Southern history • Federalism • States’ Rights Writer & veteran. Book on a lost tradition coming in 2027 “all we ask is to be let alone”
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Yes, sir. Calhoun said it well in his speech opposing the Force Bill in the Senate in February of 1833.
"Whatever interest obtains possession of the Government, will, from the nature of things, be in favor of the powers, and against the limitations imposed by the constitution, and will resort to every device that can be imagined to remove those restraints.”
I don't know the point of view of the book. My point with the post and objection to the movie is that the war was not a war to end slavery. It appears to me that the movie is being framed. Dishonestly.
In 1832 Daniel Webster, the North’s great nationalist, said “The President has no authority to blockade Charleston.” In April 1861 Lincoln blockaded Charleston with Congress out of session. Webster had been dead nine years.
The only thing keeping that from happening is Trump and he is not doing enough deportations. My vote will change nothing. In two years, come Republican or Democrat. the border will likely be open again. If it is not open, it will not be because of how people voted.
I voted for the first time in 1980 as well. I don't understand what black pills, red pills and white pills are. I don't want to waste the mental energy to even figure it out. I'm not voting this election. There is no one on the ballot in my state arguing for deportations.
"Ice cream is one of the few foods with a federal definition."
No food should have a "federal" definition. It should be seen as Un-American and tyrannical. That being said, the essay is great, especially if you are an ice cream lover.
Kelsey Grammer is making a movie to foster hate of the South. He collapses the war into “end slavery,” and treats the division as a moral binary in which one side was right and the other wrong.
"Back then the country was angry and divided. Sound familiar?"
The film "delivers a powerful reminder of unity in times of national divide echoing the timeless words 'A house divided against itself cannot stand'."
So, it sounds like it will be about the war to end slavery.
"This epic movie will detail the true story of SGT Albert Townsend, a young man who, after hearing an impassioned speech by Frederick Douglass, joined what would become the Union Army’s 34th Battery..."
—Mark Caldwell, chattanoogan.com
Unfortunately. If I am charitable, he does not realize the amount of hate in what he has outlined as the story and his use of Lincoln's "house divided" quote.
So, it sounds like it will be about the war to end slavery.
"This epic movie will detail the true story of SGT Albert Townsend, a young man who, after hearing an impassioned speech by Frederick Douglass, joined what would become the Union Army’s 34th Battery..."
—Mark Caldwell, chattanoogan.com
After forty years in front of the camera, I’ll be directing my first feature film, SO HELP ME GOD: a Civil War epic about a Union soldier named Albert Townsend, who should have received the Medal of Honor but didn’t.
Clerical error.
I learned of Albert through his descendants’ archival research. What I found was more than an injustice waiting to be corrected. It was a story of friendship and extraordinary courage: an unassuming young man becoming a soldier who held his ground, and his principles, under fire.
That’s a story worth telling on the largest possible scale. And we’re inviting the people who want to see it told to help bring it to the screen, as investors in the film through Republic.
We intend to do it justice: real cannons, one hundred horses, and the cast in period-accurate uniforms. We’ve brought on Mark Huffam, whose work includes Saving Private Ryan, Game of Thrones, and The Martian, to produce it. He knows what it takes to make an epic, and how much depends on the human story at its heart.
At the Medal of Honor Heritage Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I introduced the project alongside Civil War historian Brad Quinlin, members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and representatives of Civil War Roundtables. We’re also supporting the campaign for Albert’s posthumous Medal of Honor. His descendants are still fighting to see his courage properly recognized.
This picture is about friendship, love, and honor — and common people rising to accomplish extraordinary things. I want to give that story everything it deserves.
I hope you will lift the banner with us.
Learn more about the film and the opportunity to invest:
sohelpmegod.film
More stupidity from someone who hates the South. We're either too racist or not racist enough as @WanjiruNjoya has pointed out! 😂