____________









Courtesy of LPMS




Sacred Virtue · Moral Beauty · Arisen Vanguard


 

Courtesy of LPMS



Sewanee's Fons et Origio:


Bishop · Educator · General



___________

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.) _______ 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. --- 563 A.D. St. Columba departs Ireland & founds abbey centre for Celtic Christianity on Scottish Isle of Iona. --- 722 A.D. Don Pelayo, first Christian king of the Austurias, defeats invading Muslims at Covadogna & inaugurates Reconquista for Christian Spain. --- 1096 A.D. Earliest recorded teaching in Oxford, England, leads to Magister Scolarum Oxonie in 1201 & Universitas in 1231. --- 1209 A.D. Scholars settle in Cambridge, England; gain a Chancellor in 1226 & King Henry III's protection in 1231. --- 1565 A.D. Jean de Valette leads Christian Knights in withstanding Muslim Turks' horrific Siege of Malta. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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. --- 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.  --- 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. _____ Si vis pacem, para bellum

___________





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.



____________

 


WeGBTTB:

WeRVV · WeRCL · WeRST




____________




Awake · Aware · Alert




____________




"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




___________

 



"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




___________










___________








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)



___________





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.
























___________





"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)




__________





As a non-profit educational fair use web site, images and citations reproduced herein from other sources are intended solely for scholarship, research, and community interest. (See TITLE 17, CHAPTER 1, §107: Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.)

Advertisements and click-through purchases support a small portion of our increasing technology and maintenance expenses. Thank you for helping us onward toward even more improvements and greater offerings.

©2003-2014 The Leonidas Polk Memorial Society (as successor); All Rights Reserved.

Contact: info@leonidaspolk.org