Robert E. Lee Holiday, Monday, January 20
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Dear Editor:
As Alabamians celebrate Robert E. Lee Holiday, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to return General Lee’s name to Fort Lee in Virginia.
Fort Lee is on the battlefields where Lee’s Confederate soldiers fought for freedom from Wall Street’s oppressive 200% tax on steel plows used by Southern farmers.
President Biden desecrated history by changing the names of the following nine military bases named in the early 1900s for our Confederate States heroes:
Fort Lee (Virginia), Fort Rucker (Alabama), Fort Bragg (North Carolina), Fort Benning (Georgia), Fort Hood (Texas), Fort Gordon (Georgia), Fort A.P. Hill (Virginia), Fort Pickett (Virginia), Fort Polk (Louisiana).
Trump received thunderous applause when he declared recently, “As commander in chief, I will restore the proud and historic names of our great military bases like Fort Bragg. We’re going to get them back!”
Deceitful politicians attack Confederate monuments, names, holidays, etc., by falsely claiming the war was over slavery.
Abraham Lincoln repeatedly stated his war was over taxes only, and not slavery at all.
One month before invading the South, Lincoln declared, “I have no purpose to interfere with the institution of slavery. The power confided to me will be used to collect the tax duties (200% tax on steel plows); but beyond what may be necessary for this, there will be no invasion.” (First Inaugural Address; March 4, 1861; paragraphs 4 and 21)
Lee did not own any slaves during Lincoln’s Tax War, whereas Lincoln’s top commander, General U. S. Grant, owned four slaves during the war.
Sincerely,
Roger K. Broxton
President of Confederate Heritage Fund