Dear Glenn Beck: Confederate Constitution mentions the word slavery ONE time.

Confederate Constitution ^ | 6/25/10 | Central_VA

[central_va]

Open Message to Mr. Beck (self proclaimed historian). Tonight on your TV show you said that you read the Confederate Constitution and I paraphrase "it had slavery written all over it, all about slavery blah blah blah". You are incorrect sir, I did a word search on the document and the word slavery appears "one" time. Everyone can try it for themselves at the link provided below.

CS Constitution

Can never trust a Yankee, even a goofy entertaining one.

[central_va]

I suspect we'd have had a lot worse by now if it not for Lincoln's skill, wisdom and dedication to the Constitution.

I'll let your hero answer for me:

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and to form one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may make their own of such territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority intermingling with or near them who oppose their movement.

            Lincoln on the floor of Congress, 13 January 1848
            Congressional Globe, Appendix
            1st Session 30th Congress, page 94

[Non-Sequitur]

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and to form one that suits them better.

Show me where Lincoln guarantees them success? The South was inclined to rise up and shake off the existing government. They just didn't have the will or desire needed to succeed.

[central_va]

Show me where Lincoln guarantees them success?

Ok, the first Civil War was about the Union being preserved by quelling what Lincoln thought was a natural right to "to rise up and shake off the existing government ". To the Goon then, secession is by default implied legal, as the Constitution was/is (still) totally silent on the subject.

[southernsunshine]

Hey, Cowboy!

I see you're still kicking rear and taking names later. Just nothing like a good ole' Southern MAN:)

[Non-Sequitur]

We're talking about Lincoln's quote and the asinine attempt that Lost Causer's always try to make it sound like Lincoln was supporting unilateral secession. He wasn't. He was recognizing that the right to rebellion in an inherent right in all people. And that they do have the right to rise up and rebel if they feel the circumstances warrant. But Lincoln is not saying or implying that such actions were legal. Or that they were guaranteed success. The key, as Lincoln said, was 'having the power'. The South did not have that power, and the obvious reason was that their cause was not important enough to do what it took to win.

To the Goon then, secession is by default implied legal, as the Constitution was/is (still) totally silent on the subject.

Nothing in the Constitution forbids secession. But since you brought up the concept of implied powers, then clearly implied in the Constitution is the need to gain the permission of the other states to leave.

[rockrr]

ROFLMAO at someone thinking pokie is a man ;-)

[southernsunshine]

Thinking of the USS Brooklyn, it reminds me of the ship that Lincoln put us all on....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTURFcBuB8

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He was born in NC because he wanted to be with his mother. He moved north at a young age and is your boy. Own him proudly.

Byrd's family on both sides was from North Carolina.

He wore his Confederate loyalty on his sleeve.

It's why he was a Democrat.

His great-grandfather served in the Confederate Army and deserted his family and ran off to Indiana after the war. That didn't make him any less a Confederate when it counted. So it was with Bob.

[dfwgator]

You know I was wondering, if the next Oscars, when they go through all the people that died the previous year, if they’ll include Sheets?

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You know I was wondering, if the next Oscars, when they go through all the people that died the previous year, if they’ll include Sheets?

LOL!

If he got pork for Hollywood like he did for WV, he'll be there.

It could be funny seeing him in the montage with all the Hollywood folk wondering if they should applaud or not.

[rockrr]

Well, judging from some of the lame-brain LCL’r emoting going on here, they may try to claim he was a stealth Republican...;-)

[Non-Sequitur]

Well, since I decided to broaden my horizons and have become well rounded........

Broad and well-rounded among the Lost Causers seldom refers to anything except their backsides and their waistlines.

[southernsunshine]

ROFLMAO at someone thinking pokie is a man

Shoot, Southern males have the size, strength, and mental acuity, to be men before their 18th birthday!

Cowboy is one of my favorite MEN:)

[rockrr]

My condolences.

[central_va]

Go google Northern Needle Dicks like NS....Your name may pop up.

[central_va]

He was recognizing that the right to rebellion in an inherent right in all people.

He was for slavery before he was against it. He was for secession before he was against it. Where have we heard this kind of talk before....

[Lee'sGhost]

LMAO!!!

And Libturd Martin Sheen played Lee because of HIS love for the Confederacy.

The truly funny thing is that none of that changes the fact that W. Va is a NORTHERN state.

But don’t let historical fact get in the way of your fantasy.

http://www.civilwarinfoguide.com/images/american_civil_war_map.gif

[rockrr]

Only if my name were central_va

[cowboyway]

Hurts doesn't it, punkrr.

There, there, don't cry. Maybe mommy will make you a nice, hot bowl of porridge tonight.

[rockrr]

Hurts that someone is as bone-jarringly pin-headed as you? Doubtful. But I am disappointed.