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.
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.
“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?