A FAMOUS HERO OF DIXIE- GENERAL GEORGE THOMAS
Posted on 11/21/2006 5:23:06 AM PST by SJackson
You, an American Nationalist?
That is a contradiction in terms.
The United States before 1861 was composed of a voluntary union of Sovereign States. To be a true "nationalist" you would need to support states-rights.
You and the "Brigade" Goon Squad don't even have a clue.....
You guys are the only "America" haters that I know of. You hate everything that is sacred to the true American character, such as states-rights, which is by it's very nature, freedom at it's best.You would rather have us bow down to your God, "Abe" and sacrifice that freedom to the Great Empire he created.
Don't look, but the same thing is happening today, except replace 'enslavement' with 'extermination.' Is abortion the cornerstone of your republic? Patricia Ireland would have no problem proclaiming it to be just as such.
The rebellion was merely a political power grab by the dixie slave elite.
At least your not trying to use the argument that because the outcome was moral, it was inherently legal (hopefully we can just short-circuit that crap right here).
And events proved that as the CSA did not really have the deep popular support that a true popular revolution would have had.
A quarter of military age men died. Think about that stat for a minute before you start spouting about the lack of popular support.
"JSU&TI" is just a clueLESS hater & lunatic. he is the LAST of the REALLY DUMB-bunnies of the old "DAMNyankee coven of lunatics, south-HATERS, fools, REVISIONISTS & an outright RACIST".
laughing AT him.
free dixie,sw
all he does is PARROT the extremist, leftist, REVISIONIST bilge out of the "poison-ivy league" screwls. UNfortunately for him, NOBODY here, with the possible exception of "JSU&TI", is DUMB enough to believe his BILGE.
it must be TOUGH to know that there's only the TWO of them left.
free dixie,sw
Is Al Stone going to do anything for R.E Lee's Birthday?
A tribute to the misplaced devotion of the confederate hardcore. But if the whole south rallied to Dixie's call, why did the rebs have to resort to an extremely heavy-handed conscription system? Mighty strange action by the champions of individual liberty. Eventually, most people in the south determined that the establishment of the slaveowners' empire wasn't worth the price of Sherman's tour of GA and SC.
A FAMOUS HERO OF DIXIE- GENERAL GEORGE THOMAS
free dixie,sw
perhaps you should head NORTH & remain up there with the other REVISIONISTS & south-HATERS. the south needs only LOYAL sons.
free dixie,sw
could it be because:
a. SMART northern boys didn't want to suffer, bleed & die for lincoln's EGOmania & lust for POWER & MONEY???
b. further, that they thought the war was UNJUST & needLESS??? and/or, perhaps,
c. they thought that a union that had to be "preserved" by force of arms was NOT worth "preserving"???
UNfortunately the "draft riots" happened where SEVERAL HUNDRED unarmed, INNOCENT, uninvolved, Black men,women & children were HANGED, rather than the TYRANT & "his merry band of thugs, profiteers & thugs"!!!
according to a FIRST PERSON account in the New York Post,published the next day after the FIRST day of the Draft Riots, "the bodies of coloured men decorated every lamppost for MILES." (the number "lynched" MAY have been as many as 2-3 THOUSAND hanged,burned and/or beaten to death!!!)
NONE of the victims deserved hanging/burning/shooting/beating. lincoln & his henchmen DID deserve that treatment!!!
free dixie,sw
We can agree on this.:)
George Thomas was an honorable man, and a great General.
He chose his course, just as Lee chose his. Both were noble sons of Virginia.
other than being a southern turncoat, george thomas was OK, i'd guess.
free dixie,sw
Good men on both sides filled the armies. The difference in opinion lies in our opinion of the guys at the top calling the shots.
stand.....
George Thomas loved the Union. His vision was different than Lee's, but it makes him no less honorable. His devotion to the Union cost him a high price, his family, his home, etc. One can admire him for that, even if we disagree with his cause.
I'm not sure price had anything to do with it. The war effort simply became unsustainable, and unrestrained actions of Sherman burning and looting his way through the civilian South short-circuited any attempt to maintain it either logistically or politically.
As for the draft, neither side had problems with recruitment early in the war, when both sides thought a quick fight would preceed a lasting peace. Once the war turned bitter, both parties resorted to conscription, and I have not read of anything in the South that approximated the resistance in the North.
And of course, one final note requesting a quote from Lee or Johnston, or any of the Confederate military leadership concerning the establishment of a slave empire would be nice, since it's the crumbling rock on which you're building an argument.
'Union' infers two parties in willing agreement. You are hardly willing, or agreeable. You are anti-union.
Like Cindy Sheehan, you insult patriotic Americans.
Your un-ending pleas to converse with me illustrate a desire to consort with traitors.
If you must have my company; begging will not suffice. You must earn it.
Why, on earth, should I want to talk with you? Focus.
We'll have to go to Wikipedia to find out the Truth. ;-)
free dixie,sw
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