[Non-Sequitur]

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.

If the confederacy had freed their slaves before firing on Sumter then what would they have had to rebel over?

[smug]

If the confederacy had freed their slaves before firing on Sumter then what would they have had to rebel over?

The same thing we face today; an over reaching federal government.

[stand watie]

sorry, N-S, but you as usual are spouting DAMNyankee wartime PROPAGANDA.

as you are WELL AWARE, the WBTS was ONLY about FREEDOM for dixie.

lincoln could have cared less about the slaves. he, himself, said so in his letter to President Davis.

that letter has been posted on FR before on another thread.

free dixie,sw