Posted on 05/12/2015 3:00:03 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
We Sons of Confederate Veterans are charged with preserving the good name of the Confederate soldier. The world, for the most part, has acknowledged what Gen. R. E. Lee described in his farewell address as the “valour and devotion” and “unsurpassed courage and fortitude” of the Confederate soldier. The Stephen D. Lee Institute program is dedicated to that part of our duty that charges us not only to honour the Confederate soldier but “to vindicate the cause for which he fought.” We are here to make the case not only for the Confederate soldier but for his cause. It is useless to proclaim the courage, skill, and sacrifice of the Confederate soldier while permitting him to be guilty of a bad cause.
Although their cause was lost it was a good cause and still has a lot to teach the world today.
In this age of Political Correctness there has never been a greater need and greater opportunity to refresh our understanding of what happened in America in the years 1861–1865 and start defending our Southern forebears as strongly as they ought to be defended. There is plenty of true history available to us. It is our job to make it known.
All the institutions of American society, including nearly all Southern institutions and leaders, are now doing their best to separate the Confederacy off from the rest of American history and push it into one dark little corner labeled “ Slavery and Treason.” Being taught at every level of the educational system is the official party line that everything good that we or anyone believe about our Confederate ancestors is a myth, and by myth they mean a pack of lies that Southerners thought up to excuse their evil deeds and defeat.
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That’s a funny way of spelling fellow conservative FReeper.
You may be a slave but I’m not. Next.
Sumter did not belong to South Carolina and it was an act of war when they seized it.
The north went to war to defend the union and ended up saving the slaves. The south went to war to defend slavery and ended up losing everything.
No, actually only the myths are being exposed as myths.
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Maybe you people need to stop trying to venerate a bunch of treasonous rebels. Yawn.
Just from that alone it was clear the csa was not going to leave the usa alone and “coexist peaceably” ndxt to them , and not bother them. Its a g-d pipe dream if anyone actually convinced themselves that was going to be true.
And then they took up arms in a stupid cause against The United States of America, launched the bloodiest war in American history and lost. The End.
Big government liberal? Lincoln? Show me the mans version of The New Deal and the welfare state.
Read The Constitution of The Confederacy have you?
Yes, and we will fight another bloody, losing war against tyranny, and we will continue fighting until we end the rule of the beast.
Comes the post from the sewers. Figured you crawl out sooner or later Johnny Reb.
The South did not trust Mr. Lincoln. They thought him overly ambitious, the kind that absolute power would corrupt absolutely - the kind that would raise an army, invade soverign states on a pretext, suspend the habius corpus, imprision political foes, ignore the supreme court, suppress newspapers, fight a total war on civilians, and kill hundreds of thousands. Of course, what did the South know?
“The north went to war to defend the union . . .”
One thing at a time. It looks like we all agree the north was not fighting the war over slavery. Right?
Thanks dude. You just gave me one hell of a case of intellectual and historical whiplash.
You work, do you? If you do and it’s legit, you’re rolling over and paying taxes too Poindexter. And if you’re off the books, you ain’t got a dog in this fight.
The war started in April, 61. The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in September, 62.
Let's see, that's 17 months, not 3 years.
What’s legality have to do with the immorality of slavery and the crime of treason? Next guess to you.
I thought we were talking about Lincoln, not davis.
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