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To: stand watie
My point is that the CSA's claims of sovereignty were recognized by no other country in the world.

What does that tell you?

178 posted on 01/06/2005 2:31:56 PM PST by Modernman (What is moral is what you feel good after. - Ernest Hemingway)
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To: Modernman
My point is that the CSA's claims of sovereignty were recognized by no other country in the world.

This is EXACTLY why slavery became a contrived issue AFTER the start of the war. The north simply wanted to keep Europe out of it. Things were inching that way and you know it!

191 posted on 01/06/2005 3:43:07 PM PST by CurlyBill (The difference between Madeline Albright and Helen Thomas is a mere 15 years.)
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To: Modernman
it tells me that the countries were waiting to see who WON the WAR.

it means NOTHING else.

free dixie,sw

291 posted on 01/07/2005 8:28:40 AM PST by stand watie ( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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