As featured in The Free Magnolia Volume 19, No. 1
As the late Rush Limbaugh used to say, ‘Words mean things.’ Unfortunately, with the passage of time, and the ever-changing winds of culture, historical interpretation, and politics, the meanings of words become muddled. Sometimes they completely lose their true meanings. All of this is true of words like nation and country. In modern, American parlance, those words are used interchangeably by the ruling regime and its lackies in academia and the media to refer to one entity – the united States of America.
Words Mean Things
I hear a lot of our People lamenting the loss of traditional ideas and values in modern society and politics. A typical comment goes something like, ‘We need to get back to the founding principles of America.’ And yet, I do not think that many of our folks truly realize what that would mean to them on a very real and personal level. The founding principles of America did not include the welfare-warfare state, farm subsidies, public schools, or civil rights just to name a few. My theory is that way too many Southrons are quite content with the centralized monstrosity we call the federal government if they perceive that it is doing what they support. Like currently, with our supposed political savior, Donald Trump back at the helm of the ship of state. But let a Joe Biden or Barak Obama get installed, and it is wailing and gnashing of teeth. Curiously, though, whether ‘conservatives’ or ‘liberals’ are in power (in reality, they are one and the same), a majority of Southrons have been duped into believing that the united States of America is their country, their nation, and that they owe it unwavering allegiance regardless. This happened due to the application of brute force, followed by a propaganda campaign of epic proportions between 1865 and 1900. The founding principle that the united States was established to be a confederated republic of sovereign and independent States, with the federal government as their servant, vanished into the oblivion of a centralizing, micromanaging and overbearing yankee Babylon. Like Israel of the Old Testament, Southrons were made captives of this yankee Babylon, and like Israel, they have adopted its foreign and unholy ways.
Words DO Mean Things
So, what of the true meanings of the words nation and country? And how do they differ from the bastardized usage to which they are now subjected. When defining words of the English language, I refer exclusively to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as it is the oldest, most prestigious, comprehensive, and unadulterated dictionary in the English-speaking world. It does not sway with the politically correct winds that continually alter references like Webster’s. In the OED, nation is defined as: a large group of people united by common descent, language, culture, history, and inhabiting a particular territory. It is derived from the Latin verb ‘nasci’, meaning to be born, thus producing the Latin word ‘natio’, meaning tribe or race. From this it is abundantly clear that being part of a nation requires belonging to a group of human beings with, first and foremost, a common genetic bond, i.e. being part of the same bloodline. Throughout nearly all human history, this has been the most common understanding and correct use of the word nation. This should make it easy to see why the American Indians always referred to themselves as the Cherokee Nation, or the Creek Nation. To the average white settler, they may have looked the same, but they knew they were not the same people. The OED makes defining our next word, country, very simple. A country is a nation with its own government.
An Historical Perspective
Now let us briefly review the founding of the original American republic. Every British colony planted in North America was given its own unique and separate charter by the King. They established their own legislatures, made their own laws, and created their own unique economies and cultures based upon the geography they inhabited and the resources therein. The European peoples who inhabited the colonies were primarily Englishmen in the northern colonies and Irish, Scots and Welsh (Celts) in the south with a small number of French, Spanish and Germans in the mix. Note well that we have described inhabitants of different nations making up the populations of the various colonies. During the one hundred-seventy-year colonial period, the various nations inhabiting the northern and Southern colonies had become new, unique nations, inhabiting their own unique countries (States).
It is, therefore, now easy to see why, when independence from Great Britian was declared, that the colonies defined themselves as, ‘free and independent States’ (plural), and that they had the power to do all things that free and independent States (plural) may of right do. At the successful conclusion of the revolution, King George III signed the Treaty of Paris, wherein he, ‘acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and Independent States (plural), etc.’.
As the federal constitution was debated and ratified, it was done so by conventions in each State. Their ratification documents clearly stated that they were acting only as the representatives of the People of their respective States, and that their acts were binding only on their own People and State. The result was the formation of a union of sovereign and independent States (countries) which created a federal government, aka the united States of America, to do a limited number of things for them as a group. Three States expressed their right to withdraw from that union whensoever they determined that their delegated powers were being used to oppress them. By the conventions of international treaty law, this meant that the right to withdraw was available to all the States of the union. During the antebellum period, statesmen both northern and Southern routinely referred to the united States as, ‘the union’. As the great John C Calhoun, Senator for South Carolina and Vice-President said, ‘I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.’ Abrahma Lincoln expressed over and over again that his war was to, ‘preserve the union.’
It can be clearly deduced from all of this, that our colonial ancestors in no way created a ‘nation’ or a ‘country’ known as the united States of America. Each State is a country unto itself. The People of each State are a nation unto themselves. The united States is nothing but the federal government created by that union. Over time, the peoples of the northern and Southern States coalesced into larger, regional nations based on shared ancestry, culture, economy, society, politics, and religion. Those two nations argued bitterly, and eventually fought each other in deadly combat – one for independence and the other for domination. The domination of the South, and eventually the rest of America, by the north has resulted in the bastardization of the words nation and country. True patriotism, i.e. love of country, has been corrupted into government/state worship with a lot of help from the forced recitation of a socialistic pledge of allegiance at almost every public and private gathering. The federal flag, yes that red-and-white striped, star-spangled abomination, has been passed off as the flag of a country when it is the mere representation of a union of independent countries.
A Call to Action
Our Confederate forebears understood that they were a blood and soil nation, properly understood, and that is why we in the Southern Nationalist League assert that the Southern People still constitute a nation, and one that deserves its own independent existence. It is why we in the League beg our People to throw off the corruption of their language, hearts, and minds wrought by our Babylonian conquerors, and to transfer their love of country back to where it rightfully belongs – with the Southern People and the States in which they live. Our motto shall be, ‘The Southern People are my nation, my State is my country, and the united States is their enemy.’ When enough of our People have adopted it, our independence from this god-forsaken empire will only be a heartbeat away.
~ Mark Thomey – Executive Officer of The Southern Nationalist League
