[Donald Meaker]

Gee, I wonder why the Southern slave powers didn't accept that offer.

Guess they were to arrogant to know when they offered a generous bargain, and when they were WHIPPED!

[stand watie]

actually, MANY of the SLAVERS did accept the offer. the African-American Museum in New Orleans has NUMEROUS letters from high-ranking Union officers GUARANTEEING the PERMANENT PROTECTION of slavers "property", in return for their collaboration with the enemy.

like MOST things said/done by the "lincoln gang of merrily corrupt politicians", those "guarantees" were BOGUS & worth NOTHING.

the FACTS are that the dixie war for FREEDOM was NOT about "preserving the peculiar institution" for ANYONE except the 5-6% of southerners, who actually OWNED slaves. HARDLY anyone else cared a damn about the slavers"right to trade in human flesh".

face it, DM, what you believe is a PACK of KNOWING LIES, which are PROPAGANDA out of the MOST extreme, lunatic fringe of REVISIONIST historiography. there is nothing more,nothing less to this situation than that.

frankly, NO traditional scholar would do anything but laugh AT you, if you said those things in their presence.

free dixie,sw