Posted on 06/26/2020 4:23:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
On September 25, 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant addressed a reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, Civil War veterans under his command a decade earlier.
“It always affords me much gratification to meet my old comrades in arms,” he told them. “How many of our comrades of those days paid the latter price for our preserved Union! Let their heroism and sacrifices be ever green and in our memory. Let not the results of their sacrifices be destroyed.”
A statue of Ulysses S. Grant was torn down in San Francisco last week.
Almost 145 years to the day earlier, Grant—the man besides Abraham Lincoln perhaps most single-handedly responsible for emancipation—predicted the Civil War that America is now fighting.
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence,” he said, “I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason’s and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.”
Nowhere have the forces of ignorance been more engaged than in what might be termed The Battle of Madison on Tuesday night. A group of historically ignorant morons who fashion themselves tolerant progressives and anti-racism crusaders first pulled down a statue symbolizing Wisconsin progressivism, then tore down a statue of a radical abolitionist who died fighting against the Confederacy, and then viciously beat an openly gay State Senator for good measure.
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This Madison event needs to be pushed out there at every opportunity. This isn’t about a few Confederate generals, this is an active attempt to erase that past in preparation for a grand collectivist future. It’s what they do, historically.
That's called "just keepin' busy." /s
This bullshit is about erasing American democracy. They don’t care about a few Confederate statues. They want to erase ALL OF THE AMERICAN PAST!!
All the dull blade commentors hating on the South listen up. These bastards hate EVERYTHING about America! The Confederacy is just low hanging fruit....starters for EVERYTHING else! Jesus the Christ and stained glass windows coming up. Equally criminal..in my opinion...are the democrat politicians and their police street muscle goons allowing the desecration. Covid on the lot of them.
These are the kind of people that read and believe everything that Naom Chomsky writes.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3858830/posts
All Civil War veterans are American vetrans.
That includes the Confederates.
These people don’t care about desecrating our vetrans.
Sick stuff.
“Grant—the man besides Abraham Lincoln perhaps most single-handedly responsible for emancipation”
Unfortunately he had owned a slave - so off with his head!
He also freed that slave.
When he managed his father in laws farm, he worked in the fields next to the slaves.
He was also known to not be able to get the slaves to work because he was too soft.
You don’t have to explain it to me; I was just explaining why his statue came down.
My town still has its Columbus statue; I suspect if it comes down they’ll never sell another home there to a White person.
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Be patient....it’s coming and democrats will let it.
Columbus is another hero totally undeserving of the insults and lies thrown upon his memory.
Do these socialist and cultural equalitarians think that the western hemisphere would remain undiscovered by Europeans forever?
The people of the west were stone age people with the exceptions of gold and perhaps silver the Indians were totally unfamiliar with working metal. This meant that when the Europeans arrived, they were no match for the Europeans unless they were to meet them in battle en mass.
Columbus did not enslave the native peoples, he did not murder them, he did not intentionally spread disease among the natives. Europeans did not at the time have any idea how disease was spread.
Columbus set rules against his crews taking advantage of the natives.
Did everything go just as Columbus intended? Certainly no, but he did as best he could under the circumstances.
And since with these Leftist, intensions are more important than deeds, Columbus should be a saint.
Then author is Dan “O’Donnell” (NOT O’DANIEL”) He is a terrific conservative thinker, investigator, radio host and journalist in Madison, Wisconsin.
Bookmarked for morning. Thank you and sweet dreams!
I believe he was a brave man who accomplished something laudable; they should leave it be.
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