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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (489740)	11/9/2003 8:12:59 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Lee was actually "executing the will" of his home state, Virginia. And Virginia gave her wealth and sons in support of the will of the Confederacy. Therefore, Lee was executing the will of the Confederacy. In fact, he turned down Lincoln's offer to command the Union army when Virginia decided to secede. Which ever links him to the Southern Confederacy, which fought and died in the attempt to forever repudiate the unalienable rights of other humans. I will grant you that the "states rights" issue and the slavery issue were intertwined, but they were not EXACTLY the same issues as you seem to be suggesting. I never “seemed” to be suggesting any such thing. My claim is precisely what it is, that we cannot divorce the issue of “states rights” from slavery because the chief and most salient right (amongst others) for which Southerners fought, was the right to forever deny the unalienable rights of other humans. The Southern Confederacy was an official sin against human nature every bit as heinous as leftists who today destroy the lives of unborn children. If Virginia had not seceded, Lee would have accepted command of the Union army. He truly believed that his loyalty was to the state of Virginia. Indeed, but unlike Lincoln and many other Northerners, Lee had virtually no sensitivity at all to the philosophy enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. That document actually presents the very basis for America’s existence and yet the Confederacy literally and explicitly declared it “wrong.” Lee, instead of being incensed by this, turned against the doctrine in the Declaration and fought for the Confederacy. He had noble traits, but he will always carry the severest stain upon his name. His tenure with the Confederacy was the biggest mistake of his entire life.