I RESPECTFULLY disagree with you and EVERYONE over here who has advocated the position of the South. EVER!
Our Declaration of Independence (which ALL 13 states signed) clearly said “All men are created equal”
It was our original constitution that denied the right of votes to blacks that was in violation of the the declaratioin we OURSELVES had made.
Anything the South EVER said was bogus as it was NOT the view of its populace. It was only the views of the whites (and landowners at that).
If the South had allowed every man to vote and THEN decided to secede, I would be the single BIGGEST supporter of secession.
But instead, they denied the rights of the blacks and a fraction of the populace made the decision for others! Bull hockey! All slave owners can burn in Hell for all I care.
This is the same as I feel for abortion when someone else makes a decision for the unborn child.
ONLY GOD owns us. NOT Humans! Ever!
Sorry for the hard post but I have no sympathy for the South. They did not represent their people. Thus they were not true republics.
All slave owners can burn in Hell for all I care.
You sound very angry. You are aware, aren't you, that there were thousands of slave owners who were black. There were slave breeders who were black and who sold their own children into slavery. They should burn in hell too?
I recommend this recent column by Dr. Walter E. Williams for your consideration.
Oops, sorry I lost the linky. It is titled Moral or Immoral Government and it deals with the ownership of private property and considers ones body as private property. It speaks directly to this question.
Respectfully, you Sir...do not know your History.