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To: Restorer

"A great deal worse than how Lincoln treated traitors."

Yep, those are fighting words for sure....
My ancestors weren't traitors. Secession wasn't rebellion.
You really should watch your verbage. By the way, we aren't discussing Davis. Just Lincoln.


19 posted on 01/18/2006 6:37:02 PM PST by TexConfederate1861
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To: TexConfederate1861

BTT...at least he didn't say they were Nazis....that's their new kool aid....CSA equals Nazi Germany

We have universities, cities and forts all over this nation named after nazis...imagine.


these idiots who lick Abe's toes are far worse than he was...at least he had a war for rationalizing...they just have a chip


21 posted on 01/18/2006 7:11:20 PM PST by wardaddy (Alito is Clapton)
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To: TexConfederate1861

FWIW, the Loyalists weren't traitors. Anyway, many of them weren't. They were merely Americans who stayed loyal to the King when their neighbors chose to change their allegiance and rebel. As the Loyalists had sworn no allegiance to the rebel cause, it was not possible for them to "betray" it.

Their situation is much more analogous to that of the many southerners who remained loyal to the Union when a majority of their neighbors decided to secede. They were a majority in many areas, notably WV and other mountainous areas of the Confederacy. Similarly, Loyalists were probably a majority in several colonies, particularly NY and GA.

Whether secession constituted rebellion or not was the primary factor over which the war was fought. Men of honor have disagreed profoundly, then and now, about whether states had a right to secede. You have every right to believe that they did, if you wish, but their right to do so is not a fact, it is an assertion.

The South chose to assert its right to secede on the field of battle rather than by using legal or constitutional means. It is poetically just that war proved them wrong.


74 posted on 01/23/2006 5:48:02 AM PST by Restorer
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