Ha muerto Dolly Parton, la Reina del Country, uno de los más grandes íconos de este género musical. Tenía 80 años. Mírala aquí cantando ‘I Will Always Love You’, escrita y grabada originalmente por ella en 1973, antes de la versión de Whitney Houston. Y, aunque suele interpretarse como una canción romántica, en realidad nació como una despedida profesional a Porter Wagoner, su mentor y compañero artístico durante varios años. Parton quería dejar su programa y continuar su carrera en solitario; ante las tensiones que provocó esa decisión, escribió la canción como una forma afectuosa de decirle que se marchaba, pero que conservaría su cariño y gratitud.
La grabación original se realizó el 12 de junio de 1973 en el RCA Studio B de Nashville, con producción de Bob Ferguson. Después apareció en el álbum ‘Jolene’, publicado en febrero de 1974, y posteriormente fue lanzada como sencillo. La versión de Dolly llegó al n.º 1 de la lista country de Billboard en 1974.
¡Descansa en paz, reina! 🤍
PSA: The Confederates were not "traitors" to the United States. And their generals - Lee, Jackson, Forrest et al - were among the most loyal-natured men ever born on New World soil. Let me explain how this worked:
The United States was plural in the beginning. You'd say, "The United States are going to war," for example. It was a voluntary, non-perpetual union of states, like NATO.
The Articles of Confederation provided for a perpetual union. But the Constitution did not. The concept of perpetual or "indissoluble" union (one that didn't allow secession) was discussed at the Constitutional Convention while it was being drafted, and our founders rejected the idea. It wouldn't have passed ratification. In fact, Madison, the primary drafter, was the one who rejected a representative ratio based upon the presumption of permanence. He presumed that states might leave it if they found it dissatisfactory to their needs.
And the term "states," instead of "provinces," should clue you in to that fact. A "state" is a term of political sovereignty, historically synonymous with a country. IE, France was a state. Britain was a state. Virginia, Massachusetts, and South Carolina called themselves states because they understood themselves as distinct political societies that had delegated specified powers to a federal government, not created by it. States made the Union. The Union did not make the states.
Ergo, when a state seceded, it was no longer in the Union. Its Citizens were not "traitors" when fighting against the Union, because they were not Citizens of their Union. They were Citizens of their State. Lee, Forrest, and Jackson all fought the Union because of their properly oriented loyalty to their rightful governing authority, exactly as Romans 13 requires. Their State called them to fight against foreign aggression by a foreign State.
It was like the colonies revolting against the British EXCEPT the colonies were not sovereign States, and the Founders required significantly more justification to prove their revolt wasn't disloyal or immoral. The Citizens of the Confederate states needed none. They left a voluntary union they no longer desired to be in, and defended their State against foreign attack.
This is why Lee said, "If Virginia stands by the old Union, so will I. But if she secedes … then I will follow my native State with my sword, and, if need be, with my life."
This is why Forrest said, “When the war broke out, I felt it my duty to stand by my people.”
None of them saw themselves as traitors. They fought *because* of loyalty, not in spite of it. They were loyal men. They were godly men. They were good men.
And that's why the Confederates weren't charged, tried, or convicted of treason. They attempted to charge Jefferson Davis, and soon gave up, because they'd lose. It wasn't against the law, because no law or court ruling banned secession until White v. Texas in 1869.
People who accuse the Confederates of "treason" but not the 13 colonies suffer from a bad case of "Winners Write the History Books."
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"Please thank them for that, sir - I warmly appreciate it. And I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation, and need all the prayers they can offer me." - Robert E. Lee, when told by his chaplain that all the army chaplains were praying for him.