I think the whole Civil War History and brainwashing about "it was all about slavery" needs to be revisited. The whole states rights issue gets buried when the bloody shirt of slavery is waved. We could learn a lot from history if it is evaluated from all sides, not just from the Federalist "winning" side. The Republic died in that conflict, you might want to learn the real story as it is very relevant to today.
To: central_va
You sent tingles up my leg thinking secession was in the works.
2 posted on
04/17/2009 6:01:47 AM PDT by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: central_va
There are many misconceptions about the War of Northern Aggression.
3 posted on
04/17/2009 6:02:36 AM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(We have nothing to fear but Obama himself.)
To: central_va
I think people who keep introducing these Civil War revisited threads are liberals who are trying to split the conservative movement into northern and southern warring factions.
To: central_va
IBTDY*
*In Before The Damn Yankees
To: central_va
Not to mention all the adoration heaped upon Lincoln, who flat out said multiple times he was driven by an urge to preserve the Union, NOT to end slavery.
10 posted on
04/17/2009 6:09:21 AM PDT by
djf
(Live quiet. Dream loud.)
To: central_va
14 posted on
04/17/2009 6:13:04 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
(American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
To: central_va
I remember a discussion on FR a while ago about whose side God was on in the Civil War...it was determined that He was on for the Union. I wonder if God would still be on the Union side if there was another civil war?
15 posted on
04/17/2009 6:32:51 AM PDT by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: central_va
On this very same day in 1861,
The New York Evening Day Book stated that the event at Fort Sumter was:
“a cunningly devised scheme contrived to arouse, and, if possible, exasperate the northern people against the South.”
16 posted on
04/17/2009 6:35:04 AM PDT by
PeaRidge
To: 11th Commandment; 17th Miss Regt; 2001convSVT; 2banana; 2ndDivisionVet; A_Former_Democrat; ...
21 posted on
04/17/2009 7:26:32 AM PDT by
central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: central_va
It’s more than even “States Rights.” It was about the damn northeast yankees gaming the system so that the South could never have commensurate political power. It was about them being able to ram Lincoln down the throats of the south. It was about oppression and subjugation, and the oppression of blacks for another century.
28 posted on
04/18/2009 5:15:03 PM PDT by
ichabod1
(I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
To: central_va
Whoopty-do! Another thread about the Great Slaver Rebellion of 1861.
31 posted on
04/18/2009 5:28:21 PM PDT by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: central_va
Virginia seceeds on April 17....my birthday...what a wonderful present!!
37 posted on
04/20/2009 8:18:26 AM PDT by
Gopher Broke
(Check out a great Blog....http://roanokeconservative.blogspot.com/)
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