Secession? Opposed by General Robert E. Lee (and Jefferson Davis) ... how ‘bout Stonewall Jackson?
“In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army. Lee declined because his home state of Virginia was seceding from the Union, despite Lee’s wishes.”
After Appomattox, Lee discouraged Southern dissenters from starting a outcome of the war. After Appomattox, Lee discouraged Southern dissenters from starting a guerrilla campaign to continue the war, and encouraged reconciliation between the North and the South.
When Texas seceded from the Union in February 1861, General David E. Twiggs surrendered all the American forces (about 4,000 men, including Lee, and commander of the Department of Texas) to the Texans. Twiggs immediately resigned from the U. S. Army and was made a Confederate general. Lee went back to Washington, and was appointed Colonel of the First Regiment of Cavalry in March 1861. Lee’s Colonelcy was signed by the new President, Abraham Lincoln. Three weeks after his promotion, Colonel Lee was offered a senior command (with the rank of Major General) in the expanding Army to fight the Southern States that had left the Union.
Lee privately ridiculed the Confederacy in letters in early 1861, denouncing secession as “revolution” and a betrayal of the efforts of the Founders.
Lee, who had opposed secession and remained mostly indifferent to politics before the Civil War, supported President Andrew Johnson’s plan of Presidential Reconstruction that took effect in 1865-66.
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090116.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
“welfare, socialism ...”
Disagree with Newt, if you must ... but say something intelligent.
http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/transforming_healthcare
“A collaboration of transformational leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st century intelligent health system in which knowledge saves lives and saves money for all Americans.”
Must be socialism ....