[Colonel Kangaroo]

But the men who did the fighting were not the ones who engineered the secession. The Confederate soldiers had a tough choice to make and often were only motivated by a desire to defend their land. On the other hand, the secessionists' motives were generally much less honorable. I think a Tennessee politician of the day, Oliver P. Temple, had the secessionists figured out:

"The most powerful (motivation for secession), as it always has been, in revolutionary movements, was personal ambition. There was something peculiarly facinating to bold, ambitious men in the thought of forming a great slaveholding confederacy, embracing fifteen states over which they would bear sway; with an aristocratic class to support their authority; with cotton, the greatest wealth-producing staple the world has ever known, as the basis of unparalleled prosperity, and with an obedient, servile race to perform all labor, and minister to the comfort and wants of this superior class as long as governments should last. Of course this motive was concealed..."

[paladin1_dcs]

So who do you think voted those “elites” into power to represent them at the State legislatures? I’ll grant you that some of them had motives for seccession that were based on a desire to protect slavery due to personal fortunes made in the slave trade but you can’t claim that all Southern State legislaters were slavery proponents just because some of them were. It’s the same as saying that all Republicans today are corrupt just because we have RINOs.

[mojitojoe]

personal ambition

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Now that’s funny. Why don’t you take a look at our current government and that assclown in the White House. That’s where it’s for personal ambition pal.