April is Confederate History Month in Alabama
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Dear Editor,
Alabama’s Board of Education has proclaimed April as Confederate History Month.
Our Confederate veterans fought for freedom from a 200% tax on steel plows and iron stoves, which made the steel industries that elected Abraham Lincoln even richer.
Famous Black educator, Booker T. Washington, strongly supported our Confederate monuments, writing to Mamie Harrison, June 16, 1914:
“I am going to take up very carefully the matter of the Confederate monument and see if I can find someone to give the money that is still needed. I am very much interested in the matter and thank you for writing. We all appreciated the visit of Confederate General Harrison to Tuskegee. We all realize more and more that men like him are the true friends of our race, and that any monument that will keep the fine character of such heroes before the public will prove helpful to both races in the South.” (“Booker T. Washington Papers,” Volume 13, Page 64)
Lincoln declared on March 4, 1861, one month before he ordered the invasion of the South:
“I have no purpose to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists, and I have no inclination to do so. The power confided to me will be used to collect the duties (tariffs) and import taxes; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion.”
Lincoln never stated his war was over slavery. Even his fake “Emancipation Proclamation” did not free General Grant’s four slaves.
Sincerely,
Roger K. Broxton
President of Confederate Heritage Fund