Replies

Incorrect, the majority of soldiers in the Confederacy were volunteers.

Initially they were. But as of April 1862 they were forced to remain in the confederate army for the duration of the war, regardless of their original enlistment or any desire to continue serving. At that same time the confederate government instituted conscription.

They seceded because they deeply resented the North basically becoming tyrants over them and forcing them to do things that were not in the interest of the people of the South. Slavery was just one of those things.

Let me get this straight, you're saying that the North forced slavery on an unwilling South?

Yes, I know about Fort Sumter. The Confederacy fired on that fort because the Union was baasically told to leave Confederate land and refused (on the orders of Lincoln) in hopes of starting a war and giving the North the excuse to invade.

Sumter wasn't confederate land and the troops had every right to be there. Regardless, the south did resort to bombarding Sumter into surrender. Maybe that's why all those Yankees came on down in the first place?

Please don't try to tell me that it is unconstitutional to secede when our very own Declaration of Independence says otherwise.

We are governed by the provisions of the Constitution, not the prose of the Declaration of Independence.

Let me get this straight, you're saying that the North forced slavery on an unwilling South?

No, among other reasons, such as forcing high tariffs on foreign machinery in order to force the South to either buy inferior Northern machinery or pay high taxes. There is no doubt that the North did just that.

Sumter wasn't confederate land and the troops had every right to be there.

It was in South Carolina. South Carolina was no longer in the Union. Every government has the right to decide if they will or will not allow foreign troops on their land and they have the right to eject them by any means necessary if they can.

The Declaration of Independence is used because we all agree that it was acceptable for the colonies to secede from a nation that we all deemed as having a tyrannical government. The South just decided to dust off that right one more time. It is a basic and fundamental right of people to cease to associate with people or governments with whom they have irreconcilable differences. Sometimes that will require that the formation of a new government.

I noticed another mind boggling statement by one of those from the land of historical fantasies.

"The Confederacy fired on that fort because the Union was baasically told to leave Confederate land.."

This particular statement ranks up there with some of Yogi's Berra's most funny Yogi-isms lol:

But Yogi knows what he is saying for a laugh :)

“Ninety percent of the game is half mental.”

“You can observe a lot by watching.”

"I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said!"

Yogi: "Where have you been?"

Mrs. Berra: "I took [middle son] Tim to see Doctor Zhivago."

Yogi: "What the hell's wrong with him now?"