Posted on 04/27/2013 3:45:10 AM PDT by daniel1212
8 things to think about as we mark the conflict's 150th anniversary.
Some ring strong: of course the end of slavery, perhaps the worst disgrace in the nation's history. And the 620,000 ancestors lost. Other vestiges have weakened with the passage of time but are no less legacies of the four horrific, heroic years that shaped us as one nation.
Here are eight ways the Civil War indelibly changed us and how we live:
1. We have ambulances and hospitals.
The Civil War began during medieval medicine's last gasp and ended at the dawn of modern medicine. Each side entered the war with puny squads of physicians trained by textbook, if at all. Four years later, legions of field-tested doctors, well-versed in anatomy, anesthesia and surgical practice, were poised to make great medical leaps.
The nation's first ambulance corps, organized to rush wounded soldiers to battlefront hospitals and using wagons developed and deployed for that purpose, was created during the Civil War. The idea was to collect wounded soldiers from the field, take them to a dressing station and then transport them to the field hospital.
Doctors laid out the hospitals as camps divided into well-defined wards for specific activities such as surgery and convalescence. Women flocked to serve these hospitals as nurses.
Before the war, most people received health care at home. After the war, hospitals adapted from the battlefront model cropped up all over the country. The ambulance and nurses' corps became fixtures, with the Civil War's most famous nurse, Clara Barton, going on to establish the American Red Cross. Today's modern hospital is a direct descendant of these first medical centers.
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Slavery was a universal but not monolithic institution in the ANE, and one must understand that context of those societies, and not suppose it all fits the image we have of slavery in the antebellum South. See http://www.christian-thinktank.com/qnoslave.html and http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/w/Slavery
Working as a servant to pay off debts, or gaining income by selling ones offspring into slavery or having assurance of food and care for life and perpetuation in an age when this was a very changeable situation was a strong attraction. And freedom being given in case of severe injury by an owner (even a tooth lost) and prohibition against returning an escaped slave, as well as equal pay and forbidding threatening as ones that will be judged by God, (Eph. 6:9) worked toward superior treatment than slavery in other places, as God worked toward the ideal seen to a strong degree in in the organic NT church (Acts 2,4,5) in which there was no slavery. See post 31
Meanwhile, the “slavery” that replaced slavery has placed multitudes in bondage to a victim entitlement mentality, with its bitterness, lack of respect, theft, sexual immortality, and drugs and depression, and in which you do not merit or work for what you gain, but gain it by making noise about imagined or exaggerated injustices. Which lying drugs help you to do.
1. Made me proud to be a Southern boy.
2. Gave me Lee and Jackson to love.
3. Gave me Lincoln and Sherman to hate.
4. Pointed out how little I have in common with the culture of the Northeast.
5. Started the still-gathering momentum towards a totalitarian central government.
Me, I don’t have any beef with people who work for a living, look after their kids, etc. don’t much care where they’re from if they’re sharing in the same struggles as the rest of us.
Unfortunately a huge population of layabouts dominates several cities here, and they give a bad rap to their brethren who are doing right.
On a separate note, I met Somalis when I was in Chicago. They each, independently of each other, talked about their surprise at being preyed upon when they got here by who they expected to be their African brothers. They all aspired to make their nut in the city and move to the ‘burbs as soon as they old.
If you convert all the unpleantries go away.
So does your soul.
Scott/Irish were on both sides. Depended on where they settled.
Re http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whoru/message/2
Interesting.
Another critique states,
Please remember why this amendment was a necessity to the U.S. Constitution and for what reasons it needed to be clarified from the original writing just shy of 100 years earlier.
Senator Jacob Howard of Ohio was the author of the ‘Citizenship Clause’ and defended the new language against the charge that it would make Indians citizens of the United States. Senator Howard assured skeptics that “Indians born within the limits of the United States, and who maintain their tribal relations, are not, in the sense of this Amendment, born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.” (As a sidebar: Why would people from Middle or South America be construed as any different?) http://onemorecup.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/revisit-the-fourteenth-amendment-in-content-and-context/
I am not educated enough in all the aspects this relates to and am recovering from sickness, but maybe someone else has a comment.
We lost the best President we ever had, Jefferson Davis. I shall remain unreconstructed for the rest of my natural life.
You are in Concord? Well bless your heart. Yep, know where it is. Lived in Lynchburg several years. Been to Appamatox and Concord. Had friend who lived near Concord.
It is true that not all races, cultures and thus not all immigrants are the same. WW2 made that manifest.
Among those in major influx groups i have known or observed, the Chinese, Greeks, and Cambodians and are among the most industrious, but i suspect the latter may have lost more offspring to the welfare culture.
The Algerian Muslims work and want to get along, and seem to want freedom from fundamental Islam, and i see nothing suspicious, and have many happy friendly (more modestly dressed) children.
The Cape Verdeans also have large families, but like most others, they lose more to cultural immorality.
Among the Latins, most men also seem to work (how many pay taxes i know not), but there is an very high rate of unwed mothers. It almost seems to be a rite of passage to get pregnant and thus get into the extensive fed and state welfare support system, which gets “better” if one of the children is diagnosed as special needs (14% are). It seems this is more prevalent among Puerto Ricans (who play the loudest music even late at night) though i think that may be matched in many black communities. Fathers are sometimes around, but many, perhaps most, are not married, which the gov. has mode economically detrimental. But which gets pols elected who support the system.
Yet i want to help them all, most importantly to turn to Christ from sin and receive and follow Him who died for them and rose again!
“Subject to the jurisdiction thereof” has a very simple and obvious meaning, that the person does not have what we now call diplomatic immunity. IOW, if you break a law of the US, are you subject to punishment?
If yes, then you are “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” If no, then you have diplomatic immunity and are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
In your first link, the author apparently does not understand that the several clauses of 14A address several issues that are not necessarily related. The 4th clause, with its prohibition of a future Congress repudiating the federal debt, has nothing to do with the 1st clause establishing who is a citizen.
The purpose of the 2nd and 4th clauses was to make it impossible for Congress to do some things that to our minds look so silly that there was no need to prohibit them: Compensate slaveowners for emancipation, assume the debts of the CSA or seceded states, or repudiate the federal debt, most of which was incurred during the War.
Per your second comment, you might want to review the Dred Scott decision. Which stated very clearly that liberty and justice did not apply to persons of African descent. And never would.
To our credit, this usurpation of power by the Court immediately created a backlash that eventually overturned the decision, though at the cost of upwards of 750,000 lives.
A problem is that of "Americans" who are really foreigners in their basic ideology. Many liberals want to eliminate any vow of fidelity in naturalization ceremonies, as they themselves seek to overthrow the Constitutional government, even if little by little.
Related: Following statistics are from “Disability and American Families:”, US Census Bureau Report
One out of 9 children under the age of 18 in the US today receive special education services
Out of 72.3 million families included in the US Census Bureau Report, about 2 in every 7 reported having at least one member with a disability
20.9 million families have members with a disability
Of the 20.9 million families reporting at least one member with a disability, 5.5 percent have both adults and children with a disability
One in every 26 American families reported raising children with a disability
One in every three families with a female householder with no husband present reported members with a disability 0- http://specialneedsplanning.net/statistics/
A vow, in today’s world, doesn’t mean much.
Anybody sincerely devoted to overthrow of our government wouldn’t balk at lying.
The problems in our country have very little to do with disloyal naturalized citizens. Most of our problems arise from disloyal but impeccably natural-born citizens.
In the Declaration of Independence, the very first official use of the term, it appears as "united States." But using the term as a common noun, not a title.
Of course rules of capitalization were somewhat more fluid back then.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-united-states-is-or-are/
Well Done.
"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena."
Jefferson Davis, address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.
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