The confederation was founded for the sole purpose of preserving the institution of slavery.
Read it in their own words:
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/williamson_address.html
It is deeply disturbing how many freepers are spouting their "pride" in the confederacy. Honoring a country founded to preserve slavery, and followed by an further hundred years of segregation. Truly something to be proud of.
I hold no brief for slavery, and I recognize that it was a major reason for the secession.
It is secession itself, the principle that a people have the right "to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..." that inclines me to on occasion fly the Stars and Bars, and that makes my heart leap when I hear the strains of "Dixie's Land." The United States itself was founded on this principle. Lincoln denied the validity of it, and went to war not to free the slaves, but to prevent secession.
Up until that war, our Constitution was law, and the central government was limited in its powers. Since then, the victorious government has embarked on a course of usurpation until today it controls the minutest details of life, and our Constitution sits under glass, largely ignored.
North and South, we lost much, and I mourn the loss.
You think that slavery in the South was bad. Maybe it was but how do you think they made their way to the South? They were brought there on Mass. ships, crewed by Mass. sailors, and paid for by Mass. money.
Try being a little less Holier Than Thou.
I guess in any forum of this size you will find some people who will have pride in just about anything. This definitely doesn't give Republicans a very good image.
I guess you folks up in Boston are real proud of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
You blue-zone yankees talk a good game when it comes to treason and traitors......then you turn around and vote for one for president of the United States of America.