Dooming Lincoln
If the Left gets their way, Lincoln will someday be remembered no differently than George Wallace.
By Matthew Boose
December 31, 2020
It’s one of the ironic facts of history that Lincoln was fond of the tune “Dixie.†Following the capture of Richmond in 1865, he instructed the Union band to play it in celebration of the South’s surrender. “I have always thought ‘Dixie’ one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it,†he said. “I now request the band to favor me with its performance.â€â€™
Lincoln’s feelings aren’t hard to understand. “Dixie†is as good as any song that belongs to America. But what was to Lincoln a beautiful melody that had been “fairly captured†has today been marked down by polite society as an anthem of white supremacy and a relic of “Lost Cause†mythology. Indeed, amidst what they’re calling the “reckoning,†a passionate urgency to expunge the Confederacy from history has perhaps never been stronger.
One and a half centuries since Appomattox, and some weeks since Halloween, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is still having night terrors of Johnny Reb. In his mission to combat “hate speech,†the governor banned the sale of Confederate flags (keeping seniors alive was too tall an order, apparently). In support of this call to action, Cuomo decried a “pervasive, growing attitude of intolerance and hate†that festers like an “American cancer.â€
The nature and extent of this “American cancer†has seldom been explained (exactly who is hating whom?), but it does not appear to stop with Confederate flags, or generals for that matter.
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