You're going to inflame the riff-raff again.
BUMP!
I THINK, HOWEVER, THAT THERE IS another, deeper reason why Lee makes modern America uncomfortable. It is his Christianity
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Nope. Not buying that for a minute.
It is not surpising that our current generations of politically corrected people don't know about Robert E Lee. The revisionist educators have painted him as a racist, and slammed the door of knowledge tightly shut.
I'm saving my energy for the big one. William T. Sherman's birthday is on February 8th.
Had any of that original colonies known that they would not be allowed to leave this Union, and made to stay by force, there would never have been a country. Unknown by the majority of our public school attendees, many in the South looked at that war as the Second American Revolution.
Very interesting. Thanks.
There are MANY "fine" American heroes equal to the celebrated Lee- and some above him, like Ronald Reagan. But all in all I agree with the article (I AM a historian).
The revisionists don't just stop with re-painting men like Lee, they are also quite busy trying to "taliban" memorials. Right now, they are trying to gin up interest in destroying the memorial at Stone Mountain. This just might be the beginning of "Civil War II"...
Having been born and raised in the north (of England), I don't really have a dog in this fight (as we say here in my adopted homeland of Texas).
Nevertheless, I will throw a little petrol on the fire: If this happened today, there would be no question whatever of the Southern states' right to secede. It would be called "self-determination," an idea whose validity has been enshrined in global politics since the end of the First World War and Wilson's fourteen points.
Oddly enough, Woodrow Wilson was a Virginian and old enough (b. 1856) to have childhood memories of the Civil War period.
Lee's final years as the President of Washington College in Virginia, provide a very moving account of a man trying to make one final contribution to his society by molding the next generation of leaders.
Bama ping
Well, since I knew I was going to be busy on the 19th and the 21st, I celebrated both on the 15th of January.
I even took a monday holiday for it.
General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate army, won the respect of North and South alike. In fact General Lee was loved and admired the world over. Sir Garnet Joseph Woseley from England, who met Lee on several occasions wrote: "I never felt my own individual insignificance more keenly then I did in his presence. I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in the presence of a man who was cast in a grander mold, and made of a different and finer metal than all other men.'' General Lee was the very embodiment of all that was good in the Confederate States of America, and to this very day is loved and admired by any one that has a knowledge of history...
That Lee believed that the Confederacy had only exercised its rights as guaranteed under the Constitution, defended by the founders, and invoked by states and statesmen "for the last seventy years," can be seen in his letter of 15 December 1866 to Lord Acton, in which he says precisely that. He wishes that "the judgment of reason" had not "been displaced by the arbitrament of war," but concludes it has been, and it is time for the South to move on, to accept "without reserve... the extinction of slavery.... [A]n event that has been long sought, though in a different way, and by none... more earnestly desired than by citizens of Virginia," and to "trust that the constitution may undergo no [further] change, but that it may be handed down to our succeeding generations in the form we received it from our forefathers."
As they were seeking English help, it was wise to speak so. The English weren't about to help the secessionist promote slavery.
It is too easy for Lee to side step the slavery issue by saying he was falling in with his family and friends on state's rights to practice slavery.
President Eisenhower had four portraits displayed in his White House office, one being Robert E Lee.
Marse Robert