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=> the Civil War all over again.....

the Civil War all over again.....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, February 24 2014, 16:08:32 (UTC)
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....reading up on it you realize that it's still going on. At their best the Southerners denied they were fighting FOR slavery, just their "way of life"...and even the North, for a long time during the fighting, refused to make Slavery the issue, they too were fighting to "preserve the Union"....the issue was "State's Rights" vs the rights of the Federal government over all.,,and that's STILL what Tea Party dopes and the Repubs in general are squawking about today.

Towards the end of the Civil War, after a costly defeat of the North, the Confederates were laying out their dead for burial....when one officer asked if they should lay the dead in groups according to which states they came from, his commander said no...said he was sick and tried of "State's Rights"...bury them all together, and all mixed together, he said.

I wonder why those fanatics of "State's Rights" even went so far as the state...why didn't their allegence end at the county line, or the city limits...why not at their street or, best of all, with their own house...why weren't THEY, their family, the only once they paid allegence to? And if they could go so far as to respect their state;'s government, then why not the federal government' too? Well, because the federal government was opposed to expanding their "way of life" to new states and territories...that's why.

In a funny way, had it NOT been for the issue of slavery being legal in new states, the Federal government would have taken even more of Mexico...there were plans to seize an empire all the way past Central Mexico...the only thing that stopped it really was the South's unwillingness to go along because they knew any new states would outlaw slavery so that soon the few states where slavery was legal would be vastly outnumbers and then eventually lose to a vote in Congress outlawing ALL slavery...so they had to fight when they did.

Which makes the South a nest of traitors, then and now, if they still prattle about State's Rights and look back with yearning to THOSE good old days...which is why they are such obstructionists in today's Congress and so set against the Federal Government....they remember losing.

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