Volume I No. 48
 01-10-03
 Who Won The Civil-War Anyway? 
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2003

 The latest made for "conservative talk radio" and made for 
 "conservative-talk television" political controversy is happening 
 120 miles south of the Nation's Capital in Richmond, Virginia. 

 The dispute involves the placement of a statue of President
 Lincoln and his son Tad, commemorating the 1865 visit of
 the two "Yankee Invaders" to the capital of the Confederacy 
 days after it fell.

 The offending statue of the assassinated President is to be 
 placed at Tredegar Iron Works, { under the jurisdiction of the 
 National Park Service } a foundry that during the Civil War 
 period produced battlefield cannon for the Confederate Army. 

 Apparently, members of such organizations as the "Sons of 
 Confederate Veterans" believe it is an affront to have a statue 
 of an American President in their grand old Capitol city. In
 fact, Virginia state delegate Richard H. Black has been quoted
 in many sources as stating that, "putting a statue there is...
 like putting the Confederate flag at the Lincoln Memorial."

  Again the number of Southerner's who love and adore the 
 defeated Confederacy is as disappointing as it is disturbing. 
 What is it about such men as Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, 
 and others of their mutinous ilk, that is so wonderful to white 
 Southerners of a certain political affiliation.

 The United States of America is a remarkable country. Whether
 it is the greatest on Earth, or merely the richest and most militarily 
 significant, is debateable. -- But the aim of the Confederacy was 
 to sever the political union between the North and the South, 
 so that rich Southern landowners - and the not so rich -could
 continue their brutal and inhuman exploitation of African slaves.
 And thus, had the South won, the United States as we know 
 it today, would not exist.

 The Civil War was about slavery...and to a lesser extent, "states
 rights." But slavery was the machine that powered the conflict. 
 The central area of discord. The war would never have happened 
 had the controversy been only about the power of an intruding 
 and ever expanding Federal bureacracy.

 God Bless Abraham Lincoln and the brave soldiers who died 
 so that the barbarism in the South could be ended, and the United 
 States was able to once again stand amonst the civilized nations 
 of the world. One extra day of slavery would have been one day
 too many for those suffering African and American-born slaves,
 who suffered under the lash, and had their culture, and in too
 many instances their self-respect stripped from them until they 
 indeed became submissive and docile.

 Why is it that these Conservative politicians never recall such images
 in their self-serving speeches that glorify the Southerners under 
 Lee's command. Why is it that the African-Americans of today 
 are so often shortchanged in their political contribution as to what 
 is culturally appropriate for the modern South. Why are their opinions
 about the Confederate Flag discounted and maligned? Aren't they
 full citizens of Georgia, and Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, and the 
 Carolina's. Is not their burden important? The obligation they feel
 to their ancestors? These blacks stand, serve, and die, not only
 as citizens of the South, but of the entire United States of America. 
 Not of some shadow Confederate government that must forever 
 be placated and respected.

 Sometimes when listening to Conservative Southerner's on issues 
 regarding the legitimacy of the Confederacy, one can only wonder 
 who won the War. The allegiance to old ideas about class and 
 race that are so often spoken of. The contempt for Northerner's 
 and Liberals. -- All fellow Americans mind you.

 Today the Stars and Stripes flies triumphantly over every capitol 
 in the South. That is how it should be. And how it should always 
 be. There is only one America. One United States. This persistent
 mythology that the Confederacy was some noble misunderstood
 thing -- must be resisted at all cost.

 The Confederacy wanted to destroy the Union and to continue
 the exploitation of their plantation slave population. That is the 
 message all Americans must take from that long ago war. And it 
 is the only message of any importance to be found there.
 

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