House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from “America’s most sacred shrine,” Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, “until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process.”
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the GOP lawmakers said the monument’s removal “does not align with the original intent of Congress.”
If my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
The Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter because they knew they could take it and they wanted it. The narrative was always going to be tied to slavery, and even if they had won the war and become independent nations, they would still be racist shitbags.
The joining of new states was also part of it, and one could argue that the writing was on the wall for the abolitionist movement. But the fact remains that the Confederate states opposed states’ rights on the subject of slavery, and wanted to enforce slavery in all states. When Lincoln won, it became clear that wouldn’t happen despite the fact that they already were in control of the legislature. So they tried to leave, and take half of America with them.
So your point is that they didn’t want to “overthrow”, but instead they wanted to fracture and capture?