Suzan B.
Anthony
Suzan Anthony was born in Richmond the
capital of Virginia. This year commemorates the 75th anniversary of the
publication of "Gone with the Wind" and the 150th year since the
start of the Civil War.
Richmond over the last half-dozen years
has experienced an increase of 120 dining clubs, experimental chocolate shops
and boutiques. The once-neglected downtown feels fresh, lively and full of
food—a whopping 185 restaurants have opened there in the last ten years. The
coke museum housed in what was once a candy store celebrates the ingenuity of
Joe Biedenharn, who spread the gospel of the carbonated drink by bottling and
delivering it to surrounding areas. The first containers were made of glass
with a stopper that made a “pop” when opened.
The Old Court House Museum contains many
war artifacts, including Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s chair the stuffing bursting
out of the seams, and the inauguration tie of Confederate President Jefferson
Davis. There are many attractions such
as the 31 flood wall murals along the Yahoo diversion Canal, a compilation of
Vicksburg moments including the “Gold in the Hills” a play that is in the Guinness
World Records Book for the longest running melodrama (since 1936.)
Suzan Anthony was born into a middle class
southern white family. General Sheridan’s Cavalry destroyed the family home in
1863 the third year of the civil war, and her parents moved to Appatamox Court
Courthouse, 60 miles west of Richmond, Virginia thinking it a safe haven and
unlikely to attract any fighting. The same town and home where Lee surrendered
to Ulysses S. Grant, in 1865 ending our civil war, and precisely the day the 14
amendment came into being. The 14th amendment happened to be the very first
amendment to the constitution.
It stated all Americans are created
equal. No more slavery regardless of skin color, race, origin of ancestors.
Abolition!
We are all United States Americans.
It had been a hundred years since the Declaration
of Independence was written. “Four score and seven years ago,” as Abraham
Lincoln stated in his now famous Gettysburg Address.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
To the Victors go the spoils.
The Federal
Union Government now had the authority to:
*Conscript
men in to the armed forces if need be to protect its citizens both internally
and externally.
*
It could now levy an income tax and did almost immediately so as to help
maintain its authority.
*It
exists to protect all of its United States against any internal or external
efforts to challenge its existence.
Suzan rode home on her horse in the
morning mist the day of the signing, much welcomed by her father and mother.
Out of the West
At
the break of dawn A nurse on her horse rode home that day
Owas a dusty rutted road That leads to Appomattox To
Laid dead Southerners shot, bloated, strewn around.
Sprung
from swift hooves Her horse goes thundering by Leaving
behind dust from the road
Rising high
in the sky
Looking like smoke from the mouth of a
cannon. the trail of a comet, sweeping faster
And faster, the rebellion over,
July
4th 1865 The American Civil is over.
DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
To
read more Dr. Wallace go to: w.w.w.karlwallaceblog.blogspot.com
