Posted on 12/16/2023 9:27:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.” Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA
Nimrata Randhawa should be thrilled. This is right up her alley.
And Sherman ended the matter, and treason was squashed.
Stop whining about a war that was fought against the US, and be concerned with the civil wargoing on aga>nat the US now.
Why do you even stay in the US? You could form a Confedrate Colony on an Island somewhere.
I don’t participate in “it was about slavery - no, it wasn’t” threads, but I want to comment on this event.
The decision to end reconstruction, welcome home the “wayward sisters” with their honor and their traditions intact, even within the US military, was one of the smartest and most generous acts by a victor to a vanquished foe in history - and it allowed 99 years of American growth, prosperity, and victory in wars.
The decision to revoke all that coincides with severe American decline, defeats in war, chaos at home, and surging crimes against the white majority.
This is just the final act in this drama, and I pray our soldiers, sailors, and marines may be spared battle under the DEI command structure, where their defeat is a near-certainty.
I’m not for getting rid of the monument, but those soldiers were fighting to rip apart The United States.
I’m OK with rescinding he “reconciliation.”
It was a yankee ruse.
People might start to do their own research to figure out what it was actually about.
They won’t they know they will come across how many black slave owners existed and some owned many for years.
Selectivity is their motto when it comes to the guilty.
But you did make a good point
Yes, Appomattox was amazing. Then Lee worked to work twoard reconciliation. It was his greatest work.
Sounds to be a unilateral unlawful decision by the white house. I suppose congress will have to call out their troops and law enforcement people to put a halt to it except they don’t have any. All they can do is try to cut funding. Big whoop.
Where did I suggest they were not American?
You are reading way more into stuff than I wrote.
Were they Americans? Absolutely. The law tells me they should be considered American Soldiers. The law can say whatever it wants. The truth will march on.
Law? What law? There is no law. They do whatever they want.
They were fighting for self government...for the principle that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.
The states never agreed to surrender their sovereignty and bind themselves forever when they ratified the constitution. Indeed 3 states including Virginia expressly reserved the right to unilateral secession at the time of ratification.
They were fighting to rip the United States apart, plain and simple. Many Southeners would not go along with that and like Trump’s hero Amdrew Jackson would have, they supported the Union. The South was not all Confedrates during the War.
No, closing the border, enforcing the imigration laws, revising FISA, impeachment of Mayorkas there are a lot of issues more important than statues.
Does "the governed" also refer to the enslaved?
Congress can meet tomorrow and vote to halt the destruction of the Confederate Monument at ANC.
Arlington cemetery is a testament to the power that Federal government has over the individual. Exactly the opposite of why this country was founded in the first place. The aftermath of the Civil War in relation to the reconstruction tyranny is up there with the Treaty of Versailles in terms of creating a centralized monster.
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