Charles Synyard (@CharlesSynyard)

An Independence Day redpill, from H. P. Lovecraft. “So The Street dreamed on, past wars, calamities, and changes. Once most of the young men went away, and some never came back. That was when they furled the Old Flag and put up a new Banner of Stripes and Stars. But though men talked of great changes, The Street felt them not; for its folk were still the same, speaking of the old familiar things in the old familiar accents. And the trees still sheltered singing birds, and at evening the moon and stars looked down upon dewy blossoms in the walled rose-gardens.” —“The Street”, 1920 https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/s.aspx The flags change, the people do not, and the soul and the destiny of the place remain the same. As we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—a bold gesture that made some expansive claims about natural right, which future generations would attempt to cash as a promissory note for egalitarian wokedom, though with some niggling awareness that the original document actually contains hate speech against the Indians—remember, Americans, that in spite of patriotic and revolutionary cant, America’s destiny is that of Western Civilization, and in particular, the Anglosphere. In spite of professions of total separation, American history cannot be understood save as the unfolding story of British North America. Explorers, trappers, and settlers all staked out new lives that were emblematic of the American experience many years before 1776. America did not begin then, nor with the import of Blacks in 1619 as left-liberals think, but with the founding of Roanoke Colony, in 1585. The pioneering, “frontier” spirit was in the breasts of the Americans who went west, and created the mythos and the history that came to define us. The notion of liberty that has defined the American consciousness is an expression of the significance of the individual and of conscience that marks peoples of northern European descent, such as the Anglo-Saxons, and has developed into a set of formal beliefs influenced by Christianity, as has been written about by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and others. Fittingly, and apropos of my theme, the final, most religious, popular, and enduring development of this ideal came from an Lucy Maud Montgomery, an author formally separated by nationality, but really of the same people as her Yankee neighbors: of the same Scottish ancestry that played such a distinctive part in American history, particularly with the Scots-Irish. In Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, by far the greatest works of literature to emerge from British North America, she writes of the kindred spirits: the salt of the earth, with heightened senses of beauty and right, who act not from worldly motives or following fashion, but know to seek the full development of the self and of inborn potential, and who have the innate comprehension of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ that for others is obscured by rote or ritual. The while, Montgomery effortlessly demonstrates the place of the kindred spirits not in radicalism and agitation, but in building and keenly appreciating the goodness of natural social order. Americans won’t be able to understand who they are if they see Montgomery and other Canadians as fundamentally distinct from, or somehow rival to domestic authors, among whom Lovecraft displays a very similar love for community, tradition, and the place of bold character (I’m thinking of the Randolph Carter archetype) within them. Earlier American history was distorted by revolutionary and republican fervor, as the new nation-state rejected monarchy and nobility in principle, and the loyalists were driven from their homes by ideological fanatics who called themselves “patriots”. A more aristocratic society grew up in the South, but their struggle for independence was violently crushed, as were subsequent acts of resistance against the republican government. As the American and Canadian experiences confirm, representative government makes men more docile, and multiple uprisings against oppression that would likely have toppled authoritarian regimes, such as the January 6 protests against a stolen election, and the Freedom Convoy against COVID tyranny, could be written off by the governments as unruly rebellion against what the people had already chosen. As the American sage said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” but I suspect that in looking back at our times, most observers will see the strife in America as embodying a transition from a liberal to a conservative power in the world. Early in her history as a nation-state, America was second only to France in spreading liberalism: attempting to invade and annex still British Canada (and providentially stopped by Sir Isaac Brock), and using the Monroe Doctrine to help sever Spanish possessions from their mother country. Largely founded by radical sectarians, America was virulently anti-Catholic, and many saw liberation from Rome as part and parcel to enlightenment. I recently read a piece in The Remnant on the San Patricios: Saint Patrick’s Batallion, made up of many Catholic defectors from the US Army who fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American War. The American hatred of “popery”, not to mention Mexico as a bastion of Catholicism and tradition versus Yankee Masonry, seem hard to fathom today, though one detail is not surprising. San Patricios leader John Riley experienced the anti-Catholic Philadelphia riots of 1844, which were stirred up by—newspaper editor Lewis Levin, who later became one of the first Jews to serve in Congress. Now, Catholics are displacing evangelical Protestants in the national conversation, and unthinkably, even the pope, once burned in effigy by “patriots”, is American. While America is a hotbed for LGBT depravity, contrariwise, it is the country through which, among Anglo-Saxons far from the urban centers, plural marriage, the epitome of patriarchy, virtue, and natural order, reentered the White world for the first time since the Viking age. America has continued to wage wars on behalf of radicalism and leftism, most lately against Iran (though George H. W. Bush’s Persian Gulf War was a welcome exception, restoring an absolute monarchy that had been toppled by a republican aggressor), yet opposition to the perennial American foreign policy has reached critical mass. Meanwhile, after waging two world wars against our German cousins, Americans are growing in racial consciousness even as their regime continues permitting mass legal immigration. For a decade, the Right was dominated by a cult of personality like none before, and I had hoped patriots would begin to realize, our problems would be at an end if we broke with our republican tradition, and made Donald Trump king. However, in his second term many patriots have soured on Trump, as beholden to Israel and not radical enough at home. I don’t know of any plan B for a quick fix. Let this 250th Independence Day, America’s semiquincentennial or quartermillennium as a nation-state, but into our fifth century as a province of White, Western Civilization, be marked by an awareness that to safeguard what we have accomplished, honor our forebears, and build a worthy future, we should restore Throne and Altar, and newly awaken to who we are, as individuals and as a people and race. Pics: Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island; “The Street” as it originally appeared in The Wolverine, December 1920; Anne Shirley by Ben Stahl; Patriot Front, a group building White identity and resisting our race’s dispossession in America. #IndependenceDay #America #UnitedStates #USA #US #HPLovecraft #LMMontgomery #kindredspirits #Catholcism #Catholic #ThroneAndAltar #race #British #English #Scottish #Anglosphere #WesternCivilization #ideas