SCV Telegraph- SCV Leadership Workshop March 2nd

SCV  Telegraph        SCV National Leadership Workshop As we approach the challenging years of the Sesquicentennial, leadership training has become even more important to the defense of our Southern heritage. In an effort to insure that our members better understand the challenges of leadership roles and to aid our leaders in acquiring the knowledge to better perform their duties, the SCV has scheduled a Winter National Leadership Workshop. This year's event will be held March 2, 2013 at The Gift Horse at 209 West Laurel Ave, Foley, Ala 36535. It will be hosted by the Fort Blakeley Camp 1864. A tentative schedule for the day is posted below along with registration and lodging information. Please note that this event will include relevant presentations and individual workshops for more specialized training for Commanders and Adjutants; however, ALL members are invited to attend! ___________________________________ 8:00 - 8:10 Welcome & SCV Protocol Cmdr. Tommy Rhodes, Camp 1864 8:10 - 8:25 Introductions & Overview Lt. CIC Charles Kelly Barrow 8:25 - 9:10 Commanders & Command CIC R. Michael Givens 9:10 - 9:20 BREAK 9:20 - 10:05 Adjutants & Administration AIC Stephen Lee Ritchie 10:05 - 10:15 BREAK 10:15 - 11:00 Recruiting & Retention Lt. CIC Charles Kelly Barrow 11:00 - 11:45 Vision 2016 Past Chief of HD Tom Hiter, Ph.D 11:45 - 12:45 DINNER 12:45 - 1:30 TBA ANV Field Rep. Jack Marlar 1:30 - 1:40 BREAK 1:40 - 2:10 Camp Operations & Success Lt. CIC Charles Kelly Barrow 2:10 - 2:20 BREAK 2:20 - 3:05 Commander's & Adjutant's Workshops CIC, Lt. CIC & AIC 3:05 Concluding Remarks & Discussion Lt. CIC Charles Kelly Barrow Benediction Registration, which includes dinner, is only $15 each and will be handled through our General Headquarters at Elm Springs. You may mail a reservation with a check or call 1 (800) 380-1896 ext 209 (Cindy) or email accounting@scv.org with credit card information (MC, VISA or AMEX). ___________________________________ America's Best Inn & Suites 1517 S. McKenzie Street (Hwy 59) Foley, Al 36535 251-943-3297 $ 69.95 SCV Rate ( Host Hotel) Best Western Riviera Inn 1504 S. McKenzie Street (Hwy 59) Foley, AL 36535 251-943-8600 $ 89.00 SCV Rate Econo Lodge Inn & Suites 2862 S. McKenzie Street (Hwy 59) Foley, Al 36535 $ 84.15 SCV Rate Make Res. By 18 February Registration Sheet Name________________________ Address____________________________________________ ____________________________ Email address_______________________________________ Camp number_________________ Check enclosed ( ) or Credit Card (MC, VISA, or AMEX) Number __________________________ Expires _________ OFFICIAL SCVNEWS POST SCVNews and SCV Telegraph are Copyrighted 1999-2013, Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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SCV Telegraph- Heritage Rally 2013 update

SCV  Telegraph Compatriots, In just over a month, on Saturday March 16, the SCV's 2013 Sesquicentennial Event will be held at Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi. This event will be the dedication of the building for the new Jefferson Davis Presidential Library. We say "new" as Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, destroyed the first Presidential Library, which was dedicated in 1998. Now, at long last, the new building is complete. On March 16 there will be a parade, speeches and a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new library building beginning at 1 PM. The building, which is unique in of itself, will be open to be toured but the exhibits will not yet be installed. Beauvoir has not yet set the date for when the exhibits will be available. In addition to the building dedication, Beauvoir, restored to its appearance when Jefferson Davis lived there, is available for tours as are the grounds of Beauvoir, including the recreated rose garden that Varina Davis enjoyed. In addition, on the grounds is a Confederate Cemetery which is the last resting place of many of the Veterans that lived at Beauvoir when it was a veteran's home as well as the location of the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier.                                      Visitors may tour the grounds for free but there is an admission fee for a home tour. See beauvoir.org for more information.  Additional information about the 2013 Sesquicentennial event and information for some of the local accommodations can be found at: confederate150.com/2013.html. Hotels are filling up fast. Make your plans now to come to Beauvoir on March 16 for the SCV's 2013 Sesquicentennial Event! OFFICIAL SCVNEWS POST SCVNews and SCV Telegraph are Copyrighted 1999-2013, Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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Confederate Memorial Service and CSA Headstone Dedication Wayne Co.

Confederate Memorial Service and Headstone Dedication April 6, 2013

Fort Heiman Camp No. 1834, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Murray, KY, will be conducting a Memorial Service and military headstone dedication for Pvt. Henry M. Ezell, Company K, Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, CSA, on Saturday, April 6, 2013, time to be later announced, at Sparks Cemetery on Sparks Cemetery Lane at Patterson, Wayne County, Missouri.   The public is invited.

Lincoln's Greatest Failure

Lincoln's Greatest Failure (Or, How a Real Statesman Would Have Ended Slavery) by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Recently by Thomas DiLorenzo: Lincoln the Racist "Every other country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war . . . . How much would that cost compared to killing 600,000 Americans when the hatred lingered for 100 years." ~ Ron Paul to Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" in 2007 The new Steven Spielberg movie about Lincoln is entirely based on a fiction, to use a mild term. As longtimeEbony magazine executive editor Lerone Bennett, Jr. explained in his book, Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream: "There is a pleasant fiction that Lincoln . . . became a flaming advocate of the [Thirteenth] amendment and used the power of his office to buy votes to ensure its passage. There is no evidence, as David H. Donald has noted, to support that fiction". (Emphasis added). In fact, as Bennett shows, it was the genuine abolitionists in Congress who forced Lincoln to support the Thirteenth Amendment that ended slavery, something he refused to do for fifty-four of his fifty-six years. The truth, in other words, is precisely the opposite of the story told in Spielberg's Lincoln movie, which is based on the book Team of Rivals by the confessed plagiarist/court historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin. (My LRC review of her book was entitled "A Plagiarist's Contribution to Lincoln Idolatry"). And who is David H. Donald, cited by Bennett as his authority? He is a longtime Harvard University historian, Pulitzer prize-winning Lincoln biographer, and the preeminent mainstream Lincoln scholar of our time. One would think that Goodwin would have considered his work, being a Harvard graduate (in political science) herself. The theme of the Spielberg movie is the subtitle of Goodwin's book: "The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Nothing gets a leftist's legs tingling more than someone who is very, very good at the methods of political theft, plunder, subterfuge, and bullying. Goodwin the court historian has devoted her life to writing hagiographies of the worst of the worst political bullies – FDR, Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys, and Lincoln. (It was her book on the Kennedys that got her in trouble and forced her to admit plagiarizing dozens of paragraphs, and paying a six-figure sum to the victim of her plagiarism. That got her kicked off the Pulitzer prize committee and PBS, but only for a very short while). Lincoln's "political genius" is grossly overblown in Goodwin's book. In addition the book, like virtually all other books on the subject, completely misses the point. If Lincoln was such a political genius, he should have used his "genius" to end slavery in the way the British, French, Spaniards, Dutch, Danes, Swedes, and all the Northern states in the U.S. did in the nineteenth century, namely, peacefully. Instead, the slaves were used as political pawns in a war that resulted in the death of some 800,000 Americans according to the latest, revised estimates of Civil War deaths that has come to be accepted by the history profession. To this number should be added tens of thousands of Southern civilians. Standardizing for today's population, that would be the equivalent of more than 8 million dead Americans, with more than double that number maimed for life. Lincoln the "political genius" thanked his naval commander Gustavus Fox for helping him maneuver/trick the Confederates into firing on Fort Sumter, where no one was hurt let alone killed. This, Lincoln believed, gave him the "right" to ignore the constitutional definition of treason (Article 3, Section 3) as levying war upon the states, and levy war upon the (Southern) states in order to "prove," once and for all, that the American union was NOT voluntary, and NOT based on the principle of consent of the governed, as Jefferson declared in the Declaration of Independence. The main purpose of the war was to destroy the Jeffersonian states' rights vision of government and replace it with the Hamiltonian vision of a highly centralized, dictatorial executive state that would pursue a domestic policy of mercantilism (the Federalist/Whig/Republican Party platform of protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare, and a national bank to finance it all) and a foreign policy of empire and imperialism. The purpose – and result – of the war was to consolidate all political power in Washington, D.C. and to render all states, North and South, as mere appendages of their masters and overseers in Washington. This of course is exactly what happened after the war and it happened by design, not coincidence. A real statesman, as opposed to a monstrous, egomaniacal patronage politician like Abe Lincoln, would have made use of the decades-long world history of peaceful emancipation if his main purpose was to end slavery. Of course, Lincoln always insisted that that was in no way his purpose. He stated this very clearly in his first inaugural address, in which he even supported the proposed Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which would have prohibited the federal government from EVER interfering with Southern slavery. He – and the U.S. Congress – declared repeatedly that the purpose of the war was to "save the union," but of course the wardestroyed the voluntary union of the founding fathers. Jim Powell's book, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery, provides chapter and verse of how real statesmen of the world, in sharp contrast to Lincoln, ended slavery without resorting to waging total war on their own citizens. Among the tactics employed by the British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danes, and others were slave rebellions, abolitionist campaigns to gain public support for emancipation, election of anti-slavery politicians, encouragement and assistance of runaway slaves, raising private funds to purchase the freedom of slaves, and the use of tax dollars to buy the freedom of slaves. There were some incidents of violence, but nothing remotely approaching the violence of a war that ended up killing 800,000 Americans. The story of how Great Britain ended slavery peacefully is the highlight of Powell's book. There were once as many as 15,000 slaves in England herself, along with hundreds of thousands throughout the British empire. The British abolitionists combined religion, politics, publicity campaigns, legislation, and the legal system to end slavery there just two decades prior to the American "Civil War." Great credit is given to the British statesman and member of the House of Commons, William Wilberforce. After organizing an educational campaign to convince British society that slavery was immoral and barbaric, Wilberforce succeeded in getting a Slavery Abolition Act passed in 1833, and within seven years some 800,000 slaves were freed. Tax dollars were used to purchase the freedom of the slaves, which eliminated the only source of opposition to emancipation, wealthy slave owners. It was expensive, but as Powell notes, nothing in the world is more expensive than war. Powell also writes of how there was tremendous opposition to ending slavery in the Northern states in the U.S, especially Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, where violent mobs wrecked abolitionist printing presses; a New Hampshire school that educated black children was dragged into a swamp by oxen; free blacks were prohibited from residing in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Oregon; abolitionist "agitators" in Northern states were whipped; and orphanages for black children were burned to the ground in Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, Northern state abolitionists persevered and ended slavery there peacefully. There were no violent and enormously destructive "wars of emancipation" in New York or New England. Cuba, Brazil, and the Congo also ended slavery peacefully in the nineteenth century by real statesmen in those countries. But not in the United States. "Some people have objected that the United States couldn't have bought the freedom of all the slaves, because that would have cost too much," Powell writes. "But buying the freedom of the slaves was not more expensive than war. Nothing is more costly than war!" In fact, the North's financial costs of war alone would have been enough to purchase the freedom of all the slaves, and then ended slavery legally and constitutionally. It is a myth that Lincoln toiled mightily in his last days to get a reluctant Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, as portrayed in the Spielberg movie. What he did spend his time on was micromanaging the waging of total war on Southern civilians, who he always considered to be American citizens, since he denied the legitimacy of secession. More importantly, as documented by historians Phillip Magness and Sebastion Page in their book, Colonization After Emancipation, Lincoln spent many long days at the end of his life communicating with foreign governments and plotting with William Seward, among others, to "colonize" all of "the Africans," as he called them, out of the United States once the war was over. November 15, 2012 Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail] is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and the author of The Real Lincoln; Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe,How Capitalism Saved America, and Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution – And What It Means for America Today. His latest book is Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government. Copyright © 2012 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given. The Best of Thomas DiLorenzo at LRC Thomas DiLorenzo Archives at Mises.org

SCHEDULE UPDATE: 2013 Missouri Division/Missouri Society Reunion

Gentlemen,

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are having to do a "flip-flop" and reverse the order of the two tours planned for the 2013 Missouri Division/Missouri Society Reunion.  A wedding has been scheduled at the Historic Bolton House for the afternoon, which will require that our tour of that home be changed to the MORNING LADIES TOUR.  Obviously, the tour of some of Jefferson City's historic Confederate homes and other sites will be subsequently changed to be in the afternoon right after the MOSB Business Session and will be available to all who want to attend.  

We apologize for the necessity of making this change, and we wish we did not have to make this change for those who were looking forward to seeing the Bolton House in the afternoon, but we have no choice but to go forward with this reversal of the tours.  

We have spent several hours getting the rest of the reunion scheduled in a way that will hopefully run smoothly and on time.  Please review the revised "Schedule of Events" which reflects the change in the tours.  All other functions of the Reunion will transpire as they were scheduled. 

I should also be mentioned that M.M. Parsons Camp member Mark Schreiber, who was our tour guide at the Old Missouri State Prison two years ago, will be the tour guide for both tours this year.  Compatriot Schreiber knows the history of the Jefferson City area like no other, and always gives a great tour.  Both of these tours a free of charge and transportation will be provided.

PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR CAMP MEMBERS.  WE WILL DO OUR VERY BEST TO GET THE WORD OUT TO THE WHOLE DIVISION VIA THE NEWSLETTER AND THE WEBSITE AS WELL.

WE ALSO NEED YOUR HELP ASAP WITH REGARD TO YOUR TAKING THE TOUR(S).  WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY WILL BE ATTENDING EACH TOUR ASAP, SO WE CAN PLAN FOR WHAT KIND OF TRANSPORTATION WILL BE NEEDED, ETC.  PLEASE EITHER REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, OR CONTACT ME TO LET ME KNOW IF YOU AND/OR YOUR GUESTS WILL BE ATTENDING EITHER TOUR... THIS IS CRITICAL THAT WE KNOW IN ADVANCE.  DIVISION ADJUTANT PAUL LAWRENCE AND MYSELF WILL DO OUR BEST TO GET THE NUMBERS TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS GO AS SMOOTHLY AS POSSIBLE.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Darrell L. Maples - Commander
Missouri Division - SCV
pvtmape@embarqmail.com 
(573) 635-8815 hm.
(573) 821-2420 cell

Hughes Camp Commander Message

Confederate Patriots:

We have found a new place to meet.  It is called Kross Lounge/Ernie’s Restaurant in Sugar Creek Missouri.  The address is 605 N Sterling, Sugar Creek, MO 64054.  A big thanks to all that helped us get a new meeting place.  Our next meeting will be February 13th on a Wednesday.  Now we can drink some beer again at our meetings, especially Frank Adams.  We will not be meeting Thursday because it is Valentines Day. 

Please check out the Missouri Division Sons of Confederate Veterans website.  James Bradley has redesigned it.  James has been working with Neil Block of Anderson camp in Huntsville on a complete list of Confederate Soldiers in Higginsville, graves registrations, rolls of honor, monuments/grave markers, and a master graves list, it is on the website. 

I have three Missouri Division SCV polo shirts.  If you ordered one you should come to the next meeting and I will give you your shirt.  We are still taking orders for them, so if you do not have one and want one, let me know. 

There are two SCV related events coming up in the three months or so.  We have the Missouri Division SCV Reunion in Jefferson City on March 22nd and 23rd and the Coffee Camp is having their 13th Annual Confederate Heritage supper in Osceola on April 27th.  I will be going to both of these events and would encourage anyone of the Hughes camp to attend these events also.  See this months newsletter for more information on these events.  Festival season is coming up and I am going to order more camp merchandise to sell at these events.  I hope to see you all at the next meeting.

Yours in the Bonds of Confederate Brotherhood,
Jason-Nathaniel: coffman
John T. Hughes Camp 614 Commander

MO SCV Care Packages Update

Gentlemen,

Attached are two documents, one a certificate and one a letter from the Army... this is with regard to our care packages that we sent to the 1138th which is deployed in Afghanistan.  I want to take this opportunity to thank Gary Ayres for all his hard work coordinating this project, and I want to thank all the camps and members who made donations. 

PLEASE SHARE WITH  YOUR CAMP MEMBERS!

Darrell Maples - Cmdr.

MO Division - SCV

Click here to read the letter:   Army Letter