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Confederate veteran interview...interesting
ltcdoty
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The gentleman joined up at the age of sixteen..the interview was done in 1947 or so...very interesting to hear the voice of a soldier..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHDfC-z9YaE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHDfC-z9YaE
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One day she told me, "John, until I came north I never realized I was black."
I worked for two years with a black lady who graduated from a Louisiana University, came north, secured a job as a comptroller with the Goodyear Company, retired, and bored with retirement, secured a job in my department. A very high class lady.
One day she told me, "John, until I came north I never realized I was black."
There you go...of course the progressive Nazi skunks raising hell today would never believe something like that was possible when, in reality, it was the norm.
Straight from the mouth of a Confederate Soldier that was THERE...we were not fighting over slavery, we were fighting for states rights!
While an unpopular Truth, it is absolutely what that War was fought over.
It was not until late in the War that Abraham Lincoln made it an issue.
Straight from the mouth of a Confederate Soldier that was THERE...we were not fighting over slavery, we were fighting for states rights!How do you get a non slaveholder to fight for slavery? Tell them it's about states' rights.
quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
Straight from the mouth of a Confederate Soldier that was THERE...we were not fighting over slavery, we were fighting for states rights!While an unpopular Truth, it is absolutely what that War was fought over.
It was not until late in the War that Abraham Lincoln made it an issue.
But what did the states want to have the right to decide?
There was no Bleeding Kansas, no Lincoln-Douglas debates? No battle at Harper's Ferry?
Did PGT Beauregard just get up one morning and say "I feel the existing Constitution does not offer enough protection against Federal abuse of my State's rights" then fired on Fort Sumter?
Straight from the mouth of a Confederate Soldier that was THERE...we were not fighting over slavery, we were fighting for states rights!
someone will be along shortly with more experience
quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
Straight from the mouth of a Confederate Soldier that was THERE...we were not fighting over slavery, we were fighting for states rights!
someone will be along shortly with more experience
The states have no unalienable rights they are stolen by The Supreme Court. If The Confederate Soldiers fought for State rights so be it.
But with The Federal Government giving The Federal Reserve (In name only) to create money also given marriage(instead of a civil unions} to samesexuals and making abortion legal in all fifty states.Then
They have stolen some very important unalienable rights that it's inevitable it will cause the down fall of The USA.
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quote:Originally posted by 84Bravo1
quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
Straight from the mouth of a Confederate Soldier that was THERE...we were not fighting over slavery, we were fighting for states rights!While an unpopular Truth, it is absolutely what that War was fought over.
It was not until late in the War that Abraham Lincoln made it an issue.
But what did the states want to have the right to decide?
There was no Bleeding Kansas, no Lincoln-Douglas debates? No battle at Harper's Ferry?
Did PGT Beauregard just get up one morning and say "I feel the existing Constitution does not offer enough protection against Federal abuse of my State's rights" then fired on Fort Sumter?
Where their taxes went, and what was taxable.
The Southern State were heavily taxed because of cotton plantations, tobacco plantations, Southern whiskey bottlers and such. But most of the taxes was spent on the Northern States.
President Lincoln did not enact a presidential decree freeing slaves until a couple years after the war started, and the only ones that he was going to free from slavery were the ones that volunteered to fight against the South and their families.
President Lincoln was a very prejudiced person and he did not believe that the African-Americans belonged in the United States. In fact for their services for fighting the Southern States, the freed slaves were going to get 40 acres and a mule so that they could work the land to make enough money to get out of the United States. He was afraid that African-Americans would eventually become the majority and take over the country, just like it is happening today
The Southern State were heavily taxed because of cotton plantations, tobacco plantations, Southern whiskey bottlers and such. But most of the taxes was spent on the Northern States.
President Lincoln did not enact a presidential decree freeing slaves until a couple years after the war started, and the only ones that he was going to free from slavery were the ones that volunteered to fight against the South and their families.
President Lincoln was a very prejudiced person and he did not believe that the African-Americans belonged in the United States. In fact for their services for fighting the Southern States, the freed slaves were going to get 40 acres and a mule so that they could work the land to make enough money to get out of the United States. He was afraid that African-Americans would eventually become the majority and take over the country, just like it is happening today
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OK, so they wanted to save a little tax, but they didn't want to keep the institution that made them the money?
That's how they got so taxable.
But what did the states want to have the right to decide?
There was no Bleeding Kansas, no Lincoln-Douglas debates? No battle at Harper's Ferry?
Did PGT Beauregard just get up one morning and say "I feel the existing Constitution does not offer enough protection against Federal abuse of my State's rights" then fired on Fort Sumter?
I don't know how much you know about United States history, but it appears you don't understand what you know.
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