Posted on 04/09/2025 8:13:06 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON April 9, 1865 -- 9 o'clock P.M.
To Maj.-Gen. Dix:
This department has received the official report of the SURRENDER, THIS DAY, OF GEN. LEE AND HIS ARMY TO LIEUT.- GEN. GRANT on the terms proposed by Gen. GRANT.
Details will be given as speedily as possible.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 4:30 P.M., April 9.
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
GEN. LEE SURRENDERED THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON, upon the terms proposed by myself. The accompanying additional correspondence will show the conditions fully.
(Signed) U.S. GRANT, Lieut-Gen'l.
SUNDAY, April 9, 1865.
GENERAL -- I received your note of this morning, on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army.
I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in you letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R.E. LEE, General.
To Lieut.-Gen. GRANT, Commanding United States Armies.
Sunday, April 9, 1865.
Gen. R.E. Lee, Commanding Confederate States Armies.
Year note of this date is but this moment, 11:50 A.M., received.
In consequence of my having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburgh road to the Farmville and Lynchburgh road, I am at this writing about four miles West of Walter's church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you.
Notice sent to me, on this road, where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.
Very respectfully, your ob'd't servant,
U.S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
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Today's African American population is circa 50 million, 15% of the total population, which is the same as it was in 1860.
On the economic scales, African Americans sort out as:
These numbers don't look so bad, but what does look bad is black children growing up in mothers-only households increased from 12% in 1950 to 54% today.
The blame for that lies on politicians who provide welfare payments to women for only so long as they remain unmarried.
You seem to hate the US just like the left.
General Lee deserves great honor as one of the greatest Anericans for working to re- unite the Nation.
Jackass
Be glad that Trump’s hero Andrew Jackso wasn’t President. Lincoln was a softy compared to him.
Skewered by your rapier wit. I notice you didn’t call me a liar.
Ya mean the “Great Society” didn’t turn out so great after all?
The greatest Supreame Court Justice ever is black and so is possible future President Byron Donald’s. You need to see Chris Rock’s skit.
Do not know what battles some of my kin were in, but they collected up their surviving families and went to Texas
” You can go to hell, but I’m going to Texas.” Davey Crocket
No, it turned out "great" for its intended purpose -- guaranteeing that blacks, especially black women, never vote for Republicans again.
In exchange, Republicans earned the loyalty (more or less) of Southern white voters, so clearly, we got the better of the deal.
Still, it's not just odd, it's a crying shame, that African Americans now vote for the party of slavery!
You can always find exceptions to prove the rule. Thomas Sowell is another. Black culture derides them as being an “Uncle Tom”. Jesse Jackson once derided Obama for “acting white”.
After the very rare mass shooting, all the usual people yammer on about the “culture of gun violence” in the U.S. After taking away death by gun suicide, the vast majority of the remaining deaths by gun are young urban black gang bangers shooting each other.
DiLorenzo makes several main arguments, all of them bogus, including:
This is a ridiculous argument, since Lincoln's views on slavery were more abolitionist than all but a few Southerners and at least half of Northerners.
Further, by the end of his term (and life), Lincoln came to support full citizenship for freed slaves -- Lincoln's speech (April 11, 1865) on that claimed by John Wilkes Booth to be the motivator for assassinating Lincoln.
So, claiming that Lincoln didn't meet today's Progressive "woke" standards of anti-white racism is just ridiculous.
In fact, protective tariffs (yes, the same ones Pres. Trump imposes) were Federalist, Whig and Republican policy since the first US Tariff of 1789.
That first tariff was intended to not only provide Federal Revenues, but also to protect US producers.
And not just Northern producers -- tariffs also protected Southern products like cotton, tobacco & sugar.
The 1793 Coastal Trade Act protected not only Northern shipping but also the many ships built in, and operating from, Southern ports like Baltimore, Charleston and later, New Orleans.
US tariffs also protected Southern manufacturers, including:
In fact, the only "peaceful alternatives" were surrenders to Confederate aggressions against the Union in, not only Forts Sumter (SC) and Pickens (FL), but also seizures of Federal forts, ships, arsenals and mints, plus violence and invasions in Union states like Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri & Kansas, along with US territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona.
Add to those Western Virgina and Southern California as objects of Confederate desires, and weakness in the guise of "peace" becomes a retreat and destruction of the United States in the face of Confederate power and ambitions.
No Federalist, Whig or Republican US president would ever abandon the United States to our enemies.
Nor would Democrats like Jefferson, Madison or Andrew Jackson, among others.
In fact, the US Constitution -- and Founding Fathers' precedent -- do provide for expanded Federal powers during times of war, invasion or rebellion.
So did the Confederate constitution, powers which Jefferson Davis employed just as vigorously, if not more so, than did Lincoln.
Why then do those pro-Confederates who howl about "Lincoln the tyrant" not also notice "Davis the tyrant"?
That claim is true, though Lincoln did attempt twice to negotiate directly with Southerners over secession and war:
In fact, we are now revisiting this debate under Pres. Trump, in his efforts to deport thousands (millions?) of illegal alien criminals without all the usual "due process".
In Lincoln's case, Congress did authorize Lincoln to deny habeas corpus, and today Congress may again have to act to get the Federal courts to stop yapping at Trump's heals over deportations.
Do those make Trump or Lincoln "tyrants"???
Naw.
No, blacks vs n words.
A lot of people simply do not grasp how much evil flows into the country from the Northeast. I have come to learn it was flowing into the country during the early part of the 19th century, and was a large part in why there was a civil war.
They did not treat the Southern states fairly. They relied on them to pay nearly 3/4ths of the taxes, and they cheated and gouged them at every opportunity by using their majorities in congress to fashion laws favorable to the Northeastern people and their industries.
You are not allowed to point this out on all major news sources. This information is censored and dismissed.
I watched a video from Thomas Sowell who pointed out that in the 1950s, black families were doing all right, and they had none of this violence and indolence we see nowadays. He blames LBJ's "great society" programs for the destruction of the black families, and I think he is absolutely right about this.
In the same manner that Stalin had a 100% approval rating. If you criticized the war, the Lincoln administration would put you in prison.
His administration even locked up Septimus Winner for "Treason" because he wrote the song "Give us back our old commander". (About General McClellan) They made him claw back every copy of the song he sold before they would let him go.
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Septimus Winner was a well known song writer of that era. He wrote hits like "Listen to the Mocking bird", "Where oh where has my little dog gone?" "Little Brown Jug", "Ten little Indians", and other music less known to modern ears.
Abraham Lincoln said of "Listen to the Mocking bird" It is as sincere as the laughter of a little girl at play.
LBJ's vote buying scheme that worked perfectly.
I think we all agree on that.
I have never read any DiLorenzo books, but I have seen plenty enough evidence and quotes from Lincoln to come to the conclusion that he was very much a racist and a white supremacist.
Yes he was. It's not even debatable.
Of course, the vast majority of people in that era were racist white supremacists. They just were.
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