Jeez Louise! I read that book growing up too.
It ain't history, though.
Posted on 05/12/2015 3:00:03 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate soldier. The world, for the most part, has acknowledged what Gen. R. E. Lee described in his farewell address as the “valour and devotion” and “unsurpassed courage and fortitude” of the Confederate soldier. The Stephen D. Lee Institute program is dedicated to that part of our duty that charges us not only to honour the Confederate soldier but “to vindicate the cause for which he fought.” We are here to make the case not only for the Confederate soldier but for his cause. It is useless to proclaim the courage, skill, and sacrifice of the Confederate soldier while permitting him to be guilty of a bad cause.
Although their cause was lost it was a good cause and still has a lot to teach the world today.
In this age of Political Correctness there has never been a greater need and greater opportunity to refresh our understanding of what happened in America in the years 1861–1865 and start defending our Southern forebears as strongly as they ought to be defended. There is plenty of true history available to us. It is our job to make it known.
All the institutions of American society, including nearly all Southern institutions and leaders, are now doing their best to separate the Confederacy off from the rest of American history and push it into one dark little corner labeled “ Slavery and Treason.” Being taught at every level of the educational system is the official party line that everything good that we or anyone believe about our Confederate ancestors is a myth, and by myth they mean a pack of lies that Southerners thought up to excuse their evil deeds and defeat.
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Washington also believed loyalty to country trumped loyalty to states. See his Farewell Address.
Jeez Louise! I read that book growing up too.
It ain't history, though.
Slavery was legal. Next guess.
We would win this time and kick the north and west coast out. Win win.
Fugitive slave act. Next question!
We are all the slaves now. CW put the states in a servant relationship to the federal government. Next?
The south took its property back from the federal government. The rulers of the north were asked nicely many times first. In effect were forced to clear the fort to remove occupying trroops. Next
You sir win a cigar. The shooting almost started 20-30 years earlier but was advert end through compromise which made the north greedier and pushed harder.
Great posts.
When I was in SC recently I ate up the stuff and bought a few books at the Museum and Library of Confederate History in Greenville.
A couple of days later I was at The Citadel in Charleston for the cadet’s Friday parade. When the band struck up the National Anthem I placed my hand over heart and tried to choke back the tears which always seem to come when that melody takes me through the sweep of American history.
“...Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land. God Bless the USA!”
...And the CSA too. God, I love Dixie!
Slavery is based on human nature to control. We are now the slaves and the control now had by the Feds is staggering. You can war only so long against human nature. It will pop up in another place. Carpetbaggers raping the south during reconstruction was another form.
Years of regional desperiinging fellow countrymen has been an effort to prevent recurrence. We have wars today that go back 1000 years of animosity. When things snap they snap in odd ways.
“. . . the North was fighting to preserve the Union.”
So you are saying the War was not about slavery?
Remember DoodleDawg, the states created the Union, not the other way around.
The southern states were well represented but not over-represented. Each southern state had two Senators per the Constitution and Representatives as proscibed. At the insistence of the northern states, some people in the south were only counted as 3/5ths of a person.
Secession is the orderly, negotiated dissolution of a compact. Rebellion is the organized opposition to authority or a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another. What the Colonialists did in 1776 was unabashedly a rebellion. They openly challenged the authority of the king and crown. There was no pretense at “secession” and they knew that their very lives would be determined by the outcome.
The slavers rebelled in 1860 too, only they didn’t have the brass to be honest about their insurrection. Secession - as pretended by the slavers was illegal and is so today.
No other entity on the losing side of a national conflict has been afforded the opportunity to advance their narrative like the south has. Heck, that’s where the whole notion of the Lost Cause comes from.
No, Blacks became Republicans after the civil war, and that continued until the early 1960s.
Turning that around is what gave democrats control in conservative states, like California, for example.
Your blindness is curable through study.
The south went to war because Lincoln was elected and they feared that this spelled the end of slavery. Period.
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