In a message dated 12/31/2003 10:05:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, eharding2@cox.net writes: > Shall we submit to the sectional and remorseless despotism of a majority > of the Northern States, with no restraints on their lawless will, no checks on > their omnivorous rapacity? That is the question. Every man, every boy in > the South answers NO! And they will fight the foul usurpers and tyrants, if > they dare the issue of war, as long as the streams run and the sun shines on > our vallies. > Edward, What an inspired piece of journalism! I dare say that I have never been so proud to be a Southerner in NC as I was when I read that. I had been reading about and researching, Nathan Bedford Forrest, (as I am wont to do most mornings), the greatest general in the Confederate Army in my opinion, when you posted that patriotic article. Thanks for a great post! Everyone from the South knows who Jefferson Davis was, and this is one thing that distinguishes the South from other parts of the country. William F. Buckley