UPDATED:16 September 2009
(NOTE: The Southern National Covenant was adopted by the 2nd. Southern National Congress on 12 September 2009 while assembled upon Cheaha Mountain, Alabama)
(NOTE: The Southern National Covenant was adopted by the 2nd. Southern National Congress on 12 September 2009 while assembled upon Cheaha Mountain, Alabama)
The undersigned Men and Women of the South to our fellow Southerners and on their behalf.
Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us. They created a free government, limited in its powers and a servant to the people. But today the United States has become an empire, fast decaying into tyranny; and we their children have become strangers and subjects in the land our fathers won. Instead of a free and just social and political order, today we are threatened by a godless national culture and a corrupt, despotic federal government that knows no limits to its power.
Our political leaders, setting themselves above the law, have forged an unholy alliance with large corporations and the international money cartel. These elites have purchased the law-makers who are sworn to serve the People, enabling them to expropriate our wealth in the greatest act of plunder in human history. Through threat of force, government seizes half of all we make for taxes, yet it is still not enough to satisfy the vaulting greed of our rulers. Thus government spends staggering sums above its revenues, saddling our People with debt so colossal that it cannot be repaid to the fifth generation. To service this debt, the government-banking alliance has stolen our Constitutional and God-ordained right to sound money and has given the power to create money out of nothing to corrupt, private banking interests. Federal law forces us to use only this bank-created money; and because it must be borrowed into existence, our once free people have become enslaved to debt. The burden of confiscatory taxation, combined with runaway federal spending and a currency manipulated to benefit the ruling elites, has brought our country to the brink of bankruptcy and economic collapse, with all the political and social turmoil that must inevitably follow.
The federal regime has loosed upon us floods of immigrants, strangers to our laws and language embodying cultures and values contrary to those upon which our nation was founded, who are displacing us on the soil our fathers won with their sweat and blood. Fomenting hostility between the races and regions, our rulers have destroyed hope and spread despair. Injustice, tyranny, corruption, and deceit are the hallmarks of their governing. They call good evil and evil good, the recompense for which is divine judgment. Accelerated by dishonesty and corruption at every level of society and swept along by a daily torrent of official lies, America is plunging toward the abyss. We watch transfixed with horror at the destruction of a once free and prosperous country and are forced to acknowledge the American political and economic system is no longer sustainable. It has become a long train of abuses, evidencing a design to reduce us under absolute despotism. Thus it cannot be salvaged or redeemed, only replaced.
We Southerners proclaim our right to be free of these evils our ancestors warned against and shed their blood to prevent. The seeds of our deliverance remain alive within our faith, culture, and historic principles of governance of individual liberty, rule of law, and impartial justice. Southern culture is founded on the enduring and permanent: trust in God, family, tradition, manners, property, community, loyalty, courage, and honour. We know that free and just government cannot derive from laws, regulations, bureaucracies, and ideologies. It springs only from the soil of faith and love, watered by struggle and sacrifice, and the harvest of which is liberty, justice, prosperity, and peace.
Before all the nations of the earth we affirm that we are a separate and distinct People, with an honourable heritage worthy of the respect of all mankind. Bound together by a shared history, faith, and blood, we have endured hardship and tragedy but have also enjoyed the fruits of Christian civilisation built by God’s grace and the works of our hands. Under heaven, we possess the right to govern ourselves in our own land under our own laws, customs, and religion.
With more sadness than anger we recognize that the country our forebears bequeathed to us no longer exists. By depending on the central government’s increasingly worthless currency, its loans, subsidies, and payments, its putrescent schools, and its false promises of security, we have forged our own chains. But if we have forged our chains, we can also sever them.
We are left with no recourse but to look to our own counsel to secure our welfare. We must “abjure the realm,” withdrawing our support from the tyrannical government and corporate institutions created for our enslavement. Then we must work to restore the power of our States, the first bulwark of freedom, self-government, and Southern identity. As our forefathers did, we must establish a new foundation for law and government by all honourable means.
Therefore, with humble trust in the Sovereign Lord of Nations, and in the name of the Southern Nation and People whom we serve, we the Delegates of the Fourteen Southern States, in Congress assembled September 12, 2009 in Delta, Alabama; make and publish this Covenant, to which we invite all Southerners who yearn for liberty and justice to join us in subscribing.
By this Covenant we corporately pledge ourselves to the protection of our Southern cultural heritage and to the defence of liberty and justice for the Southern People and States. We bind and oblige ourselves, as we are by God and nature tied, with our lives, fortunes, and sacred honour to stand in defence of our native soil and People, contrary to this perverse and infamous regime now arrayed against the South. We swear that we will be ever ready to use all our best endeavours for her preservation, and that we will not cravenly and shamefully bow the knee to tyrants. By this bond, each of us faithfully promises to assist one another as the need demands. All of which before God we most solemnly vow and promise to adhere to and never to turn from, all the days of our lives.
In mutual support of one another as Christian Southerners, we covenant together
- To renounce the evils of corrupt government that our forebears warned against, and to resist by all honourable means acts of federal tyranny, as our circumstances permit and as the Lord leads.
- To seek to revive our local economies, working together to promote every man’s prosperity as our own and toward freeing ourselves from the snare the Empire’s worthless money and perpetual debt which are the lifeblood of tyranny, and seeking a return to honest public money in daily use -- gold and silver coin or currency backed by gold and silver.
- To support every measure which restores the sovereignty of our State and local governments, and the sovereignty of the Southern people.
- To resist any Federal statute or Presidential directive that threatens our fundamental freedoms of speech, press, assembly, exercise of religion, and petition for redress, freedom from illegal search and seizure, and the right of due process under law.
- Never to allow ourselves willingly to be disarmed nor submit to the confiscation of our means of lawful self defence; nor comply with any firearms registration scheme, which is the certain precursor to confiscation.
We declare before God and men that we earnestly desire to restore a Godly order in our respective States by peaceful means. We seek only that which may turn to the honour of God and the increase of peace and justice in our States and communities. Yet the growing evils of the time may not grant us the choice of peaceful means of redress. In such a pass, when criminal violence may be directed against one of us by the state, our fortunes shall be as their fortunes, their wives or husbands as our wives and husbands, their children as our children, their losses as our losses, and injuries done them as injuries to our own persons; and we shall not rest till they be delivered.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF to the God of our Fathers, to all Southern People, to all powers, nations, and states, and to all humankind, we affix our names to this Covenant, beseeching the favour of Almighty God on a just cause. May God bless our Covenant and keep us faithful to perform all we have covenanted together to do.
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Subscribed by the undersigned Citizens of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
11 comments; post here:
Southerners should start to boycott anti-Catholic/Christian service companies such as yahoo (which prints one pedophilia scandal story after another, in many countries, to hurt the Church, forgetting that public schools have a much worse problem) certain cable channels, and TV stations, etc. Secession begins in the mind and heart first and then politically.
It also begins with language, attitude and religion. While the South is currently the least Catholic portion of the United States, those few Catholics who reside here tend to be the most practicing. We Southern Catholics should appeal to the patronage of St. Andrew for deliverance.
It is remarkable to me how strongly "Distributist" the Southern Nationalist Movement has become, in the tradition of Hillarie Belloc and G.K. Chesterton. This convinces me of its future survival and eventual triumph. For when Corporate Capitalism and Statist Socialism has brought the world to ruin (very soon) the only system of economics left standing will be Distributism, and of course, the Southern Natuonalist Movement is already prepared for that.
Yes decentralization is the answer as communism and capitalism both have the same final results; monopolies that crush competition. In the old USSR they had one newspaper, one oil company, one supermarket chain, one TV station and on and on. Sounds a lot like what the US is becoming.
Many Southern Nationalists are Distributists and I have learned that even some of the leaders of the Southern Nationalist movement are very familiar with the works of Hillarie Belloc and G.K. Chesterton on the matter. I have been amazed to learn just how much traditional Catholics makeup the backbone of this movement, even though Catholics are such a minority in the South.
Catholics are a historical majority/plurality in states like Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. Some of the oldest American cities such St. Augustine, FL are there and the heritage is contained in architecture and richness of culture.
A revival can come through consciously accessing the richness of that historical legacy
Not to sound cruel, as that is certainly not my intent here, but what have the modern Protestant sects (Baptist, Pentecostal, etc.) contributed to culture? Certainly some forms of music could be chalked up to their influence, depending on the circumstances, but what beyond that?
The council of Trent in the mid 1500's articulated that art was meant to convey the messages of Catholicism. Due to this historic and magnificent decree, the world received the greatest forms of painting and frescoes in Renaissance art, and architecture in the form of Renaissance and Baroque (not to mention Gothic and Romanesque from the medieval church). It also developed choral and poly-phony, music that later evolved into choir music and classical music, starting mostly from Venice and then spreading to the rest of Europe.
Almost every state capital building in the US, including the US Capitol, are simplified versions of Catholic Renaissance architecture which was started in Italy and funded by the Renaissance Popes. Therefore, the truth is that almost all Western culture comes from Catholicism and what little the protestants have, such as beautiful English and German hymns aka Michael Praetorius) were also based on a Catholic root.
Interesting. I am not a Southerner, but I am starting to become more and more sympathetic to the Southern Cause. In the South, I see the last flickering hope for Christendom. The Middle-East fell to Islam, Russia fell to Communism, Europe and the rest of the West has fallen to Secularism, but I feel the South will be the only surviving part of Western Christendom.
@ Catholic Knight
I do not know about the Catholics within the Southern Movement, but I do know that a good amount of the men in the Paleoconservative movement are Catholics and not just Pat Buchanan or Thomas Fleming(who happens to be a part of the Southern Movement) but the commenters... I'd say atleast half are Catholic. Also, Catholics are at the forefront of the Classical Conservative and Monarchist movement.
Things like this make me proud to be a Catholic. Actually, I am not a Catholic, yet, but definitely will convert.
And yes, Rome has contributed greatly to culture. Datum Romae, omnibus.
Oh yes, the remnants of Christendom are still present in Dixie. Occasionally they are hidden from sight and need some chiding to come out, but people still carry them in memory. Dixie is an occupied nation, and the occupation is 90% psychological. More than anything, Dixians (Southerners) need to be reminded of the Antebellum culture rich in Irish and Scottish heritage. We need to be reminded of our values. And most if all, we need to be reminded that Southern culture was originally built on an English Catholic (Anglo-Catholic) foundation. Southerners should be encouraged to explore the richness of this Anglo-Catholic heritage. Whether that be through the emerging ordinariate, or one of the continuing Anglican bodies (NOT The Episcopal Church). I would start by encouraging every Southern Baptist to pick up a copy of the "Book of Common Prayer" and start exploring it. It is the prayerbook used by most of America's founding fathers, including George Washington, along with the Confederate fathers, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.
"I do know that a good amount of the men in the Paleoconservative movement are Catholics"
Correction: The men over at the paleoconservative site, Chronicles.
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