Posted on 03/03/2006 11:37:56 AM PST by Rebeleye
The removal of the Confederate flag from Amherst County's official seal has upset Southern heritage groups, who contend residents weren't told of the change. County officials acknowledge the image was quietly removed in August 2004 to avoid an uproar.
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Exactly-correct bump.
That, and other acts of hate and contempt, like refusing to appropriate funds for garrisoning the Texas frontier against the Comanches and Apaches.
Little things like that, little things that say "I hope the slaves kill you in your bed, I wish John Brown had succeeded, and I still hope the Comanches eventually lift your hair, the whole bunch of you."
Old times here are not forgotten.
Dead wrong, knucklehead. Learn some American history sometime.
Stop sneering. Want us to talk about your mother and father for a while? We could start with some Don Rickles jokes, if you want to get into smearing ancestors.
They don't forget. They just forget "tactically".
unfortunately he/she is NOT alone. more than HALF of the country's HS students do NOT know what CENTURY that WW2 was fought in! (this despite the fact that MILLIONS of their grandparents participated in that war!)
"can you say BRAIN-DEAD, children? sure you CAN!"
unfortunately, the TEACHERS didn't do much better than their "stoodintz"in that same survey!
free dixie,sw
I never claimed YOU were speaking of the Society of the Cincinnati.
If you pose "Old" patriots to "New" patriots and do not mean the Old patriots were the only patriots then fine I have no problem with that. Unfortunately, it is common among those pushing anti-Federalism to claim the federalists represented some new idea opposed to the leaders of 1776.
There was NO "liberty interest" defended by the anti-federalists just various progators of unrealistic ideas.
Those who really had a idea of what was required to establish Liberty were firmly in Washington's camp.
Some of the democrats served in the War but not in the same proportion as those of the Federalist party.
I was not speaking of Henry or Hancock as being grafters though the latter had a few questionable deals thanks to his political machine but of those (mainly democratic-republicans) who used the state political institutions to enrich themselves at the cost of the Nation. Clinton's machine was a perfect example, a proto-type of the modern democrat political organization.
Hamilton was so much NOT the "businessmens' lawyer" that he often represented clients for free or small fees when they couldn't afford it. He especially was well known for taking the cases of escaped slaves or free blacks entangeled in the slavers nets. Had he really cared about money he would not have died in debt but would have been the richest lawyer in the country as well as the best.
Hamilton was not without flaw but compared to his contemporaries was a statesman of immense stature. He was a "host within himself" and a "colossus" according to his greatest enemy.
Hamilton's policies were necessary for the protection of the new Nation which would have been strangled in its cradle without the newly strengthened government. They had nothing to do with the Slavers' Revolt but everything to do with having built up the industrial might necessary to defeat it.
Yet the Slaver celebration and encouragement of their forces in Kansas guilty of equal violence passed without comment.
Anything which strengthened or encouraged slavery was both harmful to the ideals of freedom we were founded upon and to mankind in general.
Those states were formed after the Continental Congress asked them to write constitutions. Prior to that they were not states but colonies.
When a social structure is based upon Evil and Error enemies abound.
more to the point,i'd like to see you try to PROVE your fact-FREE assertion??? (NOPE,you cannot because it's a DUMB statement! rotflmRao AT you.)
free dixie,sw
This "knucklehead" can easily read the history which tells us that there were TWO Continental Congresses composed of representatives of Colonies (NOT states) which met and took Unified actions among which was to tell the colonies to go and write constitutions transforming themselves into states. Before 1776 there were NO states though the American People were fighting for Freedom.
When the Declaration was put forth it spoke in the name of "...the Representatives o fthe UNITED STATES OF AMERICA in General Congress, Assembled,...do, in the name, and by Authority of the good people of these Colonies....These United Colonies are,..., FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES...."
Hence it is clear that the Union predated states.
free dixie,sw
That "nonsense" unfortunately for you happens to be 100% correct. Continental Congresses predated ANY states.
Our Union is based upon the Constitution. Our magnificent leader Lincoln made sure its enemies paid heavily for their folly. Unfortunately many deluded or innocent victims paid a high price as well.
It took the South a hundred years to recover from the damage done by the Party of Treason and the Slavers.
You still haven't recovered.
the continental congress was NOT the "government of the USA" in any real sense. there was NO federal government until after the Revolution.
WHEN we finally got a federal government, it was CREATED by the STATES!
your posts on this subject are MORE ignorant than your usual blather.
rotflol AT you.
free dixie,sw
The Continental Congresses spoke in the name of and through the authority of the American People which predated all of these political institutions.
One of those statements was the Declaration of Independence which also called states into existence.
do you HAVE a point, or do you think that MORE ignorant, fact-FREE blather is a suitable substitute for intelligent discourse???
free dixie,sw
You have been shown the FACT that states were late comers to the scene and did not predate the American People OR the Continental Congresses which were its voice.
But you prefer to act as though you cannot comprehend this simple fact. States were NEVER fully sovereign at ANY point in history. They were ALWAYS part of the larger People or Union.
I know you prefer the fantasies which allow rationalization of the Slavers Revolt. Once you admit any of the Truth your World View collapses into incoherence.
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