JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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The slaveholding concept.I have no issue with them resigning their commisions. It is taking up arms against your country that makes them traitors
Benedict Arnold never fought against America...Lee and Jackson did
Arnold betrayed the people trying to FOUND america, and did it under false pretenses.
You have to remember the Confederates thought THEY were continuing the TRUE concept of America.
For those in the plantation economy, a minority of Southerners, slavery was an important concept, but not to anyone else but the Abolitionists.
If it was the core of the Confederacies self concept then why did they ban international trafficking in slaves? Why is it mentioned in only half the states declarations and only as an item in a long list of grievances? Why did Lincoln only ban slavery in the Southern states in rebellion? Why did Grant have two personal slaves throughout the war?
Why did Lincoln repeatedly say the war was not to free slaves until the Emancipation Proclamation and then he justified it as a war weapon, not for the goal in and of itself?