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To: DiogenesLamp

The North fought to preserve the Union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything. Don’t you ever get tired of being an idiot?


35 posted on 04/24/2017 6:58:22 AM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: jmacusa
The North fought to preserve the Union and won.

The North fought because Abraham Lincoln ordered them to fight. Lincoln ordered them to fight because an independent South represented a huge financial threat to his government and the financial interests of his New England/New York backers.

The money tells the truth. You can keep repeating your claims of some great moral crusade, but the real and demonstrable truth is MONEY. Greed was the cause of that war.

37 posted on 04/24/2017 7:03:50 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: jmacusa

And yet, FIVE SLAVE STATES remained in the UNION, and the Indian tribes from Canada to Mexico went on the warpath against the UNION at that time. Only the Pawnee and a few members of the other tribes remained loyal to the UNION.

When Chivington raided the village at SAND CREEK he believed he was attacking “RED REBELS” and even captured two Confederate agents in the Cheyenne camp.

Will Chivington and “The Massacre at Sand Creek” now be “reconstructed” as a heroic battle against Confederate Indians and slavery?
Just for the record, as late as 1885 the US Cavalry were still freeing slaves, mostly other tribesmen, whites and Mexican slaves, from the Indians.


51 posted on 04/24/2017 7:26:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ("You know Caligula?" --- "Worse! Caligula knows me!")
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