Posted on 08/16/2013 10:19:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Ok. let me see if I get where you are coming from; you don not think the destruction of the 10th amendment is bad. You are no fan of states rights, do I have that correct?
donmeaker
I know that he doesn’t have a very high opinion of rel (but then neither do I) but I don’t recall ever hearing him say that he would advocate the banishment of portraits of rel or davis from public display. I know that I wouldn’t.
In what way do you feel that donmeaker sides with the naacp?
Do have one question.
Lee, however, did oppose the spread of slavery
Do you have any evidence for this? The only letters of his I've seen express dislike for the institution, but no intention at all to end it any time soon. He expresses mostly dislike for abolitionists.
If it was true, that doesn’t mean anything.
Who cares what he thought. His thoughts don’t hurt anyone.
Not so much ignorance as falsehood.
I object to the notion that Lee was an American General.
He was an American officer in various ranks, but was never promoted to General in the US Army.
He fought against the US Army, taking the side of the insurrection. The terms of his surrender granted him parole, and to my knowledge he didn’t violate the terms of his parole. He applied for a pardon, admitting his treason.
Blanket pardon was granted to all participating in the rebellion by Andrew Johnson. After his death he was given a pardon. (I think in the Ford administration).
My limited understanding is that Jackson kept as Sunday school that didn’t teach reading, but did teach some Christian doctrine.
So courageous of you to pass remarks about my opinions without telling me.
No, I don’t support the banning of Lee’s portrait.
I once had a very nice picture of Lee, a present from a friend, riding with his arm in a sling, in front of a rank of men during the battle of Antietam. I eventually gave it to my brother, who I think still has it. It was done up by a fairly celebrated civil war artist.
Lee as a judge of human talent was a flawed human, as we are all flawed humans. He was highly responsible for inflicting Hood, the confederate general who burned Atlanta, on the western theater. He was a competent engineer, who laid out the entrenchments around Richmond, and his performance in Mexico gave great promise.
I never heard of him doing anything illegal except during the insurrection, and a great many people were deluded by the slave power into supporting the insurrection, so that wouldn’t make him uniquely bad.
Slavery was bad. It institutionalized rape, kidnapping and torture. It gave sociopaths opportunity to do truly horrible things without breaking the law.
The war to promote, protect, and extend slavery was a bad cause.
Everyone on here that has called Robert E. Lee a traitor. That’s who. You are now in fine company with the Al Sharpton’s gang the NAACP.
The “NCAAP” (sic) holds the view that an hour can be divided into 60 minutes. OMG! You are in league with the “NCAAP”!
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Has anyone, in the history of this country, been more effective at levying war against the United State than RE Lee? Nope.
He is therefore by definition the most prominent traitor in American history.
That said, in 1861 he was faced with the choice of being a traitor to the United States, which he had honorably served for decades, or a traitor to the State of Virginia, where he had been born and grown up.
He chose to be a traitor to the US, a perfectly honorable decision under the circumstances. About 1/3 of Virginian officers in the regular army, notably including Scott and Thomas, made the opposite choice, an equally honorable one.
Let's cut men faced with a choice of treason against A or B a little slack.
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort”.
You just described the mass murderer Ape Lincoln.
When did Mr. Lincoln levy war against the United States or adhere to their enemies?
Those he fought claimed to have seceded and were, in their minds, no longer part of the United States.
Would like to see some documentation for this claim. Quite possibly accurate for the state of VA, but not for the South as a whole.
Rape was legal under the regime of the slave power. He was just improving his stock.
I guess my house was unusual. I had a picture of Lee, and a picture of Fredrick Douglass right next to each other.
If Napolitano claims that anyone other than the confederates committed treason then he is committing the equivalent of journalistic malpractice. He (and you) should be ashamed.
My parents house had a copy of a Washington portrait.
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