[soakncider]

Here it is again for those that missed it: “The great classical scholar and
Confederate Soldier Basil Gildersleeve remarked that the War was a
conflict over grammar”whether the proper grammar was ‘the United
States are’ or ‘the United States is.’ We have been using the wrong
grammar.” -Clyde N. Wilson

[central_va]

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

Maj Gen. Patrick Cleburne

[RinaseaofDs]

I’ve been following the rest of the thread too. It’s as cogent an analysis on the Civil War as I’ve seen anywhere.

We are very much still settling that conflict. I suspect, in 300 years or so, they’ll say something like:

“The North won, temporarily, in 1865. However, by gutting the 9th and 10th amendments, and then passing the 14th, which was subsequently stretched out beyond all recognition by one incompetent and overreaching Supreme Court after another, Texas, and most of the South ended up seceding just prior to the great currency collapse of late 2016. Since the northern and western states had decided to farm out military bases and posts to the South, there wasn’t much the rest of the country could do about it once it happened.

Historians wonder if the South could have wound down slavery themselves had they prevailed in the 1860’s. If so, there is no telling how powerful the US could have been by cleaving more closely to the original founders intent.”