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Title: Robert E Lee himself was opposed to Confederate Monuments
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Business Insider
URL Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/robe ... d-confederate-monuments-2017-8
Published: Aug 16, 2017
Author: Daniel Brown
Post Date: 2017-08-16 18:30:42 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 4363
Comments: 26
The violence that erupted in Charlottesville over the weekend, which left one woman killed and dozens more injured, stemmed from a white nationalist and alt-right protest over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Debates about the removal of Confederate statues have been ongoing for many years, and opponents of removing the monuments often decry such attempts as an attempt to erase history. In light of all this, it's probably best to remember one relevant historical fact: Robert E. Lee was opposed to Confederate monuments. “It’s often forgotten that Lee himself, after the Civil War, opposed monuments, specifically Confederate war monuments,” Jonathan Horn, a Lee biographer, told PBS. After the Civil War, Lee received a number of letters requesting support for the erection of Confederate memorials, according to Horn. In June 1866, he wrote that he couldn't support a monument of one of his best generals, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, saying it wasn't "feasible at this time." "As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated," Lee wrote in December 1866 about another proposed Confederate monument, "my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour." Not only was Lee opposed to Confederate memorials, "he favored erasing battlefields from the landscape altogether," Horn wrote. He even supported getting rid of the Confederate flag after the Civil War ended, and didn't want them them flying above Washington College, which he was president of after the war. "Lee did not want such divisive symbols following him to the grave," Horn wrote. "At his funeral in 1870, flags were notably absent from the procession. Former Confederate soldiers marching did not don their old military uniforms, and neither did the body they buried." “His Confederate uniform would have been ‘treason’ perhaps!” Lee’s daughter wrote, according to Horn. "Lee believed countries that erased visible signs of civil war recovered from conflicts quicker,” Horn told PBS. “He was worried that by keeping these symbols alive, it would keep the divisions alive." Poster Comment: It's understandable that he didn't want any shameful reminders that he was a LOSER.
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#12. To: Willie Green (#0)
A reminder that Lee and many many others stood up for the rights of states to govern was important enough to warrant at least a statue. People should remember that those statues were erected in states that seceded and not in that bastion of liberalism: the north east. As far as Lincoln is concerned I, and many others, never believed him to be a great president. Any president, desirous of bullying citizens into believing the monolithic central government was good for them, would have marshaled the millions of Irish immigrants to join the army and invade the south. Destroy history and destroy America.
You're the one who's twisting & distorting history... Our Founding Fathers "original intent" of our Constitution was to strengthen the central government because the Articles of Confederation were considered much too weak... The Anti-Federalists LOST the debate... And 75 years later, Lincold SAVED our Federal Union by defeating the Confederate TRAITORS.
Egads, Willie. You're as screwed up as a government-loving liberal can be. The central government was to be kept lean and NEVER interfere with the workings of the states. We have the Second Amendment to insure that the government doesn't morph into the monster it has become. Lincoln was, as Mast cartooned him, an ape.
#18. To: IbJensen (#17)
Your ignorance knows no bounds... Have you ever heard of the Supremacy Clause? FedGov RULES.... StateGovs must comply...
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestIt's understandable that he didn't want any shameful reminders that he was a LOSER
#16. To: IbJensen (#12)
Destroy history and destroy America.
#17. To: Willie Green (#16)
Our Founding Fathers "original intent" of our Constitution was to strengthen the central government
Replies to Comment # 17. Article 6, Clause 2
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
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