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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trying to compare fighting for slavery with resisting state socialism is an obvious contradiction. The Confederate slavemasters were the worst kind of statists. The fact that many non-slaveowners supported the secessionists does not change this fact. Robert E. Lee, for example, among many, knew that slavery and secession were terribly wrong even though he felt compelled to fight for his home state.

The Unionists, both north and south, fighting for the US Constitution in the US Civil War were those on the correct side, from an historical viewpoint. Portraying the Revolution of 1776 as disposable and/or marching in some KKK rally only helps the Obama gang.

Good time to mention the outstanding free Hillsdale Constitution 101 course.

Previous FR links to Constitution 101.

4 posted on 03/21/2012 8:07:46 PM PDT by iowamark (The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
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To: iowamark
Trying to compare fighting for slavery

Wrong. The War was not primarily about slavery. If it had been they would have simply let the states go their own way. They did not.

No sane person today defends slavery. At the time, there were many southerners who hated it. But slavery still exists today, but it is less obvious, and still very damaging. It is redefined. Now it is the Federal Government who wishes to make slaves of us all.

The south was defeated. But never subjected. Those echoes still reverberate in Texas. Texans will not quietly become slaves to the nanny state this time either.

Free Men need not ask permission.

8 posted on 03/21/2012 8:17:35 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: iowamark

“The Confederate slavemasters were the worst kind of statists. “

Well that’s a new one; the proponents of State’s Rights and secession were the big ‘statists’- and the proponents of compulsory union and a vastly more powerful central government were what, exactly?


12 posted on 03/21/2012 8:43:38 PM PDT by Pelham (Marco Rubio, la raza trojan horse.)
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