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
True Christian my @ss? Jimmy Carter is a sanctimonious holier-than-thou twit with mean streak wider than Sherman's march. Are all southerners as gullible as you to fall for his TV preacher PR crap?
It was also a massive piece of propaganda that turned terrorists thugs who murdered innocents men, women and children into heroes. If you care to consider it a 'classic' be my guest.
Though I will not compare her to Hillary clinton as many have tried to do.
Now wait a dog gone minute. You can't have it both ways. You said, "Bush, Wilson, LBJ, and Bill Clinton are the three presidents we have had from the Confederacy." Well, I assumed you were using "South" and "Confederacy" interchangeably bec NONE of those folks you mentioned were from the "Confederacy." (Not only that, that's four presidents.)
"If Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and the other patriots of the founding had still been around, there would have never been a confederacy."
Hmmmmm? Only if you mean that they would have had the negotiating and diplomatic skills to resolve the problem and prevent secession. Some of those folks wrote strongly about state sovereignty and Jefferson advocated the occasional revolution to clean house so to speak. This statement was way off historical base.
Darn Right it's in our best interests! That's why our elected officials are based on geography (ie. states, cities, counties). Can you imagine if all the politicians were concentrated in one area? (oh yeah, that's corrupt city DC)
Please leave your trash on your side of the Mason-Dixon line.
But Mayor Wood changed his position the moment Sumter was fired on. The 40th New York was called the 'Mozart Regiment' not after the composer but because Fernando Wood, as head of the Mozart Faction of the Democratic Party in New York City, was the sponsor of the regiment.
You would be wrong. The birthplace of the Klan was Pulaski, Tennessee.
From A&E:
Birth Of A Nation
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Wallace Reid, Elmo Lincoln, Erich von Stroheim, Directed by D. W Grifflth one of the most famous silent 'classics' ever made is D.W. Griffith's mammoth drama of one of America's most dramatic moments in history ?? the Civil War. This film was based upon southerner Thomas Mon's book "The Clansman," and told the romanticized story of the struggle of the defeated south against the oppression of the carpetbaggers and scallywags during the recontructionist period. On the AFI’s top 100 Films Of All Times List. 125 Min, B/W, Silent with a music track, 1915
Eastern Theater
2nd Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers
Company A (California 100)
Companies E, F, L, M
71st Pennsylvania Volunteers
The California Brigade
Western Theater
First Battalion Native California Cavalry
Companies A-D
First California Cavalry Volunteers
Companies A-M
Second California Cavalry Volunteers
Companies A-M
First California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Second California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Third California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Fourth California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Fifth California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Sixth California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Seventh California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
Eighth California Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-K
First Battalion California Mountaineers (Infantry)
Companies A-F
First Regiment Washington Territory Infantry Volunteers
Companies A-F, G-I
Washington crushed the Whiskey Rebellion without negotiating a damn thing, and Andy Jackson wasn't much for diplomacy with traders. Read his "Letter to the People of South Carolina" and look at the "Force Bill" he pushed through Congress if you doubt that.
And now that you mentioned Tenn. I remember now. Doesnt Tenn have a monument to the founder of the Klan and have his birthday as a holidy? Cant remember his name right now.
Why am I not surprised?
And I suspect you know full well that the Whiskey Rebellion was an uprising of disgruntled folks from a given AREA -- NOT a state acting with the authority of its elected officals and the approval of its citizens. But even that event carried most of the trappings of something Jefferson would have approved of.
Jimmy Carter, though a terrible President, was the most MORAL and Christian man this nation has had this past century as a President..
Which is WHY he WAS a LOUSY President.....!
You still have slaves in the south?
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