It really was revolution after the twelfth (amendment)

This is yet another area where our "history" books fail us abjectly (and probably on purpose)

When Patrick Henry forcefully argued against Virginia’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution he made several prescient observations. In her book Patrick Henry: Patriot and Statesman Norine Dickson Campbell noted a statement made by Patrick Henry regarding the different sections of the country. Henry said: “The Northern states will never assent to regulation promotive of Southern aggrandizement…There is a striking difference, and great contrariety of interest between the States…This government subjects everything to the Northern majority. Is there then not a settled purpose to check the Southern interest?” That was a good question. How long has it been since anyone else even asked it? You can bet the farm our “history” books are not about to deal with it.

Miss Campbell noted, on page 387 of her book, Patrick Henry’s prophetic assertions, when she said: “His discernment in the Virginia Convention 180 years ago is astonishing and merits in light of the events of today. He prophesied the fate of the agricultural South at the hands of the industrial North. He foretold the baneful effects of a supreme judiciary beholden to no one. Patrick Henry declared that this government would not last a century. He had not been in his grave 65 years before his predictions came to pass…” The advent of the War of Northern Aggression proved conclusively what Henry had stated. Virginia should have listened to him. Henry also argued that, should the Constitution be adopted, then more of a Bill of Rights than the ten amendments should be adopted. It has been stated that Henry favored nineteen amendments, but we only ended up with ten—half the loaf. And even most of them are just ignored today by government at any level.

Be that as it may, if we read the first ten amendments we find that power was supposed to reside in the states and that these amendments seem to be written in a way that restricted the federal government. From the First Amendment that starts out “Congress shall make no law…” to the Tenth Amendment stating the powers not delegated to the government by the Constitution “are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.” The intent would seem to be one that limits federal power over the states and over individuals. Today this is just completely ignored as though it never existed. The federal government in our day would probably treat anyone believing in the Tenth Amendment as a “conspiracy theorist.” Who knows, it might even be a jailable offense. You’d have to check with Liz Chaney on that!

However, in this context, we must remember that, in 1776, we did not fight an “American revolution”. We fought a War for Independence. Then in 1861 the real American Revolution occurred—a revolution that God-fearing and patriotic Americans in both North and South lost! Unless and until we begin to slice through some of the bovine fertilizer they have forced on us in most of those Unitarian seminaries we refer to as public (really government) schools we will never be able to grasp that sad fact. Consequently, most people are utterly unable to even begin to think about dealing with the mess that we find ourselves in today. By 1865 federal dictatorship had won the day and the seeds of the federal oppression we find ourselves beset with today had been sown. I don’t think even Mr. Trump totally apprehended the true depth of what we refer to as the Deep State. If he manages, in spite of Democratic perfidy, to get a second term you can bet the Deep State will do everything in its power to keep him from doing anything whatever that will benefit the American people. The Deep State, like its appendage, Biden, hates us.

The reason for much of this situation was (and is) American apostasy. After Northern Unitarian apostasy had denied the truth of Scripture and repudiated the Holy Trinity in the North in the early 1800s for over two generations, something had to give. They sowed the wind and we are in our day living to reap the whirlwind.

So, taking apostasy into account, let’s take a quick look at our constitutional amendments. The first ten sought to restrict federal power except in certain specific areas. But by the time the second version of the 13th Amendment came around the American Revolution was nearly over. Debates on the second 13th Amendment were taking place in 1864, just before the shooting phase of the revolution was over.

Look at the wording contained in the second 13th Amendment—”Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” You have the exact same wording in the infamous 14th and 15th Amendments. In fact, you have basically the same wording in the 16th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th Amendments. Can you observe the fundamental shift in thinking here? Please note that, by 1865, we had degenerated from the concept of “Congress shall make no law” to “Congress shall have the power to enforce.” Ponder on that for a bit.

There is a not-very-subtle shift after the War of Northern Aggression aka the “Civil War” from state power to federal power—where we find ourselves today. This is proof of the success of the shooting phase of the revolution which started in 1861, but it is also proof of the cultural shift in the North, which started decades earlier.

Some of those who took part in the debates concerning the second 13th Amendment could see the revolutionary nature in its wording and they sought to warn their colleagues if its revolutionary intent—to no avail. Many who partook of the debates were the “usual suspects” in the abolitionist/reconstructionist 19th century Deep State camp. Others were not. Fernando Wood, Democrat of New York, stated: “The control over slavery, and the domestic and social institutions of the people of the respective states, was never intended to be delegated to the United States…”

Wood contended that the war was not fought to preserve the Union “but was directed against the sovereignties of the states and to destroy such of their domestic institutions as were obnoxious to the views of the party controlling the government for the time.” The slavery question aside (and I am no fan of slavery) there was a concerted effort on the part of government to destroy the rights of the individual states and replace those rights with national power. And if we are still naive enough to think such has not happened, then we have no real grasp of our history.

With the adoption of the second 13th Amendment Congress began to usurp the rights of the states and began to exercise unconstitutional power to enforce “appropriate legislation” to back up its new national decrees. This was, in essence, the beginning of the modern “civil rights” movement, which, as it goes along today, seeks to deny whites the same rights it bestows upon other races. It was also the beginning of the eventual repeal of the Bill of Rights. The “Patriot Act” passed hurriedly after the 9/11 situation finished that repeal almost completely.

Now, admittedly, you may not like them apples. I can’t say I’m overly fond of them either. But let’s face facts. Departure from God’s Word (apostasy) paved the way for forty years for the 1861-65 American Revolution (actually our French Revolution). Unless we are willing to repudiate that apostasy and return to the “faith once delivered to the saints” the revolution, in its more revolting forms, will continue unabated until the Lord judges an apostate and corrupt America as He judged an apostate and corrupt Israel in 70 AD.

Unless we realign our thinking in regard to apostasy and revolution and start trying to act biblically in regard to our current dismal situation, we are only spinning our wheels, spraying political mud, and getting nowhere. Either we repent and accept God as our ruler, or tyrants will rule us. There is no middle ground. And with the Biden/Obama regime, the tyrants are now in full bloom and living color.