Posted on 07/03/2020 5:04:39 AM PDT by C19fan
As you know only 4 states passed declarations of causes. Mississippi was the only one that just listed slavery. The other 3 listed economic grievances such as the tariff and federal subsidies to corporations and infrastructure in the North that vastly exceeded federal outlays in the South. Texas listed a malicious refusal by the federal government to provide border security as it had agreed to do in Texas’ accession treaty with the US.
Why list slavery? Because refusal to enforce the fugitive slave clause of the constitution by the Northern states WAS actually unconstitutional. They could legitimately say the Northern states had thereby violated the compact. No matter how much they hated it, they could not say the tariffs or the federal outlays to the North that vastly exceeded those going to the South were unconstitutional.
If it were really “about” slavery, why did the Northern states/Lincoln Administration offer the Corwin Amendment aka “slavery effectively forever”? Why did the Original 7 seceding states turn that down?
Obviously the 5 states of the Upper South which seceded only after Lincoln chose to start a war to impose a government upon people who did not consent to it were not seceding over slavery.
ISIS and Taliban destroyed ancient Buddha statues and stone carvings. So the BLM can join the ranks of the other terrorist organizations. Nothing like terrorist street creds.
There is a dedicated cadre on this site,
On one family vacation we visited Stone Mountain. The tramway was running and while traveling to the top of the mountain we could see the workers carving the figures. I would say that it was about 80% complete when I visited.
Very impressive!
Reuters just set it’s doom. Leftist wouldn’t know about it unless it’s plastered on the news everyday. Now some idiot will deface it
No, Mount Rushmore is spectacular. Very well done. Do you think this is on par with Mount Rushmore?
Open up your sense of place...as in visible was not the place to put them. I did not notice they are cable cars but that does not change my point. Do you think it looks like proper placement?
I hope there are people on guard to makes sure none of the Western Taliban climbs up or drops down planting explosives.
I get the feeling that when we finally get released from - or fight our way out of - this shutdown, all of our old landmarks - monuments, street names, everything associated with the past - will be gone. Or at least that’s what they want.
It’s not just the landmarks, it’s all the memories associated with them, the memories of a different way of life, the memories of when we were free.
You noticed that, too, huh ?
If I recall correctly Stone Mountain is privately owned. It isn’t a state park or a federal park. So the state can’t do anything to it.
“towers ominously” Interesting description from the hard core left. I never felt threatened by it.
Ominous?
Yep. The overwhelming majority of soldiers in the Confederate forces fought for slavery just as those US soldiers who fought in Iraq did so because they wanted to keep the oil flowing to the free world, right?
Nope. That was the ruling elites of both wars who wanted those goals. The people and soldiers were manipulated and fed different, “patriotic” reasons to accomplish the task.
My sentiments as well......
Where I was born my town was a main battlefield....
....our first apartment, when married, was part of an old home in a historic neighborhood on a ridge and we had cannon in our back yard
This is the South’s Mount Rushmore!
Stated very well.. I agree. Thank you.
Apparently they still don't have the industrial capacity of the north.
Stone Mountain and the CSA monuments at Gettysburg and other battlefields will be gone in less than 10 years. Mt. Rushmore might last a little longer, but it will be destroyed one of these days.
Let me know when that happens. If "people" ever get fed up, they will do nothing. They will take the path of least resistance, just as they have to this point in time.
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