Posted on 01/09/2003 7:51:29 PM PST by stainlessbanner
A bald-face lie. The Confederate States never sought to, or attempted to, overthrow the United States government. They sought independence from that government. Even the term "Civil War" is a lie, as the CSA were in rebellion and soufght independence, as the 13 colonies had done not 100 years before.
Declaration by the People of the Cherokee Nation
"But in the Northern States the Cherokee people saw with alarm a violated Constitution, all civil liberty put in peril, and all the rules of civilized warfare and the dictates of common humanity and decency unhesitatingly disregarded. In States which still adhered to the Union a military despotism has displaced the civil power and the laws became silent amid arms. Free speech and almost free thought became a crime. "
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What an ass! The Confederates never wanted to overthrow the US Government. They only wanted their own government.
Incredibly this was written in 1861. Striking just how applicable this is today.
True enough, but there's no telling what the reaction of the Confederate government would have been had the Army of Virginia been successful at overrunning Washington and capturing Lincoln. Having bowed to the temptation to institute conscription it's difficult to consider the possibility that had the Confederacy been given the opportunity to not only remove the possibility of a future threat to their northern border but to return the former states of the Union to a governmental system within the bounds delineated by the constitution, they might well have done so.
Alternately, the possibility that at least some of those conquered territories might have been traded to England in return for the diplomatic recognition and military support sought by the Richmond government, particularly along the Canadian border, is at least within the realm of possibility, and would have left the Yankees less able to later stage a future retaliatory war against their Southron neighbors.
But of course their act was, as you note, not treasonous but rebellious. It was Lincoln whose actions were acts of treason to the constitution and gave those seeking the dissolution of the Union the moral justification for their actions.
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.....that's quite true.....in a civil war you have two [or more] factions each trying to sieze control of the government....the "late unpleasantness" of 1861-65 was a war of secession & partition; a concept as American as apple pie......
as a PROUD desendent of a Cherokee warrior who rode with GEN Stand Watie's First Mounted Cherokee Rifles, i'm OFFENDED at his presence in the statehouse & his HATEFILLED LIES about our tribe's HERO-MARTYR, period, end of story.
unless you happen to be Cherokee, you should PROMPTLY close your trap, Mr. Cox and slink away into the darkness, from whence you came!
FRee dixie,sw
FRee dixie,sw
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