tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post7989857127612706138..comments2024-03-25T14:09:25.720-05:00Comments on The Old Jarhead: Political Digest for January 12, 2011Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-87583485420915284072011-01-12T08:20:26.176-06:002011-01-12T08:20:26.176-06:00I know you don't write the articles you list, ...I know you don't write the articles you list, but let me respond to the one about the cause of the Civil War.<br /><br />Over and over and over -- did I mention over -- the South itself shouted from the rooftops what the war was about AT THE TIME. In their official documents, in the speeches, in their books, in their newspapers, emphatically, proudly, and loudly.<br /><br />It was about the SPREAD of slavery. Not the protection of slavery, but the SPREAD of slavery as God's word, as the "revealed will of Almighty God".<br /><br />See the Southern leaders own Ultimatums, just before the War -- all Five Ultimatums were about the same thing: the SPREAD of slavery. Not the protection of slavery, not the tariffs, not anything BUT the spread of slavery. Not one word about any issue but the SPREAD of slavery. <br /><br />Not ONE WORD.<br /><br />Southern leaders issued their Ultimatums, and Southern newspapers shouted them proudly, with headlines like "THE TRUE ISSUE!" in Richmond, March 23, 1861. <br /><br />The TRUE ISSUE -- five specific demands, all about the spread of slavery. <br /><br />So Southern leaders issued the ultimatums, Southern newspapers announced them with great bravado. When have you seen those Ultimatums even mentioned?<br /><br />Importantly, the Utlimatums are violent attacks on state's rights. No state can have the right to pass their own laws regarding blacks. No state can decide ANYTHING about blacks or slavery. Only the Southern slave owners can decide what Maine, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri -- any state -- can do or say about blacks. <br /><br />In fact, Kansas had just voted 98% to 2 % to keep slavery out FOREVER. Think of that! But the FIRST Ultimatum by the South is that KANSAS must accept and RESPECT slavery. <br /><br />No sane person who reads the Southern Ultimatums can ever again pretend the South gave a rats hiney about state's rights. The South hated state's rights as much as they hated free speech, and they outlawed free speech from the 1820's on.<br /><br />http://fivedemands.blogspot.com/<br /><br />We have whitewashed the horrible truths about the Civil War to an absurd degree. It's time to show what the SOUTH said AT THE TIME. Not the cover up and sanitized window dressing we have had for 150 years.Dan Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03600453725390655595noreply@blogger.com