To: Dr Warmoose
The war was begun by the South. To avert ceaseless war, one must take resolute action to be sure that those who begin war pay a heavy price. The price was paid. The south had 4 billion "then year" dollars in chattle slavery. They began the war to protect that investment, and at the end, it was gone. Most of the slave owners were either dead, or childless. Those neo-successionists who exist are hopelessly irrelevent. Lincoln did a great job, and alas, faced with such a immoral and relentless foe, the price could be no less. An enemy who asserted his right to rape, under color of authority, helpless children, is not expected to show mercy on the battlefield, and at Ft Pillow to the crater, they did not. Linoln showed far greater mercy than the Southrons ever considered.
44 posted on
09/06/2003 4:30:53 PM PDT by
donmeaker
(Bigamy is one wife too many. So is monogamy, or is it monotony?)
To: donmeaker
oh kind sir/madame,
PLEASE explain then the words of GEN U.S. Grant(1876):
"Had the late war been to perserve the institution of chattal slavery, i would have offered my sword to the southland. the ONLY cause of the war was to PERSERVE the UNION." (emphasis mine.)
the ONLY LEGITIMATE CAUSE of the WBTS was dixie LIBERTY.
nothing else is TRUE; not then, not now.
free dixie,sw
450 posted on
09/13/2003 10:56:41 PM PDT by
stand watie
(Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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