Posted on 04/02/2011 7:53:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official.
Who would be chosen "Person of the Year, 1861"?
Five historians had made impassioned nominations, and the audience would now decide.
Most anywhere else, the choice would be obvious. Who but Abraham Lincoln? But this was a vote in the capital of the rebellion that Lincoln put down, sponsored by a museum dedicated to his adversary. How would Lincoln and his war be remembered in this place, in our time?
A century and a half have passed since Lincoln's crusade to reunify the United States. The North and the South still split deeply on many issues, not least the conflict they still call by different names. All across the bloodstained arc where the Civil War raged, and beyond, Americans are deciding how to remember....
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Sure you did. LMAO!
We haven't gotten to this yet. We're looking for the gold, remember?
You reveal your ignorance of forensic accounting by requiring a ludicrous standard. We laugh at you.
Still waiting for the documentation. We're looking for the gold. Earnings and expenditures, please.
I don’t collect welfare, never have. We put a republican governor in office to try and do something about the mess this states in Johnny Reb. Soviet States? Yeah right. So how about it? Are you going to march on Washington or what?
The war was started by Southern treasonous scum who wanted to create ‘’a great slaveholding Confederacy, stretching its arms over a territory larger than any power in Europe possesses’’- South Carolina governor Francis Pickens.
So, if you want to know, do some research... Richmond had a very active and well documented red light district.
Of course, the black slaves were left looking for their payday...
Maybe we need to cut some reparation checks. Would that make you feeeeeeel better?
I was reading a few days ago about a letter from a former slave to his former owner. The former owner had learned where his educated and valuable slave was living and working and made an offer to him and his wife to return to where he had been a working slave for 11 years, because “no other man could treat him as fairly”. The slave wrote back, forgiving his former ‘master’ for the occasional corporal punishment and the indiscretion of shooting at him as he escaped. The former slave noted that he had his free papers now, and before he returned, he wanted to know what wages were offered, and offered an estimate of the wages due him and his wife for 11 years, less room and board that had been extended. It was a sizable sum, unlikely to be available on short notice in those days, over 10,000 dollars.
I don’t think any former slaves are still above ground to be compensated. If there were, they would be owed compensation by their former owners. I think over 600,000 US soldiers who paid with their lives to put down the rebellion would make any reparations drawn from one race to be paid to another grossly unfair. I think we would do with fewer decisions made by race in this country, not more. I also think that funneling money or services through the government tends to be grossly inefficient. Better would be to have the admitted beneficiaries of slavery, such as Brown University, (founded by a family that profited from slave trading) should do what they think is right to help the heirs of the people they wronged, for the good of their souls.
Your mileage may differ.
Of course if the estates were not in debt, then Lee lied, to get away from his duty in Texas- very dishonorable by the lights of those times.
If Lee could pay the debt from his previous savings, then he used that excuse to extend and extend again his absence from his regiment, then that would be very dishonorable. I don’t think he was dishonorable, by the lights of his times. Perhaps you do.
So, we have an estate that could not pay for itself, indolent slaves, land that was restricted from being sold, and after a few years, all debts paid, the slaves referenced in the will paid to settle outside Virginia, and an offer to the US government to pay the back taxes in specie (which was turned down). Quite a turn around. More brilliant than any of his battlefield victories, accomplished by a man who had never worked as a farmer.
And where are the girls?
If Lee could pay the debt from his previous savings, then he used that excuse to extend and extend again his absence from his regiment, then that would be very dishonorable. I don’t think he was dishonorable, by the lights of his times. Perhaps you do.
Still have on your tin foil hat, I see. Documentation of ALL sources of income and expenditures, please. (Hint, ALL is capitalized for a reason. Think about it.) We're looking for the gold, remember?
Ex wife brainwashed you, that’s what I think.
So it is your pretense that there were no cash transactions in the Antebellum south? Tell me, is that really your position?
So you deny that cash transactions took place? That is really your contribution?
There's a process which must transpire before you get to cash transactions. Documentation, please. I'm still waiting. We're looking for the gold, remember?
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