I read this article today and found it interesting. I am offering five points extra credit for the three best responses to the following question. Should the South be celebrating the start of the Civil War or is it commemorating an act of treason? Please try to limit your response to a solid paragraph. Here is the link
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/31/2011-begins-commemoration-of-150th-anniversary-of-the-civil-war/?test=latestnews
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I believe that the South is only commemorating an act of treason. While one can argue that lecture sets are educational, hotel package deals and concerts are not. While yes, it was bold to secede from the nation, we must remember something else: it was stupid and it ended up collapsing the South, crippling the nation, and taking hundreds of thousands of lives. Besides this, the secession itself was treasonous. They betrayed their nation and the Constitution, which has no escape clauses. Article IV, Section 3 talks about borders and boundaries and such, which is the closest the Constitution gets to "Secession is a viable option by the States." Actually, it says quite the opposite: that "no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress." While this does go against the split of Virgina, Congress approved, and the treason had already been committed; this isn't said to justify, just to address. While it could be said that some of the programs and whatnot, such as lecture sets and readings, are acceptable, many of what was listed are not, and that kind of celebration is unacceptable looking at the causes and the impacts. While many goods came out of the "War of Northern Aggression", the beginning of the Civil War isn't what we should be celebrating, it's the end.
Well for the first part there is nothing constitutional to stop a secession gala or a confederate history month. We have a right and an obligation to remember the past. Otherwise we wouldn't be required to take history in school. It is more questionable what they are celebrating. War is horrid in many ways. People are always happy when it is over and we remember those that get us where we are now. It is very appropriate to celebrate ie remember and respect the past. It was truly courageous for the south to secede when you look at their disadvantages even though it was for the wrong reason. Honestly it depends on the event what is being commemorated. The war was fought by both halves of the country but it seems wrong to celebrate justifying it. The fact of the matter is to celebrate the past for what happened not for what was done that was wrong. Germany remembers but doesn't celebrate the holocaust and we don't celebrate Japanese internment.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with commemorating the start of a war fought between our sovereign nation and an opposing force (in this case, the treasonous rebels of the civil war south). There is nothing wrong with commemorating a battle when it is clear that it was fought between our nation and a force that was outside. The problem comes when people start to glorify the Southern stand on the issues of the time. When they talk about the independent group in Alabama staging a mock Davis swearing in ceremony and the people who glorify their Southern ancestors for exercising their RIGHT as a state to secede, then it gets out of hand. If they commemorate what was obviously an act of treason as just that – an act of treason and a sad moment in American history – I don’t see anything wrong with it. It shouldn’t just be completely forgotten and never remembered seriously, because we can’t forget all the Americans who lost their lives in the war and the eventual good on the issue of slavery that the war brought about. They are commemorating the beginning of a bloody moment in American history which ought to be remembered as well as the beginning of the end of slavery. As long as they treat it that way and not as a celebration of a state’s right to secede, then I think they should absolutely be allowed to do it. Maybe just a little more education is in order for the average participant who was interviewed. They clearly lack understanding concerning the civil war.
The south should not be celebrating the start of the civil war, it should definitely be viewed as commemorating an act of treason, and it is nothing to be proud of. People in the United States whether they have northern ancestors or southern ancestors should look back on the civil war as the worst time in American history, and the only thing worth celebrating is the end of it. The civil war should be remembered with respect given all the lives that were lost fighting amongst ourselves.
I believe that the south has a right to celebrate what they choose to do or choose not to do. It is an action that led them to where they are today and if they are proud of what they are today then so be it. The start of the Civil War was a major turning point in the growth of our country and it will always be remembered till our country is no more. So it should be brought up more than just for children in school. As the south was most effected by the war they have even more cause to remember it. Now the actual act of trying to break the country in two shouldn't be pushed in the celebration but what the south did, they believed in. They believe that they were fighting for the rights they should have possessed. (most believe that) and to fight for your rights is an honorable action and an action that this country was founded on. the only reason others see it as potentially bad is because they are seeing it from a different side of the war. If you had been a southerner pre-Civil War and you had lived with slavery being and ok thing your whole life you would have also been pretty mad at what the north was doing to your way of life. It's just points of view in history that makes up what we think today.
Comments closed-5 points to Nanni G and Josh. Thanks for commenting.
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