[varina davis]

It was a horrible bloody war, you are correct, and it did not need to be fought. As Davis said just before leaving the Union and joining the South, “We just want to be left alone.”

But unlike many of the following wars, it was a cause fought for freedom as prescribed by the founders of this nation. Not for nation building, not for oil, not for expediency of trade.

[Agamemnon]

But unlike many of the following wars, it was a cause fought for freedom as prescribed by the founders of this nation.

The Civil War was Britain's last attempt to get its colonies back through a simple divide and conquer strategy, and Jeff Davis was just the puppet to lead the split.

Recall the trade blockade Lincoln instituted to end British commerce, and the border instigation by Maximilian in Mexico, funded by European money.

Lincoln refused to fight his end of the war by going into debt to European banks. He instituted a temporary income tax and the "Lincoln Greenbacks" aka United States Notes funded the North's end of the war as did utilizing its industrial base.

Victorious in war, reconstruction would be another thing -- Lincoln had a heart for national healing (hence the selection of Johnson of Tennesse over Hamlin of Maine for VP) but others had a heart for exploitation of a decimated South -- ripe for Northern and European investment.

Some thing had to be done to Lincoln -- permanently, to make sure nothing stood in the way of the "Carpetbaggers." Some thought Johnson might return to his Southern roots.

Lincoln was assassinated. Johnson was impeached (not convicted -- missed by 1 vote). US Grant ascended afterward. The rest is history.

FReegards!

[Notary Sojac]

By having bound millions of their fellow human beings in hereditary slavery with no hope of achieving freedom by their own efforts, white Southerners forfeited the right to claim the privileges of freedom for themselves.