Posted on 04/10/2015 5:03:22 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
Has anyone put you ass up on a block and bid on a price for you? Or some member of your family? What I think of Obama would get me thrown off this website and have the Secret Service at my door in no time.
Um, so it was the North that fired on Ft. Sumter?
The declarations of seccession adopted by various seceding states made it clear that the main reason they were seceding was slavery.
And look where that surrender got us. The “union” is taking us down with it.
It was the North which refused to relinquish the fortification to the proper authorities. That encroachment was the first act of invasion.
The issue of slavery was settled in this country on the battlefield and wilted away in the Western Civilization within 25 years of Appomattox without further bloodshed. Notice that this article appears in a Leftwing political publication where the shouts of racism and encouragement of hatred advances their political cause. Ironic indeed.
In answer to your question about being put on a block, the answer is yes! And when his father refused him his freedom he hauled to Texas and became a cattle drover.
Ironic indeed that the Confederate States were Democrats.
I said were YOU ever put on a block and sold to the highest bidder?
Precisely. Slavery was patently Unconstitutional and would have been deemed so over time.
Instead, we have one man, Lincoln, send 600,000 men to their deaths because of this. In the process, he did away with habeas corpus, jailed those who disagreed with him, and shut down newspapers. And we are sold the line of crap that he is some sort of here? BS. Possibly the worst President ever.
Imagine any modern day President doing the things listed above.
I just have to ask. Did a committee come up with your screen name? It looks like some sort of compromise. :))
And by the way — that was one State. If the Union felt so irrevocably aggrieved by that one action that it was somehow compelled irretrievably into war. Then its war could only legitimately have been against South Carolina.
But I imagine everyone in hindsight can see that the Sumpter incident could and should have been quickly and peacefully resolved once the shooting there stopped. There was no legitimate call for a Northern invasion predicated upon that one incident.
Well you would know better than me, but I do know they forced plenty of Irish off the boats into the Union army to go fight. It is one of the means by which they had the constant supply of bodies to keep grinding away at the South.
And why not? Why not draft foreigners who have no choice, and who wouldn't be missed? (Not missed by any of the powers that be, that is.)
I still consider it to be one of the most dastardly and evil things that they did. You don't force people who are fleeing starvation to go fight in a war they had no personal interest in just because you have the power to do so.
Hey Ben are you defending the CSA and slavery or what?
here should read hero.
(he ain’t one)
The damnyankees had slaves in the north all throughout and after the war. Try again.
He got his.
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