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
If so, what do you think about the fact that folks like TexConfederate1861, Shuckmaster, Twodees and other "neo-Confederates" hate your guts, and think you are the epitome of evil?
In other words, "Ronald Reagan bad, Bill Clinton good."
That's how these stupid, silly people think.
Sheesh.
And bombarding Fort Sumter sets up Bayonet Rule.
William Tecumseh Sherman, for example!
..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 Israeli rule--to all political, social and business connections with Israel, and the perfidious, malignant and vile Jewish race."
--Yasser Arafat, 2002
and I don't think any of the people you mention HATE Yankees......
Read my reply to CommieBasher....
Tell that to Medger Evers, Emmett Till and thousands upon thousands of other black folks, men and women, slain for the crime of being "uppity."
People like you are a joke, except it's just not funny.
Holding on to property that NO LONGER BELONGS to you, caused that problem.
Don't know who said it, but I like it.
I think the rebs here on FR come out once a week, blow their horn and then retreat for another week. The South is dead - and will NEVER rise again! Get over it. There are more Yankees down there now than Sherman could have ever imagined.
Well, no, he was from Iowa.
And for what it's worth, California (just to give you a little education beyond the revisionist history you've obviously swallowed all your life) was a UNION state. Check the history books. It's there, on the page you apparently skipped.
Let them hate me all they want. If hating "yankees" is what it takes to pump up their ego, self esteem, and perceived self importance and superiority, then their life is truly dismal and they are looking for scapegoats and someone to blame for their own failures and short comings.
And I again repeat my challenge to southerners, particularly those in the RTP area of NC who are filled with hatred toward yankees... I will put my BBQ up against your BBQ anytime and anywhere.
Thus far, none have taken me up on the challenge. I have a strong feeling that they fear the Yankee and losing to him in a BBQ cook-off. Imagine the embarassment and life time of shame they would have to live with. Even the prospect of it prevents them from accepting.
I say, Bring It On Cletus!
Here's a short bio on him from Tulane-
Edmund Ruffin
Edmund Ruffin, whose long white hair made him immediately recognizable to contemporaries, was born in 1794 and educated in Virginia, including a brief period at the College of William and Mary. For most of his life, Ruffin was a farmer and a renowned agricultural reformer. Experiments on his farm convinced him that fertilizers, crop rotation, drainage, and good plowing could revitalize the declining soil of his native state. From the 1820s onward, Ruffin published his findings, edited an agricultural journal, lectured, a nd organized agricultural societies. In the 1850s, he became president and commissioner of the Virginia State Agricultural Society. Increasingly, however, Ruffin turned his attention in the 1850s to politics, especially the defense of slavery and secession. Although he had earlier expressed some doubts about slavery and opened the pages of his agricultural journal to arguments abo ut colonization, by the 1850s Ruffin had become a staunch proponent of slavery and of the racial inferiority of blacks. He joined the ranks of fire-eating southern radicals advocating a separate southern nation to protect slavery and the southern way of life. Secession became as great a reform cause as agricultural improvement. Both would rejuvenate the South.
Ruffin's desire to push the secessionist movement towards a confrontation with the North brought him to Charleston during the Sumter crisis. He intended to take his stand with the Confederacy, and he hoped events would drive his native state, Virginia , out of the Union. His ardent southern nationalism made him a hero of southern radicals. He was invited to attend three secession conventions, and given the honor of firing one of the first batteries against Fort Sumter.
As the Confederacy's fortunes ebbed during the war, however, Ruffin grew distraught. Plagued by ill health, family misfortunes, and the rapid collapse of Confederate forces in 1865, Ruffin proclaimed "unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule," and on June 1 7, 1865, committed suicide. His act, sometimes considered the "last shot" of the Civil War, become identified with the Confederacy's defeat and a symbol of the lost cause. His suicide was interpreted as an expression of the southern code of honor, the refusal to accept a life in defeat.
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