Posted on 04/10/2010 6:38:26 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
And shortly after at Bennett Place Gen Johnston surrendered the Confederate Forces in the Southeast.
“If” is for children. Lincoln was a monster, that we know. Lincoln’s vision for the country was that of a massive and powerful federal government, that we know as we live it today. What the Confederate States would have done, you do not know.
That link mentions purported cases of habeas corpus violations by both Lincoln and Jeff Davis. There is a difference however. In the Confederacy, habeas corpus for the anti-Confederate often meant that the survivors usually got the body, or what was left of it, after the home guard had murdered the political opponent.
Amen.
Isn’t it comforting to know that we can rely on the news organizations for accurate information?
In one of my favorite writings from a regular soldier of the Civil War, “DIARY OF A TAR HEEL CONFEDERATE SOLDIER” No mention is made in the entire diary of the cause of slavery or even of the black race, until after the soldier is captured in 1864 and sent to a POW camp where they were guarded by black guards who had a very nasty reputation for brutality and murder against the Confederate prisoners.
In fact the North Carolina soldier is a Jew with both parents living in New York, his place of birth. So what pray tell made this young man decide to leave his job and take up arms against other Americans? I can assure you is was not to protect slavery. He couold of probably cared less about that hot-button issue of the day.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/leon/leon.html
Lincoln's vision was only to fulfill his Constitutional duty in holding federal property and make the collections that the Constitution required him to do. Too bad modern presidents do not limit themselves to Lincoln's vision of Constitutional restraint.
And it KILLS us as a movement.
An interesting side story:
The First shot of the Civil War (Battle of Bull Run) was fired into the McLean house in Manassas (used as Beauregard’s headquarters). McLean and his family moved to Appomatox to get away from the War, only to have the surrender take place in McLean’s parlor in Appomatox.
Don’t give up the fight.
It’s not North versus South however. There were copperheads in the North, loyalists in the South. From 1861 to today, Southern leaders and manipulators have been able to justify and explain their power grab as a North versus South conflict and thus force better men like your great uncles into making a hard choice.
“Lincoln’s vision was only to fulfill his Constitutional duty in holding federal property and make the collections that the Constitution required him to do. Too bad modern presidents do not limit themselves to Lincoln’s vision of Constitutional restraint.
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That was a load of garbage. He had a vision of keeping the union together and that was that. He violated the constitutiona all to Hell. So, don’t try to rewrite history. We already know the truth.
If current Southerners realize how badly the Confederate leaders abused the good instincts of their ancestors, the world would be a happier place. And it might give them a little extra insight to the nature of the growth of governments today.
“Southern leaders and manipulators “
I see, the Southern people were just too stupid not to follow along; they were “manipulated”. The arrogance of the North as you display is exactly why the war was fought.
“If the rebs had won, we’d have two federal leviathans today in our land.”
No, because half of it wouldn’t be “your” land. Just like whatever Canada is, isn’t in “our land.”
” nature of the growth of governments today”
You sound just like a “progessive”, a Marxist.
You want to talk about murdering and exploiting their countrymen - It was the North who invented the term “SHOCK AND AWE”.
You should read some of the eye witness accounts of Shermans March.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sherman.htm
“And it KILLS us as a movement.”
Truth is a killer? To what “movement”?
Too bad the McLeans didn’t move to Fredericksburg instead. A surrender at Fredericksburg would have saved many lives.
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