The March Across Dixie Came First, Now…

The Asheville Tribune ^ | 12/08/03 | H.K. Edgerton

[Holly_P]

One thousand six hundred and six point one miles on foot; traveling twenty miles per day, six days per week. Asheville, NC to Austin, Texas. One does not make such a trip for personal glory, or for want of fame. One carries the Christian Cross of St. Andrew as ones ancestors did, defending and standing for what one believes to be right. I am led by a strong sense of ancestral duties to my South Land, and with the knowledge that she has been and continues to be wronged by the very nation she helped build.

What began as a fund raising(er) cultural awareness campaign slowly took on an aura synonymous of a celebration of family (Southern Style). Black, white, red and yellow folks came out to greet us. They provided us with food, money, tales of valor, legends of bravery, and importantly love of God’s speed. To have the opportunity to confabulate with Southern families with the knowledge that folks have tried to inculcate into their thinking processes that our Southern symbols, heroes, and motivations for the War for Southern Independence was evil, and to find in the majority they had not bought into this revisionist teaching was a relief.

We found a silent majority of Black folks who felt they had no real avenue to express their true feelings about the South Land, or the honor and dignity that their families had earned under the Christian Cross of St. Andrews. Many felt that the so-called era of Reconstruction was filled with tactics designed to divide and separate Black folks in the South from their white families. They asked Terry Lee (my brother) and me to be sure to carry their message forward.

Beyond any shadow of doubt the photographs and visual documentation produced by Terry Lee will certainly cause pain to those revisionists who have mis-written our Southern history. This is a most unfortunate situation for our country and especially our South Land.

Indeed, when we finished our journey, very few at home wanted to hear about it. Our city (Asheville) even had a film festival where we entered our documentary tapes of this historical journal and we were essentially told that they had no merit!

Sickened by the continuous attack on my South Land, our flag, the men, women, and children who dare to show any adoration for her as the adorn their Dixie Outfitter apparel, or bear her glorious flag; I am again compelled to make another journey across the South to our brothers and sisters of the North whose ancestors fought on the other side, in hope that a hand of reconciliation will stop the attacks and many lies, while bringing us into a true state of Union. Diversity divides, while truth unites. On about April 30, 2004 we leave for Boston, Mass. on foot.

Donations to help us with this march to Boston can be sent to the Southern Legal Resource Center, PO Box 1235, Black Mountain, NC 28711

Comments to tribunepublisher@charter.net

[Holly_P]

Over the past several years, the Tribune has followed the activism of HK Edgerton. As a self-proclaimed "Confederate American" and immediate past president of the Asheville NAACP, he has been one of the most talked about figures covered within the pages of this paper

[TedsGarage]

Why don't you leave that flag down South? In fact, why don't you leave it in the 19th Century, where it belongs.

[Holly_P]

and immediate past president of the Asheville NAACP

I thought it was interesting that he was a past president of the Asheville NAACP. Wonder what the national NAACP thought about him?

[mfulstone]

Why don't you leave that flag down South? In fact, why don't you leave it in the 19th Century, where it belongs.

Because Edgerton understands that the flag has nothing to do with racism. It stands for states' rights. The War Of The Northern Aggression was not about slavery. And after the war? Lincoln wanted to ship ALL the blacks back to Africa.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[tet68]

That's probably why he's a "past" president.

[mo]

its representation to many is that of freedom...freedom of thought, independance of action and conduct. Principles and ideals that bought this country dearly from the British Crown. Not that any of this is PC....much less part of a modern education

[Non-Sequitur]

The War Of The Northern Aggression was not about slavery.

No, but the southern rebellion was.

"What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery." -- Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention

[Non-Sequitur]

And after the war? Lincoln wanted to ship ALL the blacks back to Africa.

As opposed to the southern leaders, who wanted the blacks right where they were, as property.

[hedgetrimmer]

How about a little cultural sensitivity and respect for Constitutionally protected free speech?

[Clint Williams]

Why don't you leave that flag down South? In fact, why don't you leave it in the 19th Century, where it belongs.
"TedsGarage" is a DU interloper. Just look at his posting history.

[varina davis]

God bless HK Edgerton, a true Confederate and a wise man.

[mfulstone]

It's sad that so many like you know zilch-point-squat about the true history of this country.

Did you know that Lincoln swore not to free the slaves in his campaign for president? Did you know that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves in the Rebel states (read it)? Did you know that there were still slaves in the North AFTER the war was over? Did you know that thousands of blacks in the South owned slaves? Did you know that most slaves got to keep more of the fruits of their labor than today's middle-class American? (after taxes)

[mhking]

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[snopercod]

I actually met HK a little while back. HK Edgerton's March Across Dixie Attacked

[onyx]

"TedsGarage" is a DU interloper. Just look at his posting history.

You're right, CW.

TedsGarage: Aren't you a piece of work. What IS your problem?

[William Terrell]

Lincoln wanted to ship ALL the blacks back to Africa.

Actually that has a strong following. That's why there is Liberia.

[muawiyah]

Look, here's something else you don't know about "Souv'rn 'story" ~ more than their fair share of folks who had their births in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia found it necessary to leave their homes and flee to Indiana.

The reason?

They didn't believe in slavery and said so!

When they, their sons and their grandsons "came back home", they did so in Grant's Army.

End of story.

[cyborg]

I agree

[Non-Sequitur]

Did you know that Lincoln swore not to free the slaves in his campaign for president? Did you know that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves in the Rebel states (read it)? Did you know that there were still slaves in the North AFTER the war was over? Did you know that thousands of blacks in the South owned slaves? Did you know that most slaves got to keep more of the fruits of their labor than today's middle-class American? (after taxes).

False. True. True. Sort of true (black slave owners numbered in the hundreds, not thousands). And false.

My turn. Did you know that the confederate constitution specifically protected slave imports? That the confederate vice president called protection of slavery the cornerstone of their rebellion? That defense of the institution of slavery was the single most often mentioned reason, usually the only reason given, for the rebellion in the southern declarations of the causes of secession? That Jefferson Davis owned hundreds of slaves during the course of his life, as many as 115 at any one time, and never once freed a single slave he owned? That the Virginia constitution gave a freed slave 12 months in which to leave the state or they could be sold back into slavery?

[cyborg]

http://www.ashevilletribune.com/the_man_behind_the_rebel_flag.htm

an interview with HK Edgerton

[x]

A state's right to do what?

[mfulstone]

From Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address:

I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:

Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.

[TedsGarage]

Here in the Land of Lincoln, we don't think there's anything Republican or conservative about the Confederate flag.

Maybe you don't think a moderate Midwesterner has any place in the Republican Party these days, but Midwesterners founded it, and one of its cornerstones was opposition to slavery and secession.

[Non-Sequitur]

That was from his first inaugural address. You said that he swore that during the campaign.

[Godebert]

"Why don't you leave that flag down South? In fact, why don't you leave it in the 19th Century, where it belongs. Here in the Land of Lincoln, we don't think there's anything Republican or conservative about the Confederate flag."

Here in the land of Washington and Lee, we don't think there's anything Conservative about the land of Lincoln and Gore. We don't care what you socialists think about our American battle flags. We'll fly 'em high whenever we want.

[Non-Sequitur]

Just remember, the GOP leadership loves referring to it as the Party of Lincoln, not the Party of Lee or the Party of Davis.

[mfulstone]

Go back and read what I underlined.

[righthand man]

I met and walked with Mr. Edgerton out side of Selam ,Alabama. He researched his family history and found out the truth about the WAR OF NOTHERN AGGRESSION. That his ancestors fought for the south. He's proud of his ancestors that fought and died for what they believed.

[Non-Sequitur]

One can argue about the timing, but I'll grant you this one. But what of it? From the Northern side the war never was about ending slavery. The south believed that the election of Lincoln threatened slavery. Hence the rebellion.

[Non-Sequitur]

He researched his family history and found out the truth about the WAR OF NOTHERN AGGRESSION.

If he researched it then you would think that he could get the name right. It was the WAR OF SOUTHERN REBELLION.

[righthand man]

you need to read history yourself and you will get it right

[Non-Sequitur]

you need to read history yourself and you will get it right

I have...and I did.

[righthand man]

One can argue about the timing, but I'll grant you this one. But what of it? From the Northern side the war never was about ending slavery. The south believed that the election of Lincoln threatened slavery. Hence the rebellion.
ya must have l'arned this'n in one of them northern liberal schools.

[Non-Sequitur]

ya must have l'arned this'n in one of them northern liberal schools.

Nope. I l'arned that'n from reading the documents and the speeches and the writings of the leaders of the time. Y'all should try it.

[sweetliberty]

"Why don't you leave that flag down South? In fact, why don't you leave it in the 19th Century, where it belongs."

Why don't you pound sand yankee? We love our heritage and we love our flag. Our ancestors fought and died under that flag. It is our history and we will not abandon it. It is our right as Americans to fly it and our duty to those who died to honor them. Our culture is unique and we choose to celebrate it. Who are you to say that we haven't that right or liberty?

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[Rebelbase]

From the March Across Dixie

I meet HK a couple of years ago when I took my sons to see him standing post with the flag at the Vance Monument in Asheville on Memorial Day a couple of years ago.

He is beyond question the most dignified individual i've ever met.

[Rebelbase]

"On about April 30, 2004 we leave for Boston, Mass. on foot. "

This man has guts, courage and conviction on par with MLK.

[Graybeard58]

Here in the land of Washington and Lee, we don't think there's anything Conservative about the land of Lincoln and Gore

Thanks for posting that map. I've been looking for a red blue map. I just wanted to let you know too that everybody in the land of lincoln didn't vote for Gore and that the previous poster doesn't speak for everyone in Illinois.

[righthand man]

I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma --Wizard of Oz


proves my point , yankees reading to much liberal print

[stand watie]

because the struggle for dixie LIBERTY continues.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

WELL SAID!

the WBTS had little or nothing to do with slavery;TWBTS was about JUST ONE major cause = FREEDOM for dixie.

no less a leader than GEN U.S. GRANT said in 1876,

"Had the late war been to perserve the institution of chattal slavery, i would have offered my sword to the South".

trust an EXPERT!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

WELL SAID!

i count among my good friends & among the TRUE SONS of dixie LIBERTY, HK and his brother!

they are fighting the good fight.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

[stand watie]

frankly, here in dixie, we care ZILCH about what yankees think of our sacred & bloodsoaked battleflags, our HERO-MARTYRS who fell for dixie INDEPENDENCE, our battle memorials, our tattered gray uniforms,our mores, our food, our weather, etc.,etc.,etc.

what we southrons want is for the dixie-HATERS to stay home and LEAVE US ALONE!

otoh, polite,softspoken,decent northernborns are welcome all over dixie, WINTER TEXANS being a FINE example of proper behavior.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

FYI, 'ole N-S is wellknown on FR as the Damnyankee Minister of Propaganda.

take anything he says as self-serving,arrogant,damnyankee-apologist FICTION.

he is the ONLY ONE of the damnyankee apologists on FR, who has an "above room tempature IQ".

as such, he is dangerous to dixie LIBERTY.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

WELL SAID, true daughter of dixie!

free dixie,sw

[Non-Sequitur]

proves my point , yankees reading to much liberal print

And southeners but in to the lost cause myth too much.

[Non-Sequitur]

We love our heritage and we love our flag.

By all means keep your flag. Love it, kiss it, sleep with it, I could honestly not care less. But keep it down there with you. Mr. Edgerton can march all over the south with it if he wants to but I have no desire to see him fly it up North. Why should I?

[righthand man]

FYI, 'ole N-S is wellknown on FR as the Damnyankee Minister of Propaganda.

if'n 'ole N-S only had a brain, he'd play with it