March 29, 2024

6 thoughts on ““In Defense of Confederate Symbols” by Peter Wirth

  1. Marshell Carnage: “We want to stop the celebration of traitors that sought to create a nation with slavery as its foundation.”

    One man’s “traitor” is another man’s hero.

    “The principles and position of the present administration of the United States – the republican party – present some puzzling questions. While it is a fixed principle with them never to allow the increase of a foot of slave territory, they seem to be equally determined not to part with an inch ‘of the accursed soil.’ Notwithstanding their clamor against the institution, they seemed to be equally opposed to getting more, or letting go what they have got. They were ready to fight on the accession of Texas, and are equally ready to fight now on her secession. Why is this? How can this strange paradox be accounted for? There seems to be but one rational solution and that is, notwithstanding their professions of humanity, they are disinclined to give up the benefits they derive from slave labor. Their philanthropy yields to their interest. The idea of enforcing the laws, has but one object, and that is a collection of the taxes, raised by slave labor to swell the fund necessary to meet their heavy appropriations. The spoils is what they are after though they come from the labor of the slave.”

    Alexander H. Stephens – VP of the Confederacy

    Savannah, Georgia

    March 21, 1861

    1. We celebrate those who fought against an army of invasion. An army that killed civilians, burned homes and entire cities. An army that left a path of destruction across the entire South.

  2. So tired of horrible people who are bitter over the fact that they don’t have males slaves to do all their work and female slaves to rape when the wife won’t put out.

  3. The sad thing about all the slavery talk is that nobody against slavery has ever noted the fact that the slaves in the south was freed a lot sooner than the slave in the north. I find it very amusing that the people who fought so hard to free the slaves were the last ones to actually do it

  4. Examine the difference between relativist and presentist thinking. Also observe that there is little difference between Stephen’s speech and the words of Lincoln on the relative positions of the white and black people. If Stephens is “wrong” then so too must be Lincoln

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