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__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Just another "neo-confederate" attempt to grasp "victory" from the interminable jaws of defeat.
The Confederacy lost on the battlefield during the war, and they lost in the courts, after the war. There was nothing in the U.S. Constitution that allowed single states to withdraw from that agreement. It's like an individual saying he is terminating the agreement on his monthly vehicle payments, but keeping the vehicle. He should expect repossession.
Any managerial assessment would have shown that the Confederacy could sustain no war, or a short war. It never had the economic base to sustain a long war.
The slave oligarchy by their secession decision destroyed the economy of the South, and lost all its slave wealth in the process.
"The victors justified themselves to the world and history by brute force and sly obfuscation. The elimination of slavery was trumpeted as the justifying crown of victory. As to saving the Union, is that not like preserving a marriage by beating the wife into submission?"
2,300 words and this was the only mention of slavery.
Most southrons consider slavery a small blip on the screen of cause(s) of the War. If the rest of the world would let them, they would feel no need to mention it at all.
Yes, Pres. Lincoln did things that many of us would consider impeachable but he face the threat to our nation has never seen before or since.
He face an adversary within our nation with an army of 70,000 plus soldiers within 100miles of the capital. He had to save the union by any means possible which means our wonderful constitution rights may needed to be curved.
The enemy's army at the gates to our capital was led by three of the greatest generals of the 19th century. No where in our nation history has it ever been so threaten not WW1, WW2 or even the Cold war.
The amazing thing is, once the war was over our government relinquish it dictatorial powers willfully. It is one of those untold stories that followed the ending of the war.
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