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Open letter to young Alabamians
Dear Young Alabamians,
I don’t know you personally, but I don’t need to know you to care about you.
I am concerned that so many of you are dying or seriously wounded. I want to help, but I realize I can’t without understanding; and the best way for me to understand is to hear from you directly. So, if you’re between the ages of 13 and 21, I would like to hear from you.
Right now I only have one question: What are you willing to die for? There may be several answers that come to your mind. However many, I want to know what is most important to you; what you would sacrifice your life and future for.
I work for BridgeWays, a youth organization. You can email your response to info@bridgewaysal.org. You don’t have to give me your name, but it might be helpful to know your age. I just want your thoughts and answers. I really hope to hear from you!
Sincerely,
Nancy Meadows
CEO of BridgeWays and former mental health counselor
P.S. If you are a teacher, administrator, parent, or community leader and have the authority to do so, please forward this letter as you deem appropriate.
Our Confederate veterans fought solely for low taxes
Dear Editor:
Monday is Confederate Memorial Day, which honors our 800,000 Confederate States Veterans, who defended the South from Lincoln’s treasonous invasion of the sovereign states to collect his oppressive 200% import tax on steel plows and iron stoves used by pioneer farmers.
February 14, 1861, “The New York Times:” “We will be in a fix, with Free Trade at every Southern port and a prohibitory Morrill Tariff at New York. The duty (tax, tariff) on German steel will be 216%.”
March 4, 1861, in his “First Inaugural Address,” Lincoln endorses permanent slavery: “A proposed Amendment to the Constitution has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service (slavery). Holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional Law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”
“The power confided to me will be used to collect the duties (tariffs) and imposts (import taxes); but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion.”
March 12, 1861, “New York Evening Post:” “The tax revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the Rebel States. Allow railroad iron to enter at Savannah with the low duty of 10% and not an ounce more iron would be imported at New York.”
April 5, 1861, Lincoln starts his Tax War by ordering the invasion of Florida and South Carolina with 11 warships under the U.S.S. Harriet Lane.
Sincerely,
Roger K. Broxton, president
Confederate Heritage Fund