“600,000 plus dead. Thousands of women, children and the elderly left homeless and destitute. Economic ruin. Thousands of square miles ruined. 11 states under military occupation and subject to the exploitation of human vultures swooping down from the north. The Constitution ignored and a powerful, centralized federal government ruling the people.
Indeed. I guess the Southerners knew for a short time, before the reign of terrorism against the Republican Party and freed blacks and the reinstitution of tyrannical and racist Democratic rule, how it felt to be black. And only some years, not centuries.
George Washington reportedly told his aide that if the two sections were to separate over slavery (as indeed, anyone who follows history knows was the cause of the sectional strife) he would join the North.
At least men like the Laurenses, Lafayette, the Father of Our Country (GW) and Thomas Jefferson were aware of the evil of slavery, how it inured Southern gentlemen and ladies to tyrannical and despotic and arbitrary rule over other human beings (the antithesis of liberty and the independent yeoman farmer unafraid and unashamed of laboring with his hands) and how it was actually a long-term economic and moral detriment to the South and to the Republic. They also foresaw that a great conflict would arise between the sections over slavery.
The Southrons/Neo-Confederates seemingly spit upon the great example of the JEffersons and Washingtons, slave owners with a conscience and insight, and embrace men who would attempt to enshrine one of the most horrific and violent institutions in the history of mankind in PERPETUITY, condemning untold millions to misery and to intellectual and material poverty and suffering for all time, is a testament to their moral blindness and lack of TRUE patriotism.
just how STUPID & DISHONEST the REVISIONIST position that "slavery was all" is partially illustrated by the following:
1.slavery existed in both north & south,
2. the percentages of slave ownership were about the same in both regions,
3. only 5-6% of American citizens owned even one slave,
4. slavery was DYING an UN-lamented natural death by 1860 & would have died out within a decade, absent the war,
5. MANY northern slavers planned to KEEP their slaves after the WBTS &
6. lincoln (the tyrant & tool of the northeastern elitists) was perfectly willing to protect slavery PERMANENTLY by Constitutional amendment, if the south remained in the union &
7. (even if the MYTH is true & the war was solely/mostly "about slavery"===> it is NOT truthful.) KILLING a MILLION Americans (MANY of the DEAD were SLAVES) to end slavery a decade earlier than it would have died, absent the war, seems a REALLY high BLOOD-PRICE to pay, don't you think???
in actuality, the WBTS was about just TWO main things:
1. whether the south could freely leave the union of states, which her states had freely joined AND
2. would the south/southerners remain "under the boot-heel" of the financial/social/business elites out of the northeast.
fwiw, i know it was hard for you/most Americans to learn that there was no real Santa Claus, Easterbunny & the Tooth Fairy. NOW it's time to "put away childish things" & learn/admit that the WBTS was solely about FREEDOM for dixie.
and finally, what caused the bitterness felt by most traditional southerners, even today, was NOT losing the war & Reconstruction. the REAL source of bitterness was the WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, which were committed against TENS of THOUSANDS of defenseless, civilian women/children/prisoners of war by the "filth in blue that flowed down from the north".
free dixie,sw
every time i see/hear someone mention "neo-confederates", i know i'm dealing with a south-HATER, a FOOL or a person who is simply ignorant of the term's origin & thus does NOT know that he/she is using a TERM OF ABUSE.
free dixie,sw