18 Aug 2017 9:08 am
You're relying on leftist moonbat Slate as a source?Misty » 17 Aug 2017 7:56 pm » wrote:It looks like 45's lawyer knows as much about history as he does.
Robert E.Lee did NOT save America, and he was NOT a great American, he was a traitor.
Imbecile.
Robert E. Lee's beliefs are far more difficult to appraise than Slate offers.
Why Robert E. Lee Is a Particularly Poor Fit as Progressive Villain
Historians say iconic Confederate who opposed slavery is too complex to be defined by modern politics
by Edmund Kozak
...The progressive argument is simple: The Confederacy symbolizes support for slavery, Robert E. Lee was in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, ergo Lee symbolizes that support for slavery.
The reality is far more complex.
"Because the nuances of Lee's position regarding slavery are complex, for intellectually lazy and/or incompetent people emotion is the default take on it," wrote Dr. Marshall DeRosa, a political science professor at Florida Atlantic University and expert on the Confederacy, in a forthcoming essay shown to LifeZette. "But there is much more to it than that."...
In those letters and remembrances, there is ample evidence that Lee detested the institution of slavery.
"I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished," Lee said after the war. "I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained."
.....Lee not only appeared to oppose slavery — he also dreaded the secession of the Southern states.
"I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union," Lee wrote in an 1861 letter to his son. "Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me."
"Patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them — the desire to do right — is precisely the same," he wrote in a letter to General P.G.T. Beauregard shortly after the war.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/why- ... e-villain/