To: hobbes1
From a legal perspective your case is sound (not saying its correct) but some still believe in a higher justice-- not saying you don't, just that I heard your position in public school and college, and have still sided with the South.
I suggest you look at it from a political perspective and the situation in Virginia Feb-April 1861 and tell me that the Lincoln Administration were men of peace, rather than worshippers of Mars.
Son of the Union, Son of the Confederacy, Son of the Revolution regards,
27 posted on
07/01/2003 7:42:48 AM PDT by
JohnGalt
(They're All Lying)
To: JohnGalt
As an aside, taking this issue one step further, could treason and legitimate rebellion have existed at the same time within the Southern secession movement ? For example, it could be argued that that members of Southern legislatures and militias from states that had legitimately voted to secede using proper political means were engaged in a rebellion seeking to divest themselves and their state from ties to the Federal government.
Whereas members of legislatures and militias from states like Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri who served in the Confederate forces, were from states that never seceded from the Union were possibly guilty of treason because they not only sought to dissolve their state's association with the Federal Government but to overthrow the legally elected (pro Union) governments in their respective states including the Federal representatives of such.
32 posted on
07/01/2003 8:25:14 AM PDT by
XRdsRev
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