Of Apostates and Scapegoats: Confederates in the "Citty Upon A Hill"

By H. V. Traywick, Jr.

This booklet offers a series of essays illustrating the revolutionary transformation of the voluntary Union of sovereign States, founded in 1788, into a powerfully centralized and consolidated Union created by the War Between the States and the subsequent Reconstruction of the South between 1861 and 1877.

These essays address the cyclic nature of history, and warn of the dangerously close affinity that our particular democracy has with despotism today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dementi Milestone Publishing
• Release date: Dec 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781736088524

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OF APOSTATES AND SCAPEGOATS

Confederates in the Citty Upon a Hill

By

H. V. Traywick, Jr.

Dedicated to the memory of Sgt. Buford Simpson Buzhardt, 3rd Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, CSA, and to the memory of Sgt. Henry Sinclair Traywick, 33rd Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, CSA.

Both of whom died defending our country from invasion, conquest, and coerced political allegiance.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

- William Butler Yeats (1)

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Author - H. V. Traywick, Jr.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD: The Puritans

I.OF APOSTATES AND SCAPEGOATS: Leviticus 16: 21-2

II.FREE NEGRO OWNERS OF SLAVES: From the US Census Records of 1830

III.AFRICAN PROGRESSIVES: Sacred Cows in the Citty Upon a Hill

IV.THE YEAR OF JUBILEE: Puritans Take Up The White Man’s Burden

V.TOOLS OF POWER: African-Americans and the Radical Reconstruction of Virginia

VI.PURITAN HUBRIS: The Right Side of History

AFTERWORD: The Apostates

NOTES

SOURCES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/EDITOR

FOREWORD: THE PURITANS

… He shall make us a praise and a glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, May the Lord make it like that of New England. For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill…

- John Winthrop, Puritan Governor of Massachusetts, from "A Model of Christian Charity", delivered aboard the Arabella, prior to landing in the New World in 1630 (2)

Admiral Raphael Semmes, from Memoirs of Service Afloat in the War Between the States (3)

[M]en do not willingly read unpalatable truths of themselves. The people of America being sovereign, they are like other sovereigns, - they like those best who fool them most, by pandering to their vices and flattering their foibles…

The American Republic, as has been said, was a failure, because of the antagonism of the two peoples, attempted to be bound together, in the same government. If there is to be but a single government in these States, in the future, it cannot be a republic. De Tocqueville saw this… In his Democracy in America he described these States, as more like hostile nations, than rival parties, under one government.

This distinguished Frenchman saw, as with the eye of intuition, the canker which lay at the heart of the federal compact. He saw looming up, in the dim distance, the ominous, and hideous form of that unbridled, and antagonistic Majority, which has since rent the country in twain – a majority based on the views, and interests of the other section. The majority, said he, "in that country, exercises a prodigious, actual authority, and a moral influence which is scarcely less preponderant;