[fortheDeclaration]

First, I did not bring it up, it was brought up by several other posters.

Now, as for the facts.

Lincoln broke no pledges regarding the Constitution.

Some of the Southern States had seceded before he took office.

Lincoln did what any President would have done, he enforced the laws.

Regarding other economic issues, while they were factors, the key issue was slave expansion.

This was admitted by the Vice President of the Confederacy, A.H. Stephens, in his Cornerstone speech, saying the Confederacy was going to built on the Cornerstone of the inequality of the races, not the equality as depicted by the Declaration.

Regarding the fugitive slave act, it was legal, and the South had no qualms about using that 'dreaded' Federal power when it was their own purposes.

The facts are that the South split the Democratic Party over slavery before it even seceded from the Union.

The Confederacy and its flag do not represent freedom for anyone, they represent tyranny at its worst and crushing the Confederacy was one of the GOP's greatest moments.

[the OlLine Rebel]

"The Confederacy and its flag do not represent freedom for anyone, they represent tyranny at its worst and crushing the Confederacy was one of the GOP's greatest moments."


ROFL "at its worst".

Let's see....

Hitler

Lenin

Stalin

Nero

Caligula

MOHAMMED

Any number of myriad butchers I can think of who were much more "worst".

[stand watie]

MORE leftist/REVISIONIST bilge from one of FR's 4 "remaining DY apologists" the others are G-O-N-E, GONE!

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