while there probably is some factual truth in many of your points i can only conclude that you are a southerner who has never accepted the results of the civil war. or the war of oppression as some southerners would say.

my father used to say "most lies are based on fact".

laws are meant to be clear and simple and enforcable. as a matter of fact, though they seldom are. interpretation is everything. lincoln saw the union as something that was to be preserved. many northerners wanted to come to some kind of settlement with the south. some books i have read suggest that mcclellan the general was ambitious for the presedency and that was a major reason for his reluctance to engage his army, perferring a stalling strategy til the 64 election when he would run as what, a democrat? i am not sure of the party names back then. i know there were whigs too and they died out about then.

imho if the south had won the war, the us would now be three or four second or third rate powers. does that appeal to you? not me.

there was definately a lot of unfair things that happened to the south after the war. if lincoln had lived perhaps that would have been different. he was merciful. grant, when he accepted lees surrender refused to take his sword. and sent the men home with their guns and horses, such as they had left.

but along the way later things happened that shouldnt have.

and during the war too. and there were no doubt atrocities committed. on both sides. but the war mostly took place on southern soil by definition so the people of the south would have no good memories of that period, i would think.

tom w

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