Ah yes those monuments to a country that lasted 4 years, shot at the north first, got their ass kicked by actual Americans and are often located in states that were never part of the civil war let alone on the confederates’ side. Most of which were put up 100 years after the war as a means of intimidating minorities.
‘One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics. Their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions would be logical and just but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails.’
The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
“I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.” --Ulysses S. Grant
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