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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Couldn't have put it better myself.
He was demigoguing to support his plantation owning constituents. Too bad he didn't support the common man of the south who had to do the fighting for the plantation owners to keep them in high cotton.
Your insistence at victim-hood ill becomes you but it’s OK by me ;’)
You’re most welcome! B^)
Wasn’t Calhoun the one the assaulted a fellow congressman on the floor. Typical southern behavior, resort to physical attack rather than due diligence. See Fort Sumter and all the federal depots for reference.
I'm sorry - did any of his opponents in the Congress gainsay him in that debate?
It would be like arguing with acorn head, the argument is so dumb you don't give it the time of day on the floor.
Did anyone argue with acorn head on her moon/mars claims? lol
So when Beauregard ordered the supplies cut on April 7, he was ignored and the supplies kept flowing? When Major Anderson wrote his superiors that their supplies were running out he was lying?
Since we’re on to natural rights, here’s a question: Do individuals have natural right of secession? That is to say, can you, for example, declare yourself and your house to be a different country?
No, Massachusetts Senator & arch-scumbag Charles Sumner got his just desserts from Representative Preston Brooks, who unfortunately didn't finish the job, leaving Sumner alive to slime Robert E. Lee after Lee passed away.
Of course, Charles Francis Adams Jr. repudiated the behavior of his fellow Massachusetts politician in the address that is the subject of this thread.
It should be noted that Adams fought in the Civil War, as a Union colonel, and that Sumner fought by sliming with his mouth.
No doubt about it, you and I just disagree on who that was.
Trolling, trolling, trolling, keep Bubba a-trollin' - RAW LIES! (sung to the tune of Rawhide!)
Do you never cease with your inane trolling BS? It appears you have LOADS of experience in the area.
So, none of Calhoun’s opponents gainsaid his contentions in the Congressional Record?
It should also be noted that Sumner was crippled for life by Brooks' attack, and cripples are rarely found in combat.
Incidentally your idol Charles Francis Adams was a close friend and admirer of Sumner's.
So you’re not going to answer a direct question, and instead just repeat the ad hominem drivel. I figured as much.
So you’re not going to answer a direct question, and instead just repeat the ad hominem drivel. I figured as much.
No, I'm not going to answer a direct trollin'. LOL! :)
Bombarding a fort is definitely an act of war.
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