[HandyDandy]

DL“It still says that you are attributing the "statist" position to the Confederacy that is clearly the property of the Lincoln government.”

Please read this very slowly and carefully. The quote is unrelated to Lincoln and/or the Confederacy. It is about a condition that existed for a long time before Lincoln came on the scene. You are not only a Lost Causer sir, you are a Lost Cause.

[DiogenesLamp]

Please read this very slowly and carefully. The quote is unrelated to Lincoln and/or the Confederacy. It is about a condition that existed for a long time before Lincoln came on the scene.

You may think that is what you are saying, but from the standpoint of us objective readers of English, you are saying the Confederacy was "statist", and I keep pointing out to you that it was the Union that was and is now, "Statist."

We see examples of Union statism every single day, especially if one reads "Free Republic."