Posted on 07/12/2007 6:04:07 AM PDT by RDTF
Two old steamer trunks sit in the rare-book room at the Virginia Historical Society, looking worn and forlorn. The smaller one was once red but the paint has faded to a dull rust. The larger one is brown with a piece of tin patching a hole in the top. On one side, a name is stenciled: "M. LEE."
That's Mary Custis Lee, Gen. Robert E. Lee's adventurous eldest daughter. In 1917, she stored these wooden trunks in the "silver vault" in the basement of Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust in Alexandria. A year later, she died at the age of 83. Her trunks sat in a dusty corner of the vault for 84 years, unclaimed, until E. Hunt Burke, the bank's vice chairman, discovered them in 2002.
Burke called his high school classmate Rob E.L. deButts Jr., who is Robert E. Lee's great-great-grandson. Together, the two men descended into the vault. Burke carried a basket of old keys.
"The first one I pulled out was a perfect fit," he says.
The trunks were stuffed with Lee family papers -- a priceless cache of 4,000 letters, photographs and documents. DeButts carted them to the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, which houses the world's largest collection of Lee papers. He spent a week there, sitting at a desk in the research library, reaching into Mary Custis Lee's trunks and picking out treasures and trash.
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that's what happens to a government that acts KNOWINGLY UNlawfully. it's called: PUNISHMENT.
free dixie,sw
Uh huh.
and they get a whitewashed but overwhelming indoctrination into civil rights figures..
I'll take the true Biblical G-d over Jefferson's false "gxd of nature" any day.
Please note that as one whose ancestors fought against slavery, it hardly flatters my personal ego to learn that they were wrong.
“Among the calamities of war the hardest to bear perhaps is the separation of families and friends.”
Simply said but IMO, a great new Robert E Lee quote is discovered - among others.
(in article, 1st page, 3rd pararaph from bottom)
I claim that because it's true. The Federalists were this country's original conservatives and Jefferson and his party supported the Jacobin Revolution. And need I remind you that George Washington was a Federalist who signed Hamilton's bank into law?
You claim to be a theocrat who supports slavery in the ‘right’ condition? No doubt about it, you’re a yank through and through...
Since I understand you use the term "yank" to describe anyone who believes in a universal objective morality that all men should be compelled to live by (as opposed to a world of henotheistic nations, each creating its own distinct and "equally valid" worldview), then yes, I am a yank. So were the original chr*stian missionaries who converted your heathen ancestors. I guess that makes them "bolsheviks," right?
Yep, you're a "palaeo" through and through. And that's not a compliment. Perhaps you should consider sending money to Cindy Sheehan's congressional campaign?
The utilitarian (and ultimately secular) "civilizationist" defense of religion is an insult to everyone who actually believes in G-d.
Nam Vet
What a buffoon. Is it time for me to run you off this thread? Shall we all?
Met a junior high school teacher who kept a small picture of Gen. Lee on his desk. Said the kids all think it’s his grandaddy.
Thanks for the ping SB
Fascinating. I read a book once which covered the origins of the Lee family when they first emigrated to America. They made their fortune from tobacco and were large land owners. IIRC, there were 7 sons who inherited large swaths of property, etc. The entire family has an interesting history.
Sure thing StoneWall Brigade - some great posts on the thread today.
I am sorry that my typing skills are not up to your high standards, but that hardly disqualifies my arguments.
Sheesh. How many closet atheists who use G-d for His "social utility" in sustaining European civilization do we have on this forum?
Thank G-d I live in the Fundamentalist, Bible Belt South and not the old, high-church, social utilitarian "civilizationist" South.
Why don't you do that?
I bet you don't believe in the "rapture." That wouldn't help "western civilization," would it? And the salvation of the individual soul? How does that help sustain Western European Man in his noble task of upholding chr*stianity against all those b*ddhist Blacks and hindu Mexicans? Shoot, since the "second coming" would make "European Civilization" superfluous, you probably don't even believe in that.
Since you reject univeral morality as "bolshevist do-gooding," why don't you put your money where your mouth is and convert to the pagan religion of your ancestors?
And I'll take Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Marshall, and Webster over Jefferson, Randolph, and Calhoun any day of the week, thank you.
so let me guess...you are a know-it-all thread hijacker that has to prove he is not insecure by posting insulting, assuming, long winded rambles about nothing?
Pathetic buffoonery at it’s best.
Indeed
Reading some of this stuff is really confusing.
From one side of their mouth posters claim that you can’t support the troops if you don’t support the war (cause). From the other side of their mouth it is claimed that you can support a slave holding general but don’t support the cause (slavery).
Yeah, Hitler almost conquered Europe with strokes of brilliant military moves....if you’ll just ignore that little thing with the Jews.
Also, all those slaves singing on the plantation were really happy; certainly happier than any Negro today.
Vast majority of our posters are intelligent, “fair” minded, and harshly critical when it is called for (why I am a member). A few on these threads only provide fodder for the DBM ....and guess who is going to be quoted on CNN.
Excuse me, but one poster implicitly attacked the very notion of morality. Please excuse me for not realizing that "morality" is not a conservative concept.
Go back to reading your Origin of Species.
you mean the DU
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