Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.
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Davis himself pleaded to the authorities to move his case to trial on more than one occasion.
The authorities were fearful that should a trial for treason be commenced the outcome could not be controlled and would likely be an embarrassment to the republic for the testimony that would have become public regarding the execution of the war by the administration.
Should Davis be found not guilty by reason that secession was not unconstitutional, could you imagine the outcome? Civil unrest and another insurrection by the people for the current administration to put down. The army may not have been willing to use the tactics necessary for shutting down the peoples' voice. The populace would have been so enraged at the prospect of being misled by the Lincoln regime for the deaths of 620,000+ Americans, untold misery, and an enormous financial expenditure that a tremendous backlash might have commenced thereby threatening the very lives of those in power that were responsible for the prosecution of the war.
No one in the government was prepared to take that chance, ergo no trial!
Slaves as well often regarded the farms and homes as theirs, in interest since not in possession. The white folk were ‘their people’. They could criticize their white folk, but you better not.
When I was in grade school our janitor asked us about some Civil War site we had visited. He was about 60, I suppose, and he proudly informed us that his mother as a young girl had been one of Mrs Robert E Lee’s house maids. He valued his connection to that family and to American history.
Find a copy of Weevils in the Wheat, interviews conducted in the 30s with elderly blacks who had lived as slaves in their youth. Most people would be surprised at what they had to say. Today’s south-haters wouldn’t like the book at all, there’s almost none of the vitriol they possess.
Well said! I am saddened, too, that Americans resorted to killing each other. Such a tragedy.
I’m glad that the South remained in the Union. It would be a poor country without our great southern states, and people. Having said that, I believe that the southern states had every right to secede. It was a terrible time, and the loss of so many of our boys, both north and south was tragic.
I’m a westerner, and have much more in common with southerners than yankees.
California is full of liberals and they hate the south because we still vote conservative.
I don't think people have the power in this country to tell others what they can and can't use unless it is copyrighted. I don't like anti-American LaRaza supporters flying the US flag (or the KKK for that matter), but there is not much I can do about it.
What I really object to is people who try to ascribe nefarious motives to others for the simple reason of creating an issue they can be the arbiter of. It's just part of the long march of cultural desconstruction.
Yep.
No.
Chilling.
The South was trying to do versus the North what the American colonies had done versus Great Britain.
The Yankees had rethought the War of Independence and decided that King George was right, after all.
I know. History has been so misconstrued. But you would be called racist just for qouting those old black people in that book.
Well, thanks for not calling me a nut. I'm sure someone else will, soon.
Oh you can count on it. Maybe not tonight but tomorrow for sure. Fact is, this isn’t the first time I have read about this.
One house on the family property remained standing, a log home that was built in 1840 after Indian lands were opened by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. It still stands today, incorporated into a modern home by one of my cousins.
The log house was outside of town somewhat, but the nearby city was burned to the ground in a practice run by Sherman, in preparation for what he would do to Georgia. Famine and exposure were very real to the people who remained, and what had been a very prosperous region suffered for decades after. There was no Marshall Plan. Sherman’s intention was to cause as much suffering as he could, and starving civilians with no shelter meant nothing to him.
It has occurred to me that America’s subsequent kindness to conquered people had its roots in reaction to how the North treated the South. Southerners like Woodrow Wilson and George Marshall, Patton for that matter, didn’t intend to be part of repeating that sad chapter in American history.
Well, quite the contrary in my case. Quantrill was a cold-blooded killer. But those he fought against in Kansas were absolutely NO BETTER. Sherman had no such comparison. What he did was despicable.
True now, but before the great wave of immigration southern California had a lot of people with roots in the South. A lot of those families have moved away as industries left and illegals drove wages down.
I watched a documentary on a northern prison camp from the civil war. What they did to the southern troops was dispicible.
A lot of them looked forward to seeing ‘their white folks’ again after they died. A lot thought the slaves down the road had it bad, but personally they had enjoyed their lives, though they certainly lacked material things. It’s not as if they wished to go back, but it’s notable that they lacked rancor. Their life had simply been different then.
One woman stands out, she hated her former master 60 years later. A terrible situation to be tied to someone you loathe and can’t get away from. I had a boss like that for about 5 years.
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