I assme they got the name "copperhead" from removing the head of Liberty from a copper coin and making a pin out of it.
Posted on 06/23/2013 7:09:54 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Ron Maxwell wasn't done with the Civil War.
The director behind the critically acclaimed epics "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals" revisits the familiar subject of the War Between the States with his new film, "Copperhead," which will host its world premiere at the State Theatre June 28 at 7:30 p.m.
“I wanted to explore something more intimate," Maxwell said of the film. "My previous pictures focused on officers and leaders, but, in reality, the war was fought by teenage boys, most from small towns whose families ended up devastated by the war even if no battles were fought nearby."
Copperhead will be screened at 7:30 p.m. June 28 and again on June 30 at 2:30 p.m. at the State Theatre. The fee per ticket for the premier will be $15 with the meet-and-greet VIP ticket at $25 for the 75-person capacity. All tickets for June 30 will be $15.
The movie is based on the 1893 novel “The Copperhead” by Harold Frederic, who was a child during the conflicts of the Civil War. The title refers to the name given to Northerners who wanted to negotiate a peace settlement with the Confederates, and the story portrays the war’s effects on both families and communities.
“What has remained unsaid, and what Civil War films never fully show, is that within each society, North and South, there were many, many factions," Maxwell said. "You had Southerners with no interest in owning slaves, or seceding from the union. To the north, you had differences of opinion that were just as fractious, even violent. Not everybody who hated slavery or loved the U.S. Constitution was willing to send their children off to die or be maimed in a bloody battle against fellow Americans. That fascinating reality is the force driving Copperhead.”
The film stars Billy Campbell as Abner Beech, an anti-war farmer who defies his community, and Angus Macfadyen as Beech’s neighbor and enemy, Jee Hagadorn. Two-time Academy Award nominated actor Peter Fonda plays the character of Avery.
“If there’s a political point to the film,” said screenwriter Bill Kauffman, “it’s a defense of dissent.”screenwriter Bill Kauffman, “it’s a defense of dissent.”
I assme they got the name "copperhead" from removing the head of Liberty from a copper coin and making a pin out of it.
The constitution is not silent on secession. Like other issues that affect both the federal government and the states, secession must either occur by mutual consent of the federal government and the states, so there is no controversy, OR there is a controversy, and it must be resolved by law, with the supreme court as original jurisdiction, per Article 3.
The cause of the war was slavery for the south. The cause of the war was retaining the Union for the north.
What you decided was important, decided what side you were on.
Without Union, WWI could have occurred in North America. Only the Union, and the system of laws created by the union, prevents controversy from periodically breaking down into war in the US.
Some didn’t remove the liberty head, wearing the penny itself. They wouldn’t spend a penny for the Union.
Amusing that Lincoln is on the head of our Cent today.
Lincoln held that normally the federal government had no authority to interfere with states’ domestic institutions. He was sure that the federal government had the same plenary power over territories that states exercised over the state territory.
His platform was for the federal government to ban slavery from the territories. That would have continued the Framers’ intent to put slavery on the road to extinction.
Of course once any slave states began their insurrection, the plenary power shifted from the states to the federal government, justifying the Emancipation Proclamation.
Framers’ intent? There was an “insurrection” only because Lincoln refused to allow states to leave a union into which they had entered freely. Lincoln assumed dictatorial powers: suspended habeas corpus, stifled free speech, invaded his own country..the list goes on.
The insurrection started before Lincoln assumed the office.
Also, the southern states, by the constitution were bound by it, to include the section that required controveries between the states and the federal government be resolved by law, with the SCOTUS as original jurisdiction. If there was no controversy, that is if the other states and the federal government all agreed that a state should go, then that could have been accomplished by law, by amendment, or by treaty. Absent those, a state desiring secession had a controversy, and should have filed a suit.
They had no case, and no southern state ever filed such a suit. They had no agreement, and no amendment to the constitution or law permitting their secession was ever passed.
Accordingly, seccession as practiced in 1860-1865 was unconstitutional, per Texas v. White.
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