Re: Shelby Foote

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:04:57 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
<dinehnm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1120093171.732803.263010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> In some places, it's still called "The War of Northern
>> Aggression". Polite elderly ladies in some parts of
>> South Carolina, places visited by Gen. Sherman once,
>> have been known to call it that.
>
>It's easier than calling it what it truly was, the War of Southern
>Aggression, because it would involve admitting that their ancestors
>committed treason.

....Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging
the losers. In this case, Ben Franklin was more accurate than he could
have ever believed. When the Confederacy broke off, they were 100% in
their rights to do so based on the way the US was founded originally.
Without arguement - and much in the same way the Supreme Court behaves
today - they simply changed the rules by reinterpreting their "true
meanings".

....The only saving grace was that the Yankees didn't hang Davis, Lee,
Stevens or anyone else from the Confederate command structure save for
the commander of Andersonville, who I will admit deserved it. It's one
thing to kill a Damnyankee who's invaded your country, it's another
thing to starve him to death after he's been caught.

OM

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