Years ago I stumbled across a theme in one of my areas of interest, archaeology.
It goes like this: defeated people always have their history defaced or erased. Their monuments are pulled down and smashed, their parties or beliefs forbidden, their people degraded, enslaved or cleansed. Always. Every single time.
I think that the Sister Wendy clip above does an exceptional job of spelling it out without offending- it is so poignant and sad to hear her take that I couldn’t get it out of my memory even though it’s been ten years since I watched it.
flash
April 25, 2017 8:47 am
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. ”
Robert E. Lee
“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it’s self, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
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flash
April 25, 2017 8:56 am
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864
“Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you.”
Robert Lewis Dabney, Chaplain for Stonewall Jackson
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flash
April 25, 2017 9:01 am
“Why doesn’t the Confederacy just fade away? Is it because we are irresistibly fascinated by catastrophic loss? Or is it something else? Is it because the Confederacy is to this day the greatest conservative resistance to federal authority in American history?”
Professor David Blight
“Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world”.
Abraham Lincoln – U.S. Congress, 1847
“The Union government liberates the enemy’s slaves as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.”
London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation Proclamation
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”
Charles Dickens, 1862
“They (the South) know that it is their import trade that draws from the peoples pockets sixty or seventy millions of dollars per annum, in the shape of duties, to be expended mainly in the North, and in the protection and encouragement of Northern interest. These are the reasons why these people do not wish the South to secede from the union”.
New Orleans Daily Crescent-1861
“The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods. What is our shipping without it? Literally nothing… it is very clear that the South gains by this process and we lose. No…we must not let the South go”.
Union Democrat Manchester, New Hampshire. 19 February, 1861
“The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!”
Rep. Benjamin Franklin Grady-Duplin Co. NC 1899
“To tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age”.
James Webb-Secretary of Navy And Assistant Secretary of Defense under U.S. President Ronald Regan and current U.S. Senator (D.VA.) (Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, New York: Broadway Books, 2004, p. 225)
“It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery…and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.”
Woodrow Wilson, “A History of The American People”, page 231
Ed
April 25, 2017 9:14 am
“A yankee is a damned snake walking on two legs”
James Baker, Sgt. Thomas’s Legion, CSA (my Great great grandfather)
Mike Murray
April 25, 2017 11:25 am
Thanks to one and all for the quotes and info on the War of Northern Aggression.
rhs jr
April 25, 2017 10:32 pm
If the damned Liberals had left us alone, the issue would be small but they lie like the Devil, have taken our flags, refused to let us sing our songs, have destroyed our monuments and treat us as third class citizens. My blood is now up and I will spit in their face and show my righteous hatred at every opportunity, and bless the day we can turn the tables on the tyrant oppressors.
anon
April 26, 2017 12:16 am
WOW! Awesome quotes to perfectly describe the War of Northern Aggression.
Popular stories of history are narratives written by the winners to bolster their system.
Years ago I stumbled across a theme in one of my areas of interest, archaeology.
It goes like this: defeated people always have their history defaced or erased. Their monuments are pulled down and smashed, their parties or beliefs forbidden, their people degraded, enslaved or cleansed. Always. Every single time.
I think that the Sister Wendy clip above does an exceptional job of spelling it out without offending- it is so poignant and sad to hear her take that I couldn’t get it out of my memory even though it’s been ten years since I watched it.
“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. ”
Robert E. Lee
“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it’s self, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
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“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864
“Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you.”
Robert Lewis Dabney, Chaplain for Stonewall Jackson
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“Why doesn’t the Confederacy just fade away? Is it because we are irresistibly fascinated by catastrophic loss? Or is it something else? Is it because the Confederacy is to this day the greatest conservative resistance to federal authority in American history?”
Professor David Blight
“Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world”.
Abraham Lincoln – U.S. Congress, 1847
“The Union government liberates the enemy’s slaves as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.”
London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation Proclamation
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”
Charles Dickens, 1862
“They (the South) know that it is their import trade that draws from the peoples pockets sixty or seventy millions of dollars per annum, in the shape of duties, to be expended mainly in the North, and in the protection and encouragement of Northern interest. These are the reasons why these people do not wish the South to secede from the union”.
New Orleans Daily Crescent-1861
“The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods. What is our shipping without it? Literally nothing… it is very clear that the South gains by this process and we lose. No…we must not let the South go”.
Union Democrat Manchester, New Hampshire. 19 February, 1861
“The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!”
Rep. Benjamin Franklin Grady-Duplin Co. NC 1899
“To tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age”.
James Webb-Secretary of Navy And Assistant Secretary of Defense under U.S. President Ronald Regan and current U.S. Senator (D.VA.) (Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, New York: Broadway Books, 2004, p. 225)
“It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery…and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.”
Woodrow Wilson, “A History of The American People”, page 231
“A yankee is a damned snake walking on two legs”
James Baker, Sgt. Thomas’s Legion, CSA (my Great great grandfather)
Thanks to one and all for the quotes and info on the War of Northern Aggression.
If the damned Liberals had left us alone, the issue would be small but they lie like the Devil, have taken our flags, refused to let us sing our songs, have destroyed our monuments and treat us as third class citizens. My blood is now up and I will spit in their face and show my righteous hatred at every opportunity, and bless the day we can turn the tables on the tyrant oppressors.
WOW! Awesome quotes to perfectly describe the War of Northern Aggression.
‘Confederate cleansing’: Lawmaker vows to stop ‘cultural terrorism’ in Georgia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/30/lawmaker-lashes-out-against-cultural-terrorism-looks-to-protect-confederate-carving/?utm_term=.dbc73827e48b
Petition: Add Outkast to Confederate carving at Stone Mountain
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/us/georgia-stone-mountain-outkast-confederate-monument/
((WHO)) was responsible for the slave trade? Hint: It wasn’t the Southern Christian White Man. Their “non-slavery” was called “indentured servitude.”
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America