“I’m a southerner whose family has been in the south many generations and that’s why I’ve got no use for the Confederacy. They did much evil to my part of the world. It helps to realize that the South is not the Confederacy and vice-versa. I think a lot of southerners get them mixed up.
I don’t think there was anything legit about the the secession, not constitutionally, nor in the hasty rabble-rousing by which it was promoted and not in the political dirty tricks resorted to when all else failed. It proved its illegitimacy when it failed to sustain itself in the trial by fire. “
As a fellow southerner who has had family in the south on both sides of the family since before the revolution I fully endorse your post. I have little use for lost causers. The confederacy is nothing to be proud of and was never anything noble. At its base they left the union over slavery. People like to argue about states right but its pretty clear which right was the paramount one when it came to the decision to leave the union. I’m glad the confederacy lost and see Davis and his ilk as little more than traitors.
I don’t defend the confederacy I am just looking for the truth as to what happened.
however, I am beginning to not believe the view that the south left because of slavery.
I recently watched a video of Thomas DiLorenzo on youtube. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFty9nZUac this was very interesting.
It’s amazing that so many good people of otherwise sound conservative thinking have such a blind eye to such a greedy power grabbing gang of politicians as those behind the CSA. I think it might be partially because the brave and admirable personal qualities of many reb soldiers from Lee on down blinds them to the incredible rottenness of the political Confederacy. The South truly rose again when the Confederacy was sent into the dustbin of history.