“That’s exactly what I said. The US army fought to preserve the Union and Constitution, not to establish an all-powerful federal government.”
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
“Save the Union” = “Save the Crown”
Same crap, different messengers.
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world.”
Who was that? John Adams? Thomas Jefferson? George Washington?
Spare me the crocodile tears about slavery. Yes it was wrong but its a moot point. The entire Western world was moving towards that direction as would the USA or the COnfederacy is it had been allowed to survive.....without so many having to die.
That doesnt change whats above now does it? “Save the Union” goes against everything this country was founded upon.
Saving the crown is not the same as preserving a Union and Constitution that "We the People" had agreed upon.
Spare me the crocodile tears about slavery. Yes it was wrong but its a moot point. The entire Western world was moving towards that direction as would the USA or the COnfederacy is it had been allowed to survive.....without so many having to die.
A demise of slavery slow or otherwise would have been inconvenient for a regime with a cornerstone of slavery as its own vice president boldly asserted.