SHARPSBURG, Maryland – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told Breitbart News that “history is important” and it should not be rewritten when asked about those attempting to destroy or remove Confederate monuments while touring Antietam National Battlefield on Wednesday in western Maryland.
Zinke explained the significance of history, gesturing to the area around him, “As an example, what did the battle of Antietam bring us? One is that it was the deadliest battle in the history of our country. But also, one could argue successfully, it also brought the Emancipation Proclamation.”“So there is goodness that came out of this battlefield,” he continued. “Recognizing that two sides fought, recognizing [the] historical significance of a change in our country… so I’m an advocate for recognizing history as it is. Don’t rewrite history. Understand it for what it is and teach our kids the importance of looking at our magnificent history as a country and why we are who we are.”
Zinke was at Antietam to announce that President Donald Trump’s first quarter salary will help restore the historic battlefield.
Zinke heads the Department of Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, as well as many other bureaus dedicated “to manag[ing] America’s vast natural and cultural resources.”
To me Northern and Southern heroes all were great men. I am not against the North, but certainly not against the South. So in my opinion, if the South does not want them, R. E. Lee statues ought to be placed in Washington DC, preferably next to the Lincoln and the Washington Monument. Both were fighting for the preservation of the Constitution as they understood it.
ReplyDeleteDC has one of Lee.https://www.aoc.gov/art/national-statuary-hall-collection/robert-e-lee
DeleteThat is good news
DeleteHope they don't start yelling to replace it.
DeleteThe Sec of Int says the Battle of Antietam "brought the Emancipation Proclamation". Yes, as a war measure admitted by Lincoln:
ReplyDelete"I view the matter (of slaves' emancipation) as a practical war measure, to be decided upon according to the advantages or disadvantages it may offer to the suppression of the rebellion." ....I will also concede that emancipation would help us in Europe, and convince them that we are incited by something more than ambition."
And Lincoln's Sec of St, William Seward, said the following since it only applied to States "still in rebellion" ( no, they lawfully seceded):
"We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."
--Ron W
"We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."
DeletePrecisely.
The 1857 SCOTUS Dred Scott decision kept black people as non persons lest they be able "to have full Liberty of speech in public" and "go armed everywhere they went", i.e., slaves. Therefore northerners like Union Gen. Ulysess S. Grant kept his slaves until AFTER the "war between the States" and the enactment of the 13th and 14th Amendments. But then both federal and State laws still deny "the right to go armed everywhere" to citizens as a chief vestige of slavery as do certain States, like Illinois, "the Land of Lincoln. --Ron W
ReplyDeleteThanks and you might enjoy this:
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"Isaac Watching his Corn at Night, Hears it Growing." In the latter, it is interesting that he owns a musket, pistol, sword, and dirk.