160 Years Ago, Lee Surrendered at Appomattox in Another Episode of America's Failure to Punish Traitors
From Before Lee's Surrender at Appomattox to January 6th: America's "Compromises" Continue to Haunt Us
April 9, 1865.
160 years ago and a day, Robert E. Lee—a traitor who waged war against the United States, who sent hundreds of thousands of Americans to their cold, early graves for the “cause” of keeping human beings in bondage, who shamefully betrayed his oath to the Constitution—was asked not to be a traitor anymore, and allowed to simply walk away.
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