now.
And he's right.
Never really fight that way.
To have been there, though, at that time, to scream and to fight and to strive.
That had to be such a time.
Well, I tend to be like the Jewish owner of the Oakland Raiders, Al Davis, who said, just win, baby.
We could have won the war easily if we had not been outmanned by having every Irish immigrant came down the gang clang, and if he's a male, he was signed into the Union Army.
That's why our president put too much faith into their gentlemanliness.
We'll be right back.
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You know where the solution can be found, Mr. President?
In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world.
More babies will mean forward-looking adults, the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.
American babies, in particular, are likely going to be wealthier, better educated, and more conservation-minded than children raised in still industrializing countries.
As economist Tyler Cowan recently wrote, by having more children, you're making your nation more populous, thus boosting its capacity to solve climate change.
The planet does not need for us to think globally and act locally so much as it needs us to think family and act personally.
The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids.
How do you do, my brisbee?
How do you do?
Say when you mean how do you do?
With everyone to be a pretty good show-show boy.
What goes up is sure to come out.
A day we lost is apparently found.
How do you do?
If you got it back, a little bit of this sound, a little bit of that.
How do you do?
Fine, how are you?
Now you come home.
Well, you can't have good nice things anymore, can you, Keith?
You can't have Gone with the Wind.
You can't even have Song of the South.
And that's one.
They had a ride to that movie at Disney World, Splash Mountain, and now that's gone.
And they put a ride for a black princess.
Let me apologize.
That is the new modern version of that rather than the original 1946 one, which has some bowlerization in there by Disney by the modern Disney, the Eisner Disney.
But let me tell you: if you want to watch a charming show with your children, watch Song of the South, which you can get on YouTube.
And you can still get it on DVD at Dixie Republic.
Exactly.
Get it right there.
There are a few places you can get it.
Really, that is one of the most charming children's shows that you would ever see, and one that I could recommend to every parent if you want wholesome entertainment for your children from Disney.
But be sure to warn them as I warn mine: anything after 1966 is poison.
Don't go there.
We get all the stuff before 1966 when Walt Disney was actually in charge.
Let's go now to a place you might not expect we would go to during Confederate History Month.
Let's go to the state of Colorado, where we have a guest, a friend, a supporter, a listener, however you want to describe him.
All of those are fitting, who said, Hey, James, is there any way I could be a part of Confederate History Month this year?
I've got something for you.
And I read what he wanted to share with us.
And I said, my friend, we're going to clear a path for you.
And we go to Brandon in Colorado right now.
Brandon, tell us what you've got on deck for us.
Well, good evening, James and Keith.
Thank you for having me on tonight.
Thank you.
I just wanted to bring to the audience's attention something from the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the Civil War, which is neglected.
A lot of people don't know much about it.
It has a great overlap with the American West, which makes it very interesting.
Particularly, I'd like to talk about the state of Missouri, which was basically fighting a Civil War within a Civil War in the state.
Half the state was Confederate, the other half was for the Union.
But a man in particular named John Newman Edwards, and I don't think he's any relation of yours, James, but he's a very interesting man, very little known today.
He was born in Front Royal, Virginia, and he grew up in Missouri.
He was a newspaper man and a writer.
And he was at war with the modern world.
He grew up on the myths and the great stories of Western civilization.
You know, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the Iliad.
And so he had a romantic view of Western civilization that he carried with him.
When the war started, he joined up with his friend General Joe Shelby, who's a very interesting man, very much like our friend Nathan Bedford Forrest, a cavalry commander with no prior military expertise, joins the war, forms the infamous Iron Brigade in Missouri, which was the vanguard of General Sterling Price's army.
And John Newman Edwards was his adjutant.
So anyway, they fight many battles during the war in Missouri, Arkansas.
Lee surrenders at Appomattox after the war.
John Newman Edwards and Joe Shelby, they say, we're not going to surrender.
They take 800 men and they fight their way through Arkansas.
The Confederacy has collapsed.
Basically, there's an anarchy in Texas, marauders, bandits, all that.
They fight their way through Texas, restoring order in some towns.
There's a lot of interesting stories there.
They make their way to Eagle Pass, Texas, which that's pertinent to current events, as that's where Governor Abbott seized a park with the Texas National Guard recently.
And that park is called Shelby Park, and it's named after General Joe Shelby.
And his 800 men, along with Edwards, passed through there on their way to Mexico after the war.
Now, Mexico was being ruled by the French, who had installed the Austrian Maximilian as the emperor of Mexico, trying to create a European monarchy in Mexico.
Shelby and his men went down there and said to Maximilian and his court, we'd like to help you out.
And Maximilian said, no, I don't want to antagonize the Union or Lincoln, but I'll give you some land close to the Yucatan and you can all settle here.
So they formed a colony of Confederates in Mexico, a former Confederacy, and they had land and they formed plantations and crops and all that.
And it was very interesting because they like recreated the South in Mexico.
And this lasted for a good two years.
I mean, famous Confederates like General Sterling Price and Matthew Fontaine Mari all made their way down there and lived there in this colony.
And it lasted for two years until the French decided we're going to pull out of Mexico.
And they left Maximilian to suffer his fate at the hands of the liberal uprising of Benito Orez, which was mostly indigenous Mexicans.
They overthrew Maximilian's government quite easily and they executed him by firing squads.
So these ex-Confederates had to flee.
Now, Shelby and John Newman Edwards went back to their home state of Missouri, which was at that point suffering under the yoke of Reconstruction.
And Edwards started up a newspaper and he became a writer and he formed a friendship with Jesse James and the James Younger gang, which was just getting started at that point.
And single-handedly, he is responsible for creating the romantic and heroic legend of Jesse James as a Robin Hood-like figure and a, you know, a Confederate rebel that is still fighting the war just by other means, bank robberies and whatnot.
And his view of Jesse James has carried over to this day.
I mean, Teddy Roosevelt referred to James as a modern-day Robin Hood.
And so it's all very fascinating because nobody knows Edwards today, but this one man created this and he lived such a fascinating life.
He died at the age of 50, an alcoholic, but his legacy lives on today.
And it really just shows the power of what one man can do with the power of the pen.
And his memory echoes across the ages in service of a cause that he held near and dear to his heart.
So that's what I've got, but I feel like it's an incredible story and goes well with the whole theme of Confederate History Month.
Brandon, this is Keith Alexander.
Let me ask you this.
What is the connection between Mark Phew, the basketball coach at Gonzago?
I believe he's still there, and Jesse James.
I don't know that one.
I don't know that one either, Keith.
Mark Few graduated from a college, I think it was Bryan College in Missouri, which was headed up by Jesse James' father.
This idea that Jesse and Frank James were a couple of uncouth illiterates or something that turned, you know, to guerrilla warfare is the furthest thing from the truth.
They were from the top of society in Missouri in the pre-war era, and their father was the president of this college that Mark Few graduated from.
Well, I got one for you.
Yeah.
My name is James.
I have one brother, a younger brother named Jesse.
How do you think we got our names?
But, hey, listen, maybe the Jameses were scoundrels after all.
No, that whole history of, and Brandon, I'm so thankful for you bringing it up.
That whole history of the war between the states in Missouri or Missouri, as they call it over there, is just fascinating.
And this just goes to show, I want to give Brandon all the credit he is due.
The standard TPC listener could carry this show.
I mean, this is how great our audience is.
I was spellbound listening to Brandon.
I don't think we've ever gone over Joe Shelby's role in the Civil War and in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War before in Confederate History Month, have we?
No, this is it.
And this is a listener in Colorado calling in with a segment that he put together himself.
And I didn't review it.
I mean, I had a little bit of an idea where he wanted to go, but it wasn't like he had to present it to me for approval.
He comes on the air.
The segment is his, and he nails it, Keith Alexander.
Yeah, I was afraid with Brandon, it was going to be Joe Biden secretly coming in.
No, come on.
All right.
Well, Brandon in Colorado.
And of course, you know, Keith, we've met Brandon before, if you absolutely recall.
And it's good to hear from him again.
And thank you so much for emailing us and asking to do this because you've been a fantastic addition to Confederate History Month 2024.
You've got a final word for us, Brandon, out there in Colorado, holding down Dixie even on that side of the Rocky Mountains, Blue State Outpost.
Oh, yeah, Colorado is rough, but that side of the Rocky Mountains.
Yeah, it's not doing so well anymore, but there's Confederates everywhere, and we hold the spirit of Dixie in our hearts.
And gentlemen, I really appreciate you having me on tonight, and I was glad to be able to share this story.
And I think it's something people should read more about.
There's a lot of good books on it.
Just look up General Joe Shelby, fascinating guy, but there's a lot of books.
John Newman Edwards himself wrote a book called Shelby's Expedition to Mexico, and it's still in print by the University of Arkansas Press.
Fantastic read if anyone's interested.
And I just pursue, you know, I would say pursue more of these obscure heroes of the South because I think they're out there, and we need more examples like that today.
You know, mention their name at every opportunity.
Absolutely.
And Brandon, I got to tell you the truth, and this is coming straight from my heart.
Not only did this fill a segment capably, this was actually a highlight of our series this month.
And we've been stacking them up like cordwood, as my dad puts it, in the last couple of weeks with just guest after guest after guest because we only had four Saturdays in April as opposed to five Saturdays in March around the world.
And Brandon, you did a fantastic job.
Thanks for coming on and sharing this message with us.
We're going to wrap up Confederate History Month in the next hour.
So stay tuned for that.
And then in May, I don't know what we're going to do with ourselves, but we'll figure it out.