tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post2504215292246470353..comments2024-03-04T05:55:35.225-05:00Comments on Vital Remnants: We need a Democratic History MonthMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-53844564221479973872010-04-14T13:00:10.991-04:002010-04-14T13:00:10.991-04:00I appreciate these posts from Anonymous, because t...I appreciate these posts from Anonymous, because they underscore that we can't ignore the centrality of slavery to the war. <br /><br />The depressing thing to me is that the southern states combined something horrific, chattle race slavery, with something so utterly essential to freedom and our constitution, state's rights and thus local governance. <br /><br /><br />To remove the cancerThemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06848061787616725778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-71697109619564265922010-04-13T17:49:16.225-04:002010-04-13T17:49:16.225-04:00I'm glad to hear the issue was not slavery.I'm glad to hear the issue was not slavery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-86774137688131904382010-04-13T17:48:10.291-04:002010-04-13T17:48:10.291-04:00South Carolina:
...A geographical line has been d...South Carolina:<br /><br />...A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-1805885731265052272010-04-13T17:47:10.779-04:002010-04-13T17:47:10.779-04:00Virginia:
The people of Virginia in their ratific...Virginia:<br /><br />The people of Virginia in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under said Constitition were derived from the people of the United States and might be resumed whensoever Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-42764789185879004412010-04-13T17:46:16.430-04:002010-04-13T17:46:16.430-04:00Texas's:
…in this free government *all white ...Texas's:<br /><br />…in this free government *all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights* [emphasis in the original]; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-22377067106832584152010-04-13T17:45:28.908-04:002010-04-13T17:45:28.908-04:00Mississippi’s succession statement:
…Our position...Mississippi’s succession statement:<br /><br />…Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-67583153788632279132010-04-13T17:42:29.435-04:002010-04-13T17:42:29.435-04:00http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/0...http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/the-ghost-of-bobby-lee/38813/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com