General Lee was widely respected and revered by both the North and the South.
For some little brainwashed leftists to come and claim some "traitor" crap after 140+ years is ridiculous.
Actually it's not, because leftist professors started skewing facts about The Civil War and putting it in textbooks around the 70s.
It'd take 50 of those lemmings to equal 1 Robert E. Lee.
Happy birthday Gen. Robert E. Lee
Lee is a symbol of the Confederate Nation
A nation built to sustain the institution of slavery forever
These monuments are to men who defended the right of their state to secede if they felt federal government was acting in an inappropriate manner. Most northerners never felt the War was a bout slavery. They could give a shit less at the time. Revisionist history has made it about slavery. Most abolitionist were viewed as radical , hot headed weirdo’s like then domestic terrorist John Brown.
They felt the federal government was acting to restrict their ability to own slaves and spread slavery to new states
They thought it was worth killing 600,000 people over
Slavery had nothing to do with it.
Maybe you should tell the state of Georgia, who made reference to it no fewer than
35 (thirty-five)
times in its
Declaration of Causes for Secession.
Maybe you should also get the word to the state of Mississippi, which wrote:
>> Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. <<
--- in its
first paragraph of its corresponding document.
And then maybe you should clue in Texas, which wrote in its: "She [Texas] was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time". But then Texas makes only
22 references to slavery.
Maybe you should rush to get the word to Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the CSA, before he gives this speech outlining the future and what the CSA would stand for:
>> The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.”
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite 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.
... Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature’s laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law.
Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system. The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material-the granite; then comes the brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is best, not only for the superior, but for the inferior race, that it should be so.
It is, indeed, in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances, or to question them. For His own purposes, He has made one race to differ from another, as He has made “one star to differ from another star in glory.” The great objects of humanity are best attained when there is conformity to His laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else.
Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. << ---
"Cornerstone Speech", March 21, 1861
Oops. Too late, that speech already happened. You missed your chance by a scant 157 years and change.
Was
sup, history revisionist?