Confederate plates win drivers' attention

Associated Press ^ | MARIA SANMINIATELLI

[ravinson]

By that logic, since the Union won the war, peacenik protesters who burn the American flag would now be summarily hanged as Union General Ben Butler summarily hanged New Orleans citizen William Mumford for destroying an American flag.

That was an act of a military governor during military governorship of a rebel state, which is quite different from a situation in which the President of the Confederacy was threatening to shoot Confederate women. By the way, before the war, Benjamin Butler was a Democrat who backed Jefferson Davis for President in 1860.

[N. Theknow]

Nonsense, twod. My ancestors fought for liberty for all people during the Great Rebellion and I owe it to them not to let you Confederate glorifiers get away with sweeping the truth about the deeply flawed people you glorify under the carpet.

Thank you for illustrating that the "War Between The States" was not about slavery. It was indeed about the ill-informed, insipid opinions and beliefs evidenced by your post.

[Twodees]

YAWN

[Twodees]

Crawl back to DU, you Godless communist infiltrator. If you had a brain you would probably take it out and play with it.

[ravinson]

Thank you for illustrating that the "War Between The States" was not about slavery.

As the Mississippi secessionists put it:

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery..."

[ravinson]

Crawl back to DU, you Godless communist infiltrator.

I've been a member of FreeRepublic much longer than you Twod and my credentials as a principled defender of liberty are well established, whereas Confederate glorifiers like you clearly do not belong on any forum with the word "free" in its name.

[N. Theknow]

As the Mississippi secessionists put it: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery..."

And that position was States' Rights. Thanks again for proving my point that it was the elitist ignorant arrogance of people such as yourself that was the cause of the war.

[ravinson]

And that position was States' Rights.

Actually, the secessionists complained bitterly about Northern states asserting their right to not assist slaveholders with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. Moreover, the Confederate Constitution prohibits any state from abolishing slavery. So much for "states' rights" as a Civil War issue.

[N. Theknow]

Obviously you have no concept of states' rights. Just a warped vision of what you perceive as THE causus belli.

No combatant of the time was prepared to die for the continuance or the abolition of slavery as being the ONLY reason for taking up arms.

[N. Theknow]

Actually, the secessionists complained bitterly about Northern states asserting their right to not assist slaveholders with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. Moreover, the Confederate Constitution prohibits any state from abolishing slavery. So much for "states' rights" as a Civil War issue.

Thanks again for proving the point that it was states' rights. Northern states could "assert" their rights but not Southern states.

[ravinson]

No combatant of the time was prepared to die for the continuance or the abolition of slavery as being the ONLY reason for taking up arms.

As Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest said: "If we ain't fightin' fer slavery then I'd like to know what we are fightin' fer."

[confederatecolonel]

Any of you desiring to obtain legitimate Confederate citizenship, log-on to www.csagov.org and visit your respective state to sign up for citizenship in the restored Confederacy.