Posted on 06/05/2002 8:53:55 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861
"I here declare my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule -- to all political, social and business connection with the Yankees and to the Yankee race. Would that I could impress these sentiments, in their full force, on every living Southerner and bequeath them to every one yet to be born! May such sentiments be held universally in the outraged and downtrodden South, though in silence and stillness, until the now far-distant day shall arrive for just retribution for Yankee usurpation, oppression and atrocious outrages, and for deliverance and vengeance for the now ruined, subjugated and enslaved Southern States!
..And now with my latest writing and utterance, and with what will be near my latest breath, I here repeat and would willingly proclaim my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule--to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, and the perfidious, malignant and vile Yankee race."
--Edmund Ruffin , 1865
I suppose you don't like our OTHER famous Southrons:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, etc?!
Why is it that you Yankee Types only see people as "NEO" if they disagree with your Communist, bayonet-forced, view of history?!
And look how many denigrate his 1st Amendment right to free speech, and would supress it. Shades of Lincoln.
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If so, what do you think about the fact that folks like TexConfederate1861, Shuckmaster, Twodees and other "neo-Confederates" hate your guts, and think you are the epitome of evil?
It depends on whether they make an exception for copperheads like myslef.
Ah, then I'm sure you can produce the bill of sale that transferred the land from the Federal Government to the Confederate States of America.
The land for Fort Sumter had been deeded over to the Federal Government by the State of South Carolina, with all claims extinguished, in 1836.
So why did you post Ruffin's tripe about his unmitigated hatred for the "Yankee race?"
Secondly, Ronald Reagan was born in or near Dixon, Illinois, in 1911, attended local schools here in northern Illinois, attended and gradutaed Eureka College which I believe is in Illinois, went to work for WHO radio in Iowa broadcasting Chicago Cubs games from a ticker tape feed, and moved to California only when he neared thirty years of age. I have little doubt that most who prefer the Confederacy would prefer Reagan to the Arkansas Antichrist and I would bet that you would prefer Ronaldus Maximus as well.
The enslavement of millions of human beings certainly qualifies as "Bayonet Rule." Of course, the efficacy of "future political action" in such circumstances requires that both sides be rational.
But if one side is so wedded to its tyannical institution that it is willing to fight to the death to maintain and expand it; and if that side is so irrational as to defend the enslavement of millions on the grounds of "freedom and self-determination," then it is highly unlikely that the evil can be ended by merely political means.
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