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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">I know many people, and maybe you too, were taught in grade school that Abraham Lincoln and the United States went to war solely over freeing Black men from the injustices of slavery and to become equal citizens as Whites. If only our nation was that noble. But history tells us something different;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">The South wanted to keep certain rights within the states, chief among them slavery. But if it was only slavery they wanted, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:place></st1:City> and the north would have, and did several times, concede that right to them, even on a silver platter enshrined in the US Constitution. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">The <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> didn't oppose slavery, and kept it legal until 1865. Only releasing slaves as a military tactic, not for justice to Black men and women. Abraham Lincoln replaced any General that tried that free slaves in captured territories, including John C. Freemont, the founder of the Republican Party. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:place></st1:City> spearheaded the <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Corwin Amendment</SPAN></STRONG> which would have amended the US Constitution to keep slavery legal. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:City></st1:place> stated,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">"My paramount object in this struggle is to <EM><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">save the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery</SPAN></U></EM>. If I could save the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">If the Civil War was solely about slavery, why didn't the Southern States come back into the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> when the United States Congress passed the Corwin Amendment? They would have averted a war, and got to keep slavery legal, forever? Obviously, something else was bothering them.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">How come several states with slavery stayed in the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>, and several states that didn't have slavery join the South? That doesn't make sense either. Why join the side of the war that is against your political position? If they wanted slavery, why would <st1:State w:st="on">Missouri</st1:State>, a slave state, join the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>? If opposed to slavery, like <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State>, why join the South to keep it legal? Further 66% of people in the South didn't even own a slave. Why fight, suffer, die, and leave your family to starve for something you don't have and will never obtain? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; RIGHT: auto">I do not contend, as your counter argument suggests, that the Constitution of the Confederacy was a moral and ethical document. I only contend that the Unionists, at that time, weren't saints either. It had, w<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>as, and continued to subjugate, minorities, women, and others to unspeakable crimes. The <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> gave no rights to Blacks, or women. It murdered, raped, harassed, hung, tortured, and beat many men, women, and children for decades during the military occupation of the South until the end of the period of Southern Reconstruction. It offered $20 in gold for each head of the Indian until 1920. And it remained legal for a man to rape his wife until the 1980s. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">I do amid it though. I like the fairy tale of The Noble Northerners fighting for truth, justice, and the American way! But I am realist, and go with what the facts, historians and reason tell me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">If you think the people in Charleston, NC are any worse or better than the people of New York City, NY, I suggest you look a little harder, and reader a longer in the history books. If you judge the content of man's character by the color of his Civil War uniform, you will be wrong often. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">Hi Donovan,</SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">If you believe that the Civil War was fought over the issue of States Rights you are wrong. But you are right that the Confederate supporters had a different view of the future of America. You may not wish to plow through all the constitutions of the confederacy to read exactly what was on their corrupt and evil minds but you could check out this brief description published by the National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/chch/upload/FINAL-SLAVERY-BROCHURE-FINAL.pdf</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">And while 2020 readers might be reluctant to believe me, perhaps, Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederacy will be a more credible source. His Cornerstone Speech is infamous. </SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">“The <B>Cornerstone Speech</B> was delivered extemporaneously by Confederate <A title="Vice President" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Vice President</A> <A title="Alexander Stephens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stephens" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Alexander Stephens</A> in <A title="Savannah, Georgia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Savannah, Georgia</A> on March 21, 1861. The speech explained what the differences were between the <A title="Confederate States Constitution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitution" rel=nofollow target=_blank>constitution of the Confederate Republic</A> and that of the <A title="United States Constitution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" rel=nofollow target=_blank>United
States</A>, laid out the Confederate causes for the <A title="American Civil War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" rel=nofollow target=_blank>American Civil War</A>, and defended <A title=Slavery href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" rel=nofollow target=_blank>slavery</A>. . . . </SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Stephens' March 1861 speech declared that African slavery was the "immediate cause" of <A title=Secession href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" rel=nofollow target=_blank>secession</A>, and that the <A title="Confederate Constitution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Constitution" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Confederate Constitution</A> had put to rest the "agitating questions" as to the "proper status of the negro in our form of civilization".</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">“The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with;
but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell. Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its <B>cornerstone rests</B>, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. “</SPAN></div>
<div class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech<SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"> *bolding mine</SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black"> Lynn McCollough <<A href="mailto:lmccollough@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:lmccollough@gmail.com">lmccollough@gmail.com</A>><BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:30 PM<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Moles and mole hills</SPAN></div></DIV>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv2146999175MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black"><BR>When I made the original post, I was very aware that the flag in<BR>question was part of a historical display.<BR>I was questioning, and upset by the fact that it appeared to me to be<BR>the most prominently displayed flag in the lobby of my courthouse.<BR>Tom's pictures were taken either with a flash or the light was very<BR>different from when I was in the lobby. When I was there, the flags on<BR>poles, of the US and Idaho and been pushed to a very shaded corner,<BR>and they were not well lit at all.<BR>BTW, the flag that bothered me is not THE confederate flag. It is the<BR>stars and bars, the historic battle flag used in armed conflict with<BR>the USA.<BR>This flag only represents anti-US sentiment. It was not the official<BR>flag of the confederacy. Look it up.<BR>Thank you for the analogy of what single flag
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