[DiogenesLamp]

They wrote a document which says that everyone has a right to independence, and this right is given by nature and "nature's God."

They had to fight for independence. Their armies were led by a slave owning General from Virginia. The Union (United Kingdom) offered freedom to any slave (Lord Dunmore's Proclamation) that would fight against their former masters.

Today we celebrate their struggle to secede from the Union.

[jeffersondem]

This is remembered as the First American War for Independence.

[DiogenesLamp]

Ping to people who have recently discussed the civil war.

My apologies to anyone I have forgotten to include. My memory for names is not so good as it once was.

[cowboyusa]

Trump’s hero Andtew Jackson: “ Our Federal Union, it must be preserved.”

[NWFree]

It probably needs to happen again

[Howie66]

It’s time for TEXAS to secede.

#TEXIT

[Jacquerie]

The Articles of Confederation weren’t ratified until just a few months before our victory at Yorktown.

[piasa]

There is no moral equivalency between the two wars. None.

[Tunehead54]

From some dusty old debunked document:

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "

[workerbee]

[FLT-bird]

LOL! Yep. I call it the Declaration of Secession.

It is exactly that. People just aren’t used to hearing it described that way.

[jmacusa]

Bullshit. Those treasonous bastards tore this nation apart and caused the greatest loss of life all in order to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor. For a guy/gal who always claims not to have dog in this fight, no relatives or ancestors on either side you always come down of the side of these Southern scoundrels, don't you?

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I’m surprised this thread is still going.

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