Many of you have enjoyed the ongoing debate
between Rick Hawkins and I. Sadly I must reveal to all that as far as my end of the debate goes, I will no longer participate.
Is it because I think that he got the upper hand on me? No far from it. Rick Hawkins has displayed all of the classic properties
of being a liberal.
The first property of being liberal is avoiding the issues. Once again Rick you stepped up to the plate.
I ask the readers did you not notice that he avoided the article “Neo-Con Poster Child”. This is not an insignificant
occurrence. Hawkins avoided that article like the plague because I nailed him on it. I raised serious questions about the
Bush administration and its motives. I raised questions that Mr. Hawkins could not, or did not want to answer. This leads
us to:
Property number two of being a liberal: name calling. Mr. Hawkins has not passed up one opportunity to drag
my name through the mud and try and discredit me. Whether it’s incorporating my family name into a fictional Iraqi character
or accusing me of wetting my pants he’s done it. It’s the only thing he knows how to do. He does not know how
to debate on facts, because he has not the education to do so, especially on issues concerning Southern heritage. Which leads
us to:
Property number 3 of being a liberal: ignorance. Mr. Hawkins has shown his ignorance on a number of occasions.
But his greatest act of ignorance was when he accused me of being a Yankee because I am from Missouri. Admittedly however,
he did reveal he had to ask his friends in Mississippi whether I was Yankee or not, (or so he says).
The facts are this Mr. Hawkins:
Missouri seceded from the Union in October of 1861 when its Congress convened in Neosho, Missouri. The Missouri
Congress was in Neosho because Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson refused to supply President Lincoln, Missouri’s share
of the 75,000 men that Lincoln called for to put down the rebellion. In return Lincoln mobilized German Immigrants from the
St. Louis riverfront, (most that had not been in the country long enough to learn English and were only in America because
they failed in their socialist revolution in Germany), to dispose of Missouri’s elected government. Missouri was admitted
into the Confederacy in November of 1861. There are 13 stars on the Confederate flag. For your information and your friends’
information, Missouri is number 12! >From Missouri came the great Confederate Generals, Price and Shelby. Who by the way
did not surrender. Opting instead to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico instead of “swallowing the dog” by taking
an oath of Allegiance to a tyrannical government that they had fought for four years.
Even after the regular forces of the Confederacy left Missouri, the Partisans remained. They remained and
grew in number due to the federal government’s policy of killing those who tried to remain neutral in the matter. Union
militia killed many Missouri men who tried to stay out of the war. Their wives sent to prison in St. Louis where many died
of disease due to the poor treatment they received there. Their children left to survive by whomever could take care of them.
Those men who were lucky enough to escape death joined forces such as Tim Reeves 15th Missouri Cavalry and M. Jeff Thompson’s
“Swamp Fox” brigade. It was through the Missourian’s fierce efforts to resist the Yankee invasion that the
Union Army was forced keep 50,000 troops in the state. Which kept them from joining Sherman in his efforts in Georgia.
Yankees? Hardly sir! But call me what you like. I have friends too and from what they’ve told me they
think you’re a freak!
You have no honor and you certainly are not a Southerner.
© 2003 Clint E. Lacy
