Posted on 12/14/2023 8:48:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
Maybe they need to turn the property back to the family of Robert E. Lee, who deeded the property to federal government as an act of reconciliation in the first place.
More DEI...DIVISION EXCLUSION INEQUITY
No no no no no. The Democrat way is eternal blood feud.
Phooey to all who want to remove Confederate and Civil War Reconciliation monuments!!
Those who would destroy history are fated to repeat it!
Bump. Learn from history don’t erase or rewrite it.
My great-great-grandfather lived near there and according to family tradition, brought valuable information to the Union commanders about the Confederate troop movements. He later served 6 months in a Missouri Union outfit. Meanwhile his brother fought on the Confederate side.
“Bump. Learn from history don’t erase or rewrite it.”
BTTT
Well said. Needs to be repeated.
ping
Reconciliation and national unity is offensive to liberal democrats.
What’s next? Dig up the Confederate soldiers?
At first glance, that’s what I expected to read...
The Democrats of the 1800's are very different than the Democrats of the 2000's.
Despite a civil war that literally pitted brother against brother, Abraham Lincoln did not want the bitterness to continue and the country to reunite. There are many photographs of Civil War veterans from both sides meeting in friendship at reunions after the war. When U S Grant died his pallbearers included William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan, both Union generals during the Civil War, as well as Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph Johnston, two generals who had fought for the Confederacy. Now the woke mob wants to again divide the country
This was originally written as a parody - published I believe in the Nashville American (the same paper that published the outrageous obituary of Gen. Benjamin (”Spoons”) Butler, the Beast of New Orleans.
I have noticed D'Souza is a little sloppy when it comes to Democrats and the Civil War.
The owner of Dred Scott was a Republican. Lived in Massachusetts. I forget his name, but i'm sure we can look it up.
That's what they publicly claimed, but the truth that was unknown to the public at the time, was that slavery could not expand outside of the states where it already existed. The issue of "expansion" was a false issue. It was just propaganda.
I now see the Republicans as a "let's keep control of the government" party that used slavery as an excuse just to gain and hold power.
Why? Because they and their cronies were getting rich from controlling the government by taxing the Southern states at 72%, and forcing them to hire their companies for services (such as shipping cotton) and using government power to force the South to buy their products.
The government had been rigged to pull money from the South and put it into the pockets of wealthy well connected rich liberals in the Northeast. (In those days, the Republicans were the liberals.)
Read Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
“Fellow countrymen: at this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends is as well known to the public as to myself and it is I trust reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
“On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving the Union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war ~ seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
“One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered ~ that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come but which having continued through His appointed time He now wills to remove and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him. Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’
“With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Never forget Devout RINO Thom Tillis was part of this commission and agreed with and voted for these changes.
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