The Confederacy - Erasing History
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JC29856 said:Bentleyspop said:JC29856 said:Bentleyspop said:JC29856 said:how so? Its a statue and we lost the war
"We lost the war"?
Says a lot about you right there
should I not refer to we because I didn't personally serve?
how so? Its a statue and we lost the warGtilley8 said:That is absolutely asinine.
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People who support the idea of the confederacy often use the term "we"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Soldiers
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Enkidu said:mrussel1 said:Enkidu said:I'm throwing this out here - last year there was a big debate in my hometown (small town in VA) about changing the name of the high school (there's only one) from Robert E. Lee to something else. I'm guessing the issue will come up again.
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Here's an interesting little tidbit of history/nostalgia:
In the 1950's there was a gas station on San Antonio Rd. bordering the cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View in California called "Stars and Bars". We never went there for gas so one day I asked my folks why not. They both said, "Oh no! We will NOT get gas there!" but they never told me why.
In Henry Rollings Before the Chop III, which I am currently reading, Henry refers to the Confederate flag as "Stars and bars".
60 later, mystery solved!
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Robert E. Lee discouraged monuments. They ‘keep open the sores of war,’ he wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/18/robert-e-lee-discouraged-monuments-they-keep-open-the-sores-of-war-he-wrote/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-lee:homepage/story&utm_term=.254a50e7ae690 -
What conclusions are drawn from this letter to Horace Greeley from Abe Lincoln about the Civil War?
Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Yours,
A. Lincoln.
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JC29856 said:What conclusions are drawn from this letter to Horace Greeley from Abe Lincoln about the Civil War?
Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Yours,
A. Lincoln.
Here's what I pulled out, but maybe you skipped this part:
"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."0 -
CM189191 said:JC29856 said:What conclusions are drawn from this letter to Horace Greeley from Abe Lincoln about the Civil War?
Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Yours,
A. Lincoln.
Here's what I pulled out, but maybe you skipped this part:
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CM189191 said:JC29856 said:What conclusions are drawn from this letter to Horace Greeley from Abe Lincoln about the Civil War?
Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Yours,
A. Lincoln.
Here's what I pulled out, but maybe you skipped this part:
"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."
what conclusions did you draw from the letter dated 8.22.1862 or from just that part?
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BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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I assume everyone here knows that the civil war was not (as important as that issue was) only about slavery. Just in case, here's a good explanation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/slavery-and-the-civil-war_b_849066.html
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brianlux said:I assume everyone here knows that the civil war was not (as important as that issue was) only about slavery. Just in case, here's a good explanation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/slavery-and-the-civil-war_b_849066.html
The war was about a principle, state sovereignty and the right of secession, that would destroy the United States; the example of that issue was the right to own slaves.
I would argue the inverse... the war for the South was about the protection of slavery, under the pretext of states' rights. Southern sympathizers use the 10th as the basis of the argument, ignoring of course Article IV. But if it was really about states' rights, why didn't the Nullification Crisis of 1832 lead to secession? In fact Calhoun resigned the VP in order to fight for the right of Nullification in the Senate. But no forts were taken, no arms were seized during that crisis.
I've posted bits of the Cornerstone Speech before, but I'll do it again because I believe it's the most powerful argument against the revisionism of the sympathizers of the Cause.. The speech was given by Alexander Stephens, the VP of the Confederacy. So he was in a good position to know and to provide the thought leadership on the Cause. Here are two quotes that I believe are instructive...
The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right.
.. and later..
Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
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mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
JC is PJFan with better Google skills.
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mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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BS44325 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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mrussel1 said:BS44325 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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mrussel1 said:BS44325 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:JC29856 said:mrussel1 said:BREAKING NEWS... Jc discovered that Lincoln's primary objective was to save the union. Who knew until today? Oh yeah, people that got through 10th grade history.
Of course lets not forget the South's reason was to preserve slavery. Go read the Keystone Speech by Alexander Stephens and try to argue differently.
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