[Grand Old Partisan]

'The War of Northern Aggression'

Exactly! There's no point debating with someone who assumes that the Unites States Government lawfully and constitutionally suppressing a rebellion was wrong.

[AnalogReigns]

I think the problem with the whole debate, and I've said this to you before, is people personalize (and romanticize) the Confederate cause--confusing personal (and often very honorable) motivations on the part of military heros and Generals (I will always venerate Robert E. Lee for example) with the grubby politics behind the causes of the War. As has been shown again and again here on FR, in the hard documentation of the Secession debates, the politics in the South for the Confederacy ...the reason BEHIND "states rights," was all about preserving the status quo--and that seemingly essential "peculiar institution" namely, slavery.

Does this mean that Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and other honorable warriors, were fighting with ill-motivations? Of course not--but neither should we project the best of the the Southern heros' motivations onto the seamy politics of the Confederacy--or as you would say the DEMOCRAT Confederacy.

Of course all thinking people who know history reject the Disneyesque picture many have of the Civil War with the North fighting to free the slaves...they were fighting to SAVE THE UNION--and freeing the slaves was only a happy consequence of that, not the original motivation.

Individual motivations and gallantry should not be confused with the politics behind the war. It is good the Confederacy lost... we as a nation are better, indeed more blessed, for it.

I think Lee would agree.