If Southern culture Is To Survive

By Wayne Carlson

If Southern culture is to survive in the face of constant assault by the forces of Jacobin modernity, it must cling tenaciously to its historic faith. Alien cultures should never be allowed to define the measure and quality of our past civilization, as well as the worthiness of its continuation in the future. Without States Rights and I dare say, political independence, the assault upon Southern culture will continue and grow. Listen to the words of Abel Upshur, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State; Virginia Judge, shortly before his death in 1844, " "I venture to predict that it [the federal government] will become absolute and irresponsible, precisely in proportion as the rights of the States shall cease to be respected, and their authority to interpose for the correction of federal abuses shall be denied and overthrown. It should be the object of every patriot in the United States to encourage a high respect for the State governments. The people should be taught to regard them as their greatest interest, and as the first objects of their duty and affection. Maintained in their just rights and powers, they form the true balance-wheel, the only effectual check on federal encroachments. The danger is, not that the States will interpose too often, but that they will rather submit to federal usurpations, than incur the risk of embarrassing that government, by any attempts to check and control it." I think it is clear what needs to be done and what our mission must be.