Re: Dedications over Time of Union Monuments in Five States
too bad i don't know history i guess or i would understand the inherent glory and honor of the noble cause of allowing white slaveholders to govern themselves.
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Well, you do not know history and you cherry pick facts to support your predetermined conclusions.
The Confederate Constitution of March 1861 also contained these provisions:
* Art. I, Sec. 9:
The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America,
is hereby forbidden; and
Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually
prevent the same. (The United States Constitution made outlawing the transatlantic slave trade optional, and inhibiting that trade was expressly
forbidden prior to 1808. The Confederate constitution made its suppression
mandatory on Congress.)
* Art. I, Sec. 8:
No bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Confederate States. (In other words, corporate welfare was forbidden. If protecting slavery was all the Confederacy was about, why on earth would they put such an article in their constitution?)
* Art. I, Sec 9: (9)
Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, taken by yeas and nays, unless it be asked and estimated for by some one of the heads of departments and submitted to Congress by the President; or for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment of claims against the Confederate States ... (In other words, congressional log-rolling was forbidden. This provision had nothing to do with slavery one way or another.)
* Art. 1, Sec. 8: The expenses of the Post Office Department, after the 1st day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues. (In other words, this provision prevented fiscal abuse by congressmen of the franking privilege, which also has nothing to do with slavery one way or another.).
Looking at households (which were recorded in the U.S. census),
30.8% of households in the states that commonly define the Confederacy were slaveholding households. Why would the 69.2% fight for such a country? Because they believed that a Republican administration would not only turn a blind eye to violent antislavery action, but would support and protect those intent on inciting and partaking in a slave rebellion that would consume men, women and children.
Louisiana resident
Sarah Wadley wrote in her diary:
Sarah Wadley said:
"The Abolitionists sowed the seeds of dissension and insurrection among us, those seeds are fast ripening. ... A blood harvest seems impending. [The abolitionists have] burnt our homesteads, killed our citizens, and incited our servants to poison us. ... I shudder to contemplate a civil war, [but] better [by] far for us would be civil war than this dreadful incubus which hangs over us now, this continual wrangling and bitter malediction with which we are persecuted.”
Mississippi Senator Albert G. Brown, in a speech in Crystal Springs, Miss. in September 1860 said some southerners hoped “a returning sense of justice will induce the northern people to forbear” from the wrongs northerners had inflicted on the people of the southern states since Harper's Ferry. Brown was not hopeful.
A. G. Brown said:
Not so my friends. They will never forbear. They hate us now, and teach their children in their schools and churches to hate our children. You cannot long submit if you will. The John Brown raid, the burning in Texas, the stealthy tread of abolitionists among us, tell the tale. History is experience teaching by example. Take care that the history of San Domingo be not your history. [In San Domingo, emancipation had been followed by] the burning of houses, the murder of men, the butchery of children, the fiendish and worse than hellish outrages of women. ... Take care that the same scenes be not enacted here.” [The planters in San Domingo] died amid the groans and shrieks of their own families, or fled the country, lighted by the conflagration of their own dwellings. [For those who advised waiting for an overt act by the Republicans before resisting, Brown had one more warning.] You may imagine that when the worst comes to worst, you will take up arms and defend your right. So thought the planters of San Domingo. … Disunion is a fearful thing, but emancipation, … was worse. [Better to] leave the Union in the open face of day, than be lighted from it at midnight by the incendiary’s torch.”
(“Senator Brown at Crystal Springs,”
Macon (Ga.) Weekly Telegraph, September 20, 1860, p. 2, col. 5-6.)
But whatever, man. Go ahead, hate to your heart's content. Hate
hard. Hate
constantly. Hate with all your heart. No skin off my nose.