All this Yankee bloviating reminds me of just why the south seceded.
If only the actual posting of historical fact would be enough.
You people REFUSE to listen to a just argument.
This "people" refuses to accept excuses based on emotion and partisan feeling when the facts of the period are available and give clear accounts on why there was NO just argument in bringing on the American Civil War.
You can't seceded. End of story. Now get back here you little b**t**ds !!!
You can't secede just because you don't like who is elected President of the United States. You can't secede just because you are denied the right to extend slavery into the federal territories. You can't secede in a unilateral manner and claim such a right (never mentioned, never named) is somehow Constitutional. And you sure as heck can't secede when you steal everything of the nation's that isn't nailed down, and then demand international recognition after trying to kill US soldiers in a US fort.
You make us sound like ungrateful children.
Hey, choosing trial-by combat with an enemy right next door, who has more manpower, more money, almost all the manufacturing capacity and almost all the railroad track lines, you really don't come across as a "deep thinker."
Let me leave you with a few choice words and I'm sure such intelligent folks as yourself can source them.
Combined they pretty much sum up how I fell about the whole thing
1. Jefferson Davis and the leaders of the South have created a army. It appears they are making a navy, and they have made what is more then both,they have made a Nation.
Not even the man who uttered such words could bring himself to recognize the Confederacy as a sovereign nation. No one did.
2. A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me.
And the man who uttered that urged at the end of the war and the defeated army he had once led, to become good citizens and to not let animosity interfere with their returning to civilian life in a reunited country.
and lastly from a musical number ... They have called us rebels and traitors
But themselves have thrown off the name of late.