Re: OT - Virginia refuses to recognize Lincoln Bicentennial

On Feb 19, 10:49 am, "theBZA" <dewe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Reminder: The Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.

1) Only someone utter ignorant of history can say the Civil War had
"nothing" to do with slavery. In fact, it had everything to do with
slavery. The #1 reason the southern states seceeded was what they felt
was illegal taxation based on slaves being counted as citizens.

You're half right, for once. The South seceded because of taxes. The
federal government had imposed taxes that were paid mostly by
Southerners. To make things worse, the federal government (especially
under Lincoln) used that money primarily to fund infrastructure and
corporate welfare projects in Northern states.

It was because of this unfair tax system that the Confederates
seceded, not because of slavery. Likewise, when Lincoln invaded the
South, he did so to restore the Union, not to free the slaves.

The Confederates were basically fighting for the exact same reasons
that the colonies were fighting Britain some 80 years earlier. But
since the Union won, the government teaches people that the
Confederates were just a bunch of racist slave holders and gullible
people like yourself go through life believing that "Lincoln freed the
slaves".


2) Your statement, as pathetically stupid as it is on its own merits,
is also a non sequitur and irrelevant to your earlier statement, which
was "The Lincoln worship in this country is really funny to watch and
is based almost purely on mythology rather than facts." The fact is
that Lincoln freed the slaves and kept the Union together. Those are
the reason Lincoln is admired, even by your neogod George W. Bush.

Did you know that Lincoln supported a Constitutional amendment that
would have prohibited the federal government from interfering with
slavery in the States?

Did you know Lincoln was active in trying to deport ex-slaves to
Africa?

Have you even read the Lincoln-Douglas debates? Do you know what
Lincoln said then in regards to slavery?

Google "Hartford Convention" if you're interested.

A convention to draft constitutional amendments? They never voted for
secession or implemented it. Did you google "secession" and just copy
a link?

They debated secession. They considered seceding from the Union over
economic issues, just like South Carolina.


"States' Rights" is code for Jim Crow.

Oh please. Have you never read anything of American history between
1789 and 1861? The primary political issue during all those years was
States Rights, Federalism, nullification, etc.

"States' Rights" means the right to segregate schools, ban interracial
marriage and allow racial discrimination in housing, employment, etc.-

All of which were done by the federal government both before and after
the Civil War.

You still have no clue what you're talking about.


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