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To: BigReb555

The Civil War was about State rights... not slavery..
so will the NEXT civil war.. be about State Rights..

Democrats despise State Rights..
And not all republicans are republicans...


8 posted on 04/02/2015 4:35:58 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe
The Civil War was about State rights... not slavery.

It was about the rights of certain states to deny human beings rights ascribed by the founders of the nation to all men ... rights which no state or states, according to those founders, possessed. As such, it was one hundred percent about slavery. Read the declarations of secession if you're not convinced.

If you're still of that opinion, ask yourself what your first course of action would be if your state passed a law enslaving or proscribing you. Then tell me about state's rights.

12 posted on 04/02/2015 4:41:10 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: hosepipe
"The Civil War was about State rights... not slavery."


34 posted on 04/02/2015 6:12:19 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: hosepipe
The Civil War was about State rights... not slavery..

It was about the rights of states to allow their citizens to own slaves; it was about the rights of states to define and establish the property rights of their citizens to include certain human beings as just another class of property to own.

45 posted on 04/03/2015 4:34:39 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: hosepipe
The Civil War was about State rights... not slavery..

Not according to the men who started it.

64 posted on 04/03/2015 12:49:45 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: hosepipe

The Civil War was about states rights to own slaves.


81 posted on 04/03/2015 6:34:06 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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