[DiogenesLamp]

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. “

Same sort of stuff that Lincoln believed, but he had better PR.

[IrishBrigade]

Same sort of stuff that Lincoln believed, but he had better PR.

yeah, except he didn’t file Articles of Secession over it, and place himself in open rebellion due to it...

for the record, I believe the Confederacy was perfectly entitled to secede from the Union if that was its idiotic desire...just as it were perfectly entitled to its ultimate reward for shelling a fort of the entity from which it had seceded...