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In reply to the discussion: This monument is an affront to the United States. [View all]Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)37. Don't make me come down there again

"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about."
William Tecumseh Sherman, December 1860
from a letter to his friend, David Boyd - who was a southerner and a professor at a college in Louisiana - several months prior to the beginning of hostilities.
"I declare the confederacy Excomunicate Traitoris and must be purged!" -General Sherman
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace."
He was the first Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy which later became Louisiana State University
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Traitors to Britain from 13 New World colonies fought against their own country between 1775-1783
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#15
Did England put up a statue honoring "Traitor-Rebel" George Washington? Yes, in Trafalgar Square
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#20
In 1783, the Colonial Traitors against the British Crown WON their Turn-Coat Rebellion
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#26
To me, educating the young on the real history of racism and racist monuments like
Spazito
Jun 2015
#45
Bit of a difference between not celebrating those who fought to preserve slavery
NuclearDem
Jun 2015
#25
Yes, and the principles of that nation were evil, it is nothing to be proud of. n/t
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2015
#36
The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is not anyone's grave.
former9thward
Jun 2015
#65
How about statues of that Native American-exterminating, genocidal maniac Columbus?
Nye Bevan
Jun 2015
#63