Lexington Glamorizes Confederate Traitors
This is exactly what I was afraid of. They're breaking out the white sheets and hoods two months before Halloween.
Betty Spaghetti at Barefoot and Progressive:
In light of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, towns across the South are celebrating their Confederate heroes and roles.
Lexington won’t be excluded, according to H-L columnist Tom Eblen.
There is great debate about glorifying the Confederacy. Defenders say they are simply honoring the men who served, not the cause. Others argue they are one in the same.
The celebration of Gen. Hunt Morgan is an interesting one. He wreaked havoc on the area, with his men having “confiscated horses, robbed banks, looted trains and stores, and set several blocks of Cynthiana on fire.”
By the end of the Civil War, the reputation of Morgan’s men was one of “murder and highway robbery,” wrote Duke, his former second-in-command. But a few years later, thanks to white public nostalgia, “if you could claim that you rode with Morgan, you were a kind of nobility,” Brown said.
I’m not an expert on Civil War history, but stepping back, this seems so crazy to me. We’re celebrating a guy the town originally reviled but who became a martyr after the war ended and rampant racism set in.
Maybe I missed something in Eblen’s column, but it left me really wondering why we still leave the statue of this guy up in front of the museum. We don’t have to whitewash history or pretend it didn’t happen, but we don’t need to celebrate such black eyes either.
Help me out, people? I’m genuinely interested in hearing all sides about this.
I'll just quote myself from last December:
Confederates: Traitors Then, Traitors Now, Traitors Forever.
Four months from now we will observe the 150th anniversary of the blatant daylight attack by declared traitors against the United States of America.
That's the plain fact of what happened. But that's not the way the traitor-lovers are already selling it.
The mistake Yankees made was not hanging every single one of the motherfucking traitors before the cannon smoke cleared. And I say that as a southerner with ancestors who fought on both sides.
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I don't know why I bother but here goes for whatever it's worth. Here's what a Union war hero had to say about Confederate soldiers and he should know, he actually fought them. They were the embodiment of manhood; men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve."
Maj. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain US Army (won Medal of honor at Gettysburg for his defense of Little Round Top, while Col. of 20th Maine Vol.)
If you liked Morgan your gonna love Quantrill but here's what Harry Truman had to say bout him:
"But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line..." Now here's what the other side did:
"...They tried to make my uncle Harrison (who was 13 yrs old at the time) into an informer, but he wouldn't do it. He was only a boy... They tried to hang him, time and again they tried it, 'stretching his neck', they called it, but he didn't say anything. I think he'd have died before he'd said anything. He's the one I'm named after, and I'm happy to say that there were people...around at the time who said I took after him."
Harry Truman's mother was part of that ethnic cleansing in Missouri and she remembered. The story is that she adamantly refused to sleep in Lincoln’s bedroom when offered the opportunity. During Harry's WW1 service, Harry never wore his "Dress Blues" when visiting home, as Momma "...didn't like the damned Yankees..." because of the burning of the family's farm and destruction by Yankee predators.
If you really want to study terrorists check some guys by the name of Sherman, Sheridan, Turchin and Hunter, then come back and let us know what you find.
Your ignorance is unbelievable- Michael Phipps retired US ARMY, Purple Heart Recipient.. 3 Combat tours in Iraq... B.A in History- Johns Hopkins University... Biographer of General John Buford USA of Versailles, Ky.. Kentucky Colonel bestowed by Ky state Representative Tom Buford
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson established that people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that governments are instituted to secure those rights. One right he specifically identifies is the right of the people to alter or abolish their government and create another that suits them better. How qrotesque, then, that the only time Americans have attempted to exercise this right, the government that was supposed to secure it for them made brutal war on them instead.
Confederates were not traitors. One has to owe allegiance to the US and then engage in war with the US, or give aid and comfort to the enemies of the US, to be a traitor. Once the Southern states had seceded, their citizens no longer owed allegiance to the US. They were enemies of the US, no doubt, but not traitors.
Secession is not treason. 10th Amendment: Powers not granted to the US by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the state by the Constitution, are reserved to the states and the people. The powers prohibited to the states are listed in Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution; secession is not among them. The power to prohibit secession is not listed among the powers granted to the feds.
Secession was not prohibited; Confederates were not traitors.
Robert and Connie: Thanks for proving my case.
You stated: I’m not an expert on Civil War history…” then went on to question an issue; the issue however was not ensure the narration accurate or not but why a statue? I hope that both you and your readers learn an important lesson one does not jump the gun assuming someone quote, book is correct you have no idea about the stories about General Morgan were or are correct you just jumped right in accusing us murder.
YellowDog:
"The mistake Yankees made was not hanging every single one of the... traitors before the cannon smoke cleared. And I say that as a southerner with ancestors who fought on both sides."
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Ancestors who fought on *both* sides?
You do realize that if all the "traitors" had been hung...you would not exist?
BorderRuffian: You do realize that it's possible for human beings to have children before they die?
Try googling "human reproduction."
Yellow Dog, I'm not sure how my comments proved your case. I showed, using the founding documents of the United States, that altering their government and creating another, as the South did, is a right of the people; that secession was not unconstitutional and Confederates were not traitors. Could you elaborate a little on how your case was proved, and what it was about my comments that proved it?
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