[Blood of Tyrants]

You mean the U.S. government that no longer was in control of the South and the South no longer recognized it's authority in the sovreign Confederate States? Please! Don't try to tell me that once a government does something that is impossible to undo it! Next thing you'll tell me is that the U.S. never borle the treaties it made with the Indians.

And the North was equally willing to allow slavery in four Northern states while pretending that the war was about the abolition of slavery!

Give me a break!

[Non-Sequitur]

Give me a break!

You keep asking for a break. Are you that badly in need of one?

Don't try to tell me that once a government does something that is impossible to undo it!

No, governments can undo actions made earlier. It's just that the Davis regimes way to 'undo' it took the form of shelling the fort into surrender.

And the North was equally willing to allow slavery in four Northern states while pretending that the war was about the abolition of slavery!

Slavery was allowed in 15 states but the southern states chose rebellion instead.

[capitan_refugio]

"Consult any diplomatic history or text published anywhere in the world, and there appears a remarkable unanimity on what constitutes nationhood. The accepted definition in the 1860's, as now, requires that a people sets up and maintains a working civil government, is able to protect territorial integrity, and is recognized as a nation by the other leading nations of the world. Of these three key elements, the Confederacy achieved only the first, the operation of a working, if rickety civil government. Territorially the Confederacy lost ground in huge chunks almost daily and from the outset. As for recognition, not one single nation, large or small, granted formal diplomatic relations or exchanged ambassadors. In the absense of two of the three requisite standards of nationhood, and especially the vital recognition, the Confederacy can not be regarded as anything more than a very organized insurrection or sepratist movement."
- William C. Davis
"The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy"
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize

William Davis is the recipient of three Jefferson Davis Awards.