Posted on 12/27/2002 6:50:38 AM PST by yankeedame
Friday, December 27, 2002
Lincoln statue won't be embraced by all
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. - Abraham Lincoln is returning to the capital of the Confederacy, much to the chagrin of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Five days before the Civil War ended in April 1865, the president and his youngest child, Tad, traveled to still-smoldering Richmond soon after Southern forces abandoned the city in flames. On April 5, 2003, the 138th anniversary of that visit, a bronze statue of the pair commissioned by the United States Historical Society will be unveiled at the Civil War Visitor Center of the National Park Service.
"Here is a national hero, a small boy, and a beautiful city by the James River, all united again," said Robert Kline, chairman of the nonprofit group society, which works on behalf of museums and other groups on projects of historic and artistic value. "This time Lincoln's in Richmond for all time."
Richmond, home to towering statues of Confederacy figures including Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart, was abandoned after Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attacked on April 2, 1965.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans view the Lincoln statue as "a slap in the face of a lot of brave men and women who went through four years of unbelievable hell fighting an invasion of Virginia led by President Lincoln," Brag Bowling, the SCV Virginia commander, said Thursday. The group had only recently learned of the statue, and had no immediate plans to protest.
The life-size statue by sculptor David Frech will show Lincoln and his son on a bench against a granite wall. The words "To Bind Up The Nation's Wounds" will be etched into a capstone.
Had he not been elected, there would have been no secession.
Even as it was, the Southern states left more in a mood of partying and relief, that a long and unhappy marriage was at last over, celebrating a divorce as it were. They were really in part tongue-in-cheek about hating the North; they never dreamed the bloodthirsty, bloodlusting hate that the other side harbored. Never dreamed the North had any such level of hate as to raise an army to level the South, kill or maim its men from 14 to 70, and level its houses, farms, and infrastructure... all over a difference of political opinion!
Let's face it, these Yankees were no gentlemen.
I'm thinking just three more insults will make the logic of your argument clear for many of us. It's hard to dismiss the clarity, and appeal of insult.
Your comment is a thinly veiled insult itself. I'm thinking just one more insult will make the logic of your argument clear for many of us.
Except that God did not see fit for the English to win, He did with the Union. The winner makes the distinctions.
It seems you define collegiality in a one-sided fashion. It's okay to have Confederate statues erected in Richmond, but not one of Lincoln. Seeing as how Lincoln was a President of the United States, and Richmond is located in the United States, and the statue is commemorating an event that happened in the United States, I fail to see the problem.
It is difficult to precisely draw neat conservative/liberal comparisons between 19th and 21st Century, particularly when talking about something as amorphous as major political party platforms, but if you'll look at the fierce tariff debates from the 1820s on, you'll see that opposition to tariffs was not limited to fighting protectionism but the sure knowledge that when economic growth caused tariff revenues to skyrocket the new found money would not lay around Washington for long. It would be spent; it would be spent to buy votes; it would create power in Washington and dependency in the hinterlands. That is a true conservative principle - and it proves itself a principle because it applies equally today.
Had he not been elected, there would have been no secession.
Thieves hate it when the victim resists.
Had Lincoln not been elected, this country would be just like the Balkans today.
Walt
Fascinating.
So whoever wins is God's favorite.
Presumably Jesus was lying when he said that the rain falls on the just and unjust alike.
Thanks for correcting His mistake.
Obviously, you don't.
You don't -ever- have to pay a tariff. You can always buy domestic. There were NO federal taxes in 1790, and there were NO federal taxes in 1860. What Hamilton did in the 1790's was to offer bonds. He paid the interest on those bonds with the tariff revenue. It worked.
However, the so-called CSA DID put export tariffs on cotton -- something strictly forbidden in the U.S. Constitution.
Walt
He was American. And Harlem is in America. Who cares if it's divisive and a waste of teaxpayer money?
I say put in there just to piss people off.
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