Now that the slave thing is out of the picture...we can move on to a better look as to why...
WHY did the South fight? The South fought in SELF DEFENSE.
“That didn’t work out very well for them, did it? Maybe they shouldn’t have started the war in the first place?”
To Non Southern people like you may or may not be, it might have looked real bad, but in reality the South was totally annihilated.
In a way it did work out just not all the way just yet.
We did however learned the true nature of the North (Union) and its people. The North really doesn’t like it when the Southern people recognize their own people and their own culture without a good taste of shame thrown at us to shut us up or start a diversion.
Wouldn’t want us to get all uppity and start exposing all of the North’s war crimes, crimes which I will leave to someone else.
Or show the Blacks AND whites across the
Deep South the Corwin Amendment December 1860
or
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution July 25, 1861
Oops! to late, I think I saw them both on a large sign attached to a post a week or so ago with a ? mark near the voting area.
They must be left over from our State primary’s and I think they are still up for the run off Tuesday of next week 24.
Southerners are different and will forever remain different like night and day from the Northerners.
This will never change and we don’t want your change.
Winston Churchill said it best.
We have always found the Southerners (Irish) a bit odd. They refuse to be Yankees (English).
Winston Churchill
I think says it all.
Included is another wonderful item people just love to jump right over and leave behind.
Nearly 20-30 YEARS of bitter strife happened between the North and South, with the last 8 years before the war being the worst. The North WAS totally out of control.
again: WHY did the South fight? The South fought in SELF DEFENSE.
“That didn’t work out very well for them, did it? Maybe they shouldn’t have started the war in the first place?”
The start went well. It was the ending we didn’t like.
We did want out of the Union.
We hated the Union and how the North had turned and started acting just like the British / English of old. We knew where that was going.
The South wanted to fight. They were way way past wanting to fight.
People just can’t get over that Southerners didn’t care how big you THOUGHT you were. Y’all were going to have to fight and shed a lot of your own blood. Southerners were ready to give theirs by the bucket loads and did. They already knew how.
WIN or LOSE there would be no draw.
The North had to earn every square inch of Southern soil they would try to take.
Hanging the politicians would have served all of us better..
The South tried and lost but remember, it wasn’t a walk in the park for the North in case it comes up again.
The South lost the war and had to deal with that but retained the mental and physical toughness to rebuild.... alone.
Northerners can never have any idea, nor care/cared how bad it really was and THAT is a big thorn in our side. We just can’t pull it out...YET. WE may not have to.
We may have absorbed that thorn, and it helped to make us stronger.
The Constitution meant nothing to the North before the war. Back then, just like today. THE Government is running over the Constitution and the North needs to just take it. The North shouldn’t even be able to open their mouth about the way things are run in the Government today.
Now it’s the Norths turn! My, how the worm has turned.
This is just how we saw the North in 1861 and y’all never open y’all’s mouth except to tell the South to shut-up.
Our forefathers were crying out from the graves to stop this tyranny in 1861. Don’t y’all remember what we did for you in the Revolutionary War?? You know WHAT to do. They won’t listen so FIGHT.
They still call out to you even today if you listen in 2014.
If you can’t hear them, then, they were never your people and you do as those did before you....nothing.
Southerners, as they could do no other way, went to war, regardless of the ending. Sometimes that just doesn’t matter. It’s the spirit that rises up that counts in the end for a culture honor society .
If you understand this, then you can start to understand the Southern people.
If you don’t want to understand your neighbors then those people can start up their diversion parrot talk again. Your crackers are in the mail.
If you are a Southerner, as they say born and bred, and don’t get it, I just don’t know what to tell you except asked you Momma
Well no, the 'slave thing' is not out of the picture. They Union did not fight to end slavery. But slavery was the reason why the South seceded, and they started the war to further their aims.
To Non Southern people like you may or may not be, it might have looked real bad, but in reality the South was totally annihilated.
Oh please. About the time the Confederacy was folding its tent, the Taiping Rebellion was winding up in China. That rebellion killed 20 million people and depopulated whole sections of the country. The South was not "totally annihilated." It was barely scratched by comparison to other revolutions. In all history there is no example of a people who launched and lost a rebellion, and who suffered less and were incorporated back into political power faster than the Southern U.S.
The start went well. It was the ending we didn’t like.
That's the chance you take when you start a war. Once you begin it you have nobody but yourself to blame for all the consequences that befall you if you lose it.
We hated the Union and how the North had turned and started acting just like the British / English of old. We knew where that was going.
Before you begin with all this "we're just like the Founding Fathers in 1776" crap let me point out that unlike the Founding Fathers, the Southern states were represented in the Senate and overrepresented in the House. They were the government you complain of. The one you're about to tell us was so tyrannical.
WIN or LOSE there would be no draw.
A famous Union General summed that sentiment up as well.
"War is the remedy our enemy's have chosen. They dared us to war, and you remember how tauntingly they defied us to the contest. We have accepted the issue and it must be fought out. You might as well reason with a thunderstorm. I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are." -- William T. Sherman
The Constitution meant nothing to the North before the war. Back then, just like today.
Now you're just getting ridiculous, so let's leave it here.