[Bosco]

One small item seems to be missed by the Confederate Flag Haters: Slavery existed under the Stars and Stripes a lot longer than it did under the Stars and Bars.

And they get hot and bothered about the flag of the Confederacy. I guess that's what you get from government schools.

[WhiskeyPapa]

One small item seems to be missed by the Confederate Flag Haters: Slavery existed under the Stars and Stripes a lot longer than it did under the Stars and Bars.

But the -cornerstone- of the so-called CSA was slavery. The cornerstone of the United States is that all men are created equal.

One of the reasons Abraham Lincoln was so hated in the south is because he pointed out that a clear majority of the framers of the Constitution favored an end to slavery, including George Washington. To this end, they wrote the northwest ordinance that outlawed slavery in U.S. territories (at that time) and ended the international slave trade in 1808.

The so-called CSA was fighting against the spirit of the age in clinging so fiercely to slavery, and if, as President Lincoln said in his second inagural, that every drop of blood drawn with the lash had to be matched by one drawn with the sword, no man could say that the judgments of the Lord were not true and altogether righteous.

Walt