Yeah, Eisenhower’s armies did the same terrible thing to the Jews in WWII.

Look, I’m not like the nuts from the Sons of Confederate Veterans who think that the war isn’t over until they say it’s over, and I’ve never defended slavery. I am simply bringing up what I consider to be the legal and historicaly correct aspects of the War Between the States. You guys fail to recognize that the U.S. is formed by states rather than people.

So, in response to your responses, Fort Sumpter was within the state boundaries of a state that had seceded, and the federal forces there refused to acknowledge the right of a state to withdraw from the union and leave.

Slavery was not an issue that started the war and only became an issue when northern support for the war was dropping and a new and moral cause was needed to stay with it. At one point, northerners felt that the price of war, in terms of lives and money, was not justified and to simply allow the southern states to leave the union.

Anyway, reg, you should be upset with Gen. Sherman and the northern armies. They effectively destroyed the businesses and farms in the south where the vast majority of Negroes worked and lived.

Leaving aside the violent attack on American forces at Fort Sumter, there’s no point in discussing the “legality” of a social system founded on human slavery. I’m not surprised this racist troll defends the legitimacy of a renegade slave empire bent on spreading its poison across the continent. John Brown foresaw that this sin could only be purged with blood and the tragedy of the Civil War ensued. Unfortunately, remnants of this sickness persist today, as evidenced here.

I’m looking forward to your next post demanding that the Palestinians give up their weapons and be limited to throwing rocks.