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UPDATED:16 September 2009
(NOTE: The Southern National Covenant was adopted by the 2nd.
Southern National Congress on 12 September 2009 while
assembled upon Cheaha Mountain, Alabama)
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The undersigned Men and Women of the
South to our fellow Southerners and on their behalf.
Our forefathers’ worst nightmare has now come upon us.
They created a free government, limited in its powers and a
servant to the people. But today the United States has become
an empire, fast decaying into tyranny; and we their children
have become strangers and subjects in the land our fathers
won. Instead of a free and just social and political order,
today we are threatened by a godless national culture and a
corrupt, despotic federal government that knows no limits to
its power.
Our political leaders, setting
themselves above the law, have forged an unholy alliance
with large corporations and the international money cartel.
These elites have purchased the law-makers who are sworn to
serve the People, enabling them to expropriate our wealth in
the greatest act of plunder in human history. Through threat
of force, government seizes half of all we make for taxes, yet
it is still not enough to satisfy the vaulting greed of our
rulers. Thus government spends staggering sums above its
revenues, saddling our People with debt so colossal that it
cannot be repaid to the fifth generation. To service this
debt, the government-banking alliance has stolen our
Constitutional and God-ordained right to sound money and has
given the power to create money out of nothing to corrupt,
private banking interests. Federal law forces us to use only
this bank-created money; and because it must be borrowed into
existence, our once free people have become enslaved to debt.
The burden of confiscatory taxation, combined with runaway
federal spending and a currency manipulated to benefit the
ruling elites, has brought our country to the brink of
bankruptcy and economic collapse, with all the political and
social turmoil that must inevitably follow.
The federal regime has loosed upon us
floods of immigrants, strangers to our laws and language
embodying cultures and values contrary to those upon which our
nation was founded, who are displacing us on the soil our
fathers won with their sweat and blood. Fomenting hostility
between the races and regions, our rulers have destroyed hope
and spread despair. Injustice, tyranny, corruption, and deceit
are the hallmarks of their governing. They call good evil and
evil good, the recompense for which is divine judgment.
Accelerated by dishonesty and corruption at every level of
society and swept along by a daily torrent of official lies,
America is plunging toward the abyss. We watch transfixed with
horror at the destruction of a once free and prosperous
country and are forced to acknowledge the American political
and economic system is no longer sustainable. It has become a
long train of abuses, evidencing a design to reduce us under
absolute despotism. Thus it cannot be salvaged or redeemed,
only replaced.
We Southerners proclaim our right to be
free of these evils our ancestors warned against and shed
their blood to prevent. The seeds of our deliverance remain
alive within our faith, culture, and historic principles of
governance of individual liberty, rule of law, and impartial
justice. Southern culture is founded on the enduring and
permanent: trust in God, family, tradition, manners, property,
community, loyalty, courage, and honour. We know that free and
just government cannot derive from laws, regulations,
bureaucracies, and ideologies. It springs only from the soil
of faith and love, watered by struggle and sacrifice, and the
harvest of which is liberty, justice, prosperity, and peace.
Before all the nations of the earth we affirm that we
are a separate and distinct People, with an honourable
heritage worthy of the respect of all mankind. Bound together
by a shared history, faith, and blood, we have endured
hardship and tragedy but have also enjoyed the fruits of
Christian civilisation built by God’s grace and the works of
our hands. Under heaven, we possess the right to govern
ourselves in our own land under our own laws, customs, and
religion.
With more sadness than anger we
recognize that the country our forebears bequeathed to us
no longer exists. By depending on the central government’s
increasingly worthless currency, its loans, subsidies, and
payments, its putrescent schools, and its false promises of
security, we have forged our own chains. But if we have forged
our chains, we can also sever them.
We are left with no recourse but to
look to our own counsel to secure our welfare. We must “abjure
the realm,” withdrawing our support from the tyrannical
government and corporate institutions created for our
enslavement. Then we must work to restore the power of our
States, the first bulwark of freedom, self-government, and
Southern identity. As our forefathers did, we must establish a
new foundation for law and government by all honourable means.
Therefore, with humble trust in the
Sovereign Lord of Nations, and in the name of the Southern
Nation and People whom we serve, we the Delegates of the
Fourteen Southern States, in Congress assembled September 12,
2009 in Delta, Alabama; make and publish this Covenant, to
which we invite all Southerners who yearn for liberty and
justice to join us in subscribing.
By this Covenant we corporately pledge
ourselves to the protection of our Southern cultural heritage
and to the defence of liberty and justice for the Southern
People and States. We bind and oblige ourselves, as we are by
God and nature tied, with our lives, fortunes, and sacred
honour to stand in defence of our native soil and People,
contrary to this perverse and infamous regime now arrayed
against the South. We swear that we will be ever ready to use
all our best endeavours for her preservation, and that we will
not cravenly and shamefully bow the knee to tyrants. By this
bond, each of us faithfully promises to assist one another as
the need demands. All of which before God we most solemnly vow
and promise to adhere to and never to turn from, all the days
of our lives.
In mutual support of one another as
Christian Southerners, we covenant together
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To renounce the evils of corrupt
government that our forebears warned against, and to resist
by all honourable means acts of federal tyranny, as our
circumstances permit and as the Lord leads.
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To seek to revive our local economies,
working together to promote every man’s prosperity as our
own and toward freeing ourselves from the snare the Empire’s
worthless money and perpetual debt which are the lifeblood
of tyranny, and seeking a return to honest public money in
daily use -- gold and silver coin or currency backed by gold
and silver.
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To support every measure which restores
the sovereignty of our State and local governments, and the
sovereignty of the Southern people.
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To resist any Federal statute or
Presidential directive that threatens our fundamental
freedoms of speech, press, assembly, exercise of religion,
and petition for redress, freedom from illegal search and
seizure, and the right of due process under law.
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Never to allow ourselves willingly to be
disarmed nor submit to the confiscation of our means of
lawful self defence; nor comply with any firearms
registration scheme, which is the certain precursor to
confiscation.
We declare before God and men that
we earnestly desire to restore a Godly order in our respective
States by peaceful means. We seek only that which may turn to
the honour of God and the increase of peace and justice in our
States and communities. Yet the growing evils of the time may
not grant us the choice of peaceful means of redress. In such
a pass, when criminal violence may be directed against one of
us by the state, our fortunes shall be as their fortunes,
their wives or husbands as our wives and husbands, their
children as our children, their losses as our losses, and
injuries done them as injuries to our own persons; and we
shall not rest till they be delivered.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF to the God of our
Fathers, to all Southern People, to all powers, nations, and
states, and to all humankind, we affix our names to this
Covenant, beseeching the favour of Almighty God on a just
cause. May God bless our Covenant and keep us faithful to
perform all we have covenanted together to do.
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Subscribed by the undersigned Citizens
of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
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Southern National Congress (http://southernnationalcongress.org
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