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I mean, really. We coulda just let 'em become a sweltering Canada.

 

GOOD OL' REBEL SOLDIER

by Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A.

 

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel soldier, now that's just what I am;

For this "Fair Land of Freedom" I do not give a damn!

I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won,

And I don't want no pardon for anything I done.

 

I hates the Constitution, this "Great Republic," too!

I hates the Freedman's Bureau and uniforms of blue!

I hates the nasty eagle with all its brags and fuss,

And the lying, thieving Yankees, I hates 'em wuss and wuss!

 

I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do,

I hates the Declaration of Independence, too!

I hates the "Glorious Union" -- 'tis dripping with our blood,

And I hates their striped banner, and I fit it all I could.

 

I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about,

Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout.

I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow,

But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'!

 

Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust!

We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.

They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,

But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got.

 

I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more,

But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that's for sartain sure!

I do not want no pardon for what I was and am,

And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!

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as a born Southern woman, the content of this song/soliloquy does not represent the views of all Southern people or the South in today's day and time...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

well not me anyways.

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I KNOW!

 

when my husband and I would drive home from vacationing in Destin, FL, we would pass this horrific statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest. this horrible monstrosity was reviled by many in Nashville and the surrounding area. it faced the interstate in Brentwood, TN and it was/is on private property. therefore, nothing could be done to remove it. anyways, we would flip the statue off while in traffic. some fellow drivers passed us and gave us the thumbs up :thumbup

 

 

here is the horrible thing:

 

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Yes, the war in the end did bring about emancipation. However, if the south had been allowed to leave, it would have been so isolated from the rest of the developed world (and the north) that it would have been forced to come into line on its own.

 

The fact that a full 80 percent of fighting age white males served in the confederate army would seem to indicate a high level of antipathy toward the union.

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Actually, I just finished the Teaching Company's Civil War course and thought those lyrics were pretty bitchin'.

 

yeah, they are bitchin'.

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One union, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate

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Sure, but we coulda kept doing that stuff without those guys.

Yeah, but the slaves wouldn't have.

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To quote myself:

 

Yes, the war in the end did bring about emancipation. However, if the south had been allowed to leave, it would have been so isolated from the rest of the developed world (and the north) that it would have been forced to come into line on its own.
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Maybe.

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I KNOW!

 

when my husband and I would drive home from vacationing in Destin, FL, we would pass this horrific statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest. this horrible monstrosity was reviled by many in Nashville and the surrounding area. it faced the interstate in Brentwood, TN and it was/is on private property. therefore, nothing could be done to remove it. anyways, we would flip the statue off while in traffic. some fellow drivers passed us and gave us the thumbs up :thumbup

here is the horrible thing:

 

nbfs2.gif

 

 

Sadly this abomination is still there to this day :ohwell

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