Civil War History - Secession and PoliticsWas it Slavery, or was it States Rights? Perhaps it was the election of Lincoln? What were the real reasons for Southern Secession and what were the political issues in this time of war? Find your answers here in the Secession and Politics Disussion.
Pvt. John H. Haley 17th Maine Reg., USA on Slavery
We of the North could not make it pay, so we are convinced it is the sum of all villainy. Our plan is more profitable. we take care of no sick children or sick people, except as paupers, while the owners of slaves have to provide for them from birth to death. So how we view the issue depends on what kind of glasses we use.
If we of the North were called upon to endure one half as much as the Southern people and soldiers do, we would abandon the cause and let the Southern Confederacy be established. We pronounce their cause unholy, but they consider it sacred enough to suffer and die for. Our forefathers in the Revolutionary struggle could not have endured more than these Rebels.
A nation preserved with liberty trampled underfoot is much worse than a nation in fragments but with the spirit of liberty still alive. Southerners persistently claim that their rebellion is for the purpose of preserving this form of government.
We of the North could not make it pay, so we are convinced it is the sum of all villainy. Our plan is more profitable. we take care of no sick children or sick people, except as paupers, while the owners of slaves have to provide for them from birth to death. So how we view the issue depends on what kind of glasses we use.
If we of the North were called upon to endure one half as much as the Southern people and soldiers do, we would abandon the cause and let the Southern Confederacy be established. We pronounce their cause unholy, but they consider it sacred enough to suffer and die for. Our forefathers in the Revolutionary struggle could not have endured more than these Rebels.
A nation preserved with liberty trampled underfoot is much worse than a nation in fragments but with the spirit of liberty still alive. Southerners persistently claim that their rebellion is for the purpose of preserving this form of government.
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5781 The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah the Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer Private John Haley, 17th Maine Regiment by Edited by Ruth L. Silliker, Down East Books Very Good 311 pgs., Illustrated. Inscribed by the editor, Ruth Silliker
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0-89272-186-3
5781 The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah the Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer Private John Haley, 17th Maine Regiment by Edited by Ruth L. Silliker, Down East Books Very Good 311 pgs., Illustrated. Inscribed by the editor, Ruth Silliker
US Dollars................$20.00
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__________________ "Those who forget to remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana.
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
....and this letter says.... what, to Beowulf?????
It says that I should prefer to be taken prisoner by him, a real yankee soldier, who could think for himself, and be
human as well as humane... than any of the attitudes I have
been met with in the defense of the Found Cause, which is just as one-sided as our Lost Cause!
The Third Line, Gentlemen! I'll crawl out across a battlefield and bring him water, any time!
Behold, the man, and the Third Line! I would like to not only JOIN, but REMAIN in a Union with such a man as he...
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