To: PurpleMan
No matter what you think or do, the Confederacy and Slavery heroic defense of states rights and republican values against a terrible onslaught from a federal invader will always be connected in history and equated with one another.There, fixed it for you. Yank
9 posted on
03/21/2009 6:40:14 AM PDT by
central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: central_va
No matter what you think or do, the Confederacy and Slavery heroic defense of states rights and republican values against a terrible onslaught from a federal invader will always be connected in history and equated with one another. There, fixed it for you. Yank
Good job, central_va.
After the tariff standoff in 1833, Andrew Jackson wrote, "The tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question."
States rights was the cause; slavery was the occasion.
16 posted on
03/21/2009 6:51:36 AM PDT by
cowboyway
("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
To: central_va
...heroic defense of states rights and republican values ... Well, for two-thirds of the population anyway.
To: central_va
No matter what you think or do, the Confederacy and heroic defense of states rights and republican values against a terrible onslaught from a federal invader will always be connected in history and equated with one another. I'll drink to that.
To: central_va
you beat me to it.
shame that many of those northerners who come down here have no clue about history , I just wished I had a penny for everytime I have heard these idiots say it was all over slavery and that is why the north went to war.
630 posted on
03/23/2009 1:57:26 PM PDT by
manc
(Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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