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 pretty much what I suspected. Everybody underestimated Abe in the beginning. Even his own cabinet thought they could manipulate and control him. One of the most interesting things about Lincoln is that all but one of these men eventually became his devoted supporters.
Davis had to deal with rebellious governors, sure. They thought he was being tyrannical and responded (as they thought) accordingly.
If there was dissension and disorder in the Confederacy, it wasn't because Davis was any great libertarian. It was because others in the government really didn't respect him or feel the need to obey him.
The Confederate Constitution provided for the suspension of habeas corpus:
Sec. 9 (3) The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
On February 27, 1862 the Confederate Congress vested in Davis the power to suspend Habeas Corpus. On March 1, 1862 Davis used this power, suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus and declaring martial law in a ten-mile radius around the City of Richmond.
It was legal for him to do so.
Open season on Union loyalists. And that’s a surprise? A war was going on and most people have a thing against traitors.
And then you go and complain about Sherman.
Try exercising some of you Devine rights and get back to me. You must truly understand the point im making. The slave can’t cary his ax into the masters house. Try to exercise your God given rights in a government building and tell me we are not slaves at some point. It may be semantics but I assume your not obtuse since your here.
Sumter was annexed. Politely asked the federal government to leave. They reinforced.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Really. We can’t disolve political bands ever and reclaim our sovereign property ever.
I agree it had failings. I agree it was the wrong cause and so much but still I have a true belief in ....
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
It’s true then and now. I will put you on the Nay side of the vote.
Try arguing moral code against legal law in courts. Doesn’t work. Wish it did. We have individual liberty and morals set in stone by law. They don’t match. Go bake your homo cake it’s the law.
I don’t agree with what the court is doing to decent people in face of the gay mafia. It’s an abomination. Do Muslims get away with discrimination against the queers?
But they weren’t traitors - they just didn’t want to side with the insurrectionists.
I had to renew a permit and that necessitated a trip to the county seat. I carry and I had no problem. Of course I wasn’t going into a courtroom but I don’t view that limitation as even jiggling the needle on my Tyrannometer.
I wouldn’t. Secession £ think can be done if its for valid reasons. I do not believe keeping people as slaves is a vaid reasn for secession.
They were not considered people and could be murdered at will. Not done lightly but it could be done without being considered murder. therefore an incredibly immoral, and evil, invalid reason for secession.
there would hsve been zero harmony between the two nations. No chance. There wasn t even before The split. Like splitting would have made it better.
I believe there are valid reasons for a split. I dont believe every reason automatically is a valid reason.
Sumter wasn’t “annexed” - it was illegally seized as an act of direct provocation. An incredibly stupid thing to do. They that did it have no room to complain about the union forcefully taking it back.
The slavocracy disrespected those hallowed words and the men who wrote them.
So all that anyone needs to do to sieze a US military installation is announce that it's yours now?
Funny thing about that. Of the few southern states that actually did show that decent respect and declare their causes, the protection of slavery was overwhelmingly the reason they cited for their actions.
I call dibs on whatever we have in Hawaii.
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