The
Louisiana Legislature has gotten what it wished for: the passage of a law (HB 248) to remove
holidays honoring Robert E. Lee and Confederate veterans from Louisiana’s
public calendar.
There is no
little irony in this, however. Many of
those who voted for this bill tout themselves as small-government conservatives
who support Christian values. Do they
not realize that the men whose memory they are desecrating were fighting for
those very things?
If they had
taken the time to learn what ideas motivated the North and the South in the
War, they would have seen that Southerners were quite fearful of the expansion
of federal power that was proposed in Lincoln’s program and of the moral
disorders that were accumulating up North.
New England was a hotbed of all kinds of depraved experiments –
communism, feminism, Unitarianism, free love/open marriage, and more. The victory of Lincoln and the North in the
War was a victory for big government and moral degeneracy, the effects of which
are still very much making themselves felt here in Louisiana and beyond.
Look at what
we have, then: The defenders of
decentralized, limited government and of a society based on Christian virtues
(Confederate veterans) Louisiana’s legislators kick and beat like a mangey dog,
while the allies of centralized, unlimited government and of a society of
continual ideological frenzies and upheavals (the friends of Lincoln and his
Yankee cohort) they tenderly embrace.
Again,
highly ironic. But perhaps we can make
some sense of this.
Most elected
political office holders today are driven by a desire for praise and adoration
from the public. They want to be known
as important people. But how can they
monopolize the public’s admiration when there are virtuous people, men and
women of substance, from past generations with whom they must compete for
it? Is it not within the realm of
possibility that some, or many, of our legislators harbor in some secret
chamber of their hearts a jealousy of the Confederate veterans, that they want
to appropriate for themselves the love Louisianans have for Lee, Richard
Taylor, and the rest?
Which of
them can measure up to Southerners of the old sort? . . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2022/06/garlington-politicians-popularity-and-contempt-for-confederate-veterans/.
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Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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