Posted on 06/25/2010 4:31:27 PM PDT by central_va
Open Message to Mr. Beck (self proclaimed historian). Tonight on your TV show you said that you read the Confederate Constitution and I paraphrase "it had slavery written all over it, all about slavery blah blah blah". You are incorrect sir, I did a word search on the document and the word slavery appears "one" time. Everyone can try it for themselves at the link provided below.
Can never trust a Yankee, even a goofy entertaining one.
You’ve rebutted nothing, except the concept that you have anything to contribute. But keeping on thinking that while you contemplate your navel.
If you’re expecting substance from the Lost Cause side then might as well hang it up. We already have.
Clyde Wilson? Shoot, might as well quote Bill Clinton and be done with it. Anything Clinton said has a better chance of being accurate.
The SPIRIT of the Confederacy will never die and NO, that spirit is NOT about slavery....
still a POS lying damnyankee.
There. Fixed it.
So the Southern tradition must be to leave the defenseless unprotected, is that it? After all it was your army that high-tailed it in the opposite direction where Sherman was headed.
It's all about revisionist myth and Southron fairy tales.
Then let me alter mine to fit you are well.
And you're still a moronic, clueless Lost Causer. Some things will never change.
There is a class of people [in the South], men, women, and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order.
The United States has the right, and…the…power, to penetrate to every part of the national domain. We will remove and destroy every obstacle – if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper.
We are in our enemy’s country, and I act accordingly…the war will soon assume a turn to extermination not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people.
Seems he didn't care much for Indians either:
The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed next year, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
"I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands upon thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes home to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to carry war into Kentucky and Tennessee, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace at their old homes and under the Government of their inheritance. But these comparisons are idle. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success."
"We cannot change the hearts of these people of the South but we can make war so terrible...make them so sick of war that generations will pass before they ever again appeal to it."
"It will be a physical impossibility to protect the roads, now that Hood, Forrest, Wheeler, and the whole batch of devils are turned loose without home or habitation. I think that Hood's movements indicate a diversion to the end of the Selma & Talledega road, at Blue Mountain, about 60 miles southwest of Rome, where he will threaten Kingston, Bridgeport, and Decatur,Alabama, I propose that we break up the railroad from Chattanooga forward, and that we strike out with our wagons for Midgeville, Millen, and Savannah. Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless for us to occupy it, but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people, will cripple their military resources. By attempting to hold the roads, we will lose a thousand men each month, and we will gain no result. I can make this march, and make Georgia howl! We have on hand over 8 thousand head of cattle and three million rations of bread, but no corn. We can find plenty of forage in the interior of the state."
"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes."
"My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom."
"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."
So where, exactly, is Sherman wrong in any of them?
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It must be hard for you - knowing that your ancestors willingly tasting the underneath of thee federal boot. Just plain sad. Don't that make you sick? Knowing that (saint Abraham's) hand prints were on your ancestors buttocks. Obviously, those hand prints were made to stay.
Actually most of my ancestors came over after the rebellion was over. But how about you? How does it feel knowing that your revered Southern leaders and your valient rebel soldiers got their butts kicked by a man you loathe and soldiers you hold in contempt? Just plain sad is all.
Yeah, well us good ole’ “Southron” boys like our fairy tales...
Don't we know it! There's an old saying that the victors write the history and the losers write the myths. And nowhere is that more accurate than when dealing with the rebel side of the Civil War.
It’s that whole gang mentality isn’t it? Fair fight = five vs one. What’s even more enlightening is, while your beloved coward farce was snatching immigrants to fight the war (instead of their precious selves,) your ancestors were off sniveling on some ship. Go figure. You have no skin in this game, be gone.
Couldn't have said it better myself, Maverick! A people may be conquered physically, and the will of some individuals may be broken, but the spirit, the essence, of the South remains unchanged.
This is going to get me in trouble.
I agree that Lee was a very good general.
He is also a man that took an oath, the same oath I took, to defend the constitution.
He broke that oath.
I look at his military skills in the same light as Rommel—a great mind, but on the wrong side.
At the time, breathing.
Fair fights are for idiots. You go into a fight to win, and you take whatever advantage you need to in order to win. What the hell did you all expect when you started the war? Marquis of Queensbury? Couldn't you count? Was your educational system that bad even then? If the South went into their war not expecting to do whatever it took to win it, then your leaders were even more stupid than I first took them to be.
What’s even more enlightening is, while your beloved coward farce was snatching immigrants to fight the war (instead of their precious selves,) your ancestors were off sniveling on some ship. Go figure.
And I'll bet that you also think all Five Point hookers looked exactly like Cameron Diaz, too.
You have no skin in this game, be gone.
If you mean I lack the loser ancestors that you seem to have, then it's true. But as long as one Lost Causer comes around spewing Southron bullshit then I'll always have skin in the game.
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