I still don’t get it, Lamp. The war is over. Why do so many freepers want to make sure that our great southern members have to get it rammed down their throats that they lost the war and that it was for an evil cause? What does it accomplish? Nothing! Your part of the country is fighting to keep America a safe, secure republic and yet even some freepers hate you! I just don’t get it. It saddens me.
I love the south. Always have since the first time I was taken to a battlefield and exposed to the writings of Margaret Mitchell. I’m also a huge fan of Lincoln and Grant. Go figure!
It's not really my part of the Country. I don't live in the South, though I have driven through some Southern states a few times in my life, but yes, I understand what you mean. It really isn't helpful to demean the people of the South or their ancestors. People are always wanting to judge others in the past by modern standards, but as they say, the past is a different country, and you can't be objective about it unless you can grasp the zeitgeist of the era.
I love the south. Always have since the first time I was taken to a battlefield and exposed to the writings of Margaret Mitchell. I’m also a huge fan of Lincoln and Grant. Go figure!
Lincoln was a very amazing fellow. Extremely intelligent, and astonishingly talented. His writings are elegant and often profound, and I have opined before that were I in his shoes, and understood what I think he knew, I would likely have done the same thing. Then again, i'm not sure if I could have been that bold.
Lincoln was facing a major economic crises, and if he had capitulated, he likely would have been regarded by posterity with ignominy.
Of course if he had just let Seward win, there probably would never have been a crises.
I’m no fan of Grant or Lincoln, but when I’m in the US, I get along very well with most southerners. The north folk up east tend to be a lot different.