Name calling is such a petty response, I don't believe I'll respond further to your diatribes. Have a nice weekend.
I called you no names! I properly characterized your response to me as arrogant and asked a pointed question that must have hit too close to home. I'm not surprised you choose to characterize facts and reason as a "diatribe." What else could you do? What follows is a little excerpt of the Confederate Constitution I thought you might find interesting:
ARTICLE I.
Section IX. (Section IX is what passes for a “Bill of Rights” in the Confederate Constitution. Here you will find The first 10 amendments of the U.S. Bill of Rights repeated: Paragrahs 12 thru 20. But take note of the Those “rights” which they felt were most important by their placement ahead of rights like free speech, excercise of religion, bearing arms, etc.)
1.The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
2.Congress shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Confederacy.
4.No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
Section X. (And here is where the Confederates deny their own states the right they claimed for themselves when they left the Union - is hypocrisy a “southern thing” too?)
1.No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation;
3.No State shall, without the consent of Congress shall.... enter into any agreement or compact with another State....
ARTICLE IV.
1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
3. No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs; or to whom such service or labor may be due.
Section III.
3.The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.
There was only one "right" for which the leadership of the Confederacy fought, in spite of the disingenuous rhetoric they used to drag their states in secession. Many good men and women died on both sides fighting a war on behalf of men whom Andrew Johnson rightly characterized as "these traitorous aristocrats."
As it was then, the Democrat party is now, still being run by "traitorous aristocrats" who care nothing for the constitution. Extolling the virtues of Confederate soldiers and generals who were duped by their politcos into thinking their cause was noble and who fought gallantly is fine; extolling the cause itself, which was clearly not noble, or those who crafted it, is foolishness.