10-31-2017, 01:22 PM
On this he is right to a point for sure. The country was founded on the ability to compromise from agreeing on the Declaration to the forming of the Constitution. In the following years there was compromising done on the issue of slavery to keep going forward as a country. But in those final few years before the Civil War, the South did not want to compromise anymore on slavery, and thought it was their right to break away just as the colonies broke away from England.
In hindsight though, because of the South's unwillingness to give up slavery as they treated Africans worse than livestock in many cases, the inability to compromise was the best thing for the slaves and their ancestors ever since. Because it was due to that inability that led to the war that ended slavery and the South's aristocracy.
On this issue here though, Lee ultimately was a traitor to the U.S. Yes he was honorable for the state of Virginia, and for the country he served his entire adulthood for up until 1861. But taking up arms against the U.S. was his downfall.
In hindsight though, because of the South's unwillingness to give up slavery as they treated Africans worse than livestock in many cases, the inability to compromise was the best thing for the slaves and their ancestors ever since. Because it was due to that inability that led to the war that ended slavery and the South's aristocracy.
On this issue here though, Lee ultimately was a traitor to the U.S. Yes he was honorable for the state of Virginia, and for the country he served his entire adulthood for up until 1861. But taking up arms against the U.S. was his downfall.
“Don't give up. Don't ever give up.” - Jimmy V
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