intelligent people on FR are on to your game.
you KNOW better, you just don't want to admit the TRUTH about the lust for dixie freedom having NOTHING to do with slavery (with the obvious exception of the 5-6% of southerners who actually owned slaves.).
as the Minister of Damnyankee Propaganda, it is your job to tell FALSEHOODS!
free dixie,sw
You post that time and time again, and yet your own namesake was apparently in the war for just that reason, as well as to get back at a faction of his own tribe, those who hated him for selling them out of their land in the southeast and putting them on the Trail of Tears (see post 132, which I posted tongue in cheek at first, but I'm starting to wonder if I wasn't on to something). If "southron" historians are pointing out that he was a slaveowner and fought for slavery and to take out John Ross, why are you blaming Lincoln? Why are you saying slavery played NO PART whatsoever? I'm exceeding curious from where that hatred stems, because from the viewpoint of a person relatively new to these Civil War threads, you appear juuuuust a tad irrational when it comes to Lincoln. I have to admit, though, it's fun to see the different viewpoints, the polarization, and all that sort of thing.