Posted on 01/31/2002 7:05:24 AM PST by shuckmaster
COLUMBIA - Members of the Statehouse Committee decided Wednesday to continue flying a cotton-silk blend Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds.
The resolution passed the joint House-Senate committee responsible for maintaining the Statehouse and grounds without objection.
The blend is more colorfast than the all-cotton flag that originally flew at the Confederate Soldier Monument and is more historically accurate than the nylon flag that briefly was used.
The all-cotton flag was put at the monument in 2000 as part of a compromise to remove a similar flag from the Capitol dome and the House and Senate chambers.
When Senate leaders replaced the cotton flag with a nylon one, some lawmakers complained, saying the original compromise called for an all-cotton flag that would rarely flap in the breeze.
Sen. Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, said the switch was made because the colors on the cotton flag ran. And, he said, there was never any discussion of material in the compromise.
Critics said the switch was made to improve the flag's visibility and the nylon was replaced after it was pointed out that the material did not exist during the Confederacy.
The silk-cotton blend will hold its color longer than the all-cotton version, said Jennifer Jones, at the Ruffin Flag Co. in Crawfordville, Ga., which supplies South Carolina's Confederate flags.
And, Sen. John Courson, R-Columbia and a member of the Statehouse Committee, said the original flags carried by Confederate soldiers were a cotton-silk blend. The lighter blend billows in a slight breeze.
Thanks for your response, Lancer.
That never kept most of you sothron fanatics away. John Adams, Sam Adams, John Hancock, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin were opposing the British while most of the southerners where still wondering what all the fuss was about.
Yeah, there's a lot of disgruntled leftists (Clintonistas) out there from the AOL Confederate Flag Controversy Board that have WAY too much time on their hands. I'm thinking MULTIPLE screen names for yahoos like these. Some of these cats must lose sleep over waitng for responses on this board. Pathetic bastids.....
Well golly gosh thanks for your much needed permission.
the gift of having been born in my country- the United States of America.
Dang! Can I breath some of your air as well?
No need to thank me- you're welcome.
Don't worry your pointed little head about waiting to be thanked, with an attitude like that you will be "thanked" soon enough, just hang around a while.
If you are not happy as an American you may exit- no hard feelings.
I humbly quiver in your exalted presence.
I believe I can speak for everyone here that we are ecstatic with being Americans (with a few brits, Canadians and others sprinkled in) and most all present completely enjoy this forum. I will not even get into my contributions to this Republic other than I was and still am happily making them.
So... what the he!! is your problem?
BTW, I, as I am sure many others here will agree, could not care less about "your hard feelings." Frankly, I find your posts childish and, well, stupid. I can safely say that I have never posted to this forum trashing someone as much as I have with you.
Don't bother with a reply, I am done with you.
ROFL!!! Where did you attend school? Fisher Price University?
The United States exists today because they chose to "secede" from the British empire. The Declaration of Independence is the most famous act of secession in our history, though modern rhetoric makes "secession" sound somehow different from, and somehow more sinister than, claiming independence. Furthermore, three states (New York, Rhode Island and Virginia ratified the Constitution with the provision that they could later secede if they chose; the other ten states accepted this condition as valid.
It was not secession that was unconstitutional, but the suppression of secession. The North fought the Civil War by allowing its chief executive to exercise dictatorial powers, raising armies and money and suspending civil liberties without consulting Congress, ordering the arrest of Chief Justice Roger Taney, and even arresting the Maryland legislature and installing a puppet government. This was "government of the people, by the people, for the people"? What happened to "the consent of the governed"?
Of course, the Northern enemies of secession weren’t always rigid in their principles. They did allow a pro-Union part of Virginia to secede from Virginia. That’s how West Virginia was created. And since Virginia never ceded that territory as prescribed by the Constitution, that was the only real case of unconstitutional secession. To make matters worse, the North never admitted that Virginia had legally left the Union. How, then, could it be split without its legal consent?
After the war, the North forced the seceding states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of re-admission to the Union it insisted they had never legally quit! Yet most of those states had already ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, so they were apparently back in the Union after all!
The hypocrisy is dizzying. But wars aren’t necessarily won by the intellectually consistent.
Go play in the sand junior. The subject of history is apparently over your head.
I think Ol' Junior, here,and NonSquirter (Walt) are one in the same. Did you ever see them together? Spooky ain't it?
(Twilight Zone music....)
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