Posted on 12/27/2010 10:31:54 AM PST by trumandogz
The Civil War is about to loom very large in the popular memory. We would do well to be candid about its causes and not allow the distortions of contemporary politics or long-standing myths to cloud our understanding of why the nation fell apart.
The coming year will mark the 150th anniversary of the onset of the conflict, which is usually dated to April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries opened fire at 4:30 a.m. on federal troops occupying Fort Sumter. Union forces surrendered the next day, after 34 hours of shelling.
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You were advised to have that brain injury treated, you know.
Now, look what’s happened to you. The damage is done and your grip on reality simply does not exist. Come daybreak, perhaps you can return to watching the dust particles dance in the sunbeams.
The family appreciates your kind words, mac.
A fine young man was lost to us. He served with honor and true to the values of the Corps. He died well.
Oh, really?
You found no failing in the post I responded to?
You find no failing in Confederates expressing glee at the murder of Lincoln?
It is well and good that you emerge from the shadows.
Your opinion is duly noted and will be given the respect that it merits.
Thank you for your submission.
You are dismissed.
Have a nice day!
Own Countrymen?
Are you saying that the CSA never did exist and those who lived in the Confederacy were US citizens and not citizens of the CSA?
That's an odd view for a Proud Confederate.
Booth made him a martyr, that was a stupid thing to do.
A second Goon term would have sealed his fate as the worst President. He would have been known as a racist and the "send 'em all to Liberia" President.
He is probably a member of the Log-Cabin Republicans :)
My only complaint is that Booth wasted good Southern Lead on the tyrant!
I open champagne every April to celebrate!
Well, well, well.....
You celebrate the assassination of presidents.
By using the term “Confederate” in your screen name, you must speak for quite a sizable number of Confederate sympathizers.
You already reject being an American first and so you reveal celebratory actions on the anniversary of the assassination of a US president.
Given the chance, Mr. Confederate, would you be willing to stand in the shoes of John Wilkes Booth? Would you, Mr. Confederate, be as willing to murder a president of the United States? Mr. Confederate, since you are a “Texan first”, do you claim to be outside the jurisdiction of US law? Mr. Confederate, do you advocate the assassination of any US president, or any other duly elected representative of any branch or level of Federal, state or local government who, by your Confederate beliefs, acts in a manner counter to those beliefs? Do you, Mr. Confederate, find a substantial difference between your celebration of the assassination of a US president and the celebrations in many parts of the islamic world, by radical muslims, at the murderous events of 11 September, 2001?
Most Americans recoil in horror from the act of assassination of elected officials. Most Americans believe that we effect change by the ballot and not by the hand of the disaffected hit-man. Yet, you hold the Lincoln assassination in high regard. Given the staunch support of your fellow Confederate Cultists here, it would appear that your views on presidential assassination would be shared by a considerable number of them.
Just how many of you Confederate Cultists also “celebrate” the murder of US presidents, as Mr. Texas Confederate does?
Don’t be shy. Apparently you’ll recieve no backlash, since some of you claim “friends in high places”.
Probably too expensive for you. Keep on drinking that Colt 45 boy.
That’s rich coming from someone who admitted that they used to be a Marxist. You did say that here on FR did you not?
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
“they are going to take him away, haha!”
Thumpranger, and his homo-marxist band! LOL!
Former my *SS!!
I got to do that to John Brown’s Grave....it was FUN!!
We are a band of brothers and native to the soil
Fighting for our Liberty, With treasure, blood and toil
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star!
Chorus:
Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
2. As long as the Union was faithful to her trust
Like friends and like brethren, kind were we, and just
But now, when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Chorus
3. First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand
Then came Alabama and took her by the hand
Next, quickly Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Chorus
4. Ye men of valor gather round the banner of the right
Texas and fair Louisiana join us in the fight
Davis, our loved President, and Stephens statesmen rare
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Chorus
5. Now here’s to brave Virginia, the old Dominion State,
With the young Confederacy at last has sealed her fate,
And spurred by her example, now other states prepare
To hoist high the bonnie blue flag that bears a single star.
Chorus[2]
6. Then cheer, boys, cheer, raise a joyous shout
For Arkansas and North Carolina now have both gone out,
And let another rousing cheer for Tennessee be given,
The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be eleven.
Chorus
7. Then here’s to our Confederacy, strong we are and brave,
Like patriots of old we’ll fight, our heritage to save;
And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer,
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Chorus[3]
Yup.
I did and I was. I have the scars to prove it, too.
Unlike the Confederate Cultists, I learned, grew, changed, saw the light and mostly credit Reagan acolytes for their forbearance and polemic skills in helping me overcome my erroneous ways.
What is your excuse?
Comes in a variety of fruity flavors too doesn't it?
I'll bet your favorite color is pink.
How about that... An entire song aobut Southern Rights or more specifically a song about their twisted belief that they should be able to own human beings and hold them in slavery.
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