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.
Wouldn't you be happier over at politicalviolencerepublic.com?
That's my question too. It seems the only ones keeping this alive are the leftists who profit from balkanizing society and the ones who are [evidently] still upset about the outcome of the war. And as near as I can tell both groups are still living in a time 135 years ago.
I'm not at all convinced that putting a statue of an American president in Richmond is eing done to piss people off.
Let me get this straight: you're claiming that Prussia lost the Franco-Prussian War, and that Napoleon III's forces actually defeated the Prussian army instead of the other way around?
Or are you admitting that Prussia won and France lost, and you're claiming instead that Bismarck was never Chancellor of Prussia and therefore not on the winning side?
Explain yourself.
That is exactly right; Lincoln refused even to consider whether or not the so-called seceded states were even ever out of the Union. He refused to consider treason trials for any rebel leader.
He was for a soft peace, which he had begun with the reconstruction government in Louisiana in 1863. He received much abuse from his own party for vetoing the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864. This bill threw out Lincoln's "10% plan" and substituted an iron clad oath of -never- having supported the CSA in order to vote. It also set up military districts with military governors.
Winston Churchill called Lincoln "the last protector of the prostrate south."
The question really is whether or not Richmond -deserves- a statue of Lincoln.
Walt
A tariff is the government saying: you can't buy certain things until I get my cut. Either way, the government is restricting your free use of your own income.
The Confederate cotton tariff was a response to a military blockade. If the South didn't have to take desperation war measures, it's highly unlikely that any tariff would ever have existed.
If you won the civil war, then why the hell do I have an American passport?
If you won the civil war then why am I paying taxes to the American IRS?
Sorry. My mistake.
They way you automatically added insult with your every point had me assuming you were a liberal. I see now that was unfair.
Clearly, I have oppressed you, and pretended to be the victim. That is the true shame of it.
The power of insult to sway the intellect, and influence others to your cause cannot be underestimated. But..before I interrupted..you were making a point involving 'Inbred Morons'; please continue....
I don't want to do that.
I do want an interstate system, I do want meat inspected and doctors certified, I do want Al Qaeda not to cut my throat -- all things I can't afford by myself.
You want some sort of nirvana that does not admit of the human condition. The secessionists wanted to balkanize us. Thank God they were thrown down in defeat.
Walt
Maybe that explains your passport, W2 and the Johnson, Truman, Johnson, Carter, Clinton and GW Bush administrations.
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