The argument illustrates the power of the media as far back as the 19th century. The Yankee raiding parties were pillage and arson savages but the victors write the history books and today's yankee logic still claims that innocent farmers and shop keepers and young women who were raped got what they deserved because they were traitors even though they never voted or owned a slave.
The locals grew up in an era when being a Southerner meant you had to be a bigot so they learned to be silent until they had a belly full of moonshine.
South Carolina was one of the last to stop flying the Confederate Flag over their State House three years after you got there
Dumb. Slaves were expensive. Owners wanted them healthy to be productive. Your thinking is typical of ignorant abolitionists of the time. Pushing hatred leading to a war that killed nearly a million Americans and destroyed half the country.
Sure, because its really not.
so, we should have allowed slavery to continue and allowed the Country to break up?
Lincoln supported the original 13th amendment that would have legalized slavery forever.
As you’ve been told multiple times, your beloved Dishonest Abe offered to ensconce slavery in the Constitution, if the South stayed. He was fine with slavery, as long as the South paid the Morrill tariff.
if Lincoln had not acted as he did the country would have broken up and slavery would have continued for who knows how long. Ge said all he was interested in was keeping the Country together, If that meant promising the South slavery, he would have done it to save the union, and we would judge him differently than we do now
Visit a freaking library. Sherman was a hero and Atlanta was burned. Union general "Beast" Butler authorized the rape of New Orleans women. Being traitors they deserved it. Grant sent Union troops to make waste the Shenandoah Valley. Union general David (Black Dave) Hunter burned every barn and ran off stock and stole every treasure in the Valley until he was chased away by Confederate soldiers who were recovering from wounds in Lynchburg
the south shouldn't have started the war.
Lincoln started the war.
wrong the South Carolina Militia attacked a US Fort before that Lincoln didn't even call up troops.
yeah that’s the narrative the liars like you push. You know it’s bs.
so, they didn't attack the fort? Lincoln secretly called up the guard sooner?
True enough but Lincoln shouldn't have let it happen. Old Abe gets credit for "saving the Union" when it fell apart under his watch. His advisers said the conflict would never last beyond the summer and the media at the time encouraged Washington residents to ride out to Manassas (Bull Run) to watch the fun. The fun turned to panic when the Union was routed.
