[stand watie]

well, since the 5-6% of BOTH northerners AND southerners, who actually owned slaves, generally did NOTHING for the cause of dixie LIBERTY (and in fact frequently collaborated with the enemy), i couldn't care less what the slavers thought/felt/did.

get the message, Luis, the WBTS was NOT about preserving slavery. it was ONLY about LIBERTY for dixie.

free dixie,sw

[Luis Gonzalez]

"get the message, Luis, the WBTS was NOT about preserving slavery. it was ONLY about LIBERTY for dixie."

Liberty and dixie...an oxymoron.

"Our new government is founded…upon the great truth that the Negro is not the equal to the white man. That slavery—the subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition." -- Alexander Stephens

"They (Founders) rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of government built upon it." -- Alexander Stephens

"There is not a word of truth in it (Declaration of Independence). All men are not created. According to the Bible, only two, a man and a woman, ever were, and of these, one was pronounced subordinate to the other." -- John C. Calhoun

"It is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty." -- John C. Calhoun

From the Confederate Constitution:

• Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 4: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."
• Article IV, Section 3, Paragraph 3: "The Confederate States may acquire new territory . . . In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and the territorial government."

"If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule -- it is a question of political and social existence." -- Alfred P. Aldrich, South Carolina legislator

"I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason -- for the planting and spreading of slavery." -- Albert Gallatin Brown, U.S. Senator from Mississippi.

"Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves . . . freedom is not possible without slavery." -- Richmond Enquirer, 1856

"The triumphs of Christianity rest this very hour upon slavery; and slavery depends on the triumphs of the South . . . This war is the servant of slavery." -- Methodist Rev. John T. Wightman, preaching at Yorkville, South Carolina