The lease document is absolutely not something that I’ve been exposed to before.
You being rude doesn’t make it so. I told you it looks like I was wrong and I admitted it( when I get time I’ll examine the source material).
This changes nothing related to the man’s efforts for the nation postwar, the primary reason he was held in such high esteem. I can’t help that you don’t like why people revere/revered the man. You asked for proof and I gave it to you. He was a shining light post war. He was one that people could look to, gracious in defeat, humble, eager to begin the reconciliation process. A calming voice in face of immeasurable, pain, and loss for the majority of the nation. One whose call for peace served as an ointment to sooth gaping wounds, giving them time to heal.
As an aside, Do you really think he was venerated because he fought to enslave people and break up a nation? So Kennedy (JFK), Eisenhower, Churchill and so many great men of the past were just simply racist also, they lauded him because he sought to protect slavers and dissolve the union?
Back to my point, I completely understand there are people incapable of processing history from the lens of the time in which it happened, thankfully many of us still can. And without that ability, Washington and Jefferson, both slave holders, for example, become pariah too. There’s nothing sacred, there’s nothing to learn from such a flawed man! “don’t you know what they did”, is the cry. “All of their efforts are tainted!” Most every man from our past will fail under the heavy weight of such a focused gaze. This is the point, maybe or maybe not by you, but of some to be sure. They hate the foundations of western society, this country in particular, and its Natural Law roots. I said this four years ago and sadly look what has happened to the monuments and memories of many of our founders. Thankfully, the pendulum is swinging back, and new day is dawning.
……… Btw the story cited related to the disposition of the Custis estate is highly contested, how it was handled, and particularly the whipping story, etc. Not that it’s relevant to my main point.