Posted on 01/18/2005 5:57:53 PM PST by wagglebee
BTTT
"Wow. That's weird, cause I thought Lincoln was a Republican? Bizzare."
Yes, he was such a great man that he had Northern newspapermen jailed and their presses broken for writing stories critical of him. He suspended Habeous Corpus (sp?) and even had a congressman jailed. I don't think it matters what party he was from he was still a rascal with no respect for the Constitution.
I agree. Everything I've ever read about the man says the same thing. He was against secession, but his loyalty to Virginia forced him to fight for her. It must have tormented him to have to make the decision that he made, but he felt that he had no choice. It probably seems strange to people that a man whose father was a Revolutionary War hero could fight against the Union that his father helped to establish, but I don't think we can understand the loyalty that men had for their home states at that time.
Happy birthday to your son! My son (who is also named James) shares a birthday with Alexander Hamilton Stephens - February 11th.
I know of one father who named his sons David Lee and Michael Lee. When David Lee begat a daughter, he was sad that they did not Lee in her name somehow.
Somewhere along the line, the Democrat and Republican Parties have swapped positions - Lincoln's Republican Party stood for a bloated federal government, strong central control, high taxes, lots of government projects (mostly railroads and canals) and limiting the rights of states and individuals. Of course, they could not possible conceive how far down that road we have come since then...
I think that Lee was one of the three best men to be forged in the fires of the Civil War. The other two are Grant and Lincoln. Without these three, the late great unpleasantness may not have ended on such an optimistic note.
Nice post. Thanks. I've always admired the General.
He more than just ignored the Constitution. He trampled it under his foot, mocked it, and destroyed it.
I suggest you head on back whence you came.
I was born and raised in the north, yet I learned that General Lee was indeed an honorable man. This lesson was reinforced during my extended stay in the South. Why is it that dumba$$es (not unlike your less than lovely self) cannot let people honor their heroes without throwing out your snide and utterly uncalled-for "wit"??? General Lee may not have been on the side of the angels during the war, but he was far from being on the side of the devil, as General Grant was, to his eternal discredit... and, yes, I am referring to the far less than venerable A. Lincoln.
I sure do wish people would remember the service he rendered in Mexico under Gen. Scott. Down there he was part SEAL part Prussian general staff officer. Amazing record. He could've died in '49 and would've been remembered as one heck of a soldier.
Jackson could have been the fourth. That blacks would sneak past Union sentries to put flowers upon Stonewall's grave speaks volumes.
Look up Honor in a dictionary, see Gen. Lee's picture
there.
The side of states' rights and the side of allowing states, when the Federal government threatened their rights, to take the ultimate enforcement action. Without the right to secede, the Federal colossus can do to the states (and by extension to individuals) any darn thing it wants, effectively. Secession, although it should be a VERY last resort, is the ultimate means to keep Federal power in check.
I am very proud to have Lee blood. They truly are the First Family of Virginia and one of America's first families. (It was a Lee who wrote the resolution for independence, you know.)
What schools? My children didn't get one word about Gen. Robert E. Lee in school! So we made darn sure they knew who he was and what a fine example he set. Later we went to Stratford Hall and they learned a lot more; also went to Appomattox Courthouse and several of the great Battlefields, and spent a lot of time in Lexington, Va.,(Stonewall Jackson),etc.--that was the Civil War History vacation. The kids soaked it up, too. The way things have gone in this country,a parent has to do a lot of teaching if they expect the kids to actually learn HISTORY of AMERICA in addition to school classes for they just aren't about to do it. And, that is why this country has been going down the wrong road for so many years!!!!Parents are not taking the time to teach and we are losing our children to a bunch of talking heads who don't have a clue. Thanks to W also for the great post!
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