Posted on 07/27/2009 3:11:29 PM PDT by BigReb555
July marks the145th Anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta that marked the beginning of the end of the Southern people's quest for independence.
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An American institution.
What these slave holding, dem party lovers don’t understand is they no longer are Americans. An American is a person living under American laws and government. The confederates abandoned that government for another country.
For the simple: I’m an American who loves my United States of America.
Anyone clinging to the failed idea of the Confederate States of America is no more an American than a Mexican or Canadian.
My ancestors are not the ones who fired upon the flag of the United States of America.
Your slave holding, dem party ancestors are the ones who fired on the United States flag at Fort Sumpter.
It was the slave freeing, Republican party citizens of the United States of America who ended it.
Plantation owners who owned a certain amount of slaves were exempt from the confederate military draft.
First and foremost:
Y'all know nothing about history other than what you've been drinking served by your liberal public schools! Un-American this and Un-American that....You Sir are nothing more than a Tyrant that warships a madman and his band of thugs that murdered noncombatants! When your Saint Lincoln/Adolf and his band of criminals torched my family's homes,rapped,pillaged, and basically acted like SS troops that's when my Kin took a stand.
The problem appears to be language.....That war was going to take place regardless of the issue...The Freedom loving people of the Bible belt will never like the taste of the underbelly of a federal jackboot! Just be prepared for Round two...Once again it will be Conservative Dixie + Alaska,Idaho,Montana,N & S Dakota,and Utah against the Liberal New England States...
Current voting patterns don't lie- Liberal then liberal now
Wake up
But also to control their own ports and set their own tariffs so as not be exploited by Northern industrialists in the same fashion that British mercantilists once exploited the colonies. Also to enjoy benefits of their own wealth - at they time seceded the South was paying about 70% of Federal revenues, with less than half the representation. Sort of a "taxation without representation" situation. I can think of worse reasons to secede.
You must have missed the part where they used forced labor.
Oooh. Like the Northerners were so nice to the factory workers, too. Sad but true, slaves often had better working conditions than “free” factory workers. Sorry, you’re not going to get me worked up over slavery.
Besides, as Lincoln himself said, the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
A Northern worker could walk away from any job they didn’t like.
You can’t be that stupid.
Yup. They did have the right starve, and slaves didn’t.
Feel free to hie off to Africa and fight slavery there, whenever you’re ready.
Actually many were fighting because they had to fight. They were enrolled at gunpoint. North Carolina was forced to fight Virginia’s battle.
Yup. And there were draft riots in New York City, put down with cannon and grapeshot.
Your point?
The idea that all the Confederate soldiers were fighting out of love for the South is a bit worn. They went into the mountains and took people at gunpoint. When they deserted to go back home, they had to chase them down.
Slavery was the cancer that killed the South. How could we have been so stupid?
Its not possible to bring the acres under cultivation to make people wealthy with just your family, some hired hands, and some horses or oxen to pull the plows. You need LOTS of hands to cultivate, harvest, and process cotton, rice, and indigo in profitable quantities. Without slavery, the South would have likely been stuck at the level of subsistence farming. Slavery may be bad, but it enabled other, better things. Worked that way in Greece, and Rome, too.
However, I agree with the sentiment - I wish my ancestors had picked their own darn cotton.
BTW: The idea that all Yankees were fighting to free the slaves or for Union is even more absurd.
The slaves didn’t starve?????????
You can’t be that stupid.
I guess I can.
The Cyclorama still stands.....it’s fascinating!
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