[exmarine]

I can't understand the need for the Lost Cause cult to attempt to wrap a transparent legal fig leaf around what was nothing but Revolution. If the damnyankees were as evil and oppressive as your mythology insists, rebellion would be a perfectly honorable and moral action. You just have to show us how the damnyankees were oppressing the people of the south.

Both sides committed evils. The north was not this benevolent freer of the slaves my friend. The north certainly didn't want the freed slaves to come up there, did they? Both sides had good men, both sides had evil men. Lee and Jackson were Christian men (Jackson taught sunday school to slave children). The radical Republicans extended the Civil War by 12 years out of their EVIL HATRED of southerners...men like Thaddeus Stevens...so much for "malice toward none and charity towards all."

[Ditto]

Both sides committed evils. The north was not this benevolent freer of the slaves my friend.

Show me exactly where or when I have ever indicated otherwise. And does that fact excuse the southern slaveocracy for their sins?

This is another dodge of the Lost Cause Cult. You treat events from 150 years ago as if they were current. If I say something perfectly true, but damning about a confederate leader, you take it as a personal insult and then scream that everyone in the north was not a saint. Or if you're insane like that stand watie character, you just scream that everyone in the north is, was, and forever will be the devil incarnate.

Hint: No one back then was a saint. They were all just people, and the majority of them on both sides were doing exactly what they thought was right for their situation.