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A monument is a structure created to commemorate an event but more often the life of an individual. The monuments being torn down in the South were erected at the beginning of the 20th century. People in the South didn’t want their loved ones to be forgotten so they put up monuments. The Southerners were destroyed by a ruthless Abraham Lincoln; a quote from his 2nd inaugural address: “Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” So old Abe was punishing all people from the south. They were mostly farmers; many came home missing limbs which meant extreme poverty. In 1865 the national debt was 65 million dollars. Four years of civil war brought the national debt to $2.7 billion. The annual interest on that debt was more than twice our entire national budget in 1860. Civil War debt was almost twice what the federal government spent before 1860 and the United States had a progressive income tax, an estate tax, and excise taxes as well.
The Union government had issued more than $430 million in paper money (greenbacks) and demanded it be legal tender for all debts. The death of 620,000 men wasn’t enough retribution for the zealots. Nope Abe had to destroy the sovereignty of the state, give us unconstitutional taxes, and by executive order imprisoned people who hadn’t harmed anyone just like today. The man we paint as a hero instigated the killing of so many in the name of God. Furthermore he’s enslaved our culture in the tyranny of the state. I wonder, will they tear down the Vietnam memorial and all the other memorials we’ve erected to the memory of our dead? When Khrushchev said he would bury us we didn’t believe him. We didn’t notice Marxism creeping into our schools and teaching our kids that freedom is dangerous. Now our children believe that America and every remnant of it’s founding must be destroyed and a new government created under the wisdom of Godless fools. We are being driven to civil war; if that’s what they want, that’s what they’ll get.