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The Farm

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From the Abbeville Institute:

The first time I saw the inside of a prison was in 1999; I was 16. I hadn’t knocked over a fruit stand or been caught stealing hubcaps, I was just an unsuspecting teenager playing piano for a Louisiana gospel group.

One Wednesday evening in October, my pastor and leader of the band gathered us up after prayer meeting and told us we had been invited to come sing at Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary. We were all wide-eyed and slack-jawed. “The Farm,” as it was known to most, had a long reputation of being not only the largest, but also the bloodiest prison in America. And for those of us…

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Reconstruction Historiography: Ideology vs. History

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From the Abbeville Institute: [A new Southern publisher has appeared in Louisiana, Tall Men Books.  Its first book is a republication of Walter Lynwood Fleming’s classic The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.  This is a master work of historianship that lays forth, chapter and verse, the corruption and oppression of so-called “Reconstruction.”  We cannot be reminded of that too often.  The following is from the Foreword by the editor George Bagby.]

Reconstruction is the single most confusing and controversial period in American history. The tinderbox of race relations and the new organization of the central…

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Rethinking Southern Poetry

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“Works of fiction–novels and poetry–can mean more to a people than all the political manifestos and reports from all the think tanks and foundations ever established by misguided philanthropy.” Tom Fleming, 1982

I take this quote seriously. So should anyone interested in the Southern tradition or in a larger sense Western Civilization. Fleming implored his reader to do so, for as he wrote in the same essay: “If there is any­where a vision of America where tradition and principle are at least taken seriously, it is in the best of Faulkner, Miss Flannery O’Connor and those Southern Agrarians…

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The Fasola Fellowship

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From the Abbeville Institute:

I’m not deaf to the vibrant Country music chatter. Got opinions, but on social media, I made a vow: don’t discuss the current thing. Yet, the discourse reminded of something.

Donald Davidson was a man of tradition. He liked the old way. Saw a kinship between song meant for singing and verse meant for reading, a stance rare among his contemporaries. His students at both Bread Loaf and Vanderbilt recalled how he brought this union to life, instruments in hand, singing the very texts under study. Displaced by the Wesley Hall fire, Davidson’s time in Marshallville, Georgia, with John Donald…

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Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson!

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From the Abbeville Institute:

At the request of friend John Spear Smith[1] (1785–1866, figure below), who named a newborn child after him, Thomas Jefferson, in a letter (21 Feb. 1825) that he pens some one and one-half years prior to his death, offers philosophical advice to the newborn child, Thomas Jefferson Smith.

The missive takes the form of an epistolary trilogy: an advisory letter, a poem (a poetic rendition of Psalm of David XV), and Jefferson’s own Decalogue of Ethical Maxims. Jefferson writes:

This letter will, to you be as one from the dead, the writer will be in the grave before you can weigh it’s…

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Yankee Cain and Southern Seth

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From the Abbeville Institute:

Southerners have often been mocked for their agrarian simplicity by Yankee-minded folks.  We know the insults well by now:  hicks, hillbillies, rednecks, and so on.  But Dixie should not be ashamed of this.  We ought rather to delight and exult in it.

Richard Weaver gives us good ground for doing so in his contrast of the Northern/Yankee and Southern types:

“Nowhere has the Northern mind more clearly embraced the Faustian concept than in the idea of progress. There is the constant out-reaching, the denial of limits, the willingness to dissolve all into endless instrumental activity, to…

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Republic or Democracy

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Back in 1966, the conservative activist and F.B.I. operative Dan Smoot produced a short film, A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy.  Anybody who calls the United States a democracy, he said, is trying to subvert the Constitution of the United States — we’re not a democracy; we’re a republic.

Probably because there are supposed to be two political parties here, the Democrat and the Republican, people still figure that the two terms refer to polar opposites.  But it should be obvious that both sides strive to control the same institutions, that neither ever repeals anything that the…

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