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To: ArizonaJosie
None of the Tories in North Carolina and the East felt strongly enough about their beliefs and actions to erect any statues for their dead...if they had they would have been left alone more than likely since PC was not around in the 1830-40’s.
15 posted on 04/30/2008 10:06:58 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

The South was wrong and they lost. The philosophy of humans owning other humans lost too.


18 posted on 04/30/2008 10:19:06 PM PDT by ArizonaJosie
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To: vetvetdoug

“None of the Tories in North Carolina and the East felt strongly enough about their beliefs and actions to erect any statues for their dead...”

I don’t know about NC, but here in Maryland a great many of the Tories were run out of the state after the War of Independance. So many went to Canada, that there are places in Canada where the accent is so similar to the Central Maryland speech that I have been mistaken for a Canadian.

Again, in Maryland after the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy went around putting up statues in honor of the Maryland Confederate Soldiers everywhere, in spite of the fact that twice as many men of MD fought for the Union as for the South.

Why don’t the petionors try a di9fferent tack: campaighn for a statue to be set up to honor the Texans who died for the Union? There were many, and not all soldiers. Texas was one of the places where pro-Union sentiments could get you hanged before and just after Secession.


20 posted on 04/30/2008 10:36:33 PM PDT by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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To: vetvetdoug

“None of the Tories in North Carolina and the East felt strongly enough about their beliefs and actions to erect any statues for their dead...if they had they would have been left alone more than likely since PC was not around in the 1830-40’s. “

In Guilford County, the home of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, there’s an old, busy road named after Cornwallis.

Tarleton on the other hand was so despised by people his name wasn’t on any Guilford County roads until about 10-15 years ago when a historically ignorant developer from the NE built a subdivision.


63 posted on 05/01/2008 5:01:31 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Carbon is the fifth most abundant element on the planet.)
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