You’re not that stupid - you play at stupid pretty darned well, but you can’t be that stupid....can you?
Go back and read my #391 - the only ones violating the spirit as well as the letter of that document were the slavers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3308080/posts?page=391#391
Five Union states, 1/4th of the Union were also slavers, so there is enough moral outrage to go around.
The 13 Slave holding colonies had a right to leave the English Union. The 11 Slave holding States had the exact same right to leave the US Union.
You just don't want to accept this because you were raised to believe that they didn't have such a right, and besides, "Slavery!"
What so greatly empowers this revisionist history is an unawareness of the zeitgeist of that era. People simply cannot get over their need to apply modern ideas to old times. They can't think outside their own little box.
Their version of History is like the movie "A Knight's tale" in which modern(ish) Rock and Roll sets the mood for the story. No, it really wasn't like that.
The Average Union citizen, a sh*t did not give for the existence or continuance of Slavery in the South. What got them riled up was the outrage ginned up by the propaganda streaming out of Washington D.C. That and their draft notice.