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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWouldn't the confederate flag be considered a foreign flag?
As such, foreign flags are not usually flown on government property, and that's usually to honor a visiting dignitary and comes down after the person leaves.
They are never flown higher than the U.S. flag.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)People are always demanding criminal punishment for those who burn the US flag. How much prison time should you get for displaying the rebel flag, the symbol of an illegal government that caused suffering and death for much of the population?
B2G
(9,766 posts)HFRN
(1,469 posts)not representative of any nation. It *was* a foreign flag to northern states, and the national flag of SC for a few years, but now it is defunct, and technically not appropriate over any US State capitol, regardless of what it represents, positive or negative
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I don't recall that ever happening.
shraby
(21,946 posts)having a president/cabinet, a flag, an army, munitions to wage war with, money. All the makings of a separate country.
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Thanks for the thread, shraby.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...nor did the U.S. govt.
former9thward
(32,165 posts)of the Confederate States of American.
http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/Events/CherokeeDeclarationofCauses(October28,1861).aspx
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)It's a decoration. HT/Larry Wilmore of The Nightly Show.
For it to be a foreign flag, it would have to be from a recognized state. The confederacy was not either of those, as far as I know.
former9thward
(32,165 posts)Lincoln did not consider the Confederate states to be a foreign country. He considered those states to be in rebellion against the central U.S. government. That is not a foreign country.
Uncle Joe
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At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is
less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a
statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and
proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations
have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest
which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the
nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon
which all else chiefly depends, is as well-known to the public as to myself; and
it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope
for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously
directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it all sought to avert it.
While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted
altogether to saving the Union without war seeking to dissolve the Union, and
divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them
would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept
war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and
powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the
war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for
which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war, while the government
claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has
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wringing their bread from the seat of other mens faces; but let us judge not
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piled by the bond-mans two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be
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