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To: IrishCatholic

honestly I don’t know if you are just writing this crap as a wind up or you actually believe it.

You keep going on about slavery and yet it has been pointed out to you time and time again that even Lincoln said he was not going to war over the slaves and that he had no intention to free them nor did he believe he had the power to do so.

Now you keep saying it was a civil war but to be pedantic here it was not so I would suggest you go and look up what a civil war is.

thank you and happy researching


656 posted on 03/23/2009 3:09:31 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: manc
You keep going on about slavery and yet it has been pointed out to you time and time again that even Lincoln said he was not going to war over the slaves and that he had no intention to free them nor did he believe he had the power to do so.

But it's been shown time and again that the South did go to war over slavery.

Now you keep saying it was a civil war but to be pedantic here it was not so I would suggest you go and look up what a civil war is.

From Merriam Webster:

Civil War - : a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country.

Accurate, but it would be more accurate would be to call it a rebellion, an open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government.

670 posted on 03/23/2009 4:15:26 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: manc
No, what has been pointed out again and again is the Neo Confederates cannot address the issue of slavery at all. Instead they follow three tactics:
1. Immediate personal attacks
2. Divert any attention to what the North was doing, or not doing, or should or should not have done.
3. Refuse to acknowledge, address, or seek to dismiss any role of slavery in the Civil war.

As to your suggestion as I should go research, it is laughable. The last argument of a losing side.
Besides, no matter what facts I brought forth, they would be dismissed or demeaned by people so personally invested in defending a failed slave regime. After 680 or so posts no one has yet to bring forth what was noble about the CSA. You are no exception.
SO tell me professor, what was noble?

684 posted on 03/23/2009 5:31:11 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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