Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: MP5SD
Thomas Jefferson acknowledged the right to suceed and wished them well.

Where?

How can peaceful secession be treason? We did just that from England?

If memory serves, our declaration of our independence from England resulted in a war.

Why did so many states refuse to send their troops to Lincoln when he demanded them?

Which ones? Other than the rebellious ones, of course.

Suspended habeas corpus, appropriated money from the treasury,shut down newspapers, imprisioned the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,called up troops for 3 years without Congress approval.

Davis suspended habeas corpus and shut down newspapers, too. On a per capita basis the south had more political prisoners than the North. Please show when Lincoln appropriated money. Also, while you're at it, show when Chief Justice Taney was ever imprisioned or threatened, or where the Constitution says that congressional approval was needed for the call up of the troops.

instituted military tribunals.refused to exchange prisioners-but also refused to export medical supplies to the south..causing deaths of his own at places like Andersonville

Davis instituted military tribunals and martial law, too. No criticism for him? The refusal to exchange prisoners was a miltiary decision meant to keep thousands of southern troops out of the war, had Grant known that your intention was to starve the Union POWs to death then maybe he might have decided otherwise. And why should the North have sent medical supplies to the south, so that they could use them for their own army?

The emancipaption proclamations sole purpose was to cause a slave rebellion in the south similar to the one in Haiti.

The sole purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to remove slave labor from aiding the southern economy and war effort. Claims of slave rebellion formation have no basis in truth.

Lincoln want to colonize the slaves outside of the US and send as many free blacks with them as he could.

Robert E. Lee believed in colonization and spent his own money to buy passage for some of his former slaves to Liberia. In the only pre-war quote concerning emancipation from Jefferson Davis, he voiced the hope that the emancipated blacks would be 'encouraged' to settle in Central and South America. Again, no criticism of their views from the peanut gallery?

Lincoln, Sherman,Sheridan and Grant..all war criminals by any standard. Check the Geneva codes of 1863.

I did. The 1864 Geneva Convention provided for the neutrality of ambulance and military hospitals, the non-belligerent status of persons who aid the wounded, and sick soldiers of any nationality, the return of prisoners to their country if they are incapable of serving, and the adoption of a white flag with a red cross for use on hospitals, ambulances, and evacuation centres whose neutrality would be recognized by this symbol. Where did Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman violate this?

The Northern policies following the war were the cause and effect of the inception of the KKK.

Considering the Northern policies freed the slaves and tried to ensure voting rights for all southern blacks, this is the only statement you made that I can come close to agreeing with.

234 posted on 09/27/2002 11:33:16 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 168 | View Replies ]


To: Non-Sequitur
I could refute you line by line, but your continual "tu quoque" argument makes it pointless. You don't refute the facts and I'm not going to be your history teacher.

The only "you too" argument you DONT make or that can be refuted by any coursory read of history is your weak attempt to justify war crimes.

Geneva 1863
1.Attacking defensless cities and towns was a crime.
2.Plundring and wantonly destroying civilian property wa a crime.
3.Only necessities may br taken from a civilian population, and they must be paid for.

Nice try but I won't be reconstructed.

Your legacy is that great quote "Yankee Go Home"

278 posted on 09/28/2002 10:23:50 AM PDT by MP5SD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 234 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson