[Non-Sequitur]

The rights given to us by GOD --they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights--are ours every second of every day.

For about 2/3rds of the population anyway, so far as the confederacy was concerned.

[smug]

Yes sir, I agree had the Confederacy taken that to heart and freed the slave's before they fired on Fort Sumter, the Confederacy would have won their Independence.