Posted on 03/28/2025 3:41:28 PM PDT by rexthecat
It would be wild to put back the statue of the Confederate soldier with his back to the North on South Washington and Prince Streets in Alexandria, Va that they took down in 2020 during the George Floyd riots.
If they are not on Federal property, then President Trump has zero say in whether they stay or go. What he should do tomorrow is order the reconstruction of the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington National Cemetery. Tearing that down was a travesty as it was a symbol of a United south and north.
Big mistake, that is why we have Democrats screwing up our lives today.
You need to distinguish between Democrats then and Democrats now. First, today, there are no Democrat soldiers, let alone Confederate ones. Second, today's Democrats want to outlaw all just about all weapons, including sharp pencils, and couldn't tell you which is the end of a gun from which a bullet emerges. And Third, just about no Democrats today own horses, which they equate with traditional, i.e., "rayciss" people.
The only overlap between horses and Democrats today is that most Democrats are horses' asses.
“The only overlap between horses and Democrats today is that most Democrats are horses’ asses.”
I wasn’t trying to give everybody a history lesson, if you are educated you, know the history.
Lincoln, let them keep too much,
“To preserve the Union”.
That was a mistake.
We took till WWII to learn you need to obliterate a nation, in order to “make friends” with it.
Otherwise you’ll always have an dangerous opponent.
According to King George and Parliament the Rebels of 1776 were all Traitors.
The Colonial attempt at secession from the Mother Country and its legitimate government was both treason and sedition.
Like Lincoln 90 years later, George was having none of it and he was putting the rebellion down by force.
Lincoln broke no new ground, he simply borrowed the 1775 logic of London.
And for those who think that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made the Civil War different, it didn’t; the Royal government issued two emancipation proclamations during our Revolutionary War, Dunmore’s Proclamation of 1775 and the even more comprehensive Philipsburg Proclamation of June 30, 1779. A moralist of our era would need to say that the wrong side won.
“By the King, A Proclamation, For Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, July 8, 1775”
King George III’s Speech to Parliament October 26, 1775
https://www.ushistory.org/paine/more/kingspeech.htm?
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation, November 1, 1775
The Philipsburg Proclamation, June 30, 1779
https://www.philipsemanorhall.com/blog/the-philipsburg-proclamation#
Well, General Pike was guilty of representing Native Americans against encroachments on their land. He represented the Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws. I can see why racists would be opposed to honoring him.
Our Civil war was terrible and cost thousands of lives and literally pitted brother against brother. Abraham Lincoln wanted the war to end with a national reconciliation. Nothing shows this more than photos from veteran’s reunions at Gettysburg where former enemies met as brothers in arms. Robert E Lee was highly regarded after the war and became a college chancellor. Monuments were erected to Conferate generals not to glorify the war of rebellion,but to honor themas leaders.
“Robert E. Lee owned the land that is now Arlington National Cemetery. The land was confiscated by the US government.”
Arlington had been the property of Lee’s father in law, George Washington Parke Custis. Parke had made it into a shrine to his adopted grandfather, George Washington.
GW Parke Custis was Martha Washington’s grandson. Martha and George raised Parke and his sister as their own children after Parke’s father died.
Parke died in 1857, leaving Arlington to his daughter and her husband Robert E Lee, along with financial debts and some slaves. Parke’s will requested that the slaves be emancipated within five years. That required paying off the debts or the debtors could claim the slaves. Lee rented out the slaves to pay off the debt which was accomplished by 1862 and the slaves were freed.
Harvard Law did an extensive study within the last five years and tends to agree with Bledsoe
Free Silent Sam from the communists at UNC. He has yet to fire his rifle or meet a virgin there.
The last battle was Appomattox Court House. Antietam was years earlier.
And the Civil War was not “Democrats vs Republicans” despite how often that ignorance gets repeated.
Monuments were erected to Conferate generals not to glorify the war of rebellion, but to honor themas leaders.
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Unfortunately these sorts of subtleties are lost on the bonehead jacobins of the left. They want to reduce everything to the simplest moral terms so they can justify tearing everything down.
“To emphasize another issue, the Constitution would not have been ratified if James Madison, who was unequaled among delegates for scholarship of political organizations, had not with others supported positions that states retained sufficient sovereignty to secede as the last resort to a political impasse created by perceived usurpations or abuses of the federal government. He believed the transcendent law of nature demanding the right of self-preservation declared the safety and happiness of society must dominate political institutions and can require their sacrifice. This point was emphasized by the fact the perpetual relationship language binding the colonies and colonists in the Articles of Confederation did not carry over into the Constitution. The point was also emphasized by the fact the Treaty of Paris ending the revolution was signed between Great Britain and the individual colonies as sovereign entities and not with the Continental Congress.”
“In the final debates before Civil War none could point to specific language in the Constitution, Federalist Papers, or James Madison’s notes to the Constitutional debates of 1787 saying states could not secede. Instead, one found in the latter two language supporting peaceful secession. At the Constitutional Convention James Madison said, ‘The use of force against a state, would look more like a declaration of war, than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound’.”
‘ They want to reduce everything to the simplest moral terms so they can justify tearing everything down.’
Yeah. Just ignore the whole attempt to overthrow the country to protect the right to own people, and their just normal people with leadership skills.
The Dum-0-crats are too stupid to realize that, and don't forget they have been trying to re-write American history for many years now. We mustn't let them succeed.
Another historian once gave a speech on the question of secession, concluding that it was not prohibited in the Constitution.
The speech is titled “Shall Cromwell Have a Statue?” (Cromwell being a stand-in for Robert E Lee).
The historian who wrote the speech was Charles Francis Adams Jr. He had been a Union Army Cavalry Colonel in the Civil War. He was the grandson and g-grandson of the two US Presidents from his home state of Massachusetts. And for 20 years he was the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Adams wasn’t the only prominent Union Army veteran to question the Civil War. Another was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, also a combat officer from Massachusetts, and later appointed to the Supreme Court by Teddy Roosevelt.
Adam’s Cromwell speech is oddly hard to find online but the Library of Congress does offer it in PDF.
https://www.loc.gov/item/10005635/#:~:text=%22Shall%20Cromwell%20have%20a%20statue?%22
Final surrender was at Appomattox.
war could have ended sooner had
Lincoln not been so generous.
Of course it was not Democrats V Republicans,
It was a war of economics, but that is
harder to make clear in a short comment.
South never had a chance.
So….Trump is honoring democrats here?
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