Posted on 04/29/2019 10:09:48 AM PDT by Pelham
That there is no significant difference between the American war for Independence and the Confederate war for Independence.
Other than one tyrant was more willing to shed blood than the other.
And I have no shame in presenting it! :)
Washington was a part time employee of the King, a few years militia service during the F/I war if I remember correctly. He was not educated on the Kings shilling at Eton.
Lee on the other hand received a free education at West Point and 40 years of employment in the Army of the United States courtesy of the Federal Government.
Be my guest.
Sorry - I meant insurrectionists...
I would think that after 40 years they would have gotten their money's worth, or do they own him for life?
Funny, I thought we were against that sort of thing. :)
You can get away with saying anything if you preface it with "Arguably," but if some other state had decided to opt out of the country during the Mexican War when Lee was fighting there, they wouldn't want to be around when he got back.
The Federal blueprint (Constitution) was beautifully designed; but that did not alter original commitments to a developing Virginia, which was for a long time the leading member of that Federation.
So Lee was loyal to his oath so long as Virginia was the leading state in the country? Doesn't say much for the guy.
Clearly, holding democratic elections in which the populace votes to leave is not "insurrection."
You may want to take a look at what's going on in England right now. I believe they call it "Brexit."
It is the way the confeds tried it.
Lee would have been on the Federal Government half pay until he died.
By insisting that troops under the command of the government they left be removed from the entrance to the port of one of their most prominent port cities? Yeah, that's just unreasonable.
I guess the money wasn't as important to him as defending his homeland was.
I was looking forward to your explanation as to how this was a correct and proper method of interpreting Kansas Constitution Article 1.
The Confederacy was not Lee’s home land. The State of Virginia was.
Yes, indeed, they got their money’s worth. Years of teaching at West Point, head of the Army Corps of Engineers, service in the Mexican War (a war he didn’t like) and so many other incredible duties carried out with his noted service to authority. Top that with his turning Washington College into a fine institution of learning!
I will not mention his teeth-grindingly annoying ability to get through West Point without a single demerit, lol, while my other two chaps, Custer and Grant, came up short! Well, Custer, cane up incredibly short but was a true hero of the Civil War despite the carping of the politically-correct.
Hope all is well with you, Diogenes Lamp!
(Computer doing weird things: I spelled came correctly but it keeps coming out “cane”.
When his state voted to take up common cause with them, he was obliged to do his state's bidding.
But you know that.
He was not obliged to. He made a conscious decision to do so. As I would probably have done under similar circumstances.
Hope you are enjoying it, though I would think it would be very hot there in the Summertime. :)
Yes, we are once again engaged in another iteration of the endless discussion of the civil war. I do find it interesting because I occasionally learn something new.
Anyways, I hope you are well and having a good time!
I have to agree with you there - it was unreasonable of them. Provocative too.
I think many people would have done the same. Your home is where your heart is.
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