[Grand Old Partisan]

If the legislature of your state voted for secession, would you shoot U.S. troops who tried to keep the state in the U.S.?

[ZULU]

Not today.

This is 2003. But in 1860, things were different.

On the other hand, if a "President" declared a "National Emergency", suspended elections, and suspended the Bill of Rights, what would any of do? (Not to imply that such a scenario was in any way analgous to 1860.)

The Civil War, Lincoln, Lee and the concept of seccesion are troubling to the modern mind. Slavery was a great evil, inconsistent with the principles upon which this Nation was founded, as are affirmative action, Judges legislating from the bench, an army of illegal aliens violating our borders evey night, a central governmnet which refuses to identify the objects of terroristci assault upon the nation (Islamic immigrants and their mosques and schools), the atheization of America, a holocaust of slaughtered babies, disarming a free people, etc.

Times today are even MORE troubling than back in 1860.

[Gunslingr3]

If the legislature of your state voted for secession, would you shoot U.S. troops who tried to keep the state in the U.S.?

With a smile on my face. I'd gladly take arms to throw off the shackles of this consolidated democracy that is intent on plundering one group of citizens in order to buy the votes of another.

Would you join an army to conquer another set of people who had expressed through their duly elected legislature a desire to set their own laws? In short, would you join an army to bury the very principle of the Declaration of Independence?

[clamper1797]

If the legislature of your state voted for secession from the U.N. , would you shoot U.S. U.N. troops who tried to keep the state in the U.S. U.N.?

In a heartbeat

[Terry Mross]

Yes.

[IrishCatholic]

I thought an Irish Catholic Yankee should come to your aid. There are too many copperheads and secesh trying to re fight a war that was won by the side of righteousness.
On 12/27/03 I posted a belated response to a thread "Opposing Slavery and Yankees in the U.S. Civil War" Sorry I do not have the computer smarts to repost it or give the thread. I am of the book generation. These new fangled computers are beyond me.
But a question to you. All these people who glorify a slave regime and demonize the man who saved the Union, do you think they would concede that for the South to secede, the slaves held in bondage should have been given a say? It seems you can't claim your rights have been violated when you deny millions the right to have any freedom at all. So no tears for the Taliban, no tears for Saddam, no tears for Hitler, No tears for Mao, No tears for Stalin, No tears for the Confederacy.
Slavery is a stain on our past, as was the Confederacy.