Before we get started, a note on a personal milestone: Last week marked the one-year anniversary of this feature, which began with a look at an American Literature book for Christian students, where we learned that Mark Twain rebelled against God's authority.
<i>&quot;A number of complex, competing forces, however, converged and clashed to produce the bloodiest chapter in American history.&quot;</i>
Bullshit. Obviously God wanted the war. And He wanted the North to win.
Among other things, he also assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, stole our atom bomb secrets and gave them to the Soviets and caused the breakup of the Beatles.
Norfolk&#039;s long history as the site of a major naval station probably has something to do with that. Census data shows that the city has nearly equal proportions of white and African American residents.
I thought the Scots-Irish were mostly dirt poor backcountry folk who didn&#039;t own many slaves, but were convinced by the high-falutin&#039; Cavalier coastal elites that they needed to support slavery and racism so that one day they TOO could be a slaveholder, and, anyway, they might be dirtfarmers, but at least they weren&#039;t one of those Neeeeeeeeeeeeeegroes?
The other day I saw a beat up white van with confederate flags and a large sticker with &quot;evolution of the confederate flag&quot;. The gentleman who was operating said vehicle was the stereotypical redneck - he was in a dirty t-shirt and jeans and when he opened the door to the van a great wave of stale cigarette smoke came wafting out.
We have the Cadillac driving good ole boy Sons of the Confederacy too, but this guy was more typical of the Texan redneck still mentally fighting the War of Northern Aggression.
To all the states rights or tariffs apologists trying to rewrite history- please explain the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. This law was one of the most incredibly egregious cases of Federal law trumping state sovereignty in that it forced northern states to enforce southern slavery and it punished anyone who did not actively work to return slaves with fines and imprisonment. The law forced federal marshals to usurp local sovereignty and it was the country&rsquo;s first federal law enforcement bureaucracy and the first instance of a federal law enforcement presence at the local level. And southern states overwhelmingly approved it.
Likewise, tariffs are a non issue. The real brouhaha was in 1831 when Calhoun was rabble rousing in South Carolina with the notion of nullification over high tariffs. Noted southerner, president Andrew Jackson threatened to send federal troops there to settle Calhoun&#039;s ass down and southern states (with the obvious exception of SC) supported this threat. Tariffs actually declined after that and by 1857, the new tariff rules, written by a southern slave holder and supported by southern states, set rates at the lowest they had been in decades.
In fact, if you look at all the major legislation passed leading up to the civil war that helped shape the federal vs. state sovereignty issue (such as the fugitive slave act) southern states overwhelmingly supported most of them, with the one glaring exception being the right to own another human being as a piece of chattel. Those that attempt to whitewash history by claiming states rights as a primary cause of the war are actually quite full of shit.
<i>....where we learned that Mark Twain rebelled against God&rsquo;s authority. </i>
They really make God seem like Eric Cartman running around yelling &quot;You will respect mah authoritah!&quot; sometimes, don&#039;t they?
I recall the three general reasons I was given in one college class can be boiled down to &quot;slavery, sectionalism, and tariffs,&quot; although slavery was admittedly a big motivator of the sectionalism, and tariffs seems like something that could have been negotiated on and not lead to over 500,000 dead. So, yeah...slavery.
if E.T. had owned one, would we have considered him a God? Look at how much mileage we got out of one dropped glass bottle
so beer and whiskey led to the Civil War. That explains a lot
<i>&quot;A number of complex, competing forces, however, converged and clashed to produce the bloodiest chapter in American history.&quot;</i>
Bullshit. Obviously God wanted the war. And He wanted the North to win.
You didn&#039;t by any chance use (synonym for initiate that is also the name of a part of a gun)?
Among other things, he also assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, stole our atom bomb secrets and gave them to the Soviets and caused the breakup of the Beatles.
Presumably had the outcome gone the other way, the victors would have called it their War of Independence.
Norfolk&#039;s long history as the site of a major naval station probably has something to do with that. Census data shows that the city has nearly equal proportions of white and African American residents.
I thought the Scots-Irish were mostly dirt poor backcountry folk who didn&#039;t own many slaves, but were convinced by the high-falutin&#039; Cavalier coastal elites that they needed to support slavery and racism so that one day they TOO could be a slaveholder, and, anyway, they might be dirtfarmers, but at least they weren&#039;t one of those Neeeeeeeeeeeeeegroes?
This should be big with the doomsday preppers homeschooling in their bunkers.
The other day I saw a beat up white van with confederate flags and a large sticker with &quot;evolution of the confederate flag&quot;. The gentleman who was operating said vehicle was the stereotypical redneck - he was in a dirty t-shirt and jeans and when he opened the door to the van a great wave of stale cigarette smoke came wafting out.
We have the Cadillac driving good ole boy Sons of the Confederacy too, but this guy was more typical of the Texan redneck still mentally fighting the War of Northern Aggression.
that&#039;s why those Soros backed commies at Media Matters are not to be trusted, they lie by quoting people&#039;s exact words
the Missouri compromise
To all the states rights or tariffs apologists trying to rewrite history- please explain the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. This law was one of the most incredibly egregious cases of Federal law trumping state sovereignty in that it forced northern states to enforce southern slavery and it punished anyone who did not actively work to return slaves with fines and imprisonment. The law forced federal marshals to usurp local sovereignty and it was the country&rsquo;s first federal law enforcement bureaucracy and the first instance of a federal law enforcement presence at the local level. And southern states overwhelmingly approved it.
Likewise, tariffs are a non issue. The real brouhaha was in 1831 when Calhoun was rabble rousing in South Carolina with the notion of nullification over high tariffs. Noted southerner, president Andrew Jackson threatened to send federal troops there to settle Calhoun&#039;s ass down and southern states (with the obvious exception of SC) supported this threat. Tariffs actually declined after that and by 1857, the new tariff rules, written by a southern slave holder and supported by southern states, set rates at the lowest they had been in decades.
In fact, if you look at all the major legislation passed leading up to the civil war that helped shape the federal vs. state sovereignty issue (such as the fugitive slave act) southern states overwhelmingly supported most of them, with the one glaring exception being the right to own another human being as a piece of chattel. Those that attempt to whitewash history by claiming states rights as a primary cause of the war are actually quite full of shit.
Potato? he looks more like a Cheesehead to me.
<i>....where we learned that Mark Twain rebelled against God&rsquo;s authority. </i>
They really make God seem like Eric Cartman running around yelling &quot;You will respect mah authoritah!&quot; sometimes, don&#039;t they?
I recall the three general reasons I was given in one college class can be boiled down to &quot;slavery, sectionalism, and tariffs,&quot; although slavery was admittedly a big motivator of the sectionalism, and tariffs seems like something that could have been negotiated on and not lead to over 500,000 dead. So, yeah...slavery.