To: GOPcapitalist
Beauregard knew of the incident and it is believed to have hastened his planned action to take the fort. Source?
Walt
To: WhiskeyPapa
We do NOT hate the United States of America, we wish to see the federal government bound by that which they promised to uphold. That being the Constitution of the United States.
The Constitution was spat upon by Lincoln, he ignored it, in order to "save it". What he ended up doing was creating a precedent where the Federal government was no longer for the people, by the people. It was from then on, a monstrous entity with no controls. IE: the Constitution of the United States. The federal government IGNORES the constitution, and Lincoln, may he rot in hell, was the one that started it.
I don't care who started the civil war or for what reasons, if Lincoln had FOLLOWED the letter of the constitution, there would NOT have been a civil war, the slaves would have been freed as they had been throughout the world peacefully, and the federal mess we have now would NOT exist.
I set this mess right in the lap of your socalled honest Abe. He was a dictator in all rights but name. The constitution was just so much toilet paper.
This makes Lincoln a traitor, and if he had not been assassinated, he should have been put up on charges and shot, just as Sherman should have been, but that's a whole other story.
Again, I don't care how much you LOVE Lincoln, it is at his feet that we can lay blame for the monstrosity that we have today.
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