[larrytown]

In before the “war of Northern aggression” crowd.

Seriously - you are a quick draw artist!

It is from comment threads like this where I re-learn how self-deluded any person can become. Why German citizens had no problem with mass murder, how Hutu and Tutsi's continue their endless feud.

Perhaps the most disturbing are those that will pervert the very core founding document of the nation by just walking by the line - "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."

Slavery - the institution completely at odds with this very same declaration - was the reason for the war. All else is just secondary issues or smokescreens.

Why so many wish to justify the sins of their fathers is a mystery - we have enough of our own to deal with.

[doggieboy]

Agreed.

[DiogenesLamp]

It is from comment threads like this where I re-learn how self-deluded any person can become.

And we are fortunate to have you here as an example to demonstrate it.

""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."

Slavery - the institution completely at odds with this very same declaration - was the reason for the war. All else is just secondary issues or smokescreens.

And this is a perfect example of how you are self deluded. Every single representative of every state that signed that document was a slave state. All 13 states were at that time slave states.

So you are faced with the dichotomy of 13 slave states signing a document that is against their interest, or that phrase was not intended to mean what you think it was intended to mean when it was written.

The Declaration of Independence and those words about "all men are created equal" was *NOT* intended to mean slaves. That was a later day fabrication of the intent of that document.

The Founders were referring to the British Subjects who had been oppressed under British control, and they absolutely did not mean those words to apply to slaves.

And what was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence? It was to assert a *RIGHT* to become Independent. What it was *NOT* was a commentary on the issue of slavery. Again, people added that interpretation later.

And no, Slavery was not the reason for the war, and how do we know this?

We know this because the entire Northern state congress voted to pass the Corwin Amendment which would have made slavery permanent in the United States of America.

Five Northern states ratified this amendment.

*THAT* is how we know that claiming the war was about "slavery" is just a lie.

The war was about wealth and power which would be lost to the corrupt northern "elite" who are the same evil bastards still running the government now, while lying about everything they are doing, just as they spread the lie that they were invading the South because of slavery.

And by the way, there were five Northern states that had slavery all throughout the war, and so therefore the North did not fight a war to end slavery. They fought a war to end self rule, and to put the very lucrative Southern trade with Europe back under the control of corrupt Washington DC.

The war was about *money*, and the lie is that it was about slavery.