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The Last Words of Edmund Ruffin, Southern Patriot
1865 | Edmund Ruffin

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: dixielist; ruffin; yankee
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Comment #281 Removed by Moderator

To: TexConfederate1861
because they can't admit that they are ignorant,arrogant,mean-spirited,hateful,dishonest,self-righteous,socialist,anti-semitic, imperialist DAMNYANKEES!

their PRIDE won't let them see themselves for what they are!

for dixie,sw

282 posted on 06/07/2002 9:54:15 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Rodney King
WELL SAID, COPPERHEAD!

for a FREE dixie,sw

283 posted on 06/07/2002 9:55:29 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Poohbah
simple, because you WANT to see southrons as second or third class.
284 posted on 06/07/2002 9:58:42 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Poohbah
polyglot Baltimore was NOT a southron leaning city in the 1860s! Southron Maryland WAS pro-south.

for dixie,sw

285 posted on 06/07/2002 10:03:50 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Illbay
OK...your problem...just open that nasty, little Yankee mouth, to the wrong Southron, and you might just get an education..... You are pathetic!
286 posted on 06/07/2002 10:05:57 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861
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To: Non-Sequitur
as usual, you are wrong! according to the city of NY, he was born in Brooklyn in 1836. his birth certificate is on file there.he was baptised at the old St. John's Church in NYC as well. Quantrell's family moved to Dover when he was a young child.

as for the spelling of his last name, the flag he had made in TX in 1864 spells his name QUANTRELL. one would assume he knew how to spell his OWN name.

for dixie,sw

287 posted on 06/07/2002 10:20:29 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Illbay
yeah, in the same way wee willie klintoon was the 20th century's greatest president.
288 posted on 06/07/2002 10:21:36 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Illbay
as usual, you by your own words, condemn yourself as an anti-Southron BIGOT!
289 posted on 06/07/2002 10:23:05 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: stand watie
You know I find it flat, freakin' amazing that every single one of Quantrill's biographers got his birth place wrong. They all state that it was Dover, Ohio while you, and you alone, discovered New York was his home town. What do you attribute that to?
291 posted on 06/07/2002 5:14:24 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
LAZINESS on the part of his "biographers". and NOT checking PRIMARY sources.

the historian of Dover says she thinks his family moved there about a year after his birth.

i'm eternally fasinated about how SLOPPY the research is in many so-called "history books". many writers simply copy an earlier books data w/o checking to see if the data is CORRECT!

for dixie,sw

292 posted on 06/10/2002 10:11:37 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: stand watie
Everyone is sloppy except you, is that it?
293 posted on 06/10/2002 10:36:50 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
NOT AT ALL; but MANY are sloppy and arrogant.

ignorant,hatefilled, leftist,extremist,mean-spirited, scalawags and damnyankees tend, i have noticed,when they write "history", to be that way. i wonder if their sloppiness is intentional OR if the intent is to DECEIVE?

for a FREE dixie,sw

294 posted on 06/10/2002 10:44:08 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: stand watie
Or maybe it's that they are right and you are wrong? Or more likely you are confusing Quantrill's uncle with Quantrill since that man did live in New York?
295 posted on 06/10/2002 10:54:57 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
was Quantrell's uncle born in 1837? i doubt it, though i have a dear friend who has an aunt who is 22 years YOUNGER than he!

let me give you ONE simple example of the sort of SLOPPY research that is all-too-common in "scholarship" = several years ago, a book was printed about the battle @ Ft. Pillow. in the book, the following appearred: "----in 1863 numerous foreign "advisors" visited both the Federal & CS armies during that year of 635 days" ---- an OBVIOUS TYPO, but that same phrase appearred in SEVERAL "learned" works!

for dixie,sw

296 posted on 06/11/2002 10:56:56 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: TonyRo76
NOPE! he's a scalawag and NOTHING is LOWER than a scalawag! NOTHING!

for a FREE dixie NOW,sw

297 posted on 06/11/2002 2:26:32 PM PDT by stand watie
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