Posted on 07/18/2022 1:02:13 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin
Hey cowgirl we call suckers like you Federal Boot Lickin’ Bitches.
If you’re right then why didn’t the southern state just stay in the union? after all the Congress had adopted the 13th amendment to the constitution and sent it out to states for ratification. That amendment would have forever guaranteed the right to own slaves in the United States. Three states had ratified the amendment before war broke out.
Actually the south wanted a new southern United States. A country which they shared interests with each other. That’s why its constitution was a identical to the US Constitution with some key exceptions. A line item veto for the president. A single six-year term for the president. And they included the language from the proposed US 13th amendment guaranteeing slavery in perpetuity.
You know who loves Lincoln, TRUMP.
I’ve read first hand accounts from the militia my ancestors fought and died with. While slavery wasn’t the reason to start, they just needed one look at it and it became their cause.
Every individual has their own reason. By 1863 or so, I imagine everyone in the country knew someone killed or maimed in the war. That type of personal involvement supersedes any of the “learned” debate you read on FR. You fight to stop the other guy who killed your cousin/friend/brother.
I laugh when the “civil war perfessers” on FR spout their grand reasons.
That’s OK, at least I don’t support traitors. I in VA right now. Plenty of Virginian’s and other southerners fought for the Union, I honor them.
So what is your point?
Do know who loved R L Lee? Take a guess?
Dear Dr. Scott:
Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.
General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.
From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.
Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Woodrow Wislom and Jimmy Carter loved Lee.
“Gen. Lee’s character,” Ford added, “has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.”
Pres. Gerald R. Ford
House votes to restore citizenship to Gen. Robert E. Lee, July 22, 1975
Eisenhower was a near traitor for what h÷did to Mccarthy. His “ Modern Republicanism” suckered as well. The orginal Rhino.
"Lee was the noblest American who ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war."
I give Lee credit for one thing, he could have become an insurgenent partisan, but he was a brave enough man to make peace.
No doubt, slavery was the ‘reason’ many Northerners fought … they were fighting so all men could be free.
My point is that Southerns were merely fighting to be left alone. A chance to make their own choices and their own destiny.
There is a great line from the John Wayne / Rock Hudson movie, “The Undefeated:”
This is our land, and you’re on it.
Ignorance is bliss. You must be deliriously happy.
South Carolina was the real culprit. VAwasjust taken along for the ride.
What is ignorance, Eisenhower coddled Communism.
This persons account of the Civil War must be cancelled! clearly the wrong pronouns are being employed. This person kept making references to life experiences as a “boy” and the individual referred to his guardian/caregiver as a father!
How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
But for a number of fledgling countries and colonies across the world, America’s loss was their great gain. As northern warships blockaded southern ports, closing them off to commercial shipping, the cotton plantations of the Confederacy struggled to export their ‘white gold.’ With the great textile mills of England now deprived of the lifeblood of their industry, 80 percent of which had previously come from the U.S, the price of cotton very soon went through the roof. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, birthed in Britain, the United States and its former antagonist and overlord had symbiotically thrived on the massive revenues from the cotton trade, a titan of commerce reliant on the lives of the American South’s enslaved population. Now, the Civil War imperilled everything for the moneymakers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
But for a number of fledgling countries and colonies across the world, America’s loss was their great gain. As northern warships blockaded southern ports, closing them off to commercial shipping, the cotton plantations of the Confederacy struggled to export their ‘white gold.’ With the great textile mills of England now deprived of the lifeblood of their industry, 80 percent of which had previously come from the U.S, the price of cotton very soon went through the roof. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, birthed in Britain, the United States and its former antagonist and overlord had symbiotically thrived on the massive revenues from the cotton trade, a titan of commerce reliant on the lives of the American South’s enslaved population. Now, the Civil War imperilled everything for the moneymakers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
It took just a couple of weeks after the outbreak of hostilities in South Carolina for farmers the world over to realize the scope of the bounty that had landed in their lap. Agricultural laborers from Australia and India to the West Indies ditched wheat and other food staples and hastily planted up their fields with cotton. Prices had risen by up to 150 percent. As soon as it became clear that England wouldn’t enter the war as allies of the Confederacy, many farmers doubled down and gave over every scrap of their acreage to this enriching crop.
No one, however, seized on the opportunity quite like the Egyptians, who had just a few decades beforehand freed themselves from almost 300 years of direct Ottoman rule. Under the ambitious leadership of Muhammed Ali, an Albanian soldier who had seized power in 1805 and is widely considered the founder of modern Egypt, the country had already embraced cotton as a valuable cash crop. The discovery 40 years beforehand of a fine long-staple variety by a visiting French engineer – a Monsieur Jumel – meant that Egypt was also well on its way to building a reputation for high-quality cotton, which linen-makers rave about to this day.
But now, with prices continuing to soar and desperation high in northern England as the mills of Manchester exhausted the excess supply left over from a bumper American harvest of 1860, authorities in Cairo moved with extraordinary speed to ramp up additional production.
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But their arrival also coincided – and indirectly contributed – to a rash of poor decision-making among Egypt’s ruling classes that was to eventually lead to the arrival of the British military on a long-term basis in 1882. Ismail was so intent on building up cotton infrastructure and transforming Cairo into a ‘Paris on the Nile’ that he encouraged the “establishment of banks like the Anglo-Egyptian from which he might borrow heavily in return for certain favors,” writes Owen. Very soon he’d built up such big debts to mostly British and French creditors that he couldn’t hope to ever pay them back. Additionally, the end of the American Civil War in 1865 led to a steep fall in global cotton prices as the U.S. crop came back on the market and proved particularly damaging for Egypt. It created a sharp budget deficit and ultimately a declaration of national bankruptcy a decade later
“I think you can say that the American Civil War – and the effects on cotton – made the British change their policy towards Egypt,” says Mohamed Awad, director of the Alexandria & Mediterranean Research Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. “Indirectly it was one of the main reasons for the occupation of Egypt.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-american-civil-war-built-egypts-vaunted-cotton-industry-and-changed-country-forever-180959967/
So the Civil War led to Egypt becoming a colony of the British Empire.
So did the north go to war to free slaves?
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