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Actually, since the war was OVER when those men were in office, that hardly makes them Confederate..... Also...."Birth of a Nation" is considered a classic motion picture, and one of the finest ever made.....
Posted on 06/05/2002 8:53:55 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861
"I here declare my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule -- to all political, social and business connection with the Yankees and to the Yankee race. Would that I could impress these sentiments, in their full force, on every living Southerner and bequeath them to every one yet to be born! May such sentiments be held universally in the outraged and downtrodden South, though in silence and stillness, until the now far-distant day shall arrive for just retribution for Yankee usurpation, oppression and atrocious outrages, and for deliverance and vengeance for the now ruined, subjugated and enslaved Southern States!
..And now with my latest writing and utterance, and with what will be near my latest breath, I here repeat and would willingly proclaim my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule--to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, and the perfidious, malignant and vile Yankee race."
--Edmund Ruffin , 1865
A quick check of the map shows that Georgia was one of his electoral strongholds, as was Virginia.
Your argument doesn't hold up.
I submit my name to be a judge in this contest.
You are wrong. Wilson was a Virginian, actually met Jeff Davis when he was young, loved the Confederacy, helped write Birth of a Nation, a film which glorified the Klan, was behind the Red Scare of 1919, took the US into an unnecessary foreign war and grew the Federal breaucracy far beyond anything that had ever existed even during the Civil War.
Before Bush, Wilson, LBJ, and Bill Clinton are the three presidents we have had from the Confederacy ---- aren't you proud?
Now you're talkin'. I'll be one too -- and I'll even spot the Texas stuff five points.
That is just stupid to suggest that such a law or constitutional amendment should be passed, let along considered. In America we have the freedom of movement and the freedom to live where we choose. And the freedom to endeavor in the careers of our choosing.
This doesn't pass the common sense test.
Bigger sigh. . .and as much as I loath the Klan, their origin was necessitated by the absense of law, order and protection that was NOT provided to the citizens of the South during "Reconstruction." They were basically trying to protect themselves and their families. Those people had NOTHING in common with the KKK today, whether you're talking about the chapters in the South or the North.
Who dat? Jimmy Carter?
Bizarre but true. Mayor Fernando Wood advocated setting up a "free city". There was quite a bit of antiwar sentiment, much of it stemming from a fear of freed slaves competing for jobs up north.
While we're on NYC, I also recently found out that the secretary of war designated the NYPD as provost marshalls in 1862. Detectives spent the rest of the war hunting saboteurs and spies all across the country. If anyone has any good links about this I'd appreciate it if they'd post them.
What he's done in the years since for the most part has been generally good, however I will say in the past 8 or so years towing the party line I feel he has lost his way
Sigh... I didn't say from the South. I said from the Confederacy. If Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and the other patriots of the founding had still been around, there would have never been a confederacy. Those patriots would have stomped hateful mad men like Ruffin into the dust for even suggesting it.
Hang in there. Don't judge 'em all by just the ones who have responded with less than kind words.
Actually, since the war was OVER when those men were in office, that hardly makes them Confederate..... Also...."Birth of a Nation" is considered a classic motion picture, and one of the finest ever made.....
Born and raised does not equal having the best interests in mind.
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