Posted on 10/03/2015 1:28:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
the wrong side lost in 1865
Because we’re fittin’ to have another one?
read=reading
fittin’ to!
Here we go again.
Townhall reads like Daily Kos and Huffpost.
, the Civil War was not about states’ rights......stopped read there.
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Me too.
Had the South won then what would the Confederacy be like in your opinion?
To coin a yankee term,for people who harp on the narrow aspect of when they both owned (and sold) slaves, they can pound salt. Wars are fought over money, as was this one!
Sorry, but the South seceded because of slavery. As the article states , that truth was right in the secession documents. States Rights malarkey is revisionist nonsense.
I think the Confederacy would ended up similar to Canada today.
“Because we’re fittin’ to have another one?”
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I was thinking the same thing!
"Read the book I just wrote which proves that what I think is correct, because it's in that book I just wrote. "
Of course he/she/it left out this important piece of evidence. The Union was going to keep slavery.
So how does he/she/it figure that the Union was fighting a war to end slavery?
“Instead it was all about slavery and white supremacy.”
Baloney. Ask the man who waged the war, Lincoln himself.
http://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation
His views became clear during an 1858 series of debates with his opponent in the Illinois race for U.S. Senate, Stephen Douglas, who had accused him of supporting “negro equality.” In their fourth debate, at Charleston, Illinois, on September 18, 1858, Lincoln made his position clear. “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,” he began, going on to say that he opposed blacks having the right to vote, to serve on juries, to hold office and to intermarry with whites.
I did too. That's a tell for someone who has decided before the fact that they want to believe the stuff they have been taught all their lives.
Not this stuff again.
We’re going to dig this bag of bones out of the ground again?
We are on the precipice of a nuclear war with Russia, and we are going to drag this up again?
Employment is in the toilet, but we’re going to fight this again?
Have at it, folks. The Democrats can’t wait.
The South had a right to secede for any D@mned reason they please, but it was the North that prosecuted the war.
As the article states , that truth was right in the secession documents. States Rights malarkey is revisionist nonsense.
Why was the North Fighting? Were they fighting to free the slaves? Tell me why the North was fighting. Why did the North send a 35,000 man invasion force into the South? Was it to free slaves?
If you say no, then the 22 Union states were not fighting over slavery, therefore the war was not being fought over slavery.
What percentage of the people in the south were slave owners? - About 1.4%
Who was the first slave owner in America? - An Angolan black man who adopted the European name of Anthony Johnson
Did any blacks own black slaves? Too many to count
In 1830, a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; 8 of them owned 30 or more.
In New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
In 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves. The largest number, 152 slaves, were owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation.
Another Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000.
In Charleston, South Carolina in 1860, 125 free Negroes owned slaves; six of them owned 10 or more.
In North Carolina 69 free Negroes were slave owners.
In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the US census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.
The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves.
Even if all slaveholders had been white (and they weren’t), that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).
These statistics show that about 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves — as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.
http://newobserveronline.com/hidden-facts-about-slavery-in-america/
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