Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United State of America. He should have been hanged along with all Confederate officers.
“Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United State of America. He should have been hanged along with all Confederate officers.”
I would be careful, because as of tomorrow, WE are the ones that will considered traitors to the United State of America.
The rights of states to act of their own accord in matters that are of the best interests of their citizens was why the United States was built as a federal republic, and why the word “states” is in our nations name.
Sadly we have forgotten that, and an all powerful federal entity has risen from it. Conservatives, like the founders as well as the union leaders who DID NOT hang the confederate officers, appreciated the idea.
You may too in the near future given where we are headed.
The Yankees invaded the South, the South did not invade the Yankees.
And you are a horses ass and should be tar & feathered.
Thank goodness at least 300,000 of those invading Yankee Scum died forcing their will on the South.
When you go out...do our friends were their “I’m with stupid” shirt?
Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United State of America. He should have been hanged along with all Confederate officers.
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Yankee troll.
You would do well to remember that the most hallowed ground is that which is consecrated in defeat.
>>Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United State of America. He should have been hanged along with all Confederate officers.<<
Which would have accomplished, what? The North fought to preserve the Union. Hanging men who, in good conscience opposed government policies, would have done more harm to the Union than the war ever could.
Hanging them would have made them martyrs and we all know how that turns out. Me, I will celebrate Robert E. Lee’s birthday as he would have wanted, quietly and reflective.
We may ALL be called upon soon to fight for what we believe or become slaves of a tyrannical government. What will you do then?
Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and all multicultural Marxists most certainly would agree with you. Glad ya’ll think alike!
Gen.Lee is a shining example of devotion to duty and selfless service.We would all do well to aspire to his example. Might I humbly suggest,stevecmd,that you examine the man and his life.We could certainly use men of his caliber in our nation today.As a native Virginian,I understand his love of home, my own family was in Virginia before the American Revolution.Even though I have been gone these many years,I still consider myself a Virginian. Virginia to me is about kin and friendships bonded through the many generations,held together by shared joys an tragedies. Gen. Lee epitomizes this, and when I think of the good general, I think of him fondly and with a spirit of reverence. Happy Birthday General Lee.
Robert E. Lee helped to refine many useful tactics in warfare. The fact that Lee decided to surrender instead of trying to fight his way back down South was reason enough not to hang him.
I have a problem trying military officers as they are simply the ones who doing the fighting for the Politicians. I'd be more comfortable prosecuting Political leaders who start a war, ultimately blood in on their hands.
You have warped view of history.
You should do more research. Robert E. Lee and the Confederates were fighting for American ideals, namely the rights of the States.
There was a good reason that the U.S. government never put on trial the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. He was held as a prisoner of war for 2 years but never went on trial. I think the prosecution finally figured out that they would lose in a trial because the South (or any state) did have the right to leave the Union.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis
Imprisonment and retirement
On May 19, 1865, Davis was imprisoned in a casemate at Fortress Monroe, on the coast of Virginia. He was placed in irons for three days. Davis was indicted for treason a year later. .....
After two years of imprisonment, he was released on bail which was posted by prominent citizens of both northern and southern states, including Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gerrit Smith (Smith, a former member of the Secret Six, had supported John Brown). Davis visited Canada, Cuba and Europe. In December 1868, the court rejected a motion to nullify the indictment, but the prosecution dropped the case in February 1869.
Lee’s “country” was Virginia. This was his first allegiance, just as it was for the earlier “traitors” George Washington, Patrick Henry, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. As clearly indicated by their writings and letters, all owed their first allegiance to the state of Virginia. Perhaps if Great Britain had won the American Revolution, they all would have been hanged, and been treated with revulsion by the post-modernists.
By the way, according to your logic, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Erwin Rommel, and William Wallace were also “traitors”.
There was always a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee in the office of Dwight D. Eisenhower, even when he was president of the United States, and in 1960 a New York dentist took him to task, citing the fact that Lee gave his best efforts to defeat the nation from 1861-1865.
In his reply on Aug. 1, 1960, Eisenhower pointed out that secession was at that time an unresolved question and had been debated for 70 years. Lee, the president said, believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of the Southern cause.
Of Lee personally, he wrote that “he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingen-ious, unrelenting, and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his belief in God.”
Eisenhower saw Lee “noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.”
He felt that the youth of America would do well to emulate his qualities, including his painstaking efforts to help heal the nation’s wounds once the war was over.
“From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul,” Eisenhower stated and concluded, “I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.”
If there was a right to secede, than they are not traitors. If there was no right to secede, then they are traitors. Let me ask you, why don't you believe that there is a right to secede? Do you not believe that people have the right to choose their own form of government? Do you think we had a right to secede from Britain?