President Nixon’s great grandfather George Nixon III died at Gettysburg as a Private in the 73rd Ohio during the fighting on Cemetery Hill on July 2, 1863. At 41 he was the oldest soldier in his regiment. He left behind a family of three daughters and six sons. The family fortunes never recovered from his death, and, in part, as a result, President Nixon’s father was born into poverty and spent his life as a hard working man without much education or much financial success.
President Nixon would visit George Nixon’s grave whenever he visited Gettysburg. Gettysburg, and the entire Civil War for that matter with its 750,000 dead and who knows how many maimed for life, cast long shadows that most of us are unaware of. May we be spared a repetition of that War.
Visit Gettysburg indeed…..and Antietam, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and countless other battlefields where “evil” white racists fought and died to free the blacks from slavery. The schools are too busy teaching CRT and telling white kids they are racist to let truth get in the way. We know who the true racists are.
The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
That’s something I’ve noticed and commented on recently. At least nowadays, there seems to be no ‘Righteous Gentiles’ of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s as if no white American ever did anything to help.