The Gate Keepers Can't Be Trusted with Our History

On June 15th , 2018 I posted an article entitled "Dealing with the Media". The gist of the article was about how a local newspaper editor had corresponded with me stating that she could not publish an event notice for our Sons of Confederate Veterans , Confederate Memorial Day event due to the fact that the paper had received a call from someone informing them of treasonous material on our Facebook Page. The "treasonous" material was nothing more than an historic quote from Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson at the beginning of the War. Below is a screenshot of the post.

It is an interesting quote. Governor Jackson (rightfully) compares the struggle between North and South to the struggle between Colonial America and the King of England. Southerners felt the Federal Government was attempting to keep them in the Union through coercion and if it was legal for the Colonials to secede from England it was most certainly legal for the South to secede from the North.

With that in mind I found an interesting article in the Feb. 2, 1861 issue of the St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican: A story about Bollinger County, Missouri advocating secession. Bollinger County, Missouri is where the Banner Press newspaper is located. It is the same paper that accused our SCV Camp (through private correspondence ) of treason for publishing the quote made by Governor Jackson. Below is a screenshot of the archived article.

These are examples of why we must do both the research and publication of history. The gate keepers are too blind and ignorant to be trusted with the task.

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