Jefferson Davis Information - History and Quotes

Compatriots, This is to let you know of my new book which, in light of the Tea Party Movement, is a timely one. Without realizing it, that movement is contending for the principle of which Jefferson Davis spoke when he told the Mississippi Legislature in 1871 that, "The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena, and the principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."

Entitled, "Dismantling The Republic," the book chronicles the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence, the sovereignty of the States as the Republic's foundation, the dismantling of the Republic from the beginning through the 20th century, and pinpoints those responsible for that dismantling. Below, you will find the Author's Preface and a chapter outline of the 217 page book. It also includes two appendices. Appendix A is a side-by-side comparison of the U. S. Constitution of 1787 and the C. S. Constitution of 1861. Appendix B contains all of the secession ordinances of the seceding States, indicating it was Constitutional usurpation�not slavery�that precipitated secession.

As the book is self-published, it is not available in normal outlets. I am solely responsible for distribution and want to get this message out in the most expeditious manner.

The book's price is $16.50, per copy, plus $2.50 Postage & Handling. However, I am offering it to SCV members for the pre-publication price of $15.00 each, plus $2.50, P&H. The pre-publication price was offered before it was published, and I am extending that price to you. It's a great gift.

Book Prices 1 Copy - $15.00, plus $2.50 p&h = $17.50 2 Copies - $30.00, plus $2.90 p&h = $32.90

Bulk Rate 10 or more copies - $12.00 each, and We Pay Postage

It can be ordered from me at,

Jerry C. Brewer 308 South Okla. Ave. Elk City, OK 73644

Here are the Author's Preface and Chapter Outline.

Yours in The Cause of Our Fathers,

Jerry C. Brewer, Commander Pvts. Grayson & Brewer Camp, 2118 Sons of Confederate Veterans Elk City, Oklahoma

Jefferson Davis Historical Book Background

Constitutional government in America ended April 9, 1865. It ended four years earlier in the United States with Abraham Lincolns ascension to the presidency. Within a year of his inauguration, he effectively eliminated Constitutional rights. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus and imprisoned and deported an Ohio Congressman without warrant or due process. He censored telegraphic communications, stopped circulation of newspapers that criticized his autocratic rule and imprisoned many of their editors. He deprived states of representative government, and unilaterally waged war without the consent of Congress by blockading Southern ports and calling for 75,000 volunteers to invade the sovereign States of the South.

The last bulwark of State sovereignty and Constitutional rights in North America, the Confederate States, ceased to exist when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. From that day forward, the Republic of Jefferson, Madison, Mason and Franklin was to be no more. Henceforth, the federal government that was created by sovereign States to be their agent would become their master. All that remained was for the new order of government to dismantle the Republics remnants.

Individual rights, expressed in State sovereignty, undergirded the Republic. The declaration of those rights by American Colonists in 1776 culminated a centuries-long struggle for recognition of individual sovereignty dating back to the Magna Carta. As Thomas Jefferson expressed it, all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and when government fails to protect those rights it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" that government.

In late spring, 1787, the greatest minds among the American States gathered in Philadelphia to carve out an instrument to strengthen the weaker Articles of Confederation under which they had united in 1777. What they forged was the American Republic a voluntary union of sovereign States, created by sovereign individuals, and founded upon the Constitution. When their proceedings ended in September a bystander asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government they had created. He replied, "A republic, if we can keep it." He and the other Founders understood the fragile nature of government especially their Republic with its delicate balance of powers.

None of the Founding Fathers envisioned a democracy. Their new government was a Republic of Sovereign States with carefully diffused constituencies and Franklins uneasiness about keeping it was well founded. Even before the Constitution was in its final form, forces were at work to weaken it and institute a government as autocratic as that of George III.

Without surrendering their sovereignty, the States ratified the Constitution, entering into a voluntary compact under it. In so doing, each State reserved for itself the full measure of sovereignty it held before joining the compact, and expressed that in the 10th amendment to the Constitution. State sovereignty meant that any or all of them had the right to freely withdraw from that compact whenever it became destructive of the ends for which it was established.

From the Republics inception the sovereignty of its member States suffered erosive political attacks that reached their high water mark when Lincoln invaded the South and forced seceded States back into the union at bayonet point. Upon his shoulders rests the responsibility for destroying the Republic. But even before the election of 1860, greedy Northern interests were working to change Franklins Republic into a Consolidated, Mercantile Empire. Lincoln's election culminated those efforts and in the century and a half since his war Lincoln's heirs have almost finished his work. From 1860 until the present, the Republic has been dismantled to such an extent that the Founders would not recognize it if they returned to 21st century America. Their Republic no longer exists. How that came to pass is the thesis we chronicle in this work. The foundation of the American Republic, created by the Constitution of 1787, was the sovereignty of its creator States. From its very beginning efforts were exerted to dismantle the Republic and replace it with a centralized government by incrementally eroding its foundation of State sovereignty efforts that achieved their goal, for without State sovereignty, that Republic cannot exist.

Jefferson Davis Quotes

Governments may control actions, but they cannot control ideas. They may chain a man's body, but they cannot chain his mind. The Republic that Lincoln destroyed first existed as an idea and it still exists in that form. Jefferson Davis said, "The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena, and the principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." Given the grassroots disaffection for the federal social programs being forced upon the states and the arrogant usurpation of Constitutional authority by the federal government today, it appears that the cause of State Sovereignty still reposes in American hearts. Those voices of dissent in Congressional "Town Hall Meetings" and "Tea Parties" across the land in our time are faint sounds from the stirring wings of the great Phoenix of the Davis principle rising from the ashes of Lincoln's war to reassert itself "at another time and in another form." Deo Vindice Jerry C. Brewer Elk City, Oklahoma May 18, 2009

Outline Of Dismantling The Republic

By Jerry C. Brewer Chapter One - "To Alter Or To Abolish" A. Text of the Declaration of Independence B. Background of John Locke's political philosophy 1. Political sovereignty of the individual as expressed by Locke 2. Locke's philosophy in Declaration of Independence C. Historical uniqueness of Declaration of Independence D. Colonists grievances against George III 1. Grievances ignored 2. Colonists assertion of Independence based on Locke's philosophy of sovereignty

Chapter Two - "Free, Sovereign And Independent" A. Sovereign status of each of the thirteen former Colonies as recognized in the Treaty of Paris of 1783. B. Link between Reformations assertion of individual spiritual sovereignty and Enlightenments assertion of individual political sovereignty. C. Sovereignty of each of the thirteen former Colonies D. State sovereignty expressed in The Articles of Confederation

Chapter Three - "A More Perfect Union" A. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 B. Debates relating to the proposed Constitution and concern about retaining State sovereignty. C. State sovereignty expressed in Constitution and each of three branches of government. 1. The 10th Amendment 2. Constituencies of Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches designed to preserve State sovereignty 3. Early fears expressed regarding federal judiciary and State sovereignty 4. Non-accountability of Supreme Court justices

Chapter Four - Mercantilism And Clashing Cultures A. Alexander Hamiltons vision of a Mercantile nation modeled after Britains B. Mercantilism of Puritan North and its threat to State sovereignty. C. Alien & Sedition Acts of John Adams 1. Their threat to State sovereignty 2. Madison and Jefferson reply to Alien & Sedition Acts in Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions D. Cultural and religious roots of North/South conflicts 1. North - English Puritan Industrialists 2. South - Celtic and Anglican Agrarians E. North/South conflicts an extension of ancient animosities between English and Celts

Chapter Five - Early Sectional Conflicts A. Beginning of two-party political system that would contribute to demise of Republic B. Each branch of federal government vying for supremacy at Republics beginning 1. Washingtons suppression of "Whiskey Rebellion" against taxation 2. Adams "Alien and Sedition Acts" to silence administration critics 3. John Marshalls assertion of judicial power in Marbury v. Madison C. The Tariff of 1828 ("Tariff of Abominations") 1. Souths reaction to it as eroding State sovereignty 2. South Carolinas Nullification Ordinance - nullifying the Tariff in South Carolina 3. Andrew Jacksons assertion of federal supremacy over States D. Modern day efforts in the same vein - Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Montana E. Compromise tariff act averts crisis.

Chapter Six - Sovereignty, Secession and Slavery A. Struggle between Federalists and Anti Federalists (Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians) B. State sovereignty and right of secession inseparable. C. Northern States threaten secession in early 1800s D. Secession taught as political philosophy at West Point in early 19th Century E. Abolition movements in the North rooted in politics F. Northern religion turns from spiritual to worldly concern-embraces abolition as social issue

Chapter Seven - Toward Final Conflict A. State sovereignty and economics conjoined B. Northern, Southern and foreign newspapers understand economic issues of conflict C. Calhouns "Disquisition on Government" accurately describes modern welfare systems D. Slavery as an issue not the cause of the final conflict

Chapter Eight - Secession Exercise of State Sovereignty A. Background of Lincoln and Whig Party as precursors to Republicans B. Lincoln's ties to Northern industrial interests and his political opportunism C. Lincoln's aim of consolidated government D. Election of 1860 E. South's reaction to Lincoln's election with only 39 percent of the vote and their immediate secession F. Lincoln's chilling First Inaugural Address G. South Carolina secedes, followed by others - Secession ordinances reclaim State sovereignty

Chapter Nine - A Republic Of Sovereign States A. Formation of Confederate States of America B. Jefferson Davis and Lincoln's inaugural addresses contrasted C. The Confederate Constitution

Chapter Ten - Lincolns War On Northern Sovereignty A. Lincolns abolition of Constitutional liberties in the North B. Arrest and deportation of Ohio Congressman C. Censorship of telegraphic communications and newspapers D. Imposition of martial law in Missouri

Chapter Eleven - Lincolns War On Southern Sovereignty A. Lincolns treachery - ignores armistice at Fort Pickens - secretly plans to reinforce Pickens and Sumter B. Goads South into firing first shots at Ft. Sumter C. R. E. Lee resigns from U. S. Army - Confederates successful in early stages of war. D. Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation after Battle of Sharpsburg. Proclamation worthless. E. Lincoln plots and wages total war on Southern civilians with backing of Northern religionists F. Atrocities against Southern civilians - Lincolns war costs more lives than any in history G. Jefferson Davis imprisoned and held for two years without writ of habeas corpus or trial

Chapter Twelve - "The Final Solution" A. Lincoln assassinated - North seeks vengeance on South B. "Reconstruction" ---Further loss of Southern State sovereignty C. Fourteenth Amendment is illegal appendage to Constitution D. Carpetbaggers, abetted by U. S. military, drain Southerners of last meager resources E. White voters in South disenfranchised F. Republic ceases to exist

Chapter Thirteen - Eliminating The Remnants Of State Sovereignty A. Lee predicts elimination of sovereignty in correspondence with Lord Acton B. James A. Garfields boast in 1881 that secession was settled by arms C. Consolidating central power and eliminating State sovereignty 1. Pacification through the "Pledge of Allegiance" 2. By imposing direct federal taxes on State citizens 3. By disarming State militias and occupying the States 4. By eliminating the States voice in federal government with passage of 17th Amendment

Chapter Fourteen - In The Valley Of Decision A. State sovereignty is nearly eliminated B. The election of 2008 brought Americans to the Valley of Decision by placing a socialist in the White House. C. States can either knuckle under to federal government or heed the advice of Patrick Henry. D. Failure to act now by sovereign States will forever seal the doom of our posterity. E. Can we secede? The signers of the Declaration of Independence did.

Appendix A - Side-by-side comparison of the U. S. and C. S. Constitutions (From Jefferson Davis' "Rise and Fall of The Confederate Government."

Appendix B - Secession Ordinances of all seceding States delineating Constitutional violations by the federal government.

America's Christian Heritage - Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments were in the Ark of the Covenant, written on stone tablets. They are the only verses that we are commanded to post in our homes (Deuteronomy 6:9). Therefore, the Ten Commandments is the most important passage of Scripture and our Christian Heritage in America.

Requirements to keep the Ten Commandments

Deuteronomy 10:12-13
12   And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13   To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Deuteronomy 11:18-23, 26-28
18   Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19   And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20   And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21   That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22   For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
23   Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
26   Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
27   A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
28   And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

No man has ever fulfilled (kept) the Law!!

America's Christian Heritage is the philosophy of our Christian Education. Michael Horton knows better.
Christian Education Philosophy Christian Education
Dr. Michael Horton of Westminster Seminary

Romans 3:19-28
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."

Keep the Christian Ten Commandments and live. The Commandments , The Christian Ten Commandments