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.
I'm sorry it was to Richmond that Lincoln came, but he did....
Well, that's the thing, WP.
I'm a conservative, and I support allowing black people to vote and serve on juries.
I also oppose tariffs and protectionism of any kind.
Additionally, I believe aggressive public works projects - I'm sorry, "internal improvements" - are a huge drain on taxpayers and are essentially a tactic to expand the size and scope of government intrusion in daily life.
I also believe that the best way to settle disputes among Americans is through negotiation and the ballot box, not Waco-style federal bulldozing.
So it really doesn't surprise me, as a conservative, that Lincoln is not worshipped as a secular god here on FR.
Why would anyone not listen to a reasoned, intellect that begins like this? The appeal to logic is unavoidable.
In order to furthur the leftists agenda of divide and conquer by causing issues that should have been laid to rest years ago and bear no relevance in today's world to continue to divide. This a great one for them, too. Look at all the Lincolnites who are conservative and would normally be for smaller government, being duped into jumping on the leftist, big government, force-it-down-their-throats, band wagon.
It is your choice to join the rest of the nation with grace and dignity as your forebearers did, or harbor some weird successionist fervor instead.
Beautifully said. My compliments.
The thing to do is show DeBow's data to be wrong. Can you do that, or is carping about it your limit?
Walt
No member of my family ever lived south of the Mason-Dixon line until my cousins moved to Baltimore in 1979. I have two ancestors who were directly involved in the Civil War and they both fought for the Union - which is why I'm a member of the Sons of Union Veterans.
This is not outcome-based history to improve your self-esteem.
My self-esteem is intact. I don't need to build a chest-beating statue in Richmond to remind myself that my great-great-grandfather marched with Grant.
Old Town Albuquerque still has on display the Texas cannons captured at the Battle of Glorietta Pass.
Great. Richmond has the Confederate White House on display that was captured during the Virginia Campaign. Unless the statue of Lincoln in question was present during the military action I don't see any good reason to display it.
Your getting closer.
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.
1965? You kinda figure Grant would have retired by then.
With all the anti Lincoln, Pro Jeff Davis... pro strom, anti Thomas Dewey folks here,... one would think this was a democratic site.
I just love these so called republicans, who believe that the party was basically formed as a criminal blasphemy.
The Republican Party stomped those ratty rats led by the chief rat Jefferson Davis but good, as one freeper would say.
I am curious as to when exactly these folks believe that the republicans found their way. Lincoln was bad... Strom was better than Dewey.... was Goldwater the first republican these folks liked?
Funny - they were all Franks years before that.
I wonder how they became two peoples? I wonder if the hypothetical situation I presented above would hinder them as they try to become one nation again?
It is your choice to join the rest of the nation with grace and dignity as your forebearers did, or harbor some weird successionist fervor instead.
I don't harbor any fervor to succeed anyone - nor do I harbor any fervor for New York State to secede from the Union.
Lincoln himself opposed rubbing the South's nose in its military failure. It seems odd to use his memory to do just that.
What fervor? All we want is the rest of you busybodys to leave us alone. There are no slaves here. Virginia is the only state to ever elect a black govenor. The City of Richmond is run by blacks. We have a DimRAT yankee carpetbagger from Conneticutt for a govenor now. State employees get off for Martin Luther King Day. You want a statue of Lincoln? Put one up in your own yard.
All the intellectual strengths of a liberal. Perhaps reminding my neighbor that I want to starve their children would help as well. May I also suggest rhyming. As we all know, if it rhymes it must be true.
Your logic, and vocabulary are indeed inspirational.
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