The Last Words of Edmund Ruffin, Southern Patriot

1865 | Edmund Ruffin

[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

[TexConfederate1861]

Well...SAY "iced tea" if you mean THAT!

[Phantom Lord]

South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

Above: Three of the estimated 45 million
Southerners who have not yet gotten
around to rising again.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

looks like he was an original member of NELSON:

>
Get a haircut!

[4CJ]

It depends on whether they make an exception for copperheads like myslef.

Of course, why wouldn't we?

[sphinx]

Sore loser, wasn't he?

Ruffin was the kind of slavery perpetualist that tarnishes the memory of the South. His kind would have lost out even without the war, probably within a generation, probably through compensated emancipation. I wonder if he would still have been bitter.

[Non-Sequitur]

CORRECTION: Sorry, he was from ILLINOIS, not Iowa. I always get the "I" states confused... Just remember. Iowa stands for Idiots Out Wandering Around.

And for the benefit of our friend from the southland I will elaborate on what you said by pointing out that Reagan was born and raised in and around Dixon, Illinois; he was educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois; and if memory serves his first job was with WGN in Chicago.

[verity]

Is he related to Fritz Hollings? :~)

[Phantom Lord]

I have NEVER heard someone order a "sweet ICED tea" or an "unsweet ICED tea" before. It is always referred to as sweet or unsweet TEA

[Phantom Lord]

Ill grant you what you said. But then expalin for me how someone moving to NC from Arizona or California is a Yankee? And dont say for a minute that they are not called such by 'natives'.

[rebelyell]

That's pretty funny, billy yank! It reminds me of the only good yankees out there...the ones buried in straight rows on Robert E. Lee's plantation.

[Phantom Lord]

Ever notice that any and all threads that are based on North vs. South are started by southerners and they are the ones who start the bashing and complaining?

I have yet to see a thread posted by a yankee for the purpose of bashing southerners or complaining about them.

[Phantom Lord]

Correction... I have seen VERY FEW such threads posted by Yankees. They are few and far between. While those posted by southerners are plentiful.

[TexConfederate1861]

Looks like some of those people from Michigan....

[sphinx]

I have yet to see a thread posted by a yankee for the purpose of bashing southerners

We already did that. Don't need a thread to rub it in.

[Phantom Lord]

Looks like some of those people from Michigan....

Just the Red Wings fans.

[MissouriForBush]

As a "border-state" Missourian with Southern heritage, I am dismayed by some of the posts I see here. I think that most Southerners decry all the "political correctness" today that tries to lump anything Southern or Confederate into the "extremist" or "reactionary" category. They know that the South is much more than Bill Clinton or any stereotypical Southern movie or TV character "crafted" out in Hollywood. The real South is about faith, family and strong ties to the land. And I daresay that the average Confederate soldier was fighting foremost to protect his family and defend his land. For me, the South means wonderful grandparents with integrity and humility; quilts being handed down in the family all the way from Virginia or North Carolina -- then through Tennessee and Kentucky -- before being gently draped on the edge of a family bed or rocking chair in Missouri; eating Oyster Dressing (from a several-hundred-year-old family recipe brought from Virginia) at Thanksgiving Dinner; and having Sunday dinner after church at my Grandmother's with lots of relatives gathered around several tables -- some makeshift -- to sample some of the best fried chicken in the world -- but always preceded by my Grandfather's saying of the blessing. I could go on and on, but I will rest my case here.

[TexConfederate1861]

For some it WAS...like Ruffin

For most it WASN"T!

[4CJ]

So your definition of "Free Speech" is "I speak and no one has the right to challenge what I say," did I get that right? The state of "southern" public schools is sadder than I suspected.

No, you didn't get it right. I wrote "And look how many denigrate his 1st Amendment right to free speech, and would supress it. Shades of Lincoln."

Don't you know that Lincoln suppressed political dissent? Check the history books. It's there, on the page you apparently skipped. ;o)