God's Righteous Judgment upon both North and South for National Sin
of Unbiblical American Slavery - over 600,000 Americans died - Part 21(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
North Carolina Secession Convention unanimously passed Ordinance of Secession - May 20, 1861; Kentucky declares its neutrality
in the War Between The States - May 20, 1861; Missouri declares its neutrality in the War Between The States - May 21, 1861;Confederate States of America (CSA) Congress votes to move its capital from Montgomery to Richmond - May 21, 1861; Virginia Voter Referendum Ratifies Secession May 23, 1861.
Part 21(a) - North Carolina Secession Convention, meeting in Raleigh, voted unanimously to pass Ordinance of Secession - May 20, 1861
Part 21(b) - Governor of Kentucky declares its neutrality in the War Between The States (War Between Americans) - May 20, 1861
Part 21(c) - Missouri declares its neutrality in the War Between The States (War Between Americans) - May 21, 1861
Part 21(d) - Confederate States of America (CSA) Congress votes to move its capital from Montgomery to Richmond - May 21, 1861
Part 21(e) - Virginia Voter Referendum Ratifies (132,201 to 37,451) Secession vote of April 17 Secession Convention - May 23, 1861
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Resources: 1) North Carolina in the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_in_the_Civil_War
2) North Carolina Ordinance Of Secession - www.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp
3) Ordinance of Secession of North Carolina - http://www.csawardept.com/documents/secession/NC/index.html
4) Civil War Timeline / Chronology for May 1861 - http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186105
5) Confederate Order of Secession - http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_Secession
6) One Hundred Fifty Years Ago Today - War Between the States Sesquicentennial Calendar - http://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/ - May 20, 1861
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Ordinance of Secessionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_of_Secession
State Passed Referendum VoteS. Carolina December 20, 1860. [1]
Mississippi January 9, 1861.[2]
Florida January 10, 1861.[3]
Alabama January 11, 1861.[4]
Georgia January 19, 1861.[5]
Louisiana January 26, 1861.[6]
Texas February 1, 1861.[7] February 23 46,153 - 14,747
Virginia April 17, 1861.[8] May 23 132,201 - 37,451
Arkansas May 6, 1861.[9]
Tennessee May 6, 1861.[10] June 8 104,471 - 47,183
N. Carolina May 20, 1861.[11]
Missouri October 31, 1861.[12]
Kentucky November 20, 1861.[13]
Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas also issued separate declarations of causes,
in which they explained their reasons for secession.
American Civil War
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
Texts of the Ordinances - http://web.archive.org/web/20040404171724/members.aol.com/jfepperson/ordnces.html
Texts of declarations of causes - http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
Florida's Ordinance of Secession Text and original document from the State Archives of Florida.
South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession Text and original document from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
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Part 21(a) - North Carolina Secession Convention, meeting in Raleigh, voted unanimously to pass Ordinance of Secession
- May 20, 1861
North Carolina Ordinance Of Secessionwww.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp
[ emphasis added ]
North Carolina
AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of North Carolina and the other States united with her, under the compact
of government entitled "The Constitution of the United States."
We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained,
That the ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina in the convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution of the United States
was ratified and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to the said
Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded, and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain, That the union now subsisting between the State of North Carolina and the other States,
under the title of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of North Carolina is in full possession
and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
Done in convention at the city of Raleigh, this the 20th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year
of the independence of said State.
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North Carolina in the American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_in_the_Civil_War" ... North Carolina did not secede until May 20, 1861, after the fall of Fort Sumter and the secession of the Upper South's bellwether, Virginia.
North Carolina was the last state to secede from the Union, leaving thirteen days after Tennessee ."
Ordinance of Secession of North Carolina http://www.csawardept.com/documents/secession/NC/index.html(Unanimously adopted in the State Capitol at Raleigh on 20 May 1861.)
Includes list of North Carolina Secession Convention officers and delegates
Civil War Timeline / Chronology for May 1861http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186105May 20, 1861 Delegates to the North Carolina Secession Convention vote to withdraw from the Union
Confederate Order of Secession
North Carolina Ordinance of Secession
Confederate Order of Secessionhttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_SecessionMay 20, 1861 Delegates to the North Carolina Secession Convention vote to withdraw from the Union
North Carolina
North Carolina Ordinance of Secession
NC State Capitol in 1861
http://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/ [ May 20, 2011 ]
One Hundred Fifty Years Ago Today - War Between the States Sesquicentennial Calendarhttp://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/North Carolina secedes - May 20, 1861
- In Raleigh, North Carolina, delegates to a State Secession Convention convene at 11AM in the southern wing of the State Capitol
on the anniversary of the 1775 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The Lincoln regime has already committed an act of war
against the state by blockading its coast. Little was left to discuss. Debate ends at 6 o'clock p.m. when the convention adopts an
Ordinance of Secession by unanimous vote, becoming the eleventh state to leave the Union.
Seven Score and Ten - The Civil War Sesquicentennial Day by Dayhttp://gathkinsons.net/sesqui/?p=
May 20, 1861: North Carolina secedes – but doesn’t revolt
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Part 21(b) - Kentucky declares its neutrality in the War Between The States (War Between Americans) - May 20, 1861
May 17, 1861: Kentucky won’t secedehttp://gathkinsons.net/sesqui/"The border state of Kentucky was vital to the Union, and the election of delegates to its convention went well for the Union’s interests."
UNION TRIUMPH IN KENTUCKY.Published: May 18, 1861
http://www.nytimes.com/1861/05/18/news/union-triumph-in-kentucky.html?scp=12&sq=may+18%2C+1861&st=p
"The official vote in eighty-nine counties for the Union Delegates to the Border State Convention is 98,561. Eighteen counties are yet to be heard from.
The aggregate Presidential vote in November was 146,216."
"The House also passed resolutions that Kentucky should maintain a strict neutrality during the present contest, and approving of Gov. MAGOFFIN's refusal,
under existing circumstances, to furnish troops to the Federal Government."
Civil War Timeline / Chronology for May 1861http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186105May 20, 1861 Kentucky declares its neutrality in the War Between The States
Confederate Order of Secession
Confederate Order of Secessionhttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_SecessionMay 20, 1861 Kentucky declares its neutrality in the War Between The States
Kentucky in the American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_Civil_War
"Kentucky, being a border state, was among the chief places where the " Brother against brother" scenario was prevalent. Kentucky was officially neutral
at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature
petitioned the Union for assistance, and thereafter became solidly under union control."
One Hundred Fifty Years Ago Today - War Between the States Sesquicentennial Calendarhttp://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/May 20, 1861
- Governor Magoffin proclaims the neutrality of Kentucky in the coming War.
KENTUCKY NEUTRALITY IN 1861http://www.jstor.org/pss/1886256 ________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
Part 21(c) - Missouri declares its neutrality in the War Between The States (War Between Americans) - May 21, 1861
Confederate Order of Secessionhttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_SecessionMay 21, 1861 Missouri declares its neutrality in the Civil War
Confederate Order of Secession
Missouri in the American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_in_the_American_Civil_War
"By 1860, Missouri's initial southern settlers had been supplanted with a more diversified non-slave holding population, including many northerners,
German and Irish immigrants. With war seeming inevitable, Missouri thought it could stay out of the conflict by remaining in the Union, but staying neutral
not giving men or supplies to either side and pledging to fight troops from either side who entered the state. The policy was first put forth in 1860 by outgoing
Governor Robert Marcellus Stewart, who had Northern leanings. It was reaffirmed by incoming Governor Claiborne Jackson, who had Southern leanings.
A Constitutional Convention to discuss secession was convened with Sterling Price presiding. The delegates voted to stay in the Union and supported
the neutrality position."
Price-Harney Truce in St. Louis [ Missouri ]http://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/
[ emphasis added ]
"In St. Louis, Missouri, US Brigadier General William S. Harney and Major General Sterling Price of the new Missouri State Guard
meet and sign the Price-Harney Truce putting the Federal military in charge of St. Louis, and leaving state forces to control the rest
of Missouri. In return, Missouri will declare neutrality in the War. Missouri unionists consider the agreement a capitulation to
Governor Claiborne F. Jackson and the secessionists."
Seven Score and Ten - The Civil War Sesquicentennial Day by Dayhttp://gathkinsons.net/sesqui/
May 21, 1861: The Price-Harney Truce
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Part 21(d) - Confederate States of America (CSA) Congress votes to move its capital from Montgomery to Richmond
- May 21, 1861
Confederate Order of Secessionhttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_SecessionMay 21, 1861 Confederate Congress votes to move its capital from Montgomery to Richmond
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Capitol to host Confederate Congress
http://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/
Capital moves to Richmondhttp://wbts-calendar.blogspot.com/
"Following a May 11 vote by states 5-3 to move the capital to Richmond, Virginia, Confederate Congress today votes
to move the Confederacy’s capital to Richmond, Virginia, and President Jefferson Davis signs an act ordering payment
into the cash-strapped Confederate treasury of all monies owed to Northern creditors. The second Congressional session
adjourns in Montgomery, Alabama, to reconvene in Richmond."
"At Hampton Roads, Virginia, across from Union-controlled Fortress Monroe, the USS Monticello in its efforts to blockade
the Chesapeake Bay, again fires two shots at the Sewall’s Point battery but draws off when Georgia troops manning the
battery returns fire with a Georgia flag flying and under command of Captain Peyton H. Colquitt."
"Meanwhile at Washington, D.C., 11,000 Union troops cross the Potomac River to invade Virginia Soil with a goal to seize Alexandria, Virginia."
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Part 21(e) - Virginia Voter Referendum Ratifies (132,201 to 37,451) Secession vote of April 17 Secession Convention - May 23, 1861
Confederate Order of Secessionhttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_SecessionMay 23, 1861 Virginia ratifies the Secessionist Convention referendum by a vote of 132,201 to 37,451
Confederate Order of Secession
Virginia Secession Convention
Virginia in the American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_in_the_Civil_War
[ hyperlink footnote deleted ]
[ emphasis added ]
"The Commonwealth of Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The convention called to act for the
state during the secession crisis opened on February 13, 1861, after seven seceding states had formed the Confederacy on [ CCL: February 8]. Unionist delegates
dominated the convention and defeated a motion to secede on April 4. The convention deliberated for several months, but on April 15 President Abraham Lincoln
called for troops from all states still in the Union in response to the Confederate capture of Fort Sumter. On April 17, the Virginia convention voted to secede.
With the entry of Virginia into the Confederacy, a decision was made in May to move the Confederate capital from Montgomery, Alabama, to Richmond,
in part because the defense of Virginia's capital was deemed strategically vital to the Confederacy's survival regardless of its political status. Virginians ratified
the articles of secession on May 23. The following day, the Union army moved into northern Virginia and captured Alexandria without a fight."
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Civil War Timeline / Chronology for May 1861http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186105
Civil War Timeline / Chronology for 1861http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/1861
American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
THE CIVIL WAR: States Which Secededhttp://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojects/TAHv3/Content/PDFs/Civil_War_Secessions.pdf
Ordinances of Secessionhttp://www.constitution.org/csa/ordinances_secession.htm
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Battle of Fort Sumterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter#Surrender
[ emphasis added ] "The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the first military action of the American Civil War. Following the surrender, Northerners rallied behind
Lincoln's call for all of the states to send troops to recapture the forts and preserve the Union. With the scale of the rebellion apparently small so far,
Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers for 90 days. This call triggered the secession of four additional states to join the Confederacy."
Tennessee in the American Civil Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_in_the_American_Civil_WarReaction to the attack on Fort Sumter
With the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, followed by President Abraham Lincoln’s (February 12, 1809-April 14, 1865) call for 75,000 volunteers
to put the seceded states back into line, public sentiment turned dramatically against the Union.
Historian Daniel Crofts thus reports:
- Unionists of all descriptions, both those who became Confederates and those who did not, considered the proclamation calling for seventy-five
- thousand troops "disastrous." Having consulted personally with Lincoln in March, Congressman Horace Maynard, the unconditional Unionist and
- future Republican from East Tennessee, felt assured that the administration would pursue a peaceful policy. Soon after April 15, a dismayed
- Maynard reported that "the President's extraordinary proclamation" had unleashed "a tornado of excitement that seems likely to sweep us all away."
- Men who had "heretofore been cool, firm and Union loving" had become "perfectly wild" and were "aroused to a frenzy of passion." For what purpose,
- they asked, could such an army be wanted "but to invade, overrun and subjugate the Southern states." The growing war spirit in the North further
- convinced southerners that they would have to "fight for our hearthstones and the security of home."
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At the time of the Confederate firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Confederate States of America (CSA) consisted of seven slave States:
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Eight slave States had not joined the CSA by April 12, 1861:
Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Lincoln's call for militia from all the States caused
four more slave States to secede: Virginia (April 17 / May 23 referendum, 1861), Arkansas (May 6, 1861), Tennessee (May 6 / June 8 referendum, 1861), and North Carolina (May 20, 1861). Thus the final composition of the Confederate States of America consisted of "only eleven of the fifteen states in which
slavery was lawful." [America Past and Present ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_of_Secession
www.csawardept.com/documents/secession/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_in_the_American_Civil_War
www.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp
United States History, by Ruth Gavian & William Hamm, Revised by Frank Freidel, 1965, pp. 371, 372.
America Past and Present, Volume One to 1877, by Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, 1987, pp. 421, 422.
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The Confederate States of America
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/maps/map1_large.html
Stats:
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Union Statistics:2.9 million men served
1.5 million enlisted - 3 years duration
630,000 casualties
360,000 killed in action or died of disease
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Confederate Statistics:1.2 million men served
800,000 enslited – 3 years duration
340,000 casualties
250,000 killed in action or died of disease
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Battle of Fort Sumterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
[ emphasis added; hyperlink superscript footnotes deleted below, available online ]
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started
the American Civil War.
continued...
Following the battle, there was widespread support from both North and South for further military action. Lincoln's immediate call for 75,000 volunteers
to suppress the rebellion caused an additional four states to secede and join the Confederacy. The Civil War had begun.
continued...
Aftermath
The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the first military action of the American Civil War. Following the surrender, Northerners rallied behind
Lincoln's call for all of the states to send troops to recapture the forts and preserve the Union. With the scale of the rebellion apparently small so far,
Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers for 90 days. This call triggered the secession of four additional states to join the Confederacy. The
ensuing war lasted four years, effectively ending in April 1865, with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
continued...
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The American Nation, A History of the United States, by John Garraty with Robert McCaughey, 1991, p. 416.
[ emphasis added ]
"The attack [ CCL: by Confederate batteries on Fort Sumter ] precipitated an outburst of patriotic indignation in the North. Lincoln issued a call for
75,000 volunteers, and this caused Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee to secede. After years of crisis and compromises, the nation
chose to settle the great quarrel between the sections by force of arms."
"Southerners considered Lincoln's call for troops an act of naked aggression. When the first Union regiment tried to pass through Baltimore in
mid-April, it was attacked by a mob. The prosouthern chief of police telegraphed the Maryland state's attorney general: "Streets red with blood. Send ...
for the riflemen to come, without delay. Fresh hordes will be down on us to-morrow." The chief and the mayor of Baltimore then ordered the railroad bridges
connecting Baltimore with the northern states destroyed. Order was not restored until Union troops occupied key points in the city."
"The southerners were seeking to exercise what a later generation would call the right of self-determination. How, they asked, could the North square
its professed belief in democracy with its refusal to permit the southern states to leave the Union when a majority of their citizens wished to do so ?"
[ CCL Note: Perhaps if President Lincoln had welcomed the separation of 11 slave-holding Southern States of the Confederate States of America (CSA),
instead of calling for troops to stop them, the remaining States of the United States of America could have come closer to accomplishing
what the nation's founding father's failed over 70 years earlier to do: bring an end to unbiblical slavery in America. However it was not to be so,
the War Between Americans, 1861-1865 was God's Righteous Judgment upon both North and South for National Sin of Unbiblical American Slavery. ]
"Lincoln took the position that secession was a rejection of democracy. If the South could refuse to abide by the result of an election in which it had
freely participated, then everything that monarchists and other conservatives had said about the instability of republican governments would be proved true.
"The central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy," he said. The United States must "demonstrate to the world" that "when ballots have been
fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections."
[ CCL Note: The July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence asserted political separation is essentially as an unalienable right: "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
www.ushistory.org/DECLARATION/document/index.htm
What was needed then in 1860, and what remains a need today, is an amendment to the U.S. Constitution not only recognizing the principle of unalienable
political separation expressed in the Declaration of Independence, but establishing the practical mechanism for this to be accomplished. Had such an
amendment and mechanism been in place in 1860, perhaps the War Between Americans involving all the States could have been averted. (?). Again,
what is needed today, now, is a constitutional amendment establishing the mechanism for any one of the current 50 States to be able to SEPARATE
from the Federal Union. ]
"This was the proper ground to take, both morally and politically." [ CCL: disagree - President Lincoln could have instead welcomed the separation of the CSA. ]
"A war against slavery would not have been supported by a majority of northerners. Slavery was the root cause of secession but not of the North's determination
to resist secession, which resulted from the people's commitment to the Union. [ CCL: true, well said. ] Although abolition was to be one of the major results
of the Civil War, the war was fought for nationalistic reasons, not to destroy slavery.
[ CCL Note: In the minds of the human actors, at the beginning of the war, yes. However, God's purpose was different, as President Abraham Lincoln came to begin
to realize later. The Emancipation Proclamation was announced September 22, 1862, and then issued effective January 1, 1863. Lincoln's words indicate
he got saved and became a born-again Christian at the time of the dedication of the National Cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield (Nov. 1863) "when I ...
saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there, consecrated myself to Christ. Yes, I do love Jesus." (The Big Betrayal, p. 56.) ]
"Lincoln made this plain when he wrote [ CCL: August 22, 1862 ] in response to an August 19, 1862 editorial by [ CCL: New York Tribune abolitionist ] Horace Greeley
urging complete emancipation: "I would save the Union .... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing
all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. He added, however, "I intend no modification
of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free." "
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CCL Note: President Lincoln was personally opposed to slavery, believing blacks were entitled to the enjoyment of the same basic Creator-endowed, unalienable rights
listed in the Declaration of Independence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as whites, however he did not believe blacks were due political and social
equality with whites. Lincoln took the position as President that he would not interfere with slavery where it existed, but he (as did the newly formed "third party"
in 1854, the modern Republican Party) sought to prevent the expansion of slavery westward into the U.S. territories. Lincoln then was not an abolitionist,
but was against slavery's expansion. He had wanted to "regulate" slavery, limiting it to where it already existed. However God had other plans. God's intent
was that this abominable practice be brought to an end. President Lincoln's deeper understanding of God's purpose in ENDING UNBIBLICAL AMERICAN SLAVERY in the "terrible war" that God gave to "both North and South" is seen in the words of Lincoln's March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address, given just over a month
before General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA on April 9, 1865, and before Lincoln's own death on April 15, 1865 after being shot by Confederate and
Roman Catholic (and tool of Pope Pius IX and the Jesuits - The Big Betrayal, p. 59 ), John Wilkes Booth, on April 14, 1865.
Resources: 1) "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates", Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 in The Annals of America, Volume 9, 1858-1865, The Crisis of the Union, pp. 11, 12.
2) President Ronald Reagan re-established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1984, for the first time in 117 years, since 1867,
after Roman Catholic / Jesuit involvement in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865:
- Two years after President Lincoln's assassination, the United States Congress broke off diplomatic relations with the Vatican/Pope:
"Beginning in [ 1867 ],... Congress ... prohibited the financing of any diplomatic post to the Papal authority."
- Timeline 1984 - "Jan 10, The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years."
- New World Order advocate President George H.W. Bush (YouTube - 0:33, Views - 344,668) said New World Order was helped
during President Reagan's time in office. (YouTube - 1:26, Views - 35,585)
- George H.W. Bush was a CFR -member, a CFR director, and a member of the Trilateral Commission
BEFORE he was picked by " Vatican-friendly" Ronald Reagan to be his vice presidential running mate in 1980:
3) See also "50 Years in the "Church" of Rome," by former Roman Catholic priest, Charles Chiniquy, Table of Contents, Chapters 51, 53, 54
("Rome the implacable enemy of the United States") 55 & 56. ]
"Then said Jesus ... ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."John 8:32, KJV
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CCL Note:
The comparison with the modern issue in America of child-murder-by-"abortion" is profound. There are those pro-lifers who wish to establish
the legal "Personhood" of the unborn to END the wicked practice now, and there are those who are supportive of incremental, child-murder/"abortion"
"regulation" legislation. Regulating slavery did not work, and neither has the last 20 years or so of regulating child-murder-by-"abortion".
God's requirement for murder is JUSTICE, not "regulation.
The answer to END, not just "regulate" America's greatest moral crime in 2011, is to PASS PERSONHOOD NOW ! ]
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America Past and Present, Volume One to 1877, by Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, 1987, pp. 421, 422.
[ emphasis added ]
"On April 15, Lincoln proclaimed that an insurrection existed in the Deep South and called upon the militia of the loyal states to provide seventy-five thousand
troops for short-term service to put it down. Two days later, a sitting Virginia convention, which had earlier rejected secession, reversed itself and voted to join the
Confederacy. Within the next five weeks, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina followed suit. These slave states of the upper South had been
unwilling to secede just because Lincoln was elected, but when he called upon them to provide troops to "coerce" other southern states, they had to choose sides.
Believing that secession was a constitutional right, they were quick to cut their ties with a government that opted for the use of force to maintain the Union and
called on them to join in that effort."
"In the North, the firing on Sumter evoked strong feelings of patriotism and dedication to the Union." ...continued... "By firing on the flag, the Confederacy united
the North. Everyone assumed that the war would be short and not very bloody. It remained to be seen whether Unionist fervor could be sustained through a long and
costly struggle."
"The entire Confederacy, which now moved its capital from Montgomery to Richmond, Virginia, contained only eleven of the fifteen states in which
slavery was lawful. In the border slave states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri, secession was thwarted by a combination of local Unionism
and federal intervention."
continued...
"Hence the Civil War was not, strictly speaking, a struggle between slave and free states." ... continued ... "Although concern about the future of slavery had driven
the Deep South to secede in the first place, the actual lineup of states and supporters meant that the two sides would define the war less as a struggle over slavery
than as a contest to determine whether the Union was indivisible."
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United States History: Heritage of Freedom, in Christian Perspective, by Lowman, Thompson, Grussendorf, 1996, p. 289, 290.
(A Beka Book, A Christian textbook ministry of Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola, Florida)
[ selected emphasis added ]
Reaction to Conflict The North rises to preserve the Union."President Lincoln had maintained that the Constitution of the United States was a permanent, binding contract and that therefore the states could not secede
from the Union. News of the siege of Fort Sumter rallied the North behind him. The people of the North, regardless of political affiliation, rose to support the Union."
...continued ...
"From the beginning of the conflict, Lincoln was careful not to breed unnecessary hostility between North and South. Rather than declaring war on the Southern
states, he simply handled the situation as an insurrection of certain radical groups. On April 15, he called for 75,000 volunteer militiamen for three months' service to
put down "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." His request was met with enthusiastic response."
The South rises to preserve states' rights. "Many Southerners believed that the U.S. Constitution was a compact entered into voluntarily by the individual states. They concluded that since the states had
voluntarily entered the Union, they could voluntarily leave the Union. The Southern states said they were fighting not to preserve the institution of slavery but to
preserve states' rights."
More border states secede.
"Lincoln's call for invasion forces led to the secession of four border states from the Union. Virginia seceded almost immediately, bringing the Confederacy
dangerously close to Washington. [ CCL: By the beginning of June ], Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina had seceded as well. However, many citizens
in these states continued to hold strong Union sentiments. The sentiment in northwestern Virginia was so strong that several counties separated from the state.
In 1863, these counties were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia."
"The remaining four border states - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware - waited to see what course the conflict would take. They preferred to
remain within the Union, but if the conflict became a war to destroy slavery, they would probably secede. President Lincoln handled the situation tactfully, and
these four states remained loyal to the Union throughout the war. However, sentiment in these states was sharply divided. Many men from the border states
fought for the Union, but many also joined the Confederacy. In many cases, brother took up arms against brother."
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United States History, by Ruth Gavian & William Hamm, Revised by Frank Freidel, 1965, pp. 370-372.
[ selected emphasis added ]
Both sides call for volunteers.
"On April 14, 1861, when the news from Charleston flashed through the North, the people seemed to forget all their differences in a cry for revenge.
The next day Lincoln issued a call for volunteers to put down what he called the "insurrection." Men responded quickly and in greater numbers than
the President asked. Jefferson Davis also called for volunteers, and thousands rushed to the Confederate colors. The "irrepressible conflict" had come."
Four more states leave the Union.
"Up to this time eight slave states in the upper South had not seceded. In each of them two parties were struggling for control - the secessionists
and the Unionists. Once it became clear that Lincoln would use force against the seceded states, the four middle slave states - Arkansas, Tennessee,
North Carolina, and Virginia - joined the Confederacy."
"Virginia's action deprived the Union of the services of the ablest commander in the country - Robert E. Lee. Lincoln had already offered him command
of the Union army. Lee hated slavery and had freed his own slaves. He loved the Union, which he had served for thirty-two years. Still he felt that he
could not fight against his own state, his relatives and his neighbors. With deep regret he resigned his commission in the United States Army and accepted
one in the Confederate army. He became a tower of strength to the Confederacy."
West Virginia is formed.
"A bitter division of opinion developed in Virginia, and the western counties refused to follow the rest of the state. They held a convention at Wheeling,
declared that they represented the wishes of the people of Virginia, and voted to stay in the Union. At a later convention they organized the state of
West Virginia, which was admitted to the Union in 1863. Lincoln approved this action as a war measure, although the Constitution forbids the division
of a state without its consent."
Four slave states remain in the Union.
"In Missouri the Unionists and secessionists fought a civil war of their own, but the state did not secede. The governor of Kentucky declared that his state
would take no part in the war - that is, it would remain "neutral." Lincoln's tact kept Kentucky in the Union, and tens of thousands of her citizens enlisted in
the Union army. However, several thousand other Kentuckians served in the Confederate army."
"In Maryland the secessionist party was strong. If Maryland seceded, Washington would be surrounded and might become the Confederate capital. However,
United States military authorities occupied Baltimore and Annapolis, where they arrested secessionist leaders. The secession movement collapsed. Maryland
was saved for the Union. The fourth slave state to stay in the Union was Delaware. This state's legislature voted unanimously to reject secession."
On both sides loyalties are divided. "Neither side had the united support of its people. The Confederate army, as well as the Union army, included volunteers and officers from every state, both
North and South. Sometimes a single family had members fighting on opposite sides. This kind of family tragedy was frequent in the border states."
continued ...
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States Which Secededhttp://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/faq/seceded.cfm
Convention of Seceding Stateshttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Convention_of_Seceding_States
Timeline of Secessionwww.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/south_secede/timeline_secession.cfm
The Confederate States of America - Overview of the Confederacy www.civilwarhome.com/confederacyoverview.htm
Confederate Constitutions And Viewpointswww.csawardept.com/documents/Constitutions/CSA/index.html
Confederate Order of Secessionhttp://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Confederate_Order_of_Secession
Confederate States of Americahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America
[ emphasis added ]
Confederate States Constitutionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitution
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A SUMMARY OF THE STATES THAT SECEDED FROM THE UNIONwww.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/secessedStates.html"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixteenth President of the United States. His election to the presidency
was the final blow to the South and led directly to the break up of the Union. Five months after his election, the North and South
were engrossed in a bloody civil war. This was the culmination over thirty years of debate about the slavery and extension
of slavery into new territories."________________________________________________________________________________
The American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html#letters
Declaration of Causes (of Secession) of Seceding States - GA, MISS, SC, TXhttp://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
Category:Political Speeches & Documentshttp://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/Category:Political_Speeches_%26_Documents
Category:Confederate States of America documentshttp://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/Category:Confederate_States_of_America_documents
The Secession Movement 1860-1861
by Dwight Lowell Dumond http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/DUMSEC/Bibliography*.html Bibliography
Primary Sources
Confederate States of America : Documents http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/csapage.asp
The Online Library of Liberty
PART ONE: The Civil War http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2282&chapter=216178&layout=html&Itemid=27
The Civil War and the Expansion of Slaveryhttp://caho-test.cc.columbia.edu/dbq/11014.html
Document Links
A. Calhoun on the Compromise of 1850
B. Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler
C. Bleeding Kansas
D. Republican Party Platform of 1856
E. A House Divided
F. National Democratic Party Platform of 1860
G. Union Must and Shall Be Preserved
H. Crittenden's Proposed Amendment
I. Response to the Crittenden Amendment
J. Mississippi's Declaration of Secession
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"Edited by James W. Loewen
and Edward H. Sebesta
www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1338Resounding documentary proof that the original reasoning behind secession and subsequent myth-making
was in defense of slavery and white supremacy
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of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
Secession Begins:
December 20, 1860
South Carolina
Secession Complete:
June 8, 1861
Tennessee
Secession Documents::
- South Carolina Ordinance of Secession - http://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/South_Carolina_Ordinance_of_Secession
- Mississippi Declaration of Causes of Secession
- Mississippi Ordinance of Secession
- Florida Ordinance of Secession
- Alabama Ordinance of Secession
- Georgia Declaration of Causes of Secession
- Georgia Ordinance of Secession
- Louisiana Ordinance of Secession
- Texas Ordinance of Secession
- Arkansas Ordinance of Secession
- North Carolina Ordinance of Secession
- Virginia Ordinance of Secession
- Tennessee Ordinance of Secession
- Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America
http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/searchlm.php?function=find&exhibit=crisis&browse=crisis
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Confrontation to Conflict: South Carolina's Path to the Civil war
An Exhibit of State Documents Marking South Carolina's Journey from Nullification to Secessionwww.palmettohistorysc.org/
Friday, December 17, 2010
"On the convention’s first day, delegates unanimously resolved that South Carolina should secede from the Union.
Fearing a smallpox epidemic in Columbia, the delegates travelled to Charleston, where they reconvened and drafted
the Ordinance of Secession. The document repealed the United States Constitution and declared “that the Union now
subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name ‘The United States of America,’ is hereby dissolved.”
On December 20 delegates signed the document before thousands of exultant spectators. Four days later the delegates
agreed to provide an explanation for their actions and adopted a Declaration of the Immediate Causes, which
blamed secession on northern states for violating the fourth article of the Constitution and refusing to return runaway slaves."
"When South Carolinians had argued for secession during previous sectional crises, other southern states had urged caution.
So in December 1860 and January 1861 South Carolina sent envoys to southern states to once again urge secession. This time,
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed South Carolina’s lead. On February 4, 1861,
the recently seceded states formed the Confederate States of America, and on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces in Charleston Harbor
fired on the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter. President Lincoln called for volunteers to put down the rebellion, which led Virginia, Arkansas,
North Carolina, and Tennessee to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy."
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Category: Short-lived stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Short-lived_statesCountries (recognized or not) that controlled territory but existed for generally less than ten years.
Category: Confederate States of Americahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Confederate_States_of_America
The Confederate States of America (CSA, also known as the Confederacy) was the confederacy formed by the southern states that seceded
from the United States during the period of the American Civil War. The 11 states of the Confederacy were Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
The main article for this category is Confederate States of America.
See also: Category:Foreign relations during the American Civil War
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Repentance for the sins of our forefathers is Biblical.
In keeping with Nehemiah, chapter 1; Nehemiah, chapter 9; and Daniel, chapter 9; we all as Americans, if we have not done so already,
should repent for the sin of our forefathers, North and South, in not putting an END to the abomination of Unbiblical American Slavery before1860.
( Slavery as an institution among the union of States should have been stopped in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, PA ! )
The failure of our forefathers, North and South, to END Slavery (and not just "Regulate" Slavery by limiting it to only the Southern States) led to
the horrific loss of over 600,000 American lives in the ensuing War Between Americans (1861-1865).
As Americans, we should all repent, because these men were the forefathers of our country. Repentance for the sins of our forefathers is Biblical.
May God give us in our own day, especially Christians (2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 5:13-16, KJV), the VISION (Proverb 29:18, KJV) to "see" that
the greatest moral crime of our day, the murder of children in the wombs of their mothers, must END if America is not to be destroyed, by God.
[ Leviticus 20:3; Matthew 22:37-39; Proverbs 24:10-12; Psalm 82:3,4; Isaiah 1:15-17,23; Luke 10:29-37; Matthew 25:31-46, KJV ]
[ Jeremiah 26:15; Deuteronomy 19:10; Deuteronomy 21:1,2,7-9; Matthew 27:24,25, KJV ]
Righteousness cannot be done in a land of forgetfulness.(see Psalm 88:12, KJV).
Steve Lefemine
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George Mason 1787 Constitutional Convention quote:
George Mason ('Father of the Bill of Rights'), Virginia delegate, August 22, 1787, in the Constitutional Convention:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgement of heaven upon a country.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain
of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
by James Madisonwww.constitution.org/dfc/dfc_0822.htm
www.adena.com/adena/usa/rv/rv009.htm
www.partyof1776.net/p1776/fathers/Mason%20George/quotes/contents.html
www.christianheritagemins.org/articles/Founding%20Fathers'%20Anti-slavery%20Addresses%20and%20Legislation.htm
Spoken prophetically in 1787, the national sin of American Slavery brought National Calamity, at the Hand of God,
in the 1861-1865 War Between Americans (War Between the States, Civil War), killing over 600,000 Americans.
And so it is today, the national sin of Child-Murder/Sacrifice-by-"Abortion" is bringing judgment and calamity upon America now,
and unless repented of, especially by Christians (for the sins of both commission and omission, including failing to do all that is possible
to ESTABLISH JUSTICE and END the killing), will bring National Calamity and destruction of today's America, at the Hand of God.
Establish Personhood now !
Steve Lefemine
"As much as I value a union of all the States, I would not admit the Southern States into the Union unless
they agree to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade [slavery]." - United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason,
"Elliot's Debates", Vol. III, pp. 452-454, June 15, 1788
www.partyof1776.net/p1776/fathers/Mason%20George/quotes/contents.html
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AMERICA IN 2011 - A NATION ONCE AGAIN UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT
- Especially for murdering 3,000+ pre-born children per day,
when establishing " Personhood" could end the slaughter in a week.
2 Chronicles 7:14 - God's remedy for America to be healed is for we who are CHRISTIANS to REPENT !
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
Our only hope is REPENTANCE before God for our national sin, especially our national Bloodguilt.
Establishing " Personhood" for pre-born human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, would Establish Justice,
and demonstrate to the One, True, Holy, and Almighty God, that we are sincere in our desire to bring America's 38+ year
Child-Murder-by-"Abortion" Holocaust to an end.
Most of all, child-sacrifice/murder-by-"abortion" is an offense to God Himself. Mankind is created in His image (Gen. 1:26,27).
God says, to commit child-sacrifice to Molech, is "to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My Holy Name." Leviticus 20:3
If child-murder-by-"abortion" were to end today in America, there would still remain the need to REPENT
for all the innocent blood which has already been shed (over 52 Million murdered by surgical "abortion" alone,
not counting the likely multiple times that number destroyed chemically by dual action contraceptive/abortifacient
"birth control" pills, Depo-Provera, etc., ad nauseam).
Numbers 35:33; Jeremiah chapter 19; Psalm 106:37-44; 2 Kings 24:1-4 (KJV) - the shedding of innocent blood
(e.g., child-murder/sacrifice-by-"abortion") incurs the righteous judgment of God upon a nation.
There is corporate bloodguilt upon the land, and upon we who dwell in America, for the 52+ Million
pre-born human beings slaughtered in their mothers' wombs by surgical abortion, and for perhaps
multiple times that amount destroyed by chemical "abortion" (including " Birth Control" pills, which
act both contraceptively and abortifaciently).
Genesis 4:10; Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 19:10; Deuteronomy 21:1,2,7-9; Proverb 6:16,17;
Jeremiah 26:15; Jeremiah 32:35,36; Ezekiel 35:6; Hosea 4:2; Matthew 27:24,25 (KJV).
For those who need to come out of denial (all of us to one degree or another) about the gruesome nature of child-murder-by-"abortion"
- view the video of the commission of an actual child-murder-by-"abortion" at: www.AbortionNo.org
- or look at pictures at: www.abortionno.org/index.php/abortion_pictures/
[ CCL Note: The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) is unfortunately also an ecumenical organization,
yoking with followers of the false religion of Rome. ]
"America Repent" (music video)Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlOdkO9jak
Video (4:34)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk
Video (4:33)
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,...
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6, KJV
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From: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, "Events" page:
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC
(since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
Just as the national sin of American slavery brought God's judgment of war upon both the North and the South in 1861,
so is the national sin of child-murder-by-"abortion" bringing wars, terrorism, domestic violence, illegal immigration (foreign invasion),
economic hardship (and potential economic catastrophe), national deficits, national debt, tyrannical rulers (Psalm 106:37-44, KJV), etc.,
as divine judgments upon our rebellious, wicked nation today (Psalm 9:17, Proverb 14:34, KJV).
It is God alone Who can bring peace, safety, and security to a land (Leviticus 26:5,6, KJV), and ... Foreign invasion and War
divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4, KJV)...
When child-murder-by-"abortion" ends one day in America (when Christian pro-lifers stop following the false leadership (Isa. 3:12, Isa. 9:16, KJV) of the National Right to Life Committee, originally founded under the auspices of the American Roman Catholic Bishops [ appointed by the Pope ],
in incessantly finding new ways to incrementally "regulate" child-murder, instead of applying God's requirement for Biblical JUSTICE to END abortion),
there will still remain the need for the Nation, the States, the Churches, Families, and Individuals, throughout America, to Repent, because
if child-murder-by-"abortion" were to end TODAY (March 31, 2011), there would still be a need to REPENT for the 52 Million+ already murdered (and this does not count the likely multiple tens of millions aborted chemically by "Birth Control" pills, Depo-Provera, etc., ad nauseam.
GOD'S REQUIREMENT FOR MURDER IS JUSTICE, NOT INCREMENTAL REGULATION !!!
Similarly, regarding slavery, there remains the need for the Nation, the States, the Churches, Families, and individuals of both the North and South, to Repent,
where it has not been done already, for the national sin of slavery, which was not ENDED until 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
after Americans fought our most costly war (over 600,000 dead), against each other !!! The 13th Amendment stopped the perpetration of the sin
and crime of unbiblical American slavery, but that's not the same as repenting, saying we as a nation are sorry, for what had already been done
during 250 years (from colonial Jamestown, VA until 1865) of "unrequited toil," as Lincoln said in his March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address.
Even the ecumenical Southern Baptist Convention repented in its 1995 national convention in Atlanta, GA, for slavery and racism.
[ May leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention also repent of their ecumenical " culture war" efforts with followers of the false religion of Roman Catholicism. ]
Resolution On Racial Reconciliation On The 150th Anniversary Of The Southern Baptist Conventionwww.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=899June 1995
And even leaders of the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite, women - priests - ordaining, apostate Episcopal Church USA apologized
"for their ancestors' slave ownership" in a "solemn repentance service" in Philadelphia, PA in October 2008.
[ May the apostate Episcopal Church USA also repent of being pro-abortion, pro-sodomite, and of ordaining women priests. ]
In February 2007, the Virginia state legislature also apologized:
Virginia state lawmakers pass slavery apologywww.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-24-virginia-slavery_x.htm
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Child-murder-by-"abortion" is a national sin.
9-11 was a national calamity.
More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America, unless we repent of the national sin of "abortion". If we will not repent of the national sin of "abortion", then the America of today will be destroyed, just as God destroyedthe kingdom of Judah, with successive waves of foreign invasion in 605 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC (2 Kings, chapters 24 and 25).
We've already been attacked on September 11, 2001. Consider the undeclared / unconstitutional wars, calamities, and
other dangers America has suffered since 9-11: War in Afghanistan (2001 to today), War in Iraq (2003 to today), Katrina (2005),
ongoing Illegal Immigration (Foreign) Invasion, Economic "Great Recession" (?), and now, War in Libya (2011).
What will it be next, America ? What will it be next, Church ?
Repentance finally, or further and greater divine judgment ?
Abraham Lincoln, President, March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address:www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
[ excerpts, emphasis added ]
"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the
Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and
powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war."
"If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence
of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills
to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to
those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine
attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently
do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it
continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall
be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still
it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." "
In spite of his failings, Lincoln was right in his March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address,when he said God gave "this terrible war" to BOTH North and South for the offense of slavery.
And today, God is bringing (increasing) divine judgment on America in the year 2010,
for our ongoing, unrepented, national sin of child-murder/sacrifice-by-"abortion".
As America considers the twin major national security issues of:
1) Millions of illegal aliens having already entered our country, and
2) The terrible consequences of the undeclared, and therefore unconstitutional, and therefore illegal;
as well as unjustified (no 9-11 connection, no WMD's), and therefore unnecessary (not a "just" war),
and therefore immoral War in Iraq, REMEMBER:
It is God alone Who can bring peace, safety, and security to a land (Leviticus 26:5,6, KJV),
and ... Foreign invasion and War are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4, KJV)...
Child-sacrifice is an offense to God.
God says child-sacrifice defiles His sanctuary, and profanes His Holy Name.
Leviticus 20:3, KJV
What is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in America doing to Establish Justice to END this offense to our Creator ?! Establish Personhood now !
As has been said, it's now either Christ, or Chaos (and then Tyranny)...
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
2 Corinthians 3:17, KJB
Repent, Church ! Repent, America ! __________________________________________________________________________________
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions,
and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"Where there is no vision, the people perish: ..." Proverb 29:18, KJV
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,...
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6, KJV
Christ is Ruler of the Nations !
Psalm 2; Psalm 24:1; Psalm 47:7,8; Psalm 50:12; 1 Timothy 6:15, KJV
"For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations."
Psalm 22:28, KJV
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; ..."
Psalm 33:12a, KJV
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah)
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
USA
(803) 794-6273
Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeactofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
US Army active duty, 1977-1982, CPT, FA
US Army Reserves, 1982-1993, MAJ, FA
USMA 1977
May 21, 2011
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