Posted on 12/27/2010 10:31:54 AM PST by trumandogz
The Civil War is about to loom very large in the popular memory. We would do well to be candid about its causes and not allow the distortions of contemporary politics or long-standing myths to cloud our understanding of why the nation fell apart.
The coming year will mark the 150th anniversary of the onset of the conflict, which is usually dated to April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries opened fire at 4:30 a.m. on federal troops occupying Fort Sumter. Union forces surrendered the next day, after 34 hours of shelling.
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Hahaha!! And now he/she/it has retreated. How sad. /sarc
got to remember that NS has no life what so ever.
He lived on here looking for these kind of threads so he could post on them and then report back to his kook left wing but friends.
NS I can bet has many usernames so it comes as no surprise that their words are very similar (from what I remember as I stopped reading his posts after a while)
I knew he could not stay away.
The poor soul just has no life, what a sad pathetic person he is.
He has to have different names, pretend to be someone else, make up who he is etc.
WOW,
LOL ... I love the smell of BUSTED ..FReepers are the best!
Have you every considered regression therapy to
treat your obsession?
Did you read the essay? Obviously not and I can tell you why: your liberal indoctrination is so complete that you're terrified to entertain information opposing your deeply held prejudices.
BTW, secession is discussed in the essay. If you had read it you would know that. Those 2 degrees from that liberal college have really screwed you up. BA's, no doubt......
So was I. I found out on this thread that you are up to 3 Southern states that you claim to have been born and raised in
Pretty soon you'll have been born and raised in 57 Southern states; only one more to go! LOL!!
His screen name is very revealing, isn't it. Shows us one of his innermost desires.
Fort Sumpter was a federal presence in the newly independent Confederate States—which had LAWFULLY seceded from the USA. There is nothing in the US Constitution that forbids secession—or the states would of never signed onto it back in 1789. (New England states were some of the first to talk secession earlier, over other issues—and no one indicated that was illegal).
The US command at Fort Sumpter was asked to leave, by lawful authority...and they refused. Therefore, as far as the Confederacy was concerned Fort Sumpter’s officer’s insistence on staying in SC was the cause of war, NOT the Confederacy’s use of force to extract them.
Personally, I think it was a STUPID move on the part of Confederates Beauregard et als., BUT, if secession was legal (and I believe it was and is...) it was NOT unlawful.
I think economically, the South would of suffered if secession was allowed to stand. Slavery was dying out, the international slave trade was effectively over—and already the more efficient industrialized North was beating the South in economic growth—and that trend would of continued. I don’t think the South ever would of grovelled for re-institution into the Union, however, once slavery was gone—there’d be no logical reason not to re-unify.
Still the fact remains, the North did not go to war to end slavery, even though the South seceded to protect it. The North’s political goal was union. And forced union we have...at a cost of so many lives.
Our Constitution depended on voluntary union, and a weak federal government. Since the Civil War we have had neither.
I love the smell of burning pro- choice, pro-homo progressive trolls. Such a wonderful smell.
First:
1. I am speaking of society in general. 100 years ago, if you slept with a woman who was not your wife, it was considered intolerable, and both parties would have been ostracized. Yes, what is considered moral changes with society.
2. Yes, what we consider moral now may not be considered so in the future, or vice-versa.
Third, you must really think I am stupid if you think I am going to be drawn into the trap you are trying to set.
Good Try, but no cigar!
Now it’s crystal clear why his pal Trumandogz started a CW thread. It was to test out the new name. That didn’t work out too well. LMAO! In fact, it busted his other 2001 sign up name.
Good post.
I was thinking the same thing.
I noticed that too. FR must have had a glitch and dated his first post on FR incorrectly. It should have said 2001. The thread was in 2001.
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