Posted on 06/23/2016 2:04:08 PM PDT by ColdOne
Boy, your mind is full of snakes. The Founders were not trying, at first, to break away from the Crown. They simply wanted the same rights other Englishmen enjoyed in the ‘’Mother Country’’ They still considered them to be Englishmen and British subjects but, in short, looney King George refused them this and so they rebelled. No, the CBF is NOT an American flag, it is a flag of treason and while many would revere it, I hardly think that ‘’millions’’ do , many more do not revere it even though men are capable for fighting bravely for an evil cause and the cause that the CBF stood WAS evil.
Why do you keep denying that? Northerners were major slave traffickers. They bought and sold slaves as early as the 1630's
From the website theclio re Faneuil Hall - "The hall itself was built by artist John Smilbert and funded in part by profits made from the African slave trade. Construction started in 1740, and ended in 1742 when it first opened up to the public, and some of Boston's earliest slave auctions took place at Faneuil Hall. Yet aside from slave auctions and other public goods, Faneuil Hall was also the site of where Samuel Adams made an important speech as did several other patriots during the American Revolution, and in 1764 it was where Bostonians protested against the Sugar Act as they wanted no taxation without representation. "
Northerners find it very painful to learn that their ancestors not only owned slaves, but they made great fortunes in the slave trade. It was northern ships that carried many of the slaves and it was the north that rounded up Indians and sold them down in the islands in exchange for black slaves.
BTW - Clio is the Muse of History. The website is run and written by historians. They know more about the slave trade than public school teachers who perpetuate some of the myths about slavery.
“In one single blow our foreign commerce must be reduced to less than one-half what it now is. Our coastwise trade would pass into other hands. One-half of our shipping would lie idle at our wharves. We should lose our trade with the South, with all of its immense profits. Our manufactories would be in utter ruins. Let the South adopt the free-trade system or that of a tariff for revenue and these results would likely follow.”“In the enforcement of the revenue laws the forts [like Fort Sumter] are of primary importance. Their guns cover just so much ground as is necessary to enable the United States to enforce their laws. Those forts the United States must maintain. It is not a question of coercing South Carolina, but enforcing the revenue laws. The practical point, either way, is whether the revenue laws of the United States shall or shall not be enforced at those three Ports, Charleston, Beaufort and Georgetown, or whether they shall or shall not be made free ports, open to the commerce of the world, with no other restriction upon it than South Carolina shall see proper to impose. Forts are to be used to enforce the revenue laws…not to conquer a State.”
The Union launched the war to protect their money stream. they used "Slavery" as a propaganda tool to recruit and then later to justify the evil thing that they had done.
We have been lied to all these years. The deeper I dig, the more lies I find.
The Civil War was a war over *MONEY*, not Slavery. The Union was perfectly content to allow slavery to continue so long as they were making their cut of money off of it.
I keep denying it because there has yet to be offered evidence. Some website opining that it happened means squat. Show me records of sales, inventories, certificates of title and I may believe your claim.
I bought a Confederate Battle Flag today. I shall proudly display it in my living room. The SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!
Congratulations. I hope that it was made in America.
My great-grandfather was born in 1835 and fought for Indiana. Truth is, had he been born in Alabama, he’d have fought for Alabama.
The *EVIL* was launching a war over *MONEY* and then lying about it and saying you were doing something noble. No, the snakes are the Robber Barons of New York (same as today) and they bought and paid for their Liberal President from Illinois (same as today) and they launched that war to protect their own monopoly of power. (Same as today)
It was made in GEORGIA baby.
I’m a born-agin Southron! :)
Even better. Enjoy.
King George explicitly accused the American colonists of treason. It’s a charge will all the flexibility of ‘racism’.
Dwight Eisenhower proudly displayed the portaits of Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson on his office wall. Perhaps in your mind he was celebrating treason.
“The Best Little War House in Kennesaw”
LOL
Never been to Kennesaw but I bet that store is a blast to explore. Last time I was in Georgia (other than a stop in Atlanta) was as kids when we visited Stone Mountain park in the ‘60s
Old Dwight was free to think as he did even though he was a Republican. This Republican thinks of The Confederate flag as a flag of treason and separation.
I’m a Confederate.
Damned proud of it, too.
I fly my flag directly at YOU.
Oh Christ, look what crawled out of the swamp. Oh Yeah Lampster it was about money alright. Money made off the backs of black slaves.
It’s cluttered as hell but he has period-authentic muskets, revolvers, uniforms... you have to have sharp eyes but there’s a ton of history in Wildman’s shop.
Then, just like the leftist democrats of the north, you must believe that our slaving owning Founding Fathers also fought for an evil cause. Your 'holier than thou' rants are pathetic and shameful. You should be embarrassed.
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