Posted on 06/24/2015 2:35:48 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Former Virginia senator and potential Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb weighed in on the Confederate flag debate on Wednesday, urging careful consideration of both sides of the historical argument.
“This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War. The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades. It should not be used in any way as a political symbol that divides us,” Webb wrote in a Facebook post.
Americans should remember that people on both sides fought honorably, Webb said, “including slave holders in the Union Army from states such as Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, and that many non-slave holders fought for the South.”
“It was in recognition of the character of soldiers on both sides that the federal government authorized the construction of the Confederate Memorial 100 years ago, on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery,” he wrote. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Please whatever do not try to hide your glee about the Southern purge. I am sure you are pleasing yourself as you type one handed at the thought of current events concerning this Reconstruction II.
“Tariffs were said to be the complaint of the southern states but th e laws were changed in favor of the south before Lincoln’s election.”
The tariff played a role in secession for South Carolina and Georgia but I don’t think it was the main issue by any stretch of the imagination. However your claim that the law was changed in favor of the South before Lincoln’s election has no basis in fact.
The 1857 tariff had been a low tariff. Lincoln ran on the platform of a high tariff. The high Morrill Tariff, which Lincoln supported, was signed into law by James Buchanan after Lincoln had won the election but before he took office.
Let’s see. I was right about the tariff.
Lincoln ran on raising the tariff.
Lincoln is not Barack.
Everything has to go through Congress but its all moot because the South blew a fuse and started a firefight?
Would that sum it all up?
How do you save it by tearing it apart?
No they didn’t. They created exactly what they despised - only immortalizing the Peculiar Institution in the process.
The southern slavers were the tyrants.
How about directing me to one from the period?
Would you care to quote a southern leader that said the war was all about slavery? How about a general, or plain old ordinary soldier? How about quoting a black Confederate soldier?
Black Confederate soldiers were mainly a myth so I can't help you there. But as for the rest of your request, here you go.
"Our people have come to this on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it." - Lawrence Keitt
"What did we go to war for, if not to protect our [slave] property?" - Virgina Senator Robert Hunter, 1865
"I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery—a soldier fights for his country—right or wrong—he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in ... The South was my country." - John Singleton Mosby
What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery. -- Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention
This new union with Lincoln Black Republicans and free negroes, without slavery, or, slavery under our old constitutional bond of union, without Lincoln Black Republicans, or free negroes either, to molest us.
If we take the former, then submission to negro equality is our fate. if the latter, then secession is inevitable --- -- Address of William L. Harris of Mississippi
"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution." - Alexander Stephens
A civil war is about taking control of government. Look at Rome, Spain and many other examples. The American Civil War is misnamed, but I would expect the victors would have it their way with history and facts be damned.
Until the early 1900's the conflict was officially titled the War of Rebellion or the War of Southern Rebellion. I have no problem returning to those more accurate names.
Because the Northern states were shooting at them.
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