Updated July 4, 2014,
Independence Memorial,
Trinity Term





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"The establishment of a press attached to the schools of instruction, especially adapted to our field, for the defense and maintence of our distinctive principles, and as the medium of communicating with our dioceses, would follow after as a thing of course; as would also the presenting to such families as desired it, a high religious society, during the education of their children."


-The Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana, "The New Orleans Letter," July 1, 1856




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THE LEONIDAS POLK MEMORIAL SOCIETY





Commenced Introduction 1999,
Pine Mountain Obelisk Monument, Kennesaw

Originated Visitation & Prepared Annunciation 2002,
Drayton Hall Plantation, Charleston

Advanced Reunion & Unveiled Revelation 2003,
Historic Convocation Hall, Sewanee

Established Bi-Centennial 2006,
Gravestone Altar, Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral Shrine,
New Orleans

Founded Sewanee First Chapter 2006-2008,
Founding Sesqui-Centennial, The University of the South

Consecrated Chapter Sesqui-Centennial Sunday 2010,
Cornerstone Memorial Preserve, Louisiana Circle,
Sewanee

Essentialized Sesqui-Centennial Saturday 2014,
Monument Sanctum Altar, Pine Mountain Salient



OUR WORK IS UNFINISHED.








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"When prophecy's binding force pushes forward matured directive,
when who we always are receives warning from where we most should be,
then upward from time will arise destined witness of duty's blessing,
and guardian values will soon succeed and once again make things right."



-SIR ABDIEL, "Epiphanous Healing," in The Resurgametica




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Our Prophetic Martyr's Engraved Sesqui-Centennial Relic








SEQUENTIAL CONSECRATION 2014




Thorough-Going Essentialism:



Approaching
· Consummating · Proceeding



Easter Semester:



Inception
April 10


Fulfillment
May 2


Command
May 15
Trinity Term:



Murder
June 14


Funeral
June 15


Eulogy
June 29
Advent Semester:



Inauguration
September 18


Victory
September 20


Conclusive
October 10














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"What I here propound is true- therefore it cannot die- or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will 'rise again to the Life Everlasting.' "


-Edgar Allen Poe, in Preface to Eureka: A Prose Poem, 1848



 
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"It is my idea that the myth should be defined for the modern unbeliever in terms of its psychic necessity- by a sort of natural history of supernaturalism. This is a quite unorthodox way to justify orthodoxy, but I imagine it is the only effective means of persuasion that remains now."


-John Crowe Ransom, GOD WITHOUT THUNDER, 1930



 
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"In thinking over subjects on which I might be qualified to speak, it occurred to me to look at Weaverville and the Weaver community through a perspective of Chicago. I have been condemned for the past six years to earn my living in that most brutal of cities, a place where all the vices of urban and industrial society break forth in a kind of evil flower. I sometimes think of the University to which I am attached as a missionary outpost in darkest Chicago. There we labor as we can to convert the heathen, without much reward of success. But of course we learn many things about what is happening to this country."


-Richard M. Weaver, "The Meaning of Name and Place," delivered at the annual Weaver family reunion, Weaverville, North Carolina, August 10, 1950



 
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 "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

 
-Herbert Agar, A TIME FOR GREATNESS, 1942



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"That the study of history, far from making us wiser, and more useful citizens, as well as better men, may be of no advantage whatsoever; that it may serve to render us mere antiquaries and scholars; or that it may help to make us forward coxcombs, and prating pedants, I have already allowed. But this is not the fault of history: and to convince us that it is not, we need only contrast the true use of history with the use that is made of it by such men as these. We ought always to keep in mind, that history is philosophy teaching by examples how to conduct ourselves in all the situations of private and public life; that therefore we must apply ourselves to it in a philosophical spirit and manner."
 


-Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, "Letters on the Study and Use of History," 1735






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"Must I at length he sword of justice draw?
Oh curst effects of necessary law!
How ill my fear they by my mercy scan,
Beware the fury of a patient man."



-John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel," 1681



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"For there are three that bear record in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are One.
And there are three
that bear witness in Earth: the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood: and these three agree in One."


-First John 5:7-8, King James Version





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"the tendency of things"


"The exaggeration which this rhetorician employs is not caricature but prophecy; and it would be a fair formulation to say that true rhetoric is concerned with the potency of things. The literalist, like the anti-poet described earlier, is troubled by its failure to conform to a present reality. What he fails to appreciate is that potentiality is a mode of existence, and that all prophecy is about the tendency of things."


-Richard M. Weaver, "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric," in THE ETHICS OF RHETORIC, 1953




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"The ugliness of this present age urges upon us the beauty of our past."


-SIR ABDIEL




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Vocat · Educat · Pugnat 




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"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."


-Jeremiah 29:11-13, King James Version





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PRMVC · CRSVC · URNVC


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"Abide with Me upon this sturdy Rock of Ages, all ye final Christian Soldiers."



-From "Ode to the Hymnal," in THE LAST CHRISTIAN IN ALABAMA, draft manuscript






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PROCUL, O PROCUL ESTE PROFANI.




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Sacred Virtue · Moral Beauty · Arisen Vanguard



 




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Sewanee's Fons et Origio:


Bishop · Educator · General




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Ancient Religion for the Old-Time Religious


Isle of Iona (563 A.D.)

Jamestowne Settlement (1607 A.D.)

Maury County (1833 A.D.)



Historic Education for the Once-Redeemed Educable


English Universities of Oxford (1096 A.D.) &
Cambridge (1209 A.D.)

State Universities in North Carolina (1789 A.D.) &
Virginia (1819 A.D.)

Military Academies at West Point (1802 A.D.) &
Charleston (1842 A.D.)



Ongoing Warfare for the Still-Willing Warriors


Salamis (480 B.C.), Covadonga (722 A.D.) &
Malta (1565 A.D.)

Concord (1775 A.D.), Saratoga (1777 A.D.) &
Cowpens (1781 A.D.)

Chickamauga (1863 A.D.), Okolona (1864 A.D.) &
Hamburg (1876 A.D.)



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Contextual Timeline of Decisive Community Engagement



480 B.C.

Following Spartan King Leonidas's strong stand with his 300 at Thermopylae, Themistocles defeats invading Persian naval forces at Salamis; victory leads to final Greek success at Plataea & eventual freedom from outsiders.





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563 A.D.

St. Columba departs Ireland & founds abbey centre for Celtic Christianity on Scottish Isle of Iona.





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722 A.D.

Don Pelayo, first Christian king of the Austurias, defeats invading Muslims at Covadogna & inaugurates Reconquista for Christian Spain.





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1096 A.D.

Earliest recorded teaching in Oxford, England, leads to Magister Scolarum Oxonie in 1201 & Universitas in 1231.





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1209 A.D.

Scholars settle in Cambridge, England; gain a Chancellor in 1226 & King Henry III's protection in 1231.





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1565 A.D.

Jean de Valette leads Christian Knights in withstanding Muslim Turks' horrific Siege of Malta.





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1607 A.D.

Chartered by King James I, Captain Christopher Newport leads Anglican Englishmen in exploring James River & establishing Jamestowne Settlement in Virginia; Captain John Smith later serves as Council President.





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1775 A.D.


Colonial Militia & Minute Men win first victory in War for Local Independence from Outside Rule with rout of British troops at North Bridge on Concord River.





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1777 A.D.

Americans commanded by Major General Horatio Gates stop advancing British troops at Saratoga & force surrender of General John Burgoyne; turns war in favor of ultimate American victory.





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1781 A.D.

American forces defending South Carolina under command of General Daniel Morgan defeat & rout Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton's British troops at Cowpens; turns the war in the South toward Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.





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1789 A.D.

William R. Davie introduces bill to charter state university in North Carolina; Col. William Polk, father of Leonidas Polk, is Trustee by 1790 & President of Board of Trustees 1802-1805; first students arrive in 1795; Leonidas Polk attends 1821-1823.





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1802 A.D.

Subsequent General George Washington's selecting Thaddeus Kosciuszko to design fortifications at West Point in 1778 & headquartering there in 1799, President Thomas Jefferson establishes United States Military Academy in 1802; Colonel Sylvanus Thayer superintends 1817-1833; Cadet Leonidas Polk attends 1823-1827.





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1819 A.D.

Mr. Jefferson introduces "Bill for More General Diffusion of Knowledge" to Virginia General Assembly in 1799; first meeting of University of Virginia's Board of Visitors in 1819 & first students arrive by 1825.





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1833 A.D.

Rev. Leonidas Polk arrives in Maury County, Tennessee; resides at Hamilton Place; rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Columbia; builds Ashwood Hall; later erects St. John's Episcopal Church in Mount Pleasant.





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1842 A.D.

Subsequent Denmark Vesey's murderous conspiracy in 1822 & South Carolina's "Act to Establish a Competent Force to Act as a Municipal Guard for the Protection of the City of Charleston and its Vicinity," Governor John P. Richardson & State Legislature convert Charleston's militia Citadel into military academy in 1842; patriotic cadets fire on Star of the West in 1861.





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1863 A.D.

Bishop-General Leonidas Polk commands Confederate right wing to victory over invading Federals at Chickamauga; Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry defends right flank; Georgia is once again made free.





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1864 A.D.

Operating under Bishop-General Leonidas Polk, Major-General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats & routs Federal Major-General Sooy Smith at Okolona; demolishes Sherman's eastward strategy & saves Demopolis, Selma & all Middle Alabama from extremist attack. 





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1876 A.D.

Georgia patriots assist proud South Carolinians in quelling violent Hamburg rioters; contain threat of vandals' trespassing across railroad bridge to burn Augusta & St. Paul's Episcopal Church & desecrate grave of Bishop-General Leonidas Polk; successful Southern tactics at Hamburg usher in Redshirts' electing Wade Hampton & redeeming South Carolina from illegal & corrupt outside Carpetbagger Rule.






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Si vis pacem, para bellum






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William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 146": 



Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth,
Lord of these rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more.
So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
And death once dead, there's no more dying then.



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"Becoming reveals Being, because Being is prior to Action. We know our Nature in all we do. Do more, know more. He died in Arms- for a Reason."


-SIR ABDIEL




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"to be sought in that prime source"


"Language, as I conceive it, is a social and cultural creation functioning somehow within the psychic constitution of those who use it. The scope of the reference of words is accordingly determined by forces within the psychic constitution and not outside it. The question of stability in language cannot be considered apart from the psychic stability of a cultural group. And by the same inference the reason for changes in language, whether of the kind we approve or disapprove, will have to be sought in that prime source. All this may seem to border on a mystical account of what, after all, is an empirical fact, subject in several of its aspects to direct observation.  Yet the problem of meaning remains elusive after observations of this kind have been made."


-Richard M. Weaver, "Relativism and the Use of Language,"
in Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins's RELATIVISM AND THE STUDY OF MAN, 1961




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Published on Jun 30, 2014


Angela D. Tooley as Lucinda Hardage

Location: Hardage House site, Burnt Hickory Road, Marietta, GA (Polk's Final Headquarters)
Date: June 14, 2014- 150th Anniversary of the Death of Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk


(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzt9_NilSOA&feature=youtu.be; archived 7/4/2014)



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June 29, 2014:
Sesqui-Centennial of Leonidas Polk's First Burial,
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Augusta, Georgia,
Trinity Term



























Domainianity Stood:





We also remember today The Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk,
whose funeral was held at St. Pau[l]'s Church 150 years ago today.
























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"The Spirit of the Southland,"
in Barnesville News Gazette, Thursday, February 1927:



Unveils a Picture Of Morn and Night,
Yet sweeps the lingering mists away!


By Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers, Poet Laureate,
Georgia Division U.D.C.


Read during the 32nd Convention of Daughters of the
Confederacy at Statesboro, Georgia, on October 27th, 1926.



'Tis Morn, radiant Morn! Upon each hill
There gleams a tint of gold, and in the vale afar
Is heard the merry call of one who keeps
Each wandering lamb from straying o'er the bar.
The ploughman sings a cheer to new born day
And maids light-hearted roam o'er snowy field
Or who at eve should bring the finest yield?


Peace, lovely Peace, rests upon the Plantation Home!
From teeming orchard to the garden gate,
The sun-lit heights of Georgia's old red hills
Bespeak the calm that dwells upon each State.
King Cotton proudly smiles upon his royal seat,
As autumn fruits their countless joys displayed;
And golden grain breathes life and health complete,
For Heaven's touch on every scene is laid!


The Light of Holy Love beams o'er the peaceful hearth, for
There was no Bandit then! No evil soul to roam,
The Master, Mistress, and loved old Mammy knelt,
To thank the Heavenly Father for their blessed Christian Home,
Our own dear land! Our hallowed Southern Home!
Was there ever on Earth a land surpassing thee?
Where friends dependant (not slaves) who with their lates [sic] breath
Despite all war, could true and faithful be?


And was there ever a Christmas Time so glad?
With Banjo, Violin, Dance and Joy that filled
The heart with happiness pure and unrestrained
In knowing those whose wealth they help to build?
But list! Far down yon vale the thundering guns of war
Break up the placid flow of Atlantic wave,
And wildly rush o'er loving peaceful homes
TO cast their blooming roses in the grave!


'Tis Night! Cheerless Night! No star illumes the way.
Our statesmen wise on terms of peace were sent
But not received. Far different views prevailed -
Against all Sovereign Rights coercion was intent!
Then the Spirit of 1776 reawakened o'er the hills
And steel alike met steel with American valor anew,
Till "The Stars and Bars" at Manassas brought forth a hopeful light,
And proved to all, the bravery of King's Mountain still is true!


Through strife was long avoided, yet our homes in ashes laid
Brought in the mystic ruins words emblazed upon the air
Soul cheering to the spirit with a light that cannot fade,
This slogan of the Daughters - Live, Love, Think, Pray, Dare!
The Holy Spirit guided, and compensation came
When Davis, Lee, and Stonewall add Righteousness to Fame,
And with Heaven's light inspired still onward marched the Gray
Though their number lessened daily mid the war clouds on the way.


'Twas the Faith of our Fathers, which gave courage to the true,
And it led by Holy Spirit all of our Southern Soldiers through
Not a hero of the Southland under General Lee's command
Would rob one of their property, or flash the fire brand!
Then Hail, all Hail, with loving cheer, the memory tonight
Of all who served their country in Justice and in Right,
And may Daughters of Confederacy the gates of love unbar
And lead the Blue and Gray as friends to Heaven's Crowning Star!



(Source: http://womenwriters.library.emory.edu; viewed 7/4/2014)




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