Recent content by Rogue 9

He led a rebellion against his country. Learn the difference. Treason is a political crime and it wasn't politically expedient to charge him with it during Reconstruction. That doesn't mean he didn't obviously commit the acts. As to the rest, the lenient treatment of former Confederates...

Read it again. He wanted to continue Mississippi's ban because he didn't want too many black people in the state. He was all in favor of repealing the federal ban, because he thought Cuba would need more slaves to cultivate than the American supply could provide and would require resuming the...

The caliber of men who were in favor of the slave trade, and said things like this? "I have said that I would prefer to leave the subject of the importation of African slaves to the States respectively; but, viewing it as utterly impracticable to obtain the repeal of the act of 1818, so as to...

So to recap: Jefferson Davis wanted to conquer Latin America in general and Cuba in particular and he thought black people were all criminally insane and that they were cursed by God to be slaves. Real piece of work, that man.

It has been some time since I've visited here, but my studies of antebellum politics have continued in my absence. I recently had occasion to reference this speech, and discovered that there was no readily available digitized copy, so I found a scan of a newspaper copy of it and have spent the...

That doesn't make them "northern," you goddamned idiot; it made them not treasonous. You don't have to be from the North to not commit treason. I explain that by the majority of the residents of those states not being insane. Just because the slave states didn't act in a monolithic bloc does...

Those states were not Northern and someone from one of them at the time would have been insulted had you said so; they were loyal. There's a difference. As to your second point, the idea that the Civil War was about slavery is not just right, it's absurd to believe otherwise. But some...

Sure Lincoln could have done that, if he wanted to lose the war. Attempting general emancipation in 1862 would have prompted the immediate secessions of the loyal slave states - otherwise known as the rest of the territory surrounding Washington, D.C. There's also the fact that he didn't have...

The flag of the Confederacy represents the de facto government of the so-called Confederate States, obviously. So the question becomes, what did that government represent? Fortunately, they were kind enough to tell us. So we can see that the Confederacy represents the idea that the ideals of...

I dunno. Calvin Coolidge, anyone?

Ah, moral relativism. Where would we be without you? But that isn't the point. The point is that it was the Slave Power that was the aggressor, not the free states - not only at the outbreak of the war, but in matters of internal policy for over a decade prior.

*Ahem* "What, no takers?"

This one's the kicker. When taken in the context of the Supremacy Clause, we see that the states cannot violate the territorial sovereignty of the United States. Secession is such a violation. Here is that Clause, in case you've forgotten: You lose. Good day, sir. Wow. Your facts are...

Because it doesn't work. If your only approach is to tell a bunch of teenagers not to do something, and you have no plan B, they are nearly guaranteed to do that thing no matter what it is. Abstinence should absolutely be taught as the only 100% surefire way to not get pregnant or contract an...

I'ma just leave this here.