[rdl6989]

bttt

[rockrr]

He made the correct decision to defend the Constitution.

He defended the constitution by crapping all over the constitution?

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Lord Acton in a letter to Lee after the war:

"I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo."

Lee in response to Lord Acton:

"I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."

[EveningStar]

About the author:

James W. King is Commander of the Albany Georgia USA Camp of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans organization and assists the Americus Georgia camp in promoting the Wirz memorial service.

[txrefugee]

After the war, Gen. Lee tended to his sick wife with total devotion until her death. After her death, her mother became ill, and he took care of his mother-in-law with that same devotion until her death. Name another important man in our history who has done that. He was a singular man among men.

[DesertRhino]

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, a key fort held by Union troops in South Carolina. Lincoln called for every state to provide troops to retake the fort.

Lincoln didn’t start an immoral and illegal invasion of the south. The south attacked first.

And of all the amazing qualities of Lee, fighting for the south wasn’t his best moment. I don’t blame him as he was a product of his time. But he would have shown better morals had he accepted Lincolns offer.
But none the less, he was a decent guy. But ill skip the revisionist southern history.

[Georgia Girl 2]

He is a role model in the South. Always has been always will be.

[SkyPilot]

He was an amazing man. The fact that he was almost universally admired by the entire Union Army and its officers, despite him being the leader of their enemy in one of the most brutal conflicts in human history, highlights his incredible character.

Unfortunately, today we life in a thug society that holds General Lee up as a "rayciss!" Mention his name at any public or political speech today, and the liberals and the media will have you hung. I am not exaggerating.

Lee is almost certainly in heaven with his Savior, Jesus Christ. I am looking forward to meeting him.

[X Fretensis]

He abandoned a Constitution that gave each state or new territory the right to decide for themselves if they wanted to make slavery legal or illegal, within their state. He chose instead to defend a Constitution that not only made slavery legal, it made slavery mandatory to join the Confederacy.

[DesertRhino]

His best and most moral moments were actually the ones he spent in Texas, long before the civil war. Not as flashy, but those were the ones.

[Rockingham]

Lee was a fine man but is less a moral exemplar than an example of the tragedy of a good man in a bad and foolish cause. Casting the Confederacy as a noble defense of the Constitution deliberately misses the point that the South went to war to protect slavery. Instead of secession and war, the South would have been best served by remaining in the Union and bargaining for a compensated emancipation on favorable terms. Out of pride and ambition though, the South saw secession as a way to forge a new nation to protect and extend slavery.

[ansel12]

Looking at some of the responses, it is easy to see the shallowness of modern Americans.

[DoodleDawg]

At the beginning of the War Between the States (Civil War) he was offered command of the U.S. Army by Abraham Lincoln. He knew that Lincoln’s invasion of the Southern States was unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, and criminal.

How could Lee know that, considering on April 18 Lincoln hadn't invaded anything?

[Future Snake Eater]

He knew that Lincoln’s invasion of the Southern States was unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, and criminal.

Really? Lee himself said he turned it down b/c he wouldn't be able to fight against fellow Virginians.

[NY Cajun]

More despicable than the slavery that led to the Civil War were those responsible for bringing the African negro to the Americas as slaves. If this had never happened we would not have all the turmoil that plagues the United states today.

[jmacusa]

Whats a hoser like you going on about a seditious rebel traitor for anyway, eh? The Civil War wasn’t Canada’s fight. Hark off!

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Military genius, brilliant strategist, honorable “Southerner”. But he has the stain of slavery all over his legacy....Because of that...not a fan.

[Born to Conserve]

” He had to make a choice to either defend the Constitution or the Union. He made the correct decision to defend the Constitution.”

What he actually needed to defend was VIRGINIA. He said so.

Truly a great man.

[Born to Conserve]

Wow, a lot of maniacal haters on this thread!

Their conniptions are entertaining, but it is sad that such ignorance can be had.

The blacks have been on their own for a hundred and fifty years.