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| Author: | Joe Meyer [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Who Wrote This?!!! |
I ran across the following text contained in a 1860 letter written by a father to his son before the start of the Civil War, the father later becoming a famous general in that conflict. Can you tell me who you think it is? "I can anticipate no greater calamity for our country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of. I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forebearance, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the confederacy at will. It was intended for a perpetual union, so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution or the consent of the people in convention assembled. It is idle to talk of secession. Anarchy would have been established, and not government, by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and the other patriots of the Revolution." |
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| Author: | dukemat [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who Wrote This?!!! |
thats easy.........R.E.Lee |
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| Author: | D. Groce [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who Wrote This?!!! |
lee |
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| Author: | Robert [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who Wrote This?!!! |
Col. R. E. Lee, which only underscores the paradox he found himself in when Virginia seceded. Similar to the paradox someone else found them selves in...... “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.” |
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| Author: | Ernie Sands [ Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who Wrote This?!!! |
You have to remember that R.E. Lee's father was in the American Revolution as a cavalry officer and was prominent in Virginia politics. Lee was born only about 25 years or so from the end of that Revolution. The sentiments that Lee expressed were probably held by many, on both sides of the issue. |
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