[BaBaStooey]

why isn't an idea like this one being supported? It seems the opposition to this comes from the sons of confederate veterans, and dixiecrat-like persons. Real republicans would support such statue, but I could see why old school southern democrats would not.

p.s. if any of these dixiecrat-sympathizers who haven't truly changed their ways thinks they are republican, then get out of my party. True racists belong on the other side of the aisle where they belong.

[dano1]

The Sons of Confederate Veterans view the Lincoln statue as "a slap in the face ...

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it." quoted from Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to W. H. Herndon, dated July 10, 1848

[My2Cents]

The words "To Bind Up The Nation's Wounds" will be etched into a capstone.

I guess there are some neo-Confederates who want the nation's wounds to remain unhealed.

[Moose4]

(pings to stainlessbanner and shuckmaster for their ping lists)

Feh, let 'em build the statue. Richmond's been trying for two generations to forget its history and turn into Indianapolis anyhow. The only other town I've ever seen that's more self-loathing about being Southern is Atlanta.

If the NPS wants to put a Lincoln statue in their visitor center (I assume it's the building that's the old Chimberazo Hospital, up on the hill in the East End, right?), it's their call. I think it's a little insensitive, personally, but I'm sure the administrators of the NPS are all northeastern liberals anyhow and give exactly zero-tenths of a damn about our sensibilities. And, if the visitor center is the place I think it is, with the neighborhood still being the same, the statue'll be stolen soon enough anyway.

Let them have their statue. That way, when the whiners from the NAALCP and friends start screaming yet again to remove the massive statues of Maury, Jackson, Lee, Davis, and Stuart from Monument Avenue, we can simply point them to the statue of Their Hero and tell them, "We have ours, you have yours, can't we all just get along?"

}:-)4

[billbears]

The words "To Bind Up The Nation's Wounds" will be etched into a capstone.

Another take it looks like. Words should read "To Bind Up The Nation meanwhile destroy the Republic" instead. I just pray one day the actual legacy of lincoln is taught in our classrooms, instead of the rosy Socialist view painted by slanted historians

[fightu4it]

When is someone going to commission a sculpture of a 50 tentacled Federal octopus squeezing the life out of the Soverign States?

[537 Votes]

As a black southerner might say, "Better a slap on your face than a whip on my back."