bama46
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Dig 'em up and hang 'em.
I have come to the conclusion that several members of this board will be satisfied with nothing less, unless they get to shoot them before hangin them
Dig 'em up and hang 'em.
What more needs to be said on the subject?"That was my view, that the act of Virginia in withdrawing herself from the United States carried me along as a citizen of Virginia, and that her laws and her acts were binding on me."
Dig 'em up and hang 'em.
Ellsworth avenger said:Ike is one my Heroes,because of my bias iv'e kept still and have enjoyed the thread.
Ike is still the last great American President.
What more needs to be said on the subject?
I was also Eisenhower's view 100 years later, and he wasn't.It was his 'view' and it was mistaken.
I don't think so, but it was a decision to be made based on one's own belief system.That he was wrong about whose laws and whose acts were binding on him.
I don't think so, but it was a decision to be made based on one's own belief system.
You have read what he wrote. Again I ask, what more needs to be said on the subject? What's not clear?Except, Lee would have went with Va. Even If, the unconstitutionality of secession had been a proven fact. Would he not Still have drawn his sword in defense of Va., even IF he were convinced that his Va. was, in fact, a rogue state?
Lee would have to say whether or not he thought it was a mistake. Certainly we can look back and say there were terrible consequences as far as the way things worked out. But whether or not Lee made a mistake by not doing something else isn't for me to say. He may have seen other outcomes as being worse.And I think we can agree what he did was a mistake (Arlington, if nothing else).
Lee would have to say whether or not he thought it was a mistake. Certainly we can look back and say there were terrible consequences as far as the way things worked out. But whether or not Lee made a mistake by not doing something else isn't for me to say. He may have seen other outcomes as being worse.
Eisenhower was writing about how Lee felt, not how he himself felt. The closest he comes to saying how he himself feels is this:
"He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America"
the implication being that since 1865 it's been understood that the "cause" Lee fought for was not Constitutionally valid.
You have read what he wrote. Again I ask, what more needs to be said on the subject? What's not clear?
In the context of his letter, the only way to interpret Eisenhower's view is to say that in the legality of secession was settled by the War's outcome, not before.