Posted on 11/13/2004 11:12:00 AM PST by LouAvul
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Based on Margaret Mitchell's hugely popular novel, producer David O. Selznick's four-hour epic tale of the American South during slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction is the all-time box-office champion.
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Considering its financial success and critical acclaim, "Gone With the Wind" may be the most famous movie ever made.
It's also a lie.
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Along with D.W. Griffith's technically innovative but ethically reprehensible "The Birth of a Nation" (from 1915), which portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroic, "GWTW" presents a picture of the pre-Civil War South in which slavery is a noble institution and slaves are content with their status.
Furthermore, it puts forth an image of Reconstruction as one in which freed blacks, the occupying Union army, Southern "scalawags" and Northern "carpetbaggers" inflict great harm on the defeated South, which is saved - along with the honor of Southern womanhood - by the bravery of KKK-like vigilantes.
To his credit, Selznick did eliminate some of the most egregious racism in Mitchell's novel, including the frequent use of the N-word, and downplayed the role of the KKK, compared with "Birth of a Nation," by showing no hooded vigilantes.
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One can say that "GWTW" was a product of its times, when racial segregation was still the law of the South and a common practice in the North, and shouldn't be judged by today's political and moral standards. And it's true that most historical scholarship prior to the 1950s, like the movie, also portrayed slavery as a relatively benign institution and Reconstruction as unequivocally evil.
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Or as William L. Patterson of the Chicago Defender succinctly wrote: "('Gone With the Wind' is a) weapon of terror against black America."
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They must be too close to the UN and Koffi.
Well, this was just leading up to the predicted Union victory at First Manassas. (NYT May 31, "are swiftly advancing towards the soil of [Virginia], and directed by the ablest commander of his time.") In what must be an error, contradicting NYT predictions, Allan Nevins wrote, "The Union retreat, at first orderly, quickly became adisgraceful rout. As Beauregard's lines swept forward, the panic grew, and soon men were in headlong flight, amid heat, dust, anguish, and terrific profanity. W. H. Russell, riding forward on horseback, found himself among the first fugitives. "What does this mean?" he demanded, and an exhausted officer gasped: "Why, it means that we are pretty badly whipped." (Nevins, 1:218)
Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull, who was there, later wrote, "Literally, three could have chased ten thousand."
"new report" = "news report"
Some of them are very cool.
A more apposite comparison would be the Rockefeller estate, with its high iron fence, Pinkerton guards, and dogs, with the welcoming open plan of the plantation. In Southern society, the visitor, the traveler, and the passing stranger are all received hospitably. In Northern Kultur, passersby are encouraged to move along, nothing to see here, by a variety of means both private and semiprivate, and extending to the Militia, which serves as a plutocratic private army of discretionary enrollment in Northern States (see Presser vs. Illinois (1886), syllabus here:
Note the date of the alleged offense, and the date of the law that made Presser a criminal. Notice also the date of incorporation of the Verein of which Presser was a leader. Supplementary information: The Verein was a labor-syndical organization, its members were labor syndicalists, and they organized in an attempt to stop their oppression under color of authority by Chicago police, who were breaking up labor meetings with truncheons and severe beatings at the behest of Chicago's political proprietors, who in turn were the leading plutocrats and employers of the city.
You are exaggerating. Rehnquist quoted the Times as writing "friends and neighbors." It is a very reasonable assumption that they ran in the same "social circles."
A cross between a state and an existentialist.
So much for Iowans.
The were no arguments in Merryman at all. The dishonest Taney saw to that, and the dishonest coward misrepresents the case.
Taney's writ was invalid. The Suspension Clause was written with a corrupt judge like Taney in mind.
By doing so, Lincoln stanched the insurrection in Maryland. It was the right thing to do.
Lincoln's arrests of insurrectionists like Merryman, and their temporary detainment until the area of unrest was again secure and the pubic safety was restored, shows that the Lincoln Adminstration followed the correct path.
In 1864, John Merryman fathered a male child, who died in infancy. The child's name was Roger Brooke Taney Merryman. Merryman must have been very grateful the Chief Justice wasn't able to spring him from jail.
It is well established Taney maintained a residence in Baltimore for more than 30 years.
4ConservativeJustices and GOPcapitalist:
Dumb and Dumber
The states that fought on the wrong side of the war were the ones that needed Reconstruction.
They were east-coast transplants.
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