-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 1/4/99 11:26:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> In reality, it was the Southern soldiers who were fighting for the
> principle of self-government.
Is there anything so jaw dropping inexplicable than the few who attempt to
make the South out as a victim of the North over the Civil War? There are
"shrines" to Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson. Take a tour of the South
and your ear will be bent by a guide babbling about how cruel the Yankees were
at Vicksburg. Listening to them, one would never guess that the South was run
by a gang of slavers who do not at all correspond to those portrayed in Gone
With the Wind as kindly masters taking loving care of some child like people.
Of course, things are complicated and there were many decent Christian
Southerners who smuggled slaves, spied on Southern military units, and
sabotaged when possible. There were right-wing Northerners who spoke and
acted for the South. There were slave holding prosperous free blacks in the
South. There were a few slave holders who did treat their slaves with some
shred of fairness considering the relationship. The real point is that every
son of the South who involves himself in discussions about the Civil War
should get down on his knees and thank God that the Union won the war thereby
freeing both slave and "free" Southerner.
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