Silver Legionism is a fascist ideology representing the ideas of the Silver Legion of America. It is culturally far-right, economically cantered, and has uniquely 1930's American characteristics, such as non-interventionism and opposition to President Roosevelt's New Deal; in addition, it has
Clerical Fascism,
American Nationalism,
Corporatism,
Anti-Communism,
White Nationalism and racial segregation integrated into its beliefs.
Silver Legionism hoped to create a "Christian Commonwealth" without Jews or non-whites, which would be brought about by a "Silver Revolution" that would put the organization's leader, William Pelley, in power.
History
William Dudley Pelley was born in March 12th 1890 at Lynn, Massachusetts, America who lived in poverty with his father, William George Apsey Pelley and his mother, Née Goodale/Grace who both are descents from
Britain. William George Apsey Pelley was a
Southern Methodist Church minister who later become a small businessman and shoemaker but also he claimed that he was a descent from one of Queen Elizabeth I’s knights while Sir John Pelley who is father of William George Apsey Pelley came to America from Britain through Newfoundland, Canada and also Née Goodale's family arrived in
New England with the Great Puritan Migration.
William Dudley Pelley was in his early teens when he worked in the tissue factory for long hours and little pay even he saved his pennies for food. He was self-educated by reading a lot of books in his spare time to escape from the drudgery along with material impoverishment of his adolescence and he dreamed of being a writer in which it came true. In years later he created his first newspaper in his father's barn called "The Junior Star" and then he was enrolled at High School that he started a magazine called "The Black Crow" even he was more smarter than most college graduates.
In 1907, William Dudley Pelley along with his family moved to Fulton, New York when his father became an executive in a toilet paper factory but later he is now a executive eventually becoming the treasure and general superintendent but in 1909, he just became an editor and publisher of Philosopher Magazine in which he supported Christian Socialism even he called Jesus "Comrade Christ." On December 16, 1911 he married Marion Harriet Stone but got a divorce ten years later and from 1912 to 1915 he worked at the Wilmington Times along with other regional newspapers but he moved to Vermont wrote a popular fictional series of stories about small time life centred in a fictional town called Paris, Vermont thus popularized the small-town genera of fiction that grew into television shows like The Waltons 1972-1981 and The Andy Griffith Show 1960–1968.
In 1918, William Dudley Pelley along with his first wife went to Imperial Japan to survey Protestant foreign missions for the Methodist Centenary Movement but he sees American soldiers being deployed at
Siberia to help White Russian soldiers fight the
Bolshevik soldiers during The Russian Civil War 1917-1923. He went to Siberia in which he witnessed the atrocities by the Bolsheviks that lead him to become an
Anti-Communist and then later he found out that Vladimir Lenin was secretly
Jewish so he was now an
Anti-Semite but after that he became part of the Red Cross to help wounded
White Russians in Siberia but later he traveled throughout Europe as a foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post.
William Dudley Pelley returned to America in 1920 to work for become the Chicago Tribune Newspaper and went to Los Angles,
California to at Hollywood as screenwriter for 21 films working for every major studio except Paramount. He got the O. Henry Awards for his short stories like "The Face In The Window" in 1920 along with "The Continental Angle" in 1930 and he wrote screenplays for the Lon Chaney films like two almost famous films "The Light in the Dark" in 1922 and "The Shock" in 1923.
In 1928, William Dudley Pelley has entered the Esoteric World when he had an Out-Of-body Experience in Altadena, California for that which he travelled to heaven for a meeting with God &
Jesus Christ for seven minutes and talked about the spiritual transformation of America. He later claimed that the experience gave him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have more out-of-body experiences at will. In 1929, William Dudley Pelley became disillusioned with the movie industry and later he experienced an event called The Great Depression but then in 1930, he moved to
New York City where founded the Galahad Press and began to lecture or teach on spiritualism while most of his followers at this time were women.
William Dudley Pelley moved to Washington DC in October 1931 but later to Asheville, North Carolina in July 1932, to found The Galahad College that specialized correspondence courses on "Social Metaphysics" and "Christian Economics but also he founded a network of nondenominational spiritualist study groups called the League of the Liberators.
On January 30th 1933, William Dudley Pelley becomes an admirer of Adolf Hitler who took power in Germany because of the
Pyramid Prophecy and the next day founded the Silver Legion of America on January 31, 1933, modelling his group after
Mussolini's Black Shirts and
Hitler's Brown Shirts. In doing so, he became one of the very first Americans to create an organization praising the work of Hitler. In February 18th 1933, Pelley have issued the Liberation newspaper to become an official press to the Silver Legion Of America but also this group held the first rally in Kreutzer Hall, East 86th Street, New York City on November 3th 1933 and in February 1934 They were officially incorporated in the state of Delaware as a
patriotic fraternity.
The Silver Legion of America have organized factions into nine districts within the country while had chapters in 22 states also two of the largest was in Washington and California. It has a membership who are mostly middle class non-immigrant Americans with Northern European heritage and estimated some of the members were Catholic while most of them was predominately Protestant with a large number of former Midwest Klansmen. In Southern California a women’s auxiliary was formed and it was called the Petticoat Platoons.
By 1934, the Silver Legion of America had around 15,000 members while in certain date known as February 3th 1934, William Dudley Pelley have suspect Franklin Prophecy in his Liberation newspaper in which claimed that Benjamin Franklin warned Americans not to allow Jews to benefit from the United States Constitution and in 1935, Nazi Germany along with Hollywood funded the group to build the Murphy Ranch in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles by Jessie M. Murphy, Winona Stephens, Norman Stephens & Paul Williams who is a
African-American and it's not only the place the Silver Legion of America have built but also a cabin in Redmond, Washington called the Silver Lodge even William Dudley Pelley has been here.
William Dudley Pelley who is a Nazi Sympathizer from the 1930s never visited Germany nor meet with their National Socialist representatives but he meet the leader of the German American Bund named Fritz Kuhn who made a courtesy call and it was in Los Angeles. Pelley believed that the Jewish Problem in America could be solved by moving all the Jews to a unknown location called Beth Havens to sterilized the male Jewish population and it was better than the pogroms. Pelley have admired Abraham Lincoln through it decision to end slavery and he should be celebrated for smashing the Jewish bankers when he issued the greenback note but Pelley believed that Blacks should continue to remain in a segregation or repatriated back to Africa. Pelley attempted to appeal to the
Native Americans by removing them from their reservations and replacing them with Jews instead.
There is some hidden events involving the Silver Legion Of America for example, a Silvershirt field marshal by the name of Roy Zachary who was in Chicago was publicly threatened to kill President Franklin F. Roosevelt or he wanted commit suicide (Not) if nobody helped him and also an local leader of the Silver Legion in Cleveland called for an armed uprising to prevent an impending Socialist Revolution. The San Diego Silver Shirts group lead by Charles T. Lee conducted military exercises, stole weapons from a nearby naval base and wanting to planned a siege on the city but it was stop by the authorities before this could happened.
In the half of 1935 the Silver Legion of America became largely inactive due to investigations of the McCormack-Dickstein committee but in 16th August 1935, William Dudley Pelley founded The Christian Party as a political wing to the Silver Legion and it was active in most states as well being organized on the west coast. Pelley run for office in the 1936 Presidential Election under the Christian Party to replace president Franklin D. Roosevelt even with Willard Kemp as the vice presidential candidate but the Christian Party got only 1,600 votes that ended up in failure and the slogan of this political party was "Christ Or Chaos!"
By 1937, William Dudley Pelley was accused for engaging in Un-American Activities while in 1938, the Silver Legion of America has now 5,000 members and In 1940, the Silver Legion's headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina, was seized and raided by the House Un-American Activities Committee while arresting it's members forcing Pelley to relocate to Noblesville, Indiana, and fight lengthy and expensive legal battles. William Dudley Pelley accused president Franklin D. Roosevelt for being a warmonger that lead him being investigated by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI while they are interviewing members of the Silver Legion.
After Imperial Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 that lead America to declared war on the Axis Powers a day later, William Dudley Pelley has disbanded the Silver Legion of America along with the Christian Party and local police occupied the Murphy Ranch along with the Silver Lodge to arrest former members of the Silver Legion. Pelley continued to attack the government in his new magazine called Roll-Call in which later prompted him to get arrested at in Noblesville, Indiana in April 1942 and he is charged with High Treason & Insurrection. William Dudley Pelley just got a most publicized trial in August 12, 1942 and he was sentenced to 15 years in Terra Haute, Indiana but he took part in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 with 29 other defendants for new sedition charges but it has ended when a
judge named Edward C. Eicher died of a heart attack that lead to a mistrial.
In 1950, William Dudley Pelley was released in parole and In his final years he dealt with charges of securities fraud in 1951 while he was desist from all political activity but he developed an elaborate religious philosophy called "Soulcraft" based on his belief in UFOs along with extraterrestrials while later on his reported contact with souls of famous historical figures in his last magazine called Over Here 1957 to 1960 then he died on June 30th 1965, at the age of 75 in Noblesville, Indiana where he is buried.
Several members of the Silver Legion Of America went on to become high-ranking officials of other groups such as Aryan Nations lead by Richard Butler 1918-2004,
Posse Comitatus lead by Henry Lamont Beach 1903-1989 and
The John Birch Society with some unknown silver legionaries in it.
William Dudley Pelley has a current wife named Agnes Marion Henderson-Pelley and he has a daughter named Adelaide Pelley Pearson
Kaiserreich
In an alternative universe based on a popular meme game called Hearts Of Iron IV, the man called William Dudley Pelley has supported Louisiana Governor Huey Long since 1932 and wrote endorsements of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth plan to urged his followers to join The Silver Legion of America. The Silver Legion has gained some traction with members of the
Ku Klux Klan but caused a sharp decline in membership following the conviction of Grand Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson for the rape along with murder of Madge Oberholtzer and in 1934, William Dudley Pelley came into contact with Herbert W. Armstrong who is a the founder of the Grace Communion International Radio and a Anglo-Saxon Supremacist. The Silver Legion becomes a paramilitary force for the
American Union State during The Second American Civil War to fight against the
Federalists along with the
Syndicalists and during the gameplay, you can do a coup with The Silver Legion against leader Huey Long to make William Dudley Pelley the new leader of the American Union State.
Personality and Behavior
Silver Legionism has the personality of William Dudley Pelley but he is wildly r***** while also he is calm and has a unique sense of fashion. He is also highly into Methodism, Spiritualism & Ufology along with He spends most of his time doing stuff like writing books or maybe movie scripts and trying to use spiritualism as a means of contacting Extraterrestrials who will help kickstart the Silver Revolution in America. He is a big fan of
George Washington & Abraham Lincoln who he celebrates because he believes they are fascist heroes and also he is a sidekick to Longism.
How To Draw

- Draw a ball and color it in silver.
- Draw a Slab Serif-font scarlet-colored "L" either on the top left or middle of the ball. (Note: If drawn on the top left the L should be smaller, while if it's drawn in the middle it should be larger.)
- Draw the eyes and you're done!
- (Optional) Give the ball a campaign hat.
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
---|---|---|---|
Silver | #C0C0C0 | 192, 192, 192 | |
Scarlet | #CC0000 | 204, 0, 0 |
Relations
Friends
George Washington - I am big fan of you and we share the same
Esoteric believes even you have involved in
Freemasonary.
Abraham Lincoln - It was the right choice to end slavery during a brutal civil war and it was good idea to sent former slaves back to their natural homeland but it never happened because of a Confederate Conartist that killed you in the back of your head.
Jeffersonian Democracy - You are a friend of Washington, created the
constitution and become an amazing
president, so that means you are based.
National Socialism - Based friend from Germany that knows the world truth.
Positive Christianity- My ideological forerunner in
Germany
Methodist Theocracy - My True religion (sorry for denouncing you in the 1950s, but the occult was where the REAL joy was!)
Clerical Fascism - Religious And Fascist? Based.
White Nationalism - I want to live in a White America.
White Movement - I was part of the Red Cross to help you feel better in Siberia even you are a
Orthodox Christian.
Alt-Right - Zoomers who are against ethnic substitution.
Fascism - My Mentor and creator of things even you are a Catholic.
Isolationism - We should not attack Germany or any other innocent nation.
Right-Wing Populism - Tell me something that I did not know about.
Protectionism - I want America too be itself.
Corporatism - It was not
corrupt Communism and it was not
Crony Capitalism either.
Ethnonationalism - I am proud to be an
American.
Jacksonian Democracy - Don't worry about your plans of the future because I am here to fulfil them.
Fuentesism - You're almost me but is an Incel?
Social Conservatism - I almost forgot about you since I realized that
Imposter with a hat was really you but not.
Rockwel Neo-Nazism - Someone was carrying on the fight he began thirty years before but he died a painful death with a gun after I died of natural causes.
British Fascism - My parents both have British heritage as Christians and I'm glad to help you to reformed your nation by conquering Canada as U.S President.
Ayran Nations - Basically my modern version of myself but National Socialist.
Pērkonkrusts - Hello, European me who is a friend to me.
Frenemies
Constitutionalism - "For Christianity And The Constitution" this holy peace of paper have to be reformed just like the other constitutions from foregin democratic nations.
Indigenism - Thanks for helping me. But why do you not like me anymore and now feel bad for holding slaves? Why can't you be more like your based ancestors?
Esoteric Fascism - Spiritualism can be a Christian thing as well even you are a Pagan.
Longism (Kaiserreich) - I am your sidekick because you are a hero to the people but please don't reject me just because I'm little different for you to handle.
Mediacracy - I was a Hollywood screenwriter and created The Silvershirt Weekly but you have become too
for me to handle but I was appeared in The American Magazine as a real celebrity.
Showa Statism - You supposed to strike when I was president of this country but not to strike when I was not ready and it puts me into jail.
Posadism - I have made a fanfiction about you helping me with the Silver Revolution so you can not be a
Socialist for a change.
Crusadism - I have written a story about you that turned into a short movie called The Light In The Dark (1922) and it was about the holy grail but if you found it in real life just don't give it to the
Pope because he is going to use it as a tiny toilet even he does not wipe his butt.
Trumpism - Finally, everyone will know my name because I was being compared to you and also you're almost perfect to be good president but you can't fund Israel because they are ruining the American dream but also you called National Socialists evil for no reason other than Progressive Perfection.
Brazilian Integralism - Monke, why did you hump me in this comic but you're me as a diverse Catholic.
Enemies
Jewish Capitalism - Did you cause The Great Depression because there is rumors about you doing it to make the people suffer for your own pleasure.
Bill Of Rights Socialism - You have rigged an election and it was Un-American.
Socialism - It was also known as class division.
Zionism - Filthy Jew.
Marxism - I will save America from you.
Bundism - COMMIE JEW!
Labour Zionism - ANOTHER ONE!
Black Nationalism - Moron.
Black Zionism - Abomination.
Stalinism - P3dostache Georgian Socialist.
Neozapatismo - This is what happens when I invaded Latin America in this alternative timeline.
Syndicalism (Kaiserreich) - Did not realize you are my enemy in this timeline.
Catholic Workerism - I have nether seen that coming even both of us are underated.
Sewer Socialism - You are too gross to lead America.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - You did not listen to the people even
Huey Long.
Douglas MacArthur - We The People have reclaimed Washington DC from Federalist Tyranny.
Kritarchy - I got parole after serving 8 years in prison when you have a heart attack or something and the only judge that I trust is
Jesus Christ.
Satanic Theocracy - I will never forget about you as my foe.
Anti-Fascism &
Black Anarchism - Those darn kids who hate workwork have actually vandalize the Murphy Ranch.
State Atheism - The reason why most abolitionists are Christians because "God Created All Men Equal" and he wanted you to be sent to hell because you're hat is way too big for an icon like that.
Matriarchal Monarchism - Queen Anne you suck and the real reason why I have created you is because you're starring as a villain in a movie called The Shock (1923), I know you are being a failure in life stoopid Alicorn (Insult).
Confederatism - You almost destroyed the American Dream by having a fricking slave fetish on Bl*cks and in this alternative universe you're a Communist even the Klu Klux Klan see you as one because they now wave the union flag of Anti-Slavery.
Christian Socialism - I used to supported you but when I knew about the atrocities committed by your kind in Siberia, You are pure blasphemy and you have sent a sinner called
Martin Luther King Jr. to ruin the perfect society that was built by the decent freedom loving Americans.
Kakistocracy - Not all Fascists & Conservaties are National Socialists and stop calling me a nerd just because I have glasses on while reading books.
Progressivism - Interracial marriage, drug addiction, white guilt & tyranny is not true progress.
Circulus Theory - You're the most crapy person that I've ever me in the toilet paper factory that I have worked at.
FALGSC - This is an real dystopian future that America is heading towards.
Further Information
Wikipedia
Metapedia
- William Dudley Pelley
- Silver Shirt Legion Of America
- Christian Party Of America
- American White Guard
- Constitution Legion Of America
- Councils Of Saftey
- Anti-Communist League Of The World
- Liberation
- Soulcraft
Infogalactic
Videos
- When the ‘American Hitler’ Came to Washington | Mossback’s Northwest by KCTS9
- Nazis In Los Angeles? The Story Of The Silver Shirts Legion by ColbyJack Cheese Exploration
- The Silver Legion of America’s Program - William Dudley Pelley by Zoltanous HN
- William Dudley Pelley on Tulpa by Not Available
- No More Hunger - William Dudley Pelley by Not Available
- Introduction to William Dudley Pelley and Liberation Soulcraft by Adelaide Pelle by Not Available
- William Dudley Pelley on The Christian Commonwealth by Not Available
- Lungs of Betelgeuse - William Dudley Pelley & The Silver Legion of America by Not Available
- A Corpse in the Road by William Dudley Pelley, 1952 by Not Available
- WW2 - What if Soviets join Axis in 1940 by Zvallid
Alternate History
- {Alt.} Season Premiere - The Silver Legion Alternate History. by DA Group Education
- What If America Became Fascist? | Alternate History by Monsieur Z
- Communist Confederacy | Alternate History by Monsieur Z
- Pelley President by Alternatehistorypt
- Top 5 MORE U.S. Dictatorship What Ifs by The Alternate Historian
Lon Chaney's Films
Archvillian Substack & Soulcraft Teachings
Other Websites
- The Kasierreich Universe
- Silver Shirts
- The Silver Shirts
- William Dudley Pelley
- The Life of William Dudley Pelley
- William Dudley Pelley : Spiritualist, Prophet, & Leader of the Silver Shirts.
Literature
- Hidden Empire by William Dudley Pelley
- No More Hunger by William Dudley Pelley
- Nostradamus Volume 1 of 17 by William Dudley Pelley
- Golden Rubbish by William Dudley Pelley
- My Seven Minutes In Eternity by William Dudley Pelley
- Star Guests by William Dudley Pelley
- Soul Eternal by William Dudley Pelley
- Dupes Of Judah by William Dudley Pelley
- 45 Questions About The Jews by William Dudley Pelley
Gallery
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