Four Star Nonsense

The notion, every bit the White House Chief of Staff said end night, that Robert E. Lee was "an honorable man" is junk history, every bit I've posted virtually before. The General also, though, offered the half-baked persuasion that the Civil War was caused past times a failure to compromise. If he ever bothers to walk downwards the street to the Lincoln Memorial, he volition run across emblazoned on its walls the response to that claim:

The Almighty has His ain purposes. 'Woe unto the globe because of offenses; for it must needs endure that offenses come, but woe to that human being past times whom the law-breaking cometh.' If nosotros shall suppose that American slavery is 1 of those offenses which, inwards the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He right away wills to remove, as well as that He gives to both North as well as South this terrible nation of war every bit the woe due to those past times whom the law-breaking came, shall nosotros discern therein whatsoever deviation from those divine attributes which the believers inwards a living God e'er ascribe to Him? Fondly create nosotros hope, fervently create nosotros pray, that this mighty scourge of nation of war may rapidly overstep away. Yet, if God wills that it buy the farm on until all the wealth piled past times the bondsman's ii hundred as well as 50 years of unrequited toil shall endure sunk, as well as until every drib of blood drawn alongside the lash shall endure paid past times unopen to other drawn alongside the sword, every bit was said 3 one thousand years ago, then yet it must endure said 'the judgments of the Lord are truthful as well as righteous altogether.'