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Posted on 01/17/2015 2:31:16 PM PST by BigReb555
During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.
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How can someone be an “American hero” when they turn their back on America - especially in its darkest hour?
That you, Spivey?
Lord Acton in a letter to Lee after the war:
"I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo."
Lee in response to Lord Acton:
"I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."
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General Robert Edward Lee, calling it more than 100 years before the fact.
No. Is that you skeevy?
Yew done wiping yer bum on Marse Robert’s reputation, you anonymous yeller-backed git? LOL! :)
Don’t be an ass (oops, too late!)
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You seem desperate for someone to pay attention to you. If only you had something interesting to say.
I'm trying to figure out if Lee would have pistol-whipped you before he shot yer yeller behind, or would he have just "took out the trash" before it started stinking up the joint.
I'm leaning "take out the trash"... LOL! :)
Man, do you have a sorry pathetic existence.
Just remember - if they would have shoved an Enfield in rockrr's hands on either side of the line at The Angle in 1863, rockrr would have dyed the seat of his pants yellow... LOL! :)
Maybe you’ll find the answer in his journal.
You really do amuse yourself, don’t you?
Robert E Lee - an otherwise honorable man who made a stupid decision, became a traitor, and lost a war.
He sure was right.
Unlike the neo-Union Spiveys on this thread trash-talking him. Them - they're as yellow as the day is long.
Wonder how fast they would have run away from a Civil War battlefield? They would have broken the four-minute mile YEARS before it was done... LOL! :)
August 9, 1960
Dear Dr. Scott:
Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War Between the States the issue of Secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.
General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his belief in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.
From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.
Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.
Sincerely,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Apparently, Dwight D. Eisenhower was a neo-Confederate traitor... LOL! :)
You misspelled “abuse”..;’)
On one side it bears the inscription "Gen. Robert E. Lee CSA from a Marylander 1863."
On the other side it says "Help yourself and God will help you" in French.
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