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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown
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While I don't condone the South's part in the Civil War, some context is required in all things:
"In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge,
that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country."
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While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day."
"So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,
I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained."
These are just some of Lee's quotes. We can't possibly understand the motivations of people so far out from their existence. Not defending him, but I'm not willing to Damn him either. That is God's job.
It is easy to hold those that lived 300 years ago to our present standards, but is equal folly to do so.
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