And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, May 1, 2023
On August 24, 1862, Captain Raphael Semmes launched the CSS Alabama becoming the most fearsome privateer in service to the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Captain Semmes had a monument erected to him in Mobile in 1900. It remained there until the BLM/George Floyd peaceful protests and the city caved to cries of "racism" and moved the monument to the History Museum of Mobile. Of course, crime has STOPPED in Mobile just like in every major hood rat city that removed their Confederate monuments (tongue in cheek).
The CSS Shenandoah under James Waddell sailed into Liverpool, England and was turned over to their government and the crew dispersed on November 6, 1865.. While not knowing the war had ended, they sank 25 more yankee whaling ships between May 27th and June 28th, 1865. When preparing to attack the California coast, an English ship informed them Jefferson Davis had been captured and the war ended. They chose to sail around Cape Horn of Africa and then up to England rather than surrender to yankees. the ship was eventually sold to Zanzibar and sank in a storm in 1879.
It used to amuse me when I would hear the vexations of those still holding out for the Confederacy. I get the pride thing - it's genuine for many - nevertheless the real struggle to secure both the labor and representation in Congress to be had with a permanent underclass (once slave and now "immigrants/refugees") continues at a pace and ferocity never before seen. The carnage and the destruction of the Civil War was all for nothing because the same political party that made it their life's work to preserve slavery has finally found a way to defeat its rivals. Adios Estados Unidos!
He and his gallant crew put up a hell of a fight against the Kearsarge, before slipping beneath water, off the coast of Cherbourg.
ReplyDeleteRoll Alabama, Roll!
Bayouwulf
My favorite version of that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0EMjpRfYg
DeleteHe don' look easy.
ReplyDeletemade of differnt stuff them days...
ReplyDeleteCaptain Semmes had a monument erected to him in Mobile in 1900. It remained there until the BLM/George Floyd peaceful protests and the city caved to cries of "racism" and moved the monument to the History Museum of Mobile. Of course, crime has STOPPED in Mobile just like in every major hood rat city that removed their Confederate monuments (tongue in cheek).
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Raphael_Semmes
The CSS Shenandoah under James Waddell sailed into Liverpool, England and was turned over to their government and the crew dispersed on November 6, 1865.. While not knowing the war had ended, they sank 25 more yankee whaling ships between May 27th and June 28th, 1865. When preparing to attack the California coast, an English ship informed them Jefferson Davis had been captured and the war ended. They chose to sail around Cape Horn of Africa and then up to England rather than surrender to yankees. the ship was eventually sold to Zanzibar and sank in a storm in 1879.
ReplyDeleteIt was commissioned by the Confederacy as a Confederate Navy vessel, so it doesn’t seem to be a privateer. A commerce raider yes, but not a privateer.
ReplyDelete"Civil War"? You mean that time when the godless Yankees invaded America? 'Round here we call that the War of Northern Aggression.
ReplyDeleteYou're free to join the union or not, once you're in it's forever.
DeleteThe older I get, the more I favor the Confederate point of view. Relatives on both sides.
ReplyDeleteIt used to amuse me when I would hear the vexations of those still holding out for the Confederacy. I get the pride thing - it's genuine for many - nevertheless the real struggle to secure both the labor and representation in Congress to be had with a permanent underclass (once slave and now "immigrants/refugees") continues at a pace and ferocity never before seen. The carnage and the destruction of the Civil War was all for nothing because the same political party that made it their life's work to preserve slavery has finally found a way to defeat its rivals. Adios Estados Unidos!
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