[#3Fan]

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.

[stand watie]

i ask yet AGAIN, are you dimwitted enough to really believe the tripe/nonsense/propaganda/bunk, that you post??

[stand watie]

why did the yeoman farmers/poor/free blacks/indians of the CSA militaryfight against the damnyankees?

just one reason = THEY WANTED LIBERTY, from the filth that came down from the north.

i am reminded of the words of a slave captured after shooting at several damnyankee soldiers. when asked why he as a slave was shooting at the union army, he said "because you bastards are still down here". sums up in a few words why most southrons fought to the bitter end.