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To: #3Fan
BTW, you mentioned the declaration of independence and ask if that were unimportant.

the obvious answer is YES, if such document was written by a handfull of un-elected aristocrats, un-read & un-heeded by mass of the population (who mostly dispised the wealthy landowners! had we won our war against the damnyankees, the plight of the aristocrats MIGHT have been :slaveless & landless!) AND of NO IMPORT to the cause of freedom. >98% of southrons neither owned, nor wanted to own slaves (or COULD have for that matter, as slaves were $$$$$$$$ and VERY few southrons had the money. the AVERAGE southron service member had GROSS assets of less than $25.00. the aristocrats, with few exceptions, did NOT fight for the CAUSE of southron LIBERTY). the war for southron liberty was, in the main, a PEASANT REVOLT against the damnyankee/wealty classes.

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223 posted on 12/06/2001 10:12:44 AM PST by stand watie
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To: stand watie
the obvious answer is YES, if such document was written by a handfull of un-elected aristocrats, un-read & un-heeded by mass of the population (who mostly dispised the wealthy landowners! had we won our war against the damnyankees, the plight of the aristocrats MIGHT have been :slaveless & landless!)

Why didn't you guys just ignore their calls for secession and war and save 600,000 lives?

AND of NO IMPORT to the cause of freedom. >98% of southrons neither owned, nor wanted to own slaves (or COULD have for that matter, as slaves were $$$$$$$$ and VERY few southrons had the money.

So many fought and died for the filthy lucre of so few.

the AVERAGE southron service member had GROSS assets of less than $25.00. the aristocrats, with few exceptions, did NOT fight for the CAUSE of southron LIBERTY). the war for southron liberty was, in the main, a PEASANT REVOLT against the damnyankee/wealty classes.

South Carolina's Declaration of Secession plainly say the cause was slavery.

229 posted on 12/06/2001 4:14:18 PM PST by #3Fan
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