Confederate statue to be removed from outside courthouse [Rockville MD]

Associated Press ^ | Mar 1, 2017 11:26 AM EST

[Olog-hai]

A century-old statue of a Confederate soldier that stands outside a Maryland courthouse will be moved to private property.

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett said in a news release Tuesday that the county will cover the cost to relocate the bronze statue from the courthouse in Rockville to White’s Ferry, a docking site on the Potomac River named for a Confederate general. …

[jmacusa]

And btw there ‘’General’’ West Virgina seceded from Virgina.

[the OlLine Rebel]

This thread is old, but I just had to reply. Boy you sure showed your ignorance with that one statement!

[Impy]

Odd, I thought Maryland stayed in the union.

[DiogenesLamp]

And btw there ‘’General’’ West Virgina seceded from Virgina.

So to make the point clear, the principle of "secession" is perfectly acceptable if it happens to support your side. It is completely illegal if it does not.

So Lincoln wasn't opposed to "secession" in general*, just the secession of the Southern states in particular.

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* Lincoln supported the right of Texas to secede from Mexico. He said so in his very own words in a speech given in 1848.

[jmacusa]

No stupid. I was correcting the persons incorrect reading of history. Boy you really do work at being stupid, don’t you?

[jmacusa]

And no, you moron, that’s the history.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not a moron.

Also native MDer. Well aware that a) MD was forced to “stay in the union” at gunpoint and b) huge rebellious sentiment in MD, leading to a).

[jmacusa]

So what? War is war. I suppose you would have preferred the South had won?