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My high school history teacher told us we should proudly display our Confederate flag because it stood for individual and states rights. Mr. Lincoln was a tyrant in every sense of the word. The recent repeal of posse commentates and the "patriot" act makes it seem like history is repeating itself.
So much of the history we are taught in the compulsory state-sponsored educations, is a lie. State sponsored Lincoln worship is only one set of lies that serve the fed by painting a misleading picture of what America is about.
I think that the world should know about McCulloch v. Maryland - the Supreme court decision that overturned the constitution, stripped the states of their sovereignty, and turned all that America stood for on its head. It was America's first coup d'etat. And no one knows about it? Curious.
But your children will be taught to worship an idealized Lincoln in spite of the evidence that shows him in a less than honorable light.
Sir, regarding your, "...slavery didn't enter the picture until long into the war..." - you are wrong. Though I don't have my sources at hand, the writings of the various southern state governments clearly marked slavery as a key issue, as one of Property. Hence the bastardization of the States Rights meme...
The abominable institution of slavery was not in danger when the South pushed for secession. In fact, Lincoln pledged to enforce the fugitive slave laws, declared no intention of interfering with slavery, and even supported a new irrevocable constitutional amendment to protect slavery prior to his starting the war. So, if slavery was the issue, there would have been no reason to secede.
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So, that effort by Southern Dems to steal/capture/buy Cuba and parts of Central America to be used as southern "slave" states is just another object of mythology, with no basis in truth?
To ask the Southerners to give up slaves is akin to asking modern Southerners to give up their stocks and bonds, plus asking them to give up the tools of their industry. Of course they opposed giving up slavery, and of course that made for a basis for war.
Finally, the South Carolina secession came upon the inauguration of Lincoln, not at the passage of any piece of legislation. One cannot make the mistake of thinking that the abolitionist GOP was the straw that broke the camel's back. Certainly, it was a party -- unlike the impotent Whigs as well as the Dem party -- that they could not control.
Nobody denies slavery in the South, nor defends it. Prior to the war however, the institution of slavery was protected by law, and did not lead to war.