America’s Second Civil War

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

“They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee — and what a leader! … No military leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among troops as did Lee when he reviewed them on his horse Traveller.”

So wrote Samuel Eliot Morison in his magisterial “The Oxford History of the American People” in 1965.

First in his class at West Point, hero of the Mexican War, Lee was the man to whom President Lincoln turned to lead his army. But when Virginia seceded, Lee would not lift up his sword against his own people, and chose to defend his home state rather than wage war upon her.

This veneration of Lee, wrote Richard Weaver, “appears in the saying attributed to a Confederate soldier, ‘The rest of us may have … descended from monkeys, but it took a God to make Marse Robert.'”

Growing up after World War II, this was accepted history.

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Yet, on the militant left today, the name Lee evokes raw hatred and howls of “racist and traitor.” A clamor has arisen to have all statues of him and all Confederate soldiers and statesmen pulled down from their pedestals and put in museums or tossed onto trash piles.

What has changed since 1965?

It is not history. There have been no great new discoveries about Lee.

What has changed is America herself. She is not the same country. We have passed through a great social, cultural and moral revolution that has left us irretrievably divided on separate shores.

And the politicians are in panic.

Two years ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe called the giant statues of Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson on Richmond’s Monument Avenue “parts of our heritage.” After Charlottesville, New York-born-and-bred McAuliffe, entertaining higher ambitions, went full scalawag, demanding the statues be pulled down as “flashpoints for hatred, division, and violence.”

Who hates the statues, Terry? Who’s going to cause the violence? Answer: The Democratic left whom Terry must now appease.

McAuliffe is echoed by Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, the Democratic candidate in November to succeed McAuliffe. GOP nominee Ed Gillespie wants Monument Avenue left alone.

The election is the place to decide this, but the left will not wait.

In Durham, North Carolina, our Taliban smashed the statue of a Confederate soldier. Near the entrance of Duke University Chapel, a statue of Lee has been defaced, the nose broken off.

Wednesday at dawn, Baltimore carried out a cultural cleansing by taking down statues of Lee and Maryland Chief Justice Roger Taney who wrote the Dred Scott decision and opposed Lincoln’s suspension of the right of habeas corpus.

Like ISIS, which smashed the storied ruins of Palmyra, and the al-Qaida rebels who ravaged the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu, the new barbarism has come to America. This is going to become a blazing issue, not only between but within the parties.

For there are 10 Confederates in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, among them Lee, Georgia’s Alexander Stephens, vice president to Jefferson Davis, and Davis himself. The Black Caucus wants them gone.

Mount Rushmore-sized carvings of Lee, Jackson and Davis are on Stone Mountain, Georgia. Are they to be blasted off?

There are countless universities, colleges and high schools like Washington & Lee named for Confederate statesmen and soldiers. Across the Potomac from D.C. are Jefferson Davis Highway and Leesburg Pike to Leesburg itself, 25 miles north. Are all highways, streets, towns and counties named for Confederates to be renamed? What about Fort Bragg?

On every Civil War battlefield, there are monuments to the Southern fallen. Gettysburg has hundreds of memorials, statues and markers. But if, as the left insists we accept, the Confederates were traitors trying to tear America apart to preserve an evil system, upon what ground do Democrats stand to resist the radical left’s demands?

What do we do with those battlefields where Confederates were victorious: Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville?

“Where does this all end?” President Trump asked.

It doesn’t. Not until America’s histories and biographies are burned and new texts written to Nazify Lee, Jackson, Davis and all the rest, will a newly indoctrinated generation of Americans accede to this demand to tear down and destroy what their fathers cherished.

And once all the Confederates are gone, one must begin with the explorers, and then the slave owners like Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Madison, who seceded from slave-free Britain. White supremacists all.

Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun must swiftly follow.

Then there are all those segregationists. From 1865 to 1965, virtually all of the great Southern senators were white supremacists.

In the first half of the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson and FDR carried all 11 states of a rigidly segregationist South all six times they ran, and FDR rewarded Dixie by putting a Klansman on the Supreme Court.

While easy for Republicans to wash their hands of such odious elements as Nazis in Charlottesville, will they take up the defense of the monuments and statues that have defined our history, or capitulate to the icon-smashers?

In this Second American Civil War, whose side are you on?

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Gman
Gman

To quote the BEST bumper sticker I ever saw “If we knew then what we know now, we would have picked our own cotton”……..well stated at the least.

bill
bill

we would not have imported blacks…and hired Americans to pick out cotton

Vic
Vic

Again I say I wish slavery were never brought to America. We wouldn’t be dealing with all this stupidity today.

BB

There is a part of me that will be glad when we finally go our separate ways. Secession seems to be the only answer short of a real second Civil War .When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s I never dreamed our nation would become so bitterly divided .My Grandfather (WW2 veteran) use to say ” we won the war but lost the nation “Now I think I understand what he meant.

Norman Franklin

Pat asks, ‘Will they (repubicucks) take up the defense of the monuments and statues that have defined our history, or capitulate to the icon smashers?’

The answer is a resounding no. Trump and deplorable people of all races are now on our own. Virtue signalers will now have their day just as every dog does. In the end far more level headed people of good will exist in this country than thoughtless cowards.

The (((media))) along with the oligarchs, and the puppets of the uniparty have now put all of the chips on the table. The looks in their eyes and the glee in their voices is evident after every drop of spillt blood. If you watch and listen to them it is easy to see the demons inside trying to get free. The appropriate response should be every time a politician or loudmouth from the corporate media venture into the public square to speak they should be pummeled with a deluge of shit filled baby diapers.

Mr Buchanan says we are irretrievably divided on 2 shores. In truth we share the same shore and as a people should not be divided by such stupidity. The enemy is easily identifiable and revels in the discord he has sown. It is past time to marginalize the extreme on both ends of the spectrum and go after the real enemy, Those who control the money power and their lickspittle posse of smelling faces lecturing us from on high. Sic semper tyranus.

Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas

I agree, although I will admit it isn’t just a part of me, but ALL of me that wants liberal garbage to live separately from the rest of America. There’s little difference between the sick Left in America and the Taliban, or ISIS, or al-Queda. Send the trash packing.

Vic
Vic

Secession is a funny thing. The Southern secession is considered evil by the left, yet now the California Alt-Left wants to secede.

Card802
Card802

I’m on the side of history, at least factual history, you know…..the truth.

This is like creating a law that is designed to force a person to change the way they believe. You just can’t do it as much as the left believes they can.

These people who demand parts of history be changed, or completely erased, because that part of history makes them “feel” uncomfortable are just fucking looney tunes insane.

Will I march off to fight the anti-history foe? Hellpeckerno, I’m almost 60 and not wishing to die over a history lesson.

Will I defend my home and my family if I am marched on? Goddam right I will, I’m almost 60 and will die to protect what I can.

xxBONESxx
xxBONESxx

I don’t know…..but soon I’m sure the rallying cry will be……every time I even hear the name or see the name of a confederate state it makes me sick…..I feel oppressed…I feel like my feelings are hurt…..maybe we should all form a snowflake rebellion to change the names of the states too! We need to burn all the history books that even mention anything about slavery….eventually there will be nothing left, no books, statutes, flags, names, States…..nothing.

Then many will believe slavery never happened and may think it’s a good idea and try it. Since those who fail to recognize history are doomed to repeat it. The ironic part is while slavery was part of the civil war it was the economic issues of slavery and not about color. The civil war was 95% about States rights and slavery as a means of a functioning economy 5%. But then if we eradicate any memory of slavery what next? Will every white person be the last image and memory of slavery. Will the democrats then want to eradicate all whites? It’s a serious question. If there is only one remaining image and memory why would they stop there? ISIS hasn’t stopped and our militant left won’t either. Prepare to fight on your feet or live on your knees Sheeple. You are being targeted as the enemy and many don’t even see it, many are so brainwashed they will become cannon fodder with that look on their faces of, “but I thought hating myself and my own race made us friends.” They just wanted to be accepted, as they take their last breaths watching as their unknown enemies (friends) surround them to eradicate them since they could change everything they say and do, but could never change the color of their skin. They were self doomed from the start by the democrats. This will end one of two ways, politicians regain control and stop the insanity or lose control and piss off the economic right to a point they say if you want your taxes and my gun, molon labe bitches, molon labe as they walk away from funding their own genocide and allow it all to crumble under the weight of debt. Atlas Shrugged style, first………followed by something much worse I fear.

Wip
Wip

Pretty damn good comment.

Vic
Vic

In a way, these SJW are pathetic. They never had a chance. They started out with below-average I.Q.’s and then were brainwashed in the Washington, D.C.-run school system. They’re so brainwashed they don’t know anything about what they’re spewing out. They get the Washington, D.C., narrative and nothing else.

My advice to fellow Christians, keep your kids out of public schools and have as many babies as you possibly can.

TJF
TJF

Dissolve the union.

Vic
Vic

Go back to the American Confederacy before the coup d’etat of the Constitution, when “states” were actually sovereign countries.

Mary Christine

That was a long winded way to say “This could go down like South Africa if we do nothing”.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

BB…I’ve had to laugh at the “Greatest Generation ” . They forced on white folks all the tools for our destruction . Affirmative action,expanded welfare ( which as J.Patrick said) that destroyed black families,expanded immigration that changed the racial make up of our country ( thanks Ted…hope Mary Jo is raping you with a ten foot dildo ) and finally the destruction of societal norms as we know it by giving the alphabet soup freaks protection.

I’m getting older…I can run and gun with the best of them . But another 10 years from now I’ll be on the back porch sipping bourbon most days . If this roman candle isn’t lit soon I may be just a spectator…then again the bourbon may give me back my swagger .

BB

Buck , I know what you mean.My Grandfather would make comments like as we were watching the news in early 70s .The Vietnam war was coming to a close so I thought he was talking about the war or something else on the news.I wish I would have been more interested or just ask more questions.

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