To: Bull Snipe
Again, serving an evil cause. I am not personally condemning your family members. However the Confederacy sought to render us into two separate nations and had they done so successfully we would be a very different country. I'm not ignorant enough to think the war was entirely about fighting to preserve the institution of slavery or exclusively to end it although it certainly was a predominant feature of why the South chose to do what it did.
91 posted on
03/02/2020 5:14:33 PM PST by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: jmacusa
They didn’t see it as an evil cause. At the time they thought the cause they served was justified. It is from a vantage point of 150 years later that we can make the determination that the cause was less then worth of their dedication.
To: jmacusa
However the Confederacy sought to render us into two separate nations and had they done so successfully we would be a very different country. As was Britain. Odd that no great harm has come about as a consequence of Britain separating into two separate countries.
Apparently separating into two separate countries does no lasting ill to anyone. Certainly not enough to kill 750,000 people to stop it.
164 posted on
03/07/2020 11:08:25 AM PST by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty."/)
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