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To: rockrr

Imitation being a the greatest form of flattery.

At least you tried despite the fact that Dixie was penned as a minstrel show tune by an Ohio yankee in the 1850s and isn’t a hymn in any fashion, certainly not a Unitarian example. By contrast Julia Ward Howe was married to the prominent Unitarian Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and oddly enough did call her song a hymn. Go figure.

As for ‘Traitorism’ we have the example of King George on August 23 1775 condemning the colonials for

” arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us”

that “such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons “

such that “that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us”

Traitorism is never popular among rulers and believers in the divine right of kings. It’s easy to understand the position of George and Abe without agreeing with them.

http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/procreb.html


977 posted on 09/18/2016 6:12:04 PM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: Pelham

It’s amusing how lost cause losers such as yourself attempt to analogize the Revolutionary War with the Civil War. It is true that in both instances there was rebellion, but in the first case rebellion was used as a last resort against demonstrable tyranny. In the case of the Civil War the insurrectionists took to rebellion as the first resort.


978 posted on 09/18/2016 7:13:09 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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