Posted on 05/26/2017 2:44:11 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Today's icon-smashers 'could never build a country'
On Sept. 1, 1864, Union forces under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, victorious at Jonesborough, burned Atlanta and began the March to the Sea where Sherman’s troops looted and pillaged farms and towns all along the 300-mile road to Savannah.
Captured in the Confederate defeat at Jonesborough was William Martin Buchanan of Okolona, Mississippi, who was transferred by rail to the Union POW stockade at Camp Douglas, Illinois.
By the standards of modernity, my great-grandfather, fighting to prevent the torching of Georgia’s capital, was engaged in a criminal and immoral cause. And “Uncle Billy” Sherman was a liberator.
Under President Grant, Sherman took command of the Union army and ordered Gen. Philip Sheridan, who had burned the Shenandoah Valley to starve Virginia into submission, to corral the Plains Indians on reservations. It is in dispute as to whether Sheridan said, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” There is no dispute as to the contempt Sheridan had for the Indians, killing their buffalo to deprive them of food.
Today, great statues stand in the nation’s capital, along with a Sherman and a Sheridan circle, to honor these most ruthless of generals in that bloodiest of wars that cost 620,000 American lives.
Yet, across the South and even in border states like Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, one may find statues of Confederate soldiers in town squares to honor the valor and sacrifices of the Southern men and boys who fought and fell in the Lost Cause.
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For a century, Americans lived comfortably with the honoring, North and South, of the men who fought on both sides.
But today’s America is not the magnanimous country we grew up in.
Since the ’60s, there has arisen an ideology that holds that the Confederacy was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany and those who fought under its battle flag should be regarded as traitors or worse.
Thus, in New Orleans, statues of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and Gen. Robert E. Lee were just pulled down. And a drive is underway to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans and president of the United States, which stands in Jackson Square.
Why? Old Hickory was a slave owner and Indian fighter who used his presidential power to transfer the Indians of Georgia out to the Oklahoma Territory in a tragedy known as the Trail of Tears.
But if Jackson, and James K. Polk, who added the Southwest and California to the United States after the Mexican-American War, were slave owners, so, too, were four of our first five presidents.
The list includes the father of our country, George Washington, the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, and the author of our Constitution, James Madison.
Not only are the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson carved on Mount Rushmore, the two Virginians are honored with two of the most magnificent monuments and memorials in Washington, D.C.
Behind this remorseless drive to blast the greatest names from America’s past off public buildings and to tear down their statues and monuments is an egalitarian extremism rooted in envy and hate.
Among its core convictions is that spreading Christianity was a cover story for rapacious Europeans who, after discovering America, came in masses to dispossess and exterminate native peoples. “The white race,” wrote Susan Sontag, “is the cancer of human history.”
Today, the men we were taught to revere as the great captains, explorers, missionaries and nation-builders are seen by many as part of a racist, imperialist, genocidal enterprise, wicked men who betrayed and eradicated the peace-loving natives who had welcomed them.
What they blindly refuse to see is that while its sins are scarlet, as are those of all civilizations, it is the achievements of the West that are unrivaled. The West ended slavery. Christianity and the West gave birth to the idea of inalienable human rights.
As scholar Charles Murray has written, 97 percent of the world’s most significant figures and 97 percent of the world’s greatest achievements in the arts, architecture, literature, astronomy, biology, earth sciences, physics, medicine, mathematics and technology came from the West. What is disheartening is not that there are haters of our civilization out there, but that there seem to be fewer defenders.
Of these icon-smashers it may be said: Like ISIS and Boko Haram, they can tear down statues, but these people could never build a country.
What happens, one wonders, when these Philistines discover that the seated figure in the statue, right in front of D.C.’s Union Station, is the High Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Christopher Columbus?
Happy Memorial Day
Eventually, the whole thing will catch up with Woodrow Wilson, and his status will take a mighty fall.
The founding fathers, many of whom owned slaves, are next. Revisionists will say revolting slaves drafted the Declaration of Independence and pushed out the British to protect the Indians from European encroachment.
They cannot erase their connection with slavery as long the memories of the Confederacy exists. They are going to towards making it look like Christians were responsible.
The natives of the Americas were anything but peaceful.
They raped, pillaged, enslaved and murdered each other long before any white man ever set foot here.
The Pilgrims were befriended by that one tribe because they were small and in fear of a nearby larger tribe, and sought to ally themselves with the newcomers.
Many times in history one tribe would join the white soldiers to fight against another tribe.
All this revisionist history is designed to tear this nation apart not build it up!...........
Eventually, the whole thing will catch up with Woodrow Wilson, and his status will take a mighty fall.
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George Washinton was a slave owner. We need to take down all his monuments and rename everything MLK on behalf of Martin L. King.
This is one of the odd parts on the Pilgrim ‘success’.
Few people realize that the charter given to them...noted one particular location...probably 500 miles south, toward Virginia. If they’d arrived at that location...they would have been wiped out the first winter by neighboring Indians.
Why did the Mayflower ‘dump’ them there? Because of delays, the ale/beer situation on the vessel was reaching a point where there would not be enough beer to cover crew requirements for the return to the UK. Adding another ten days onto the voyage to dump them at the right site...was just not going to occur.
They survive...mostly because of this beer decision, and friendly Indians. It’s a sad but true part to the whole story.
>>Many times in history one tribe would join the white soldiers to fight against another tribe.
Notably the Tlaxcalans joined up with Cortez and his small band of Conquisadors to take out Montezuma and the Aztecs, who had used the Tlaxcalans as sources for ritual human sacrifice for generations.
After the Confederates, who’s next?
Christian Conservatives, who take the Bible literally.
Another reason beer is good for you!... .......
I focus more on their charter in which they were required to pay back their investors in England with the plantation’s profits. Their charter’s northern boundary was the coast of Connecticut. By settling beyond CT they were not obligated by the terms of the charter. I’d go with the beer theory too. And also the log states they could not get past the Nantucket shoals so had to land to the north.
Samuel de Champlain set a precedent when he and a small band helped one tribe in Quebec attack another. It was the first time the Indians saw firearms, and it changed the warfare considerably.
My great, great, grandfather is buried in a mass grave at camp Douglas. The victors write the histories.
Who’s next?
Banning of Memorial Day and the now homophobic Mother’s Day. One celebrates the deaths of soldiers promoting the racist society of the United States, as it were, and the other reminds people, subconsciously, of the futility of perversion and murder while exalting the natural design of God’s plan for the human race.
In the South POWs starved and in the North they froze.
Black community organizers are next
There was no segregation or civil right’s movement. Please rename all of those MLK streets ASAP.
Christian Churches and Jewish Synagogues will be next
Because that’s their big “fallback” argument. When all else fails, reach back hundreds of years and spout a selective history of racism.
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