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Winning, Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue REMOVED
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postthis is funny, i guess since Lee was a traitor (and in your eyes to this present day) he is a traitor. Than it is safe to say the the democrat party is also are also traitors and encourage slavery since this is what they fought for during the civil war.
The republican party was created to fight slavery. This is a historical FACT. you can google it.
Looks like you are on the wrong side of being right amigo.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostLee didn't even want statues of himself erected. His descendants have wanted them taken down for years.
Until now. Hope Lee’s relatives are smiling but would have been better if his body was burned and ashes scattered to four corners of earth.
Traitor and all that
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostYeah but a lot of “fine people” according to Trump have not so they stayed up.
Until now. Hope Lee’s relatives are smiling but would have been better if his body was burned and ashes scattered to four corners of earth.
Traitor and all that
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostTitle Con still hasn't come into the 21st century. Voters TODAY see the GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln. It hasn't been for some time.
that same half didnt like the civil rights movement either
they were wrong then and as usual are wrong now
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Winning, Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue REMOVED
Originally posted by Unregistered View PostLee was a democrat- so funny
nlike many Southerners who expected a glorious war, Lee correctly predicted it as protracted and devastating.[91] He privately opposed the new Confederate States of America in letters in early 1861, denouncing secession as "nothing but revolution" and an unconstitutional betrayal of the efforts of the Founding Fathers. Writing to George Washington Custis in January, Lee stated:
The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North, as you say. I feel the aggression, and am willing to take every proper step for redress. It is the principle I contend for, not individual or private benefit. As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and institutions, and would defend any State if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for "perpetual union," so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled.[92]
Lee in uniform, 1863
Despite opposing secession, Lee said in January that "we can with a clear conscience separate" if all peaceful means failed. He agreed with secessionists in most areas, such as dislike of Northern anti-slavery criticisms and prevention of expanding slavery to new territories, and fear of its larger population. Lee supported the Crittenden Compromise, which would have constitutionally protected slavery.[93]
Lee's objection to secession was ultimately outweighed by a sense of personal honor, reservations about the legitimacy of a strife-ridden "Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets", and duty to defend his native Virginia if attacked.[92] He was asked while leaving Texas by a lieutenant if he intended to fight for the Confederacy or the Union, to which Lee replied, "I shall never bear arms against the Union, but it may be necessary for me to carry a musket in the defense of my native state, Virginia, in which case I shall not prove recreant to my duty".[94][93]
Although Virginia had the most slaves of any state, it was more similar to Maryland, which stayed in the Union, than the Deep South; a convention voted against secession in early 1861. Scott, commanding general of the Union Army and Lee's mentor, told Lincoln he wanted him for a top command, telling Secretary of War Simon Cameron that he had "entire confidence" in Lee. He accepted a promotion to colonel of the 1st Cavalry Regiment on March 28, again swearing an oath to the United States.[95][93] Meanwhile, Lee ignored an offer of command from the Confederacy. After Lincoln's call for troops to put down the rebellion, a second Virginia convention in Richmond voted to secede[96] on April 17, and a May 23 referendum would likely ratify the decision. That night Lee dined with brother Smith and cousin Phillips, naval officers. Because of Lee's indecision, Phillips went to the War Department the next morning to warn that the Union might lose his cousin if the government did not act quickly.[93]
In Washington that day,[91] Lee was offered by presidential advisor Francis P. Blair a role as major general to command the defense of the national capital. He replied:
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native state?[96]
Lee immediately went to Scott, who tried to persuade him that Union forces would be large enough to prevent the South from fighting, so he would not have to oppose his state; Lee disagreed. When Lee asked if he could go home and not fight, the fellow Virginian said that the army did not need equivocal soldiers and that if he wanted to resign, he should do so before receiving official orders. Scott told him that he had made "the greatest mistake of your life".[93]
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostLee was a democrat- so funny
Traitors who take up arms against the USA should get the noose regardless of their party affiliation.
But since you look at everything through a partisan lens, please consider that all the people kneeling at the feet of confederate Heros and begging for their statues to stay up are .....cons .
Sorry con. That albatross around your neck stinks to high heaven. how will you ever get rid of that smell?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSee I’m not partisan like you.
Traitors who take up arms against the USA should get the noose regardless of their party affiliation.
But since you look at everything through a partisan lens, please consider that all the people kneeling at the feet of confederate Heros and begging for their statues to stay up are .....cons .
Sorry con. That albatross around your neck stinks to high heaven. how will you ever get rid of that smell?
Can you tell us what you are loyal too? you do know that Lee fraught for your political party right? Are you just ashamed that your party lost? The democrats wanted slavery then and they want slavery now....but it just not going to happen.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostOnly a closet Racist would call Lee a hero. After all, how can he be a hero if he lost?
Can you tell us what you are loyal too?
you do know that Lee fraught for your political party right?
This years fashions over the arc of hundreds of years. It’s those values he fought for that stay ....he was a slaveholder who thought it better to kill countrymen to preserve his slave holding .
Easy
Are you just ashamed that your party lost? The democrats wanted slavery then and they want slavery now....but it just not going to happen.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSee I’m not partisan like you.
Traitors who take up arms against the USA should get the noose regardless of their party affiliation.
But since you look at everything through a partisan lens, please consider that all the people kneeling at the feet of confederate Heros and begging for their statues to stay up are .....cons .
Sorry con. That albatross around your neck stinks to high heaven. how will you ever get rid of that smell?
lincoln was a republican- History already happened we know how it went down
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostOnly a closet Racist would call Lee a hero. After all, how can he be a hero if he lost?
Can you tell us what you are loyal too? you do know that Lee fraught for your political party right? Are you just ashamed that your party lost? The democrats wanted slavery then and they want slavery now....but it just not going to happen.
Custer lost- considered by some a hero
leonidas at thermopylae- hero
what about the 75% of CMoH winners who are awarded posthumously- they lost their lives but are considered heros
or i can look at it from the weenie left angle
any suicide bomber, or terrorist
michael Brown and company
stacey Abrams
Hillary Clinton
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Winning, Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue REMOVED
Originally posted by Unregistered View Postthey lost at the Alamo- heroes
Custer lost- considered by some a hero
leonidas at thermopylae- hero
what about the 75% of CMoH winners who are awarded posthumously- they lost their lives but are considered heros
or i can look at it from the weenie left angle
any suicide bomber, or terrorist
michael Brown and company
stacey Abrams
Hillary Clinton
Liberal Hypocrisy always in high gear.
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