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To: Non-Sequitur

Maybe it is mentioned since those that won the war wrote the history books.....How about that theory?!


79 posted on 10/20/2004 6:19:43 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861 ("Sic Semper Tyrannis" ("Thus be it ever to Tyrants" meaning Lincoln!))
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To: TexConfederate1861
Maybe it is mentioned since those that won the war wrote the history books.....How about that theory?!

Then how do you explain all the speeches and writings and declarations made by various southern leaders prior to and during the war where slavery is by far the single most often mentioned reason for the rebellion? How do you explain that?

81 posted on 10/20/2004 6:22:54 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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