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he said the Confederacy is the logical vessel of the American Revolution;
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what the Confederacy really was the carryover of 1776.
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1861 was 1776.
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That George Washington, they will argue,
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was the founder of the Confederacy.
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That true American democracy was in this resistance to centralization.
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They created seals and songs and images and heroes
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and paintings, poetry,
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all over the place.
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They used religion,
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the same kind of millennial Christianity.
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The same kind of theory of a divine providence