Replies

FEW if anyone in the CSA's military OR the civilian population knew/cared what a FEW landed aristocrats thought or wrote, just as almost NOBODY reads political platforms of ANY political party.

They must've, because that's what the war was about, keeping slavery.

sorry, what was printed in any of the ordinances of sucession is of little historical import.

Would you say the same about the Declaration of Independence?

what was approved by the conventions could have been "mary had a little lamb" and it would have meant exactly the same thing = we southrons wanted OUT from under the heel of the damnyankee boot.

Well, it was rebellion no matter what. That'll teach you to renege on contracts.

1. the union is not an indivisible contract;the US Supreme Court said sucession was LAWFUL in 1866.

2. the preservation of the union was NOT worth the loss of >1,000,000 lives-including at least 500,000 innocent civilians. if tommorrow 13 states decided to depart the union peacefully i would suggest that is quite acceptable, especially given the war alterenative.

3. to quote Tom Jefferson: "resistance to tyrants is obediance to God".