I know the civil war was not all about slavery, but taxes and states rights, and perhaps other things I don't know about.
Also I believe there is an agenda against the white race here in America, I know the South has it's culture and heritage and you want to preserve that.
Do you actually think The United States Of America would have been better off divided?
When Southron States decided to secede from the Union is when you became a traitor.
-JohnPaul
It would have been better for the Southern people.
How did secession make us the traitor? Secession wasn't illegal. You had northern states that had threatened to secede earlier in history. Every state came into the 'United States' freely.
Let me cite you this old document called the 'Declaration of Independence'. "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal status to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitles them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Such a separation was anticipated and provided for by many of the states when they formed the Union. The delegates from Virginia were more clear than any other of this right. Quote is from a paper, (A Theological And Political View Of The Doctrine Of Secession, Al Benson, Jr., 1995). This quote he gave was taken from ( St. George Tucker, Blackstones Commentaries Vol. 1, Appendix, Note D, #6., pages 160-161). "We the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected...do, in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression."
In Bensons same article he gives another quote from Abraham Lincoln. "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right --a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." (The Real Lincoln, Charles L.C. Minor, p.66)
So, again, why is the South a traitor because she seceded from Union of States?
Stranger