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To: central_va
The Civil War was all about a conflict between the rights of individuals and the claims of states that they had some sort of a Biblical right to abuse individuals. Secessionists believed it best that their states "secede" from the Union before the Union intervened to protect individuals from State abuse.

Jefferson Davis (and his bigshot secessionist, slaveholding buddies) were not exactly pioneers in the fight for personal liberty. They were proponents of the State ("State's rights has always been their battle cry), a State big enough to protect the elitist bigshot slaveholders from the serfs and slaves who surrounded them and who were forced to support their, worthless, parasitic, lazy lifestyles.

The secessionists were/are Statists with a capital S.

255 posted on 08/20/2013 1:45:46 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food

“Jefferson Davis (and his bigshot secessionist, slaveholding buddies) “

Care to talk about murdering Sherman AND his “bigshot, slaveholding buddies, including himself!!


256 posted on 08/20/2013 1:47:25 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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