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To: wideawake

Except for one thing:

The War of Northern Aggression was not about slavery. It was about states rights!

And, the second War of Northern Aggression will be about states rights!


62 posted on 06/22/2015 7:34:14 PM PDT by Taxman ( I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!)
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To: Taxman
States do not have rights.

People have rights.

States have powers given them by the people.

The Civil War began with the insistence of the free people of the Southern states that they had the authority to deprive the servile people of the Southern states of their rights,and that they and their states had the authority to compel the free people of the other states to assist them in depriving those servile people of their rights.

The term "states' rights" is an oxymoron for the unintelligent to indulge in unreason.

69 posted on 06/22/2015 11:27:10 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Taxman

The War of Northern Aggression was not about slavery

It’s kind of hard to pitch the Civil War as Northern aggression when Southern forces fired the opening rounds...innocuous as the attack on a Federal garrison may have been, it provided the Union warmongers the very opportunity they needed...

It’s like the Japanese people today complaining about genocide through Hiroshima/Nagasaki...all the while forgetting that Pearl Harbor remains on the books as well...


75 posted on 06/23/2015 7:04:26 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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