Some passing reference?????
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
How southerners can keep the Confederate Flag:
1)Praise it as a symbol of when the Democrats created their own country.
2)Remind everyone Democrats wanted to keep slavery legal.
3)Say it only symbolizes Democrat rebellion against Evil republicans conservatives
4)Say that if the country doesn’t let them fly the confederate flag they are going to create long internet threads where they basically say they were always right to begin with and stomp their feet like children when they are proven wrong..
“The Republican Party platform of 1856 declared ‘all unoccupied territories of the United States, and as such as they may hereafter acquire, shall be reserved for the white Caucasian race – a thing that cannot be except by the exclusion of slavery.’ Lincoln added that keeping slavery out of the territories would free them from the ‘troublesome presence of free Negroes.’ The New York Tribune said that barring slavery from the territories would ‘give them an opportunity to become what New England is now,” namely a uniquely white, morally superior, and enthusiastically commercial society unpolluted by Africans and racially compromised Southerners.”
Donald W. Livingston (professor of Philosophy, Emory University “Why the War was not about Slavery” Confederate Veteran Sept./Oct. 2010
Few people in any part of the country viewed slavery as anything other than a violation of Natural Law. Yankees wanted the South to fix it at no cost to itself. And under no circumstances did the North want those horrible black people coming north.
Well, yes, they did say that, but you're reading it literally, like some lawyer reading the fine print of a municipal bond. Don't overlook the more important part that spoke of "advocat[ing] negro equality, socially and politically."
All in all, the document is like a testament to human freedom, sort of an American Magna Carta.