7xstall
Well-Known Member
in the 1830s the Southern states sought to have congress recognize the right of the free black man to vote. the Southern whites did not seek to have the power to vote on "behalf" of blacks but rather they sought to put the responsibility on the blacks themselves - who, according to the Constitution, deserved it. the Southern whites knew this would bring blacks into the greater free society over time, and giving them their rights would "acclimate" them to living in a fully free society which seemed to be an inevitable reality that must be prepared for and accommodated.
northern states did not want a bunch of dumb 'blacks' to have voting rights and the legislation was blocked in the US senate - never going to a vote. the cynical north believed that the South was simply trying to get more representation in the House and Senate by counting the "blacks" as people - an abhorrent concept to the elite northerners who viewed blacks as little more than easily trained animals. the northern paranoia was unfounded and even quite silly because the South was a very rich, very wealthy and, above all, very independent region with no need or want for more federal leverage (still true today). being self-sufficient seemed like an alien concept to the cynical north who suspected trickery in almost everything.
this was the beginning of the animosity between the north and the South - the notion that free black men should be counted as citizens. so, when someone says that the "civil war" was about slavery - you could agree, except it was a type of slavery that the north preferred to keep.
the north did not allow blacks to own property prior to the war of northern aggression. it was also illegal for blacks to go to school in the north. even after the war the north prohibited blacks from "congregating" and voting. this one fact should silence those who unknowingly announce that the war was meant to make blacks equal to whites as was the case in the fantasy north. another fact that should seal the deal is that the emancipation proclamation was not even thought of until the war was halfway over.
regardless, once the South stopped buying slaves from the northern slave merchants, ending slavery became a "humanitarian cause", at least that's what the northern newspapers said. the north didn't consider the people that they held captive to be slaves, they were just there to serve tea and cook food and provide sexual pleasure (Lincoln's illegitimate child), this wasn't really "slavery" like they had in the South. in the South the slaves were worked like dogs, in the terrible heat. unfortunately, this characterization doesn't mention that the slaves worked along side their white owners, and often their entire family, so how "cruel" could it really be? other than the rare sociopath there was obviously no whipping and beating the slaves anymore than you see farmers destroying their expensive modern equipment because the slaves had to be healthy and happy. slaves even purchased their own freedom in the South and some even bought land, later buying their own slaves and building plantations. many slaves fought for the South, in the first truly integrated army - a full century before the "officially" integrated federal Army in the 1960s. the South did not have "negro" units as the north did (the north actually threatened blacks into joining their army). the South is where the black man and the white man fought and died side by side on the killing fields of the War of Northern Aggression.
do i think slavery was a good thing? no, i don't think it is but we keep slavery alive and well to this very day. we force blacks to accept lower standards and call it "affirmative action". we enlist generations of blacks into federal plantations called public housing and we tell them to keep voting for the slave owners in D.C. who dumb down the public education the point that genius and near-genius scoring blacks are practically a thing of the past. gifted black men like the Southerner George Washington Carver, the son of slaves, should have been the foundation to a jumping off point for blacks but the sharpton's and jackson's have decimated the will of their own culture by constantly downplaying every advance and crying about every "injustice".
the war and the culture are not about slavery.
the South is and was about liberty.
again, we're at a point in our history where the northern, modern liberal mentality is to bully and butcher everyone who doesn't agree with them. we plainly see the continuation of the old, evil northern philosophy of murdering, pillaging and raping the Middle East. we see a world on the brink of so many unknowable wars and such incomprehensible killing that i pray everyday for the South to secede again from this marauding and violent union that is the USA. we should turn our backs on this corrupt and failed government which has so blatantly ignored written and signed debts to the indians and which also seeks to destroy the sovereignty of our current borders, which has sold our monetary system to a corrupt few foreigners, which has built a system of rewarded failure and aggrandized status quo.
i long for the CSA.
.
northern states did not want a bunch of dumb 'blacks' to have voting rights and the legislation was blocked in the US senate - never going to a vote. the cynical north believed that the South was simply trying to get more representation in the House and Senate by counting the "blacks" as people - an abhorrent concept to the elite northerners who viewed blacks as little more than easily trained animals. the northern paranoia was unfounded and even quite silly because the South was a very rich, very wealthy and, above all, very independent region with no need or want for more federal leverage (still true today). being self-sufficient seemed like an alien concept to the cynical north who suspected trickery in almost everything.
this was the beginning of the animosity between the north and the South - the notion that free black men should be counted as citizens. so, when someone says that the "civil war" was about slavery - you could agree, except it was a type of slavery that the north preferred to keep.
the north did not allow blacks to own property prior to the war of northern aggression. it was also illegal for blacks to go to school in the north. even after the war the north prohibited blacks from "congregating" and voting. this one fact should silence those who unknowingly announce that the war was meant to make blacks equal to whites as was the case in the fantasy north. another fact that should seal the deal is that the emancipation proclamation was not even thought of until the war was halfway over.
regardless, once the South stopped buying slaves from the northern slave merchants, ending slavery became a "humanitarian cause", at least that's what the northern newspapers said. the north didn't consider the people that they held captive to be slaves, they were just there to serve tea and cook food and provide sexual pleasure (Lincoln's illegitimate child), this wasn't really "slavery" like they had in the South. in the South the slaves were worked like dogs, in the terrible heat. unfortunately, this characterization doesn't mention that the slaves worked along side their white owners, and often their entire family, so how "cruel" could it really be? other than the rare sociopath there was obviously no whipping and beating the slaves anymore than you see farmers destroying their expensive modern equipment because the slaves had to be healthy and happy. slaves even purchased their own freedom in the South and some even bought land, later buying their own slaves and building plantations. many slaves fought for the South, in the first truly integrated army - a full century before the "officially" integrated federal Army in the 1960s. the South did not have "negro" units as the north did (the north actually threatened blacks into joining their army). the South is where the black man and the white man fought and died side by side on the killing fields of the War of Northern Aggression.
do i think slavery was a good thing? no, i don't think it is but we keep slavery alive and well to this very day. we force blacks to accept lower standards and call it "affirmative action". we enlist generations of blacks into federal plantations called public housing and we tell them to keep voting for the slave owners in D.C. who dumb down the public education the point that genius and near-genius scoring blacks are practically a thing of the past. gifted black men like the Southerner George Washington Carver, the son of slaves, should have been the foundation to a jumping off point for blacks but the sharpton's and jackson's have decimated the will of their own culture by constantly downplaying every advance and crying about every "injustice".
the war and the culture are not about slavery.
the South is and was about liberty.
again, we're at a point in our history where the northern, modern liberal mentality is to bully and butcher everyone who doesn't agree with them. we plainly see the continuation of the old, evil northern philosophy of murdering, pillaging and raping the Middle East. we see a world on the brink of so many unknowable wars and such incomprehensible killing that i pray everyday for the South to secede again from this marauding and violent union that is the USA. we should turn our backs on this corrupt and failed government which has so blatantly ignored written and signed debts to the indians and which also seeks to destroy the sovereignty of our current borders, which has sold our monetary system to a corrupt few foreigners, which has built a system of rewarded failure and aggrandized status quo.
i long for the CSA.
.
