But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore,that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for “perpetual union,” so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled. It is idle to talk of secession.
Robert E. Lee letter to his son George Washington Custis Lee January 23, 1861.
My god who would have thought that Lee was a big-government, central-planning Marxist, who despises the original Constitution. These damned Marxist are everywhere.
OIFVeteran wrote: “Hey Kalamata. I found another Marxist, crony capitalist, who believed the Union was perpetual!”
You are so civically ignorant I barely know how to respond, or even if it is worth it.
Lee was for limited-government. Marxist/crony-capitalists are unlimited-government influence peddlers, like Hillary, Obama and Lincoln.
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OIFVeteran wrote: “My god who would have thought that Lee was a big-government, central-planning Marxist, who despises the original Constitution. These damned Marxist are everywhere.’
Only a fool or OIFVeteran would say that, but I repeat myself.
Mr. Kalamata