A+ LibTrolling: Make the defeat of the Confederacy a national holiday

[Valin]

Hot Air:

Jazz Shaw

April 8, 2015

 

Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the defeat of the Confederacy in the civil war. (Or, the War of Northern Aggression, as I say when I want to annoy some of my more liberal friends.) It’s an important moment in American history which summons up mixed feelings of pride and sober reflection, depending who you’re talking to. But there are at least a few liberal wags who don’t feel it’s getting the full recognition it deserves, though for very different reasons than you might imagine. One example popped up this week from Brian Beutler at The New Republic, who feels that the defeat of the Confederacy should be a national holiday.

 

This week provides an occasion for the U.S. government to get real about history, as April 9 is the 150th anniversary of the Union’s victory in the Civil War. The generous terms of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House foreshadowed a multitude of real and symbolic compromises that the winners of the war would make with secessionists, slavery supporters, and each other to piece the country back together. It’s as appropriate an occasion as the Selma anniversary to reflect on the country’s struggle to improve itself. And to mark the occasion, the federal government should make two modest changes: It should make April 9 a federal holiday; and it should commit to disavowing or renaming monuments to the Confederacy, and its leaders, that receive direct federal support.

 

It’s unfathomable that anyone today would attempt to name a new military installation, or rename an old one, after a Confederate general. But at the time these bases were named, there wasn’t nearly as much of a consensus behind the argument that the Confederates committed treason against the United States in support of a war for slavery.

The purpose here is obvious without doing too much digging. Election season is getting underway and the Democrats have some serious leaks in their lifeboat to put it mildly. Liberals love a good distraction at times such as this and there’s no better way to shift the narrative than by trying to tempt some Republicans into commenting on a subject where progressive media commentators can claim they are “supporting slavery.” One surefire way to do that is to try to turn the Civil War into a 2015 debate topic.

 

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[Valin]

To Brian the boob Beutler

 

General James Longstreet

 

 

One of my personal hero's from that war.

 

[Draggingtree]

American Thinker

August 1, 2015

Lincoln vs. Lee: How History is Distorted to Preserve Legends

By William Sullivan

Lincoln was an abolitionist, yes. And that is an admirable trait to remember. But was the Great Emancipator for the equality of the races, as so many might be inclined to believe today? This statement from the Lincoln-Douglas debate of 1858, might answer that question:

 

I will say then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about, in any way, the social and political equality of the white and black races.

 

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters of jurors of Negroes; nor of qualifying them to hold office. Nor to intermarry with white people. And I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/lincoln_vs_lee_how_history_is_distorted_to_preserve_legends_.html