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To: Texas Fossil
"The Civil War was not about slavery, but that was a side element of the disputes. It was about conflicting economic interests."

Complete nonsense. It was ONLY about salvery, nothing else, because Americans won't fight and die for abstract ideas or "economic interests."

Here's what it was really all about:

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)
"Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

"I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
(Chorus)

"I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
(Chorus)

"He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)

"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

(Chorus)

"He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)

"Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on."

29 posted on 06/10/2009 6:50:37 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

Forget the neoconfederate historical revisionists who ignore the fact that slavery was THE hot button issue that divided the Republic. They just use every excuse to legitimize their “lost cause.”


32 posted on 06/10/2009 7:18:41 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: BroJoeK

“Glory, Glory, Hallelujah...”

Well then: “Hurrah, Hurrah
For Southern Rights, Hurrah
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single Star


89 posted on 06/12/2009 9:58:31 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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