Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Circle Cross Cowboy Church presents...Jonathan Buckner & Chosen Road (gospel bluegrass)

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Circle Cross Cowboy Church North Florida Livestock Market 12171 US Hwy 441 Lake City, Florida
Circle Cross Cowboy Church presents...Jonathan Buckner & Chosen Road (gospel bluegrass)
Jona!an Buckner & Chosen Road
WWW.CHOSENROAD.ORG
JBCR
Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road is an exciting young bluegrass gospel ministry
which was incepted in July of 2009 and immediately signed with Poor Mountain Music Recording
Label. The group has released three projects on the Poor Mountain Label with
their latest release “Expectations” seeing great success on the airways. Members of Chosen
Road have shared stages across the country with some of bluegrass and gospel music’s
most prominent names including Earl Scruggs, The Lewis Family, Alison Krauss and Union
Station, Dailey and Vincent, Blue Highway, The Primitive Quartet, The Isaacs, The Singing
Cookes, The Inspirations, Squire Parsons, Lu Lu Roman, Doc Watson and many more. The
group’s distinctive sound features Jonathan Buckner on guitar and vocals along with Jonathan
Campbell on bass and vocals, Zach Alvis on mandolin and vocals, and Jason Wheeler
on banjo and guitar.
Chosen Road is a full time ministry and keeps an extensive tour schedule holding approximately
two- hundred dates per year. The ensemble travels the east coast and ministers
through their form of bluegrass gospel music to audiences in a variety of venues including
churches, theaters, festivals, and fairs. Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road’s unique sound
is guaranteed to please fans of all musical genres and leave them wanting more. A service
with Chosen Road is sure to be an uplifting time that audiences will not forget.

Circle Cross Cowboy Church of Lake City Florida

proudly presents gospel Bluegrass recording artists

WHEN: Friday Feb, 8^th, 2013 @ 7 p.m.

Where: Circle Cross Cowboy Church

North Florida Livestock market

12171 So. Hwy 441

Lake City, Florida

1-386-2281223

Members of Chosen Road have shared stages across the country with some of bluegrass and gospel music’s most prominent names including Earl Scruggs, The Lewis Family, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Dailey and Vincent, Blue Highway, The Primitive Quartet, The Isaacs, The Singing Cookes, The Inspirations, Squire Parsons, Lu Lu Roman, Doc Watson and many more.

Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road’s unique sound is guaranteed to please fans of all musical genres and leave them wanting more. A service with Chosen Road is sure to be an uplifting time that audiences will not forget.

Come join us for church at the North Florida Livestock Market

every Sunday at 3:pm for a kicken good time.

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Jefferson Davis's response to the E.P.

o President Davis’s response to the EP

Here are just SOME of the amazing tid bits by Davis in this speech

1) Slavery is the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Davis apologist say slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War or the Confederacy. Here, Davis himself says slavery was the very foundation of the CSA.

2) Davis damns Lincoln for using black troops. He claims the war should be just by whites, "scions, peers, men of the same stock" and that to use blacks in battle "degrades" the white race, and justifies no mercy for blacks or whites in battle -- no prisoners.

The Southern lunatics today try to say they had black soldiers -- volunteers no less -- fighting for the South. Nonsense. According to Jeff Davis himself, Lincoln allowing blacks into the Union Army was an abomination against white race, and so changed the nature of the war, that he would invade the North and make slaves of all blacks there too (see below)

3) As a result of Lincoln using blacks -- we will invade the North, enslave the Negroes there!

Thats's right, because Lincoln said he will use black men as soldiers --- the South invade the North, and enslave blacks there, making the US one big slave nation, as God intended!!!!!

4) All slaves ever freed in the South are hereby "placed back on the slave status -- and their issue -- forever"

Many Southern apologist say Davis was going to end slavery soon anyway -- here, he promises to make slavery PERPETUAL -- forever. The slaves and the "issue" -- children -- will be enslaved forever.

5) Davis hopes to reunite the country, and make it all slave states.

Just like the Dred Scott decision, and the Southern Ultimatums, the issue was the SPREAD of slavery. Here Davis says he will reunite the country as a big slave nation.

Really, you have to read it over and over to get a handle on it.

Without further ado.....

Jefferson Davis, Richmond, January 5, 1863.

Jeff Davis
An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy
Richmond, January 5, 1863.

"Citizens of the non-slaveholding States of America, .... Heretofore, the warfare has been conducted by white men -- peers, scions of the same stock; but the programme has been changed, and your rulers despairing of a triumph by th employment of white men, have degraded you and themselves, by inviting the cooperation of the black race.

Thus, while they deprecate the intervention of white men -- the French and the English -- in behalf of the Southern Confederacy, they, these Abolitionists, do not hesitate to invoke the intervention of the African race in favor of the North.........

"Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:

"On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever. (RE - ENSLAVE ALL BLACKS EVER FREED)

"All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered.

"Abraham Lincoln has seen fit to ignore the Constitution he has solemnly sworn to support, it ought not be considered polemically or politically improper in me to vindicate the position which has been at an early day of this Southern republic, assumed by the Confederacy, namely, that slavery is the corner-stone of a Western Republic.
　
"In view of these facts, and conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, -- and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future. JEFFERSON DAVIS"

Source: Broadside, Jefferson Davis Papers, University Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. This is printed in Ervin L. Jordan, _Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia,_ University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1995, Appendix C, pages 319-320.

Monday, December 17, 2012

“Manumitting the Custis family slaves and the eve of Emancipation” – Sesquicentennial Brown Bag Lunch Talk | Museum of the Confederacy

December 21, 2012 - 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Contact:

Kelly Hancock

Email:

khancock@moc.org

Address:

1201 E. Clay Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Phone:

(855) 649-1861 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (855) 649-1861 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Throughout the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Museum of the Confederacy-Richmond will be hosting a monthly series of talks devoted to a topic or event's 150th anniversary. These talks, normally scheduled for the third Friday of the month, are free for members and Richmond area residents, and are included with Museum admission for all others.

On December 29, 1862 – 3 days before the Emancipation Proclamation took effect – R. E. Lee, executor of the estate of his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis, traveled from his headquarters in Fredericksburg to Spotsylvania Court House to file a document that freed Custis’s slaves. What was going on? This program will show and discuss this important document and its historical context.

Join Museum Historian and Vice President of Research and Publications John Coski for this free talk. Bring your lunch to the Museum and commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

Get a sneak peak at the manumission document itself over on our Document of the Month page!

“Manumitting the Custis family slaves and the eve of Emancipation” – Sesquicentennial Brown Bag Lunch Talk | Museum of the Confederacy

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Thanksgiving

In light of America's current war and ongoing war against terrorism, the actions of our Founding Fathers in times of war are instructive. This is the text of the first national day of thanksgiving in America (set for December 18, 1777), declared by the Continental Congress on November 1, 1777:

IN CONGRESS

November 1, 1777

FORASMUCH as it is the indispensable Duty of all Men to adore the superintending Providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with Gratitude their Obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther Blessings as they stand in Need of; And it having pleased him in his abundant Mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable Bounties of his common Providence, but also to smile upon us in the Prosecution of a just and necessary War, for the Defence and Establishment of our unalienable Rights and Liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a Measure to prosper the Means used for the Support of our Troops and to crown our Arms with most signal success:

It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart THURSDAY, the eighteenth Day of December next, for Solemn Thanksgiving and Praise; That with one Heart and one Voice the good People may express the grateful Feelings of their Hearts, and consecrate themselves to the Service of their Divine Benefactor; and that together with their sincere Acknowledgments and Offerings, they may join the penitent Confession of their manifold Sins, whereby they had forfeited every Favour, and their humble and earnest Supplication that it may please GOD, through the Merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of Remembrance; That it may please him graciously to afford his Blessing on the Governments of these States respectively, and prosper the public Council of the whole; to inspire our Commanders both by Land and Sea, and all under them, with that Wisdom and Fortitude which may render them fit Instruments, under the Providence of Almighty GOD, to secure for these United States the greatest of all human blessings, INDEPENDENCE and PEACE; That it may please him to prosper the Trade and Manufactures of the People and the Labour of the Husbandman, that our Land may yet yield its Increase; To take Schools and Seminaries of Education, so necessary for cultivating the Principles of true Liberty, Virtue and Piety, under his nurturing Hand, and to prosper the Means of Religion for the promotion and enlargement of that Kingdom which consisteth “in Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost.”

And it is further recommended, that servile Labour, and such Recreation as, though at other Times innocent, may be unbecoming the Purpose of this Appointment, be omitted on so solemn an Occasion.

Extract from the Minutes,

Charles Thomson, Secr.

[This proclamation can be found in: Journals of the American Congress From 1774 to 1788 (Washington: Way and Gideon, 1823), Vol. II, pp. 309-310]

This is text excerpted from a national fast declared by the Continental Congress on March 16, 1776:

IN CONGRESS

In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive administration, it becomes the indispensable duty of these hitherto free and happy colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publickly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offences against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of freedom, virtue, and posterity.
. . . Desirous, at the same time, to have people of all ranks and degrees duly impressed with a solemn sense of God's superintending providence, and of their duty, devoutly to rely, in all their lawful enterprizes, on his aid and direction, Do earnestly recommend, that Friday, the Seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that we may, with united hearts, confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness; humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies;
. . . that it may please the Lord of Hosts, the God of Armies, to animate our officers and soldiers with invincible fortitude, to guard and protect them in the day of battle, and to crown the continental arms, by sea and land, with victory and success: Earnestly beseeching him to bless our civil rulers, and the representatives of the people, in their several assemblies and conventions; to preserve and strengthen their union, to inspire them with an ardent, disinterested love of their country; to give wisdom and stability to their counsels; and direct them to the most efficacious measures for establishing the rights of America on the most honourable and permanent basis—That he would be graciously pleased to bless all his people in these colonies with health and plenty, and grant that a spirit of incorruptible patriotism, and of pure undefiled religion, may universally prevail; and this continent be speedily restored to the blessings of peace and liberty, and enabled to transmit them inviolate to the latest posterity. And it is recommended to Christians of all denominations, to assemble for public worship, and abstain from servile labour on the said day.

[Source: Journals of the American Congress From 1774 to 1788 (Washington: Way and Gideon, 1823), Vol. I, pp. 286-287]

Thursday, September 6, 2012

The MOC Newsletter for Sept 6, 2012 (1862)

The Museum of the Confederacy

Members Only Event

Movie Premiere of Ric Burns'

"Death and the Civil War"

Appomattox Session this Sunday!

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

Movie starts at 7:00PM

at the

Appomattox Community Center

220 Community Lane, Appomattox, VA 24522

Ric Burns, brother of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, reached out to the Museum of the Confederacy to help in the filming of Steeplechase Production's newest film Death and the Civil War. The crew was so appreciative that they supplied the Museum with an early copy of the movie and gave permission for us to premiere it prior to its airing on PBS. Two nights in September have been scheduled for Museum Members to view the film.

The first showing will be at the Appomattox Community Center this Sunday. The Appomattox High School Culinary Arts students will be providing dessert for attendees.

This is a chance to see the film a week before it's shown on PBS. Don't miss out!

To RSVP, contact Josie Butler at (855) 649-1861 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (855) 649-1861 end_of_the_skype_highlighting ext. 203 or jbutler@moc.org. You can also register online by clicking here.*

*The online registration page may be down in the evening of September 6th. It will be accessible again on Friday the 7th.