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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Donovan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","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. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/chch/upload/FINAL-SLAVERY-BROCHURE-FINAL.pdf">http://www.nps.gov/chch/upload/FINAL-SLAVERY-BROCHURE-FINAL.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“The <b>Cornerstone Speech</b> was delivered extemporaneously by Confederate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President" title="Vice President">Vice President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stephens" title="Alexander Stephens">Alexander Stephens</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a> on March 21, 1861. The speech explained what the differences were between the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitution" title="Confederate States Constitution">constitution of the Confederate Republic</a> and that of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">United States</a>, laid out the Confederate causes for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, and defended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" title=Slavery>slavery</a>. . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Stephens' March 1861 speech declared that African slavery was the "immediate cause" of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" title=Secession>secession</a>, and that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Constitution" title="Confederate Constitution">Confederate Constitution</a> had put to rest the "agitating questions" as to the "proper status of the negro in our form of civilization".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","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. “<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech</a><span style='color:#1F497D'> *bolding mine</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Donovan Arnold<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> Lynn McCollough; vision2020@moscow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Moles and mole hills<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I don't think you can call the people that fought in the Civil War Anti-Americans. Most US wars up until that time would have been lost without the help of many of the Confederate officers. People just had a different vision of what America was about. Many US Presidents and Vice Presidents sided on either side of that war. It is simply that most of the people in power in the South believed that the power resided in the states, and most of the people in the North thought thought the power should reside in the federal government. <br style='right:auto'><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>People in the United State back then didn't think of themselves as US citizens, they thought of themselves a Virginians and Georgians (which had been around a lot longer then the US) and they didn't recall giving any outside government the right to force their will on their state (probably because they actually never did). <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>If the United Nations forced its political will on the US today, don't you think we might be divided on that issue and still be able to call ourselves Americans? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Donovan J. Arnold<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Lynn McCollough <<a href="mailto:lmccollough@gmail.com">lmccollough@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> <a href="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<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","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 would best represent the<br>European theater of WW2. I do not want that flag displayed either.<br>Yes, my father was a WW2 vet.<br><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>serving the communities of the <span class=mark>Palouse</span> since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> <span class=mark>mailto</span>:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>