SHOOTING THE PRISONERS

"Today's culture war is much more brutal than the real war."

If the Civil War had ended in 2015, the winning army would be shooting its prisoners!

On April 9, 1865, General Lee met U.S. Grant at the little village of Appomattox, Virginia to surrender his army.  After the simple ceremony of surrender, Lee offered his sword to Grant.  The Union general refused, passing a simple gentleman's courtesy to his legendary enemy.  As Lee mounted Traveler to ride away, the Union army began to cheer.  "None of that!" Grant ordered, "the rebs are our countrymen again."

President Lincoln faced jubilant Union troops in Richmond on the evening of April 10th and the crowds called for a speech.  Instead, Lincoln turned to the military band and asked them to play "Dixie."  To those who showed surprise, Lincoln said, "We must let them know that the song is safe with us."

By contrast, nothing is safe with today's liberal Left.

If the war had ended today, the victors would be shooting prisoners.  The civility of 1865 has vanished.  Today's culture war is much more brutal and vicious than the real war. It also compromises the very values that were won in the real war and in the one hundred and fifty years of political melee that followed.