Too bad those southern slaveowners started that war based on slavery. If they would have embrased freedom for their fellow man, they could have gone their separate ways peaceably since there were multitudes of Northerners who wanted the “erring sisters to go their own way”.
Your ancestor’s war started the destruction of the Constitution. Without the war, Lincoln woudn’t have had an excuse.
Start a war and be prepared for someone else to end it.
My ancestor's fought to be free from you not-so-noble liberal Hitlers! "
"Start a war and be prepared for someone else to end it."
Y'all started it! Years of abuse and dealing with your holier than thou attitude would drive any sane person to want a separation!
Texas Senator Louis T. Wigfall, 1861: That the people of the North shall consider themselves as more blessed than we, more civilized, and happier, is not a matter at which we would complain at all, if they would only content themselves with believing that to be the fact; but when they come and attempt to propagandize, and insist that we shall be as perfect as they imagine themselves to be, then it is that their good opinion of themselves becomes offensive to us. Let my neighbor believe that his wife is an angel and his children cherubs, I care not, though I may know he is mistaken; but when he comes impertinently poking his nose into my door every morning, and telling me that my wife is a shrew and my children brats, then the neighborhood becomes uncomfortable, and if I cannot remove him, I will remove myself; and if he says to me, you shall not move, but you shall stay here, and you shall, day after day, hear the demerits of your wife and children discussed, then I begin to feel a little restive, and possibly might assert that great original right of pursuing whatever may conduce to my happiness, though it might be kicking him out of my door. If New England would only be content with the blessings which she imagines she has, we would not disturb her in her happiness.