[Non-Sequitur]

I had wondered, but I don’t doubt it was the sentiment of many fine southern gentlemen of the time.

I'm not aware of any quotes indicating that.

[mdmathis6]

Some of the Ken Burns stuff or letters and commentaries I’ve read over the years. Even the “Killer Angel’s “ author did thorough research.

Wars have to have a moral component to them, some compelling reason that they should be fought, the moral issue for many in the north was slavery and presevation of the union while the money powers of the north I believe had more courser reasons.

Absent the moral reasons, the money powers would have had to come to some agreement with the southern states regarding the demands that the south’s economic and state interests be preserved without resort to blood shed and war. Unfortunateley, morality and greed may have been strange bedfellows in the Civil War!

Now states rights have again become an issue, yet this time it is producers being stolen from while their religious heritage is being mocked at and being proscribed from public expression little by little. We have a grasping greedy overspending central government representing grasshoppers stealing from the wise ants...the money powers are at disadvantage in that they have no core moral “narrative” they can “ride the whirlwind on”. We have the blood of some 30-40 million of our little ones on our hands. Generational theft is evil and the ants are burrowing into their holes to wait out the winter that is coming.

Time for a “New”, new order....