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Offline Isaac C Bishop

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New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
« on: May 22, 2023, 12:56:26 PM »
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    • New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina.

    "In my time I have written probably 200 or more book reviews. I have never used the comment “you ought to get this book.” I am using it now."

    https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/defending-dixies-land/#comment-11978
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #1 on: May 22, 2023, 02:33:41 PM »
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    • Looking forward to reading it!
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #2 on: May 22, 2023, 02:34:25 PM »
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #3 on: May 22, 2023, 03:01:30 PM »
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    • I haven't ordered a copy of the book yet but I will have to. Not having read it or knowing the references there, I just add two that for me have summarized something about that episode. You may already know these but just for library reference.

    "Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War", Richard Taylor
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23747/pg23747-images.html

    Poetry of Abam Joseph Ryan
    https://allpoetry.com/Abram-Joseph-Ryan
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #4 on: May 23, 2023, 03:53:57 PM »
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    • Quote from: Donachie on May 22, 2023, 03:01:30 PM
    I haven't ordered a copy of the book yet but I will have to. Not having read it or knowing the references there, I just add two that for me have summarized something about that episode. You may already know these but just for library reference.

    "Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War", Richard Taylor
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23747/pg23747-images.html

    Poetry of Abam Joseph Ryan
    https://allpoetry.com/Abram-Joseph-Ryan
    I cite one of Ryan's poem in my book! 
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #5 on: May 24, 2023, 03:32:00 AM »
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    • Hello Isaac,

    I'm currently half way through the book and find it a fascinating read. The injustice suffered by the South is an affront to US history. There is no more legal or moral justification for what the Yankees did to the South as there was for all the other wars of agression waged by the USA. 

    You summarise the issue very well by noting that before the war, the United States was referred to as a plural: "The United States are ..." and after the war it becomes singular: "The United States is..."

    I have also learnt the difference between a republic and democracy. That Lincoln calls himself a Republican is Orwellian newspeak. He find was a democrat

    In the US constitution, I still cannot find any clause that would prevent a state from voluntary leaving, or anything that makes a Supreme Court decision binding on all States, although I still have half the book left to read.  

    Not only did the Yankees impoverish the South, they placed so many military bases there which results in the fact huge number of US servicemen sent to die in wars abroad come from these States. I doubt many Californians and New Yorkers were sent to Vietnam.  

    The situation of the black slaves in the opening chapters is also very interesting. They seemed far happier than the blacks today, who appear to find little joy in anything they do. As most states were not slave states one has to assume that blacks arrived poor just like the whites in the non slave states, yet after 150 years don't seem to have made much improvement to their lives. A Californian black for example, would have no basis to invoke prior slavery as the reason for his current troubles. Maybe blacks are really under the Curse of Ham, as affirmed by the Pope Pius IX https://antimodernista.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/did-catholic-church-ever-teach-any-curse-of-cham/ 

    Secession was 80 years after the establishment of the Union. The EU was formed in 1992 so by 2050 or so, if a country wants to secede, he will probably also suffer the same fate. 

    Incidently, I ordered the book in France, it arrived very quickly and was even printed in France
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #6 on: May 24, 2023, 07:39:59 AM »
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    • Quote from: Confiteor Deo on May 24, 2023, 03:32:00 AM
    Hello Isaac,

    I'm currently half way through the book and find it a fascinating read. The injustice suffered by the South is an affront to US history. There is no more legal or moral justification for what the Yankees did to the South as there was for all the other wars of agression waged by the USA.

    You summarise the issue very well by noting that before the war, the United States was referred to as a plural: "The United States are ..." and after the war it becomes singular: "The United States is..."

    I have also learnt the difference between a republic and democracy. That Lincoln calls himself a Republican is Orwellian newspeak. He find was a democrat

    In the US constitution, I still cannot find any clause that would prevent a state from voluntary leaving, or anything that makes a Supreme Court decision binding on all States, although I still have half the book left to read. 

    Not only did the Yankees impoverish the South, they placed so many military bases there which results in the fact huge number of US servicemen sent to die in wars abroad come from these States. I doubt many Californians and New Yorkers were sent to Vietnam. 

    The situation of the black slaves in the opening chapters is also very interesting. They seemed far happier than the blacks today, who appear to find little joy in anything they do. As most states were not slave states one has to assume that blacks arrived poor just like the whites in the non slave states, yet after 150 years don't seem to have made much improvement to their lives. A Californian black for example, would have no basis to invoke prior slavery as the reason for his current troubles. Maybe blacks are really under the Curse of Ham, as affirmed by the Pope Pius IX https://antimodernista.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/did-catholic-church-ever-teach-any-curse-of-cham/

    Secession was 80 years after the establishment of the Union. The EU was formed in 1992 so by 2050 or so, if a country wants to secede, he will probably also suffer the same fate.

    Incidently, I ordered the book in France, it arrived very quickly and was even printed in France

    God bless you and thank you for the positive feedback. I am glad you are discovering facts about American history that are generally unknown! It is my opinion, as the book makes clear, that "America" began under Lincoln and has become what it was always intended to be, a secular authoritarian, conquering, centralized capitalist democracy bent on eradicating all competitors—the South, the Native Americans, and then further abroad.
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #7 on: May 30, 2023, 07:48:56 PM »
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    • toodaloop toodaloop ... (Southern Confederate uppers accent, but not too uppers, another eyewitness to these accounts, yet some one said William Faulkner was one of the nicest old ladies he ever met) ... a voice is heard of dialogue and coffee ... "it was about 11:30 in the morning of Sunday April 4th, near the Carthusian hours in France, yet not that close to be an Italianate Papist, yet the Angelus of Christian confession would be at St. Paul's Cathedral too, Richmiond, Virginia, of course, when and where our gracious President Davis, deep in prayer and recollection, received word in a letter from General Lee that Petersburg would have to be abandoned ... because of the Yankees. Yet evan as the occurrence naturally probably attracted attention, since the people had been so beleaguered so often, with enough already, and had known the angst to receive notice of threatened attacks, yet the congregation of St. Paul's was too refined, to make a scene at anticipated danger, so we all remained at prayers and biscuits." cf. Memoirs Memoirs, and the River Too
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    Re: New review of my book, Defending Dixie's Land, by a distinguished Professor Emer
    « Reply #8 on: May 30, 2023, 07:51:41 PM »
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    • No it was a Tueday April 4th, not Sunday, and, of course, we know that Tuesday is taken after Mars, the sign and god of war. So go the chronicles and the calendars too.
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