Thursday, August 24, 2017

In Defense of Lee And Jackson

Via comment by Anonymous on “Furl That Banner”"

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Ever since the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, took place, memorials and statues of the great men of the Confederacy--along with the flags of the Confederacy--are being vandalized or taken down by municipal governments.

In 1864, Confederate General Patrick Cleburne warned his fellow Southerners of the historical consequences should the South lose their war for independence. He said if the South lost, “It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision.” No truer words were ever spoken.

History revisionists flooded America’s public schools with Northern propaganda about the people who attempted to secede from the United States, characterizing them as racists, extremists, radicals, hatemongers, and traitors.

Folks, please understand that the only people in 1861 who believed that states did not have the right to secede were Abraham Lincoln and his radical Republicans. To say that Southern states did not have the right to secede from the United States is to say that the thirteen colonies did not have the right to secede from Great Britain. One cannot be right and the other wrong. If one is right, both are right. If one is wrong, both are wrong. How can we celebrate the Declaration of Independence of the American colonies in 1776 and then turn around and condemn the Declaration of Independence of the Confederacy in 1861?

4 comments:

  1. Hi Brock,
    Had we lost the "Revolutionary war of 1776" Our leaders not killed would have been hanged as traitors and our history would have been written by King George and his crew. Fortunately Lee and Davis were not hanged but were stripped of their citizenship... revisionist history was written by the north... still the "Immortal" words of Jefferson B. Davis ring true today... "Truth crushed to the earth is still truth still and like a seed will rise again." Note the search of documents of that period in our history that "Tell the TRUTH!" and their significance..... who until lately has drawn light to the "Morrell Act," it's affect on the South and Lincoln's being "in Bed"with northern industrialists!!! The Truth will set you free,..... but it is up to the individual to see it for its' being the "Truth," understanding and accepting it!!! Audentes Fortuna Juvat,
    III%,
    skybill-out

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  2. Wrong again! Losers again! Quit while you're behind with your quisling attempts at revisionism. Read and learn from history. We are the United States of America. E Pluribus Unum. GET WITH THE PROGRAM !!!

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