To: uxbridge
No state was forced to join the Union without its express consentExcept for the ex-Confederate states after 1865 anyway, right? It was a "voluntary request" to rejoin only after the Union Army was unleashed on them and allowed to wreak havoc for four years. No coercion at all there. Nope, none.
75 posted on
08/27/2007 4:58:42 PM PDT by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls
It was a "voluntary request" to rejoin only after the Union Army was unleashed on them and allowed to wreak havoc for four years. No coercion at all there. Nope, none. Rejoin? The Southern states were never out of the Union to begin with.
82 posted on
08/27/2007 5:14:40 PM PDT by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericks-burg. Support CVBT.)
To: FreedomCalls
CHUCKLE!
well said.
free dixie,sw
190 posted on
08/28/2007 9:27:28 AM PDT by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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