Territorial Capital Museum 640 E. Woodson Lecompton, KS 66050 10/25/19
Dear Lecompton,
You are in dire need of a TRUE history lesson. John Brown was a terrorist who butchered innocent men in front of their families, yet you seem to revere him, as does the blasphemous song “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, written by Julia Ward Howe, a Unitarian. (Unitarians deny the deity of Christ).
Your theme” Where Slavery Began to Die” is interesting and seems to follow the myth that the War of Northern Aggression was about slavery. It wasn’t, and Lecompton is not where “slavery began to die”. Enclosed is a good book entitled “Understanding The War Between The States”, as well as a read only CD which contains tons of truth about our history which has been mysteriously left out of the “history” books.
You are most likely not aware that slavery in the U.S. can be attributed to the New England Yankees who built the slave ships and sailed to Africa, trading rum and other goods for already enslaved (by their own people) blacks, and brought the slaves here and sold them to both Northerners and Southerners. However, it is ALWAYS the South that is shackled with the stigma of slavery and castigated for it. If the war was about slavery, then why did the North not first free the more than 429,000 slaves still in the Union AFTER the South seceded? Also, the slave ships flew Old Glory on their masts. No Confederate flag ever flew on a slave ship. Slaves were being freed in the South before the war began. It was becoming uneconomical due to the invention of farm equipment which replaced manual labor.
The teaching of false history in this country is to blame for the blatant attacks on Southern heritage, history, heroes, and symbols. This cultural genocide would not be taking place if it were not for indoctrinating our young with myths, propaganda, and outright lies. We are seeing schools, streets, and parks having their names changed in order to cast any referral to Confederates into the trash bin. Karl Marx would indeed be proud of the success that indoctrination has enjoyed in this country.
The Corwin Amendment, as well as the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution prove that the war was not about slavery, as well as Lincoln’s own words, and actions. Lincoln could not bear to lose the excessive revenues being extracted from the South (85% of the federal revenue) and waged an illegal war to force the legally seceded South back into a union it wanted no part of. Even 2/3 of the Northern population said “let the South go”. We are still shackled today with the strong, centralized government that Lincoln gave birth to, which holds no resemblance to what our Founding Fathers established.
The truth is out there, and more and more people are discovering it, and how they have been lied to by Hollywood, the media, and academia. This is probably falling on deaf ears, but I owe it to my ancestors, and all those (white, black, red, brown, yellow) who fought to repel Lincoln’s invaders who looted, burned, and raped their way across the South. I do hope you will read some true history for a change, and learn what many of us have known all along.
