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I was speaking to Robert Hayes a few days ago and he told me that he needed to get this issue of the Patriot done. I wanted to write an article, so I asked him if I could and he said sure write an update about the Abbeville Chapter. Well, being the born rebel I will write what I was going to write, and include the chapter report in it. So, let’s see how much gets edited.

I have been here in South Carolina for about 2 years now. I purchased a lovely place in Donalds, and like many others, I decided to become vogue and go the route of foreclosure. Of course circumstances beyond my control brought me to that point. Let me say, in all of that process, and it is hell, I found something that money cannot buy. Commitment, sacrifice, love, and patriotism to a Cause that several years back I knew would require all the above, I didn’t realise that it would be literal! That said, if secession happens, (and it will), the personal sacrifice will have been well worth it! Those are not just empty words coming from a chapter chairman, those are real words coming from the human experience in the real world. Today we are the Jefferson’s, Madison’s, Calhoun’s Lee’s and Davis’s. All men of conviction and faith, together bound by a Cause bigger than our individual lives and thus worthy of our very essence. What does this have to do with a chapter update? Everything! We send out letters and make phone calls, send emails and put the information about meetings on our various websites. The hope, you, our members, will respond by simply attending meetings. When the call goes out, when the Red Shirts are asked to ride, we know most of the time, you come through. Yet, our meetings are sparsely attended, and those that promise to come do not. In the way of a report, our last meeting held on May 9 2008 featured an absolutely wonderful presentation by Robert Hayes on small scale farming, a theme we plan to continue. Our attendance was 1 member, 2 past members, Robert Hayes, and myself. Of the past members, one renewed his membership after it had lapsed for several years. The practical tangible information presented at the meeting is something every member of the League, for that matter every person capable, should know, that is, basic agrarian living skills. Many in leadership believe we will all need to know these skills. One of our missions as an organisation is to share what we know with other like minded folks. In this, we present our leadership skills and enable our great people to take on the task of self government that will soon be upon us. Our chapter is well, we have tremendous potential. We can do better, and I know we will. Please consider, wait, I am going to reword that, I challenge your patriotism and respectfully ask you to make the sacrifice by coming to our next meeting. Mark Thursday June 5 at 7:30 PM 453 Highway 178 Donalds South Carolina on your calendars and learn about heirloom seeds, what you can plant in July, and how to know weather or not you can grow a garden. Also a report on a pleasant surprise will be presented at that meeting. God Bless you, God bless the South and Please God forgive us our sins, grant us the freedom we so ardently beg for, and so humbly do not deserve.

Abbeville County South Carolina the Birth place and RESTING place of the Confederacy!

 

 

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