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- bigsid920, on 12/27/2007, -0/+5This article ignores a quote by "Honest Abe":
"My paramount object in this struggle is the save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." - sigg14, on 12/27/2007, -0/+3The civil war had nothing to do with slavery, regardless of what you learned in grade school. Do some research yourself and you will find the real reasons.
- XxtraLarGe, on 12/27/2007, -0/+2Thanks for posting that, I was just about to. The problem with most people these days is they are ignorant to their past. The primary issue of the Civil War was states' "rights", slavery was a close second.
- Tangeuray, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1Great Abe lincoln quotes:
1. “It is better for the Negro and white races to be separated.”
2. “You and we are different races. We have between us a broader physical difference than exists between any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both.”
3. “Your race suffer very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this be admitted, it affords a reason, at last, why we should be separated.”
4. “Even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with white people.”
5. “On this broad continent not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours.”
6. “Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you. I cannot alter it if I would. See your present condition, the Country engaged in war, our white men cutting one another's throats, and then consider what we know to be the truth — But for your race among us there would be no war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or another. It is better for us both therefore to be separated.” - jsffive, on 12/30/2007, -0/+1The victors write the history.
The Iraq war is presently being fought over oil... it's obvious to anyone with at least half a brain. And I don't mean it's ONE of the reasons, it is the ONLY REASON.
But I suspect that everyone reading this knows that if the United States ever gets to write the history of the Iraq War, that fact will be marginalized.
What would make me think any differently about the War Between the States, and how it's history has been written?
The war began because the Confederacy separated from the Union. Since there was no Constitutional prohibition against the states leaving what was supposedly a VOLUNTARY union, this action was perfectly within the bounds of a state's rights. This succession was prompted by punitive and unfair tariffs. - tanithastlik, on 12/28/2007, -0/+0The article's subject was more narrow, that's all. Had the author included more, it would have rambled on and on without end.
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