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Tenn. Governor Bill Lee says he regrets wearing Confederate uniform
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| Feb 21, 2019
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Posted on 02/21/2019 8:07:55 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: cld51860
Sadly, this is the world we live in now. If you think it's sad now, just wait until history repeats itself. Those who forget history are destined to repeat it and the politically correct loons will rue the day when it happens. They are NOT doing blacks in this country any favors by wiping confederate memories from history.
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posted on
02/26/2019 4:06:15 PM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: BroJoeK
Lincoln, the most important person at the time the war started (which is when the cause of a war is determined), explicitly stated that it wasn’t about slavery.
That’s a fact.
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posted on
02/26/2019 4:36:00 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Cowardly fool. Glad to say I voted for an independent in the last TN election. I don’t trust born agains. No spine.
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posted on
02/26/2019 4:45:34 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Republicans - As Usless As Democrats)
To: Dawgreg
Also a split state during the civil war. Lots of Unionist.
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posted on
02/26/2019 4:49:31 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Republicans - As Usless As Democrats)
To: Moonman62
Moonman62:
"Lincoln, the most important person at the time the war started (which is when the cause of a war is determined), explicitly stated that it wasnt about slavery.
Thats a fact." Sure, Fort Sumter wasn't about slavery, nor was the Confederate Declaration of War on May 6, 1861.
But Declarations of Secession were all about slavery, and within a few weeks of Fort Sumter, slavery became a military issue in the form of "Contraband of War".
Beginning in 1861 Congress passed several laws protecting fugitive Confederate slaves and offering compensated emancipation in Union areas..
The result was slavery became increasingly important, militarily & politically, especially so after Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.
Those are facts, FRiend.
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posted on
02/28/2019 5:55:27 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...))
To: BroJoeK
Sure, Fort Sumter wasn’t about slavery, nor was the Confederate Declaration of War on May 6, 1861.
...
Combine that with Lincoln’s first inaugural address and it’s clear that the cause of the war was preservation of the Union.
Anything that happened after the war started can not be a cause by definition.
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posted on
02/28/2019 7:08:11 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: Moonman62
Moonman62:
"Combine that with Lincolns first inaugural address and its clear that the cause of the war was preservation of the Union." Well... the immediate cause was Jefferson Davis' order to "reduce" Fort Sumter when he believed Lincoln "assailed" Confederate "integrity".
But you may remember, there are several categories of "causation" including proximate, ultimate, predisposing, precipitating, etc.
Ultimately, Civil War was caused by secession and secession by, mainly, slavery.
And within a few weeks after Fort Sumter, slavery again became a focus in the form of "Contraband of War".
So nobody at the time doubted CSA Gen. Morgan's words:
"...any man who pretends to believe that this is not a war for the emancipation of the blacks, and that the whole course of the Yankee government has not only been directed to the abolition of slavery, but even to a stirring up of servile insurrections, is either a fool or a liar."
-- The Vidette, camp newspaper for Confederate Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's cavalry brigade, November 1862
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posted on
02/28/2019 10:04:10 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...))
To: BroJoeK
Nobody with any sense would take the opinion of a cherry picked rebel general after the war started above that of Lincoln in his inaugural address.
As Lincoln said then on the eve of the war, it was all about preservation of the Union.
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posted on
02/28/2019 10:29:31 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
02/28/2019 10:30:10 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Moonman62
Moonman62:
"As Lincoln said then on the eve of the war, it was all about preservation of the Union." And here's what Jefferson Davis said in that same context:
"If a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled.
But if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us with firm resolve to appeal to arms and invoke the blessing of Providence on a just cause."
Davis himself later claimed the war was not over slavery, but freedom & independence.
However, plenty of others
at the time understood that slavery was the direct link to secession & war.
Here is a long list of quotes illustrating the point.
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posted on
02/28/2019 12:03:16 PM PST
by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...))
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