Posted on 12/12/2009 1:42:14 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Good for them for doing the honorable thing when so many did not see the need. If more prosperous Southerners had been more like them and less concerned with raking in big money by staying home and growing cotton with slave labor, the Confederacy might have lasted a little longer
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