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What Robert E. Lee Wrote to The Times About Slavery in 1858
By JACEY FORTINAUG. 18, 2017

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The general did, however, object to the idea of raising Confederate monuments, writing in 1869 that it would be wiser “not
to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

Also linked in that one

Confederate Leaders’ Descendants Say Statues Can Come Down
By MAGGIE ASTOR and NICHOLAS FANDOSAUG. 17, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/confederate-monuments-stonewall-jackson-lee-davis.html?mcubz=0

hookrider, "I have never said slavery was right", and i've never suggested you did say slavery was right .. no one here has as far as i
know .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=114931567 , to link in again the conversation you had back when ..
and the excellent article Stephanie also gave you back then, again ..

What This Cruel War Was Over
The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Jun 22, 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=114914205

and to include, again, the charts i gave you on the words in some of the secessionist states causes statements

The Reasons for Secession

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134676287

It's kinda curious to me that those against Lee's statute being taken from an "in your face" place are in expressing a position contrary to the one Lee himself apparently held.

The confederate flag stands for hangings, beatings, separating families, no money, and even worse abuses..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=114925720

It couldn't be said much more honestly and succinctly than it was said there.