I could post links from here to Grant's tomb and back to refute every word in your absurd post but it's all been here before. As a matter of fact, I started to ignore your buffoonish post but I just couldn't let you get away with that arrogant, condescending pomposity and revisionist history that you yankees are so eager to put on display whenever one of these threads is started and post #264 is another great example of buffoonery, arrogance, condescention and pomposity.
You can go back to watching cartoons now.
And you can go back to reading your History for Politically Correct Neo-con Yankees comic book.
Are you crying? There’s no crying on Free Republic!
The Civil War was about slavery and the two speeches justifying the secession by the heads of the slavers just shows your position untenable. The reference to the South copying the federal system lays waste to the fantasy the South was against a centralized fedeal system.
Now, there actually is no such thing as a “Yankee” unless you are talking about a regional reference to the North East. What you have are “Americans” and those who hate America. I’ll simply put you down in the latter catagory. So pretend and revise all you want. You and the Marxists and the Code Pink folks can all make it up as you go along.