Lincoln County, Mississippi???

The Mississippi county 120 miles due west of my native Wayne County is Lincoln County. I’m not sure why it just recently dawned on me, but Lincoln County, Mississippi is named for the tyrant, liar, and war criminal, and the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. With quite a bit of irony, the county situated two counties east of Lincoln County, is more appropriately named in honor of a truly honorable Southern gentleman, Jefferson Davis.

Lincoln County was established by an act of the Mississippi legislature on April 7, 1870. I was dumbfounded as to how and why this legislative body voted to name these 586 square miles after the man who was responsible for the war of invasion, occupation, and subjugation which caused so much death, destruction, and economic misery to the South in general, and in Mississippi in particular, only five to nine years prior to this. Of course, the economic misery continued for decades.

Was the Mississippi legislature overcome by Stockholm Syndrome? Possibly, but perhaps the best answer lies in the numbers comprising the legislature. In the 1870 legislature, there were 110 Republicans, 35 of whom were black. Reconstruction was in full swing at the time, and pro-Union forces took their vengeance on the Confederates for daring to rebel against the Yankee Empire, for daring to establish their own new country.

Five years after atomic bombs killed an estimated 140,000 residents of Hiroshima, and an estimated 74,000 residents of Nagasaki, did the Japanese name any town or community in honor of Harry S. Truman? Following the illegal invasion, occupation and destruction of Iraq, from 2003-2011, were any communities or townships in Iraq named in honor of the war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld or Blair?

Yet, here we are in Mississippi in 2023 – stuck with Lincoln County, named after the man who despised the South, and who delighted in the destruction of its land, farms and homes, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants. With few exceptions (notably, Senator Chris McDaniel), modern-day Mississippi Republicans are as worthless as their 1870 counterparts. On June 28, 2020, they forever turned their backs on their brave Confederate ancestors and voted to replace the Mississippi flag which had been in place for over 100 years, in spite of the fact that the issue should have been settled once and for all in a voter referendum in 2001. In that referendum, 60% of those casting a vote, voted to keep the 1894 flag. So, the attitude of the legislature in June 2020, was “voters be damned, we’re going to pacify the SEC, the NCAA, the Clarion-Ledger, the Washington Post, and the New York Times!”

Eternal shame on the Mississippi legislature of 1870 and 2020. The Party of Lincoln may have prevailed, but I, for one, refuse to participate in the worship and deification of its namesake.

-By Anthony Powell

6 comments

  1. Good for you. As we watch the United States melting away before our eyes, it looks to me as if the South could finally receive a second chance. I hope that the will exists to take advantage of the opportunity, and that the South does not end up as the same damned thing, with a different flag.

  2. It’s actually quite astonishing just how many Mississippi county names go unnoticed. Jefferson Davis County, Lamar County, Rankin County, and others are named after people who’s legacy the state GOP is working desperately to destroy.

    1. You are correct, Joe. I am quite astonished that the SPLC, the NAACP, or another such CSA-hating group has not demanded, at the very least, to change the name of Jefferson Davis County. Also, surprisingly enough, the statue of CSA General Stephen D Lee remains (as far as I know) in place on the campus of Mississippi State. I thought a mob would have taken it down in 2020. General Lee was the first president of MSU. I’m thinking it’s just a matter of time, however. It would take a lot of guts and backbone by a university president to stop the mob, once it reared its ugly head. Having said that, there are still quite a number of us who revere our Confederate ancestors, and will do all we can to repel the idiotic, ignorant haters.

  3. That’s nothing. check this story out…

    World’s largest crane built in total secrecy to remove Stone Mountain nearing completion

    A massive crane-the largest in the world, along with a lift and pulley system-has been built specifically to remove Stone Mountain and nearing its completion. Testing is almost finished and when it is, it will be used to remove Stone Mountain-all one trillion plus pounds of it (that may be a few more pounds than the Stacy Abrams Tank weighs). It is being removed for two reasons-first and most importantly, to do away with the racist, White Supremacist imagery on the mountain. Second, the rich mineral deposits can be harvested better when it is moved and ground up by special machinery also specifically built for this purpose. All this has been funded by-guess who-George Soros and company. Stay tuned for more details.

    Wow. who knew?

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