Sons and Daughters of the South
Date: 11/09/2001 12:24:09 PM Central Standard Time
From: SallyEllen


My sister Jane does not say much... but when she does... she is awesome. She
called me and told me she had a heavy heart today and sat down at her
computer to put her feelings into the written word. Here is the results.
Sally Raburn
----- Original Message ----- From: CSAJANE
To: SallyEllen
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:15 PM


In the years 1861 through 1865 my forefathers went to war trying to preserve
what their fathers before them had fought many battles to win, The freedom to
live peacefully free from the fear of an all controlling government. Their fathers
had won that freedom and had a constitution written to guarantee their
children the same freedom. In the last few years before the terrible war of the
Northern Invasion it had became very apparent that this was no longer going to
be the case. The Government of the people by the people and for the people
may still have existed but not for the people in the Southland. They were
bearing the heaviest part of the tax burden. Yet these tax dollars were not
being used to improve the South. The Northern government wanted our tax
money to be used only in the North. According to the Constitution: each state
was a government within itself and had the right to secede from the Union; if at
such time the government of the Union was not acting in the best interest of
the state. This is what my forefathers knew to be in the best interest of the
people of the Southland.

However the Northern government had way to much to lose in tax dollars to
allow this to happen. So when the Southern states did in fact secede, they were
invaded by the Northern government to force them back into the union. This is
what the war was actually about. The issue of slavery did not come about until
the second year of the war; and then it was to drive a wedge between the black
and white people of the South; who had always got along with each other
much much better than the black and white people of the North.
Of course the government will never come forth with this truth. The truth
about the horrible vicious thing that was done to the people of the South will
never be allowed to be told.

It is O.K. for our sons and daughters of the South to go to war and defend this
country and to preserve the American way of life. Which is what they should
do; after all we are all Americans,. But at the same time they are not allowed to
honor their ancestors. Whose freedom are they fighting for? Why is it O.K. for
every nationality that lives in this country to honor their ancestors except the
people of the Southland?

If our sons and daughters are not fighting for freedom in the South as well as
the north please send them home.

Jane