Granted, stopping slavery was only one of the underlying causes for the war. Preserving the Union was also important, and there were cultural causes and states right’s issues beyond slavery. Even so, it is clear that slavery was at the root of that conflict.

As you say, VMAN, slavery might have ended without that horrible war.

But I think the fact that the country did go to war is the clearest possible statement that the US always has been the moral lighthouse for the world.

For today’s contemptable con men to degrade that fact so they can stuff their pockets with booty is beyond outrageous. It’s a crime on the level of the great crimes of history.

I have said it for years that one of the problems in our own nation is that assumption that “everything is fixable”. Again, drawing on my military experience, in my early years as an enlisted guy, whenever we got a new commander, that commander was ALWAYS listed as a “positive, can-do” individual.

Unfortunately, the way people like that often moved up during peace time was through the constant re-invention of the wheel.

So we would all attend a commander’s call where we would again hear how he was gonna make our numbers soar, our production treble and we would be the “best we’ve ever been” only to find that his “groundbreaking” ideas had all been tried before and that although it worked at his last assignment, our unique mission wasn’t tailored to his “revolutionary” ideas that he learned in military management school.

It bleeds over into many walks of life and though I completely understand that in many cases where action is needed, it is important for leaders to recognize when it’s not. GM failing was one of those times. Airlines have failed over the years and no one lifted a finger to help. And, though it can be argued that they failed for this reason or that, the industry as a whole adjusted and the failures were absorbed by the system. No government intervention would’ve changed it when the corporation in question failed to adapt to market changes.

GM was a dinosaur in many respects and had the millstone of an unyielding union around its neck. It still does. And as long as they refuse to adapt to the changes in the market, they will dig themselves a grave. The government cannot change that market.

The union cannot change the market, either.

So if they kept building crap, their sales numbers would continue to drag behind Toyota..and their initial reaction will always be to “get more money” instead of doing the hard thing and admit that they are getting spanked.

In this case, the lesson is proving to be true and unfortunately, the boy kept his promise by supporting the UAW and now they are in trouble up to their eyeballs and although it’s obvious to the industry, if not the rest of the world, it will still come with all the related trappings of a system in turmoil..and the blaming, and the political maneuvering, etc. It cannot be completely analyzed yet as it’s not done playing out.

But when GM is ultimately gone and all the money has vanished, history will tell the correct story. My grandkids will learn about it much the way I read about the rise of the automobile over the railroads.

And even much of that is still being learned.

But that War Of Northern Aggression was fought, as much as all wars are, over money, power and control of this thing or that.

Slavery was a convenient way to put the ideological fight into the average farmer. Unfortunately, the coloreds and white apologists think that’s all it was about. But in real, actual, no holds barred intellectual circles, the truth is known, as you have mentioned.

2nd, the U.S. didn’t invent slavery, it invented freedom.

Quit trying to qualify for victimhood and get to work…E Pluribus Unum.

And since ‘Trinity and the Obamas ministered to sex-offenders’ for 20 years, and have CZAR’s that think it’s ‘good for boys to have sex with older men’…

Oh…and Obama’s grandfather paid with cows for young 13 year old girls, hunted them down and raped them, impregnated, beat them, & married them….(in his book) His one brother felt that young girls should at least be
given anethesia before their private parts are mutilated.

At Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery in southern Maryland they were able to remove traces of over 10,000 dead Confederate POWs.

There are, according to the official U.S. government list, remains of only 3,384 Confederate POWs buried in a mass grave at Point Lookout. However, based on prisoners’ diaries, testimony, and reports, over 14,000 Confederate POWs died there. There are 413 confirmed names not accounted for in the Federal list. Thousands of dead were buried by their messmates in unmarked graves. And it is known that the Federal list is based on skull count, when the bones of the dead were moved, yet many skulls and other remains were used for improper purposes, and so were never reburied and never made the count. There were thirteen black Confederates imprisoned at Point Lookout.

The Southerners died as the result of a deliberate Federal policy of overcrowding, exposure, and denial of basic necessities––no barracks, only a few tents, only a handful of blankets for thousands of POWs, no clothing, little food, and foul drinking water.

They died of neglect, freezing, starvation, and disease, but they also died of brutal treatment by their guards. United States Colored Troops (USCT) were placed as camp guards. The black guards randomly shot into tents, randomly shot prisoners in their sleep, or shot the sick while relieving themselves at the latrines, or for coughing or calling out at night in their pain. Guards called POWs to cross the dead-line, then shot them for crossing the line. The guards forced the sickly Confederates to carry them about the camp on their backs, spurring them to go faster. Those who killed a prisoner were rewarded with promotions by their white officers. It was great sport.

You may be interested in the story of Jane A. Perkins, a young Irish woman who served with Lee in the Danville Artillery. She was one of the few women imprisoned at Point Lookout. While there Jane gave birth to a son, whom the prisoners named “Little Artillery Man.” Baby Perkins was taken from Jane and sent to a convent in Baltimore.

Deo vindice.

http://www.aconservativelesbia.....ld-slaves/

It’s probably not that far fetched. Slavery was more prevalent in Africa than it ever was in the US. And go back 10 generations and everybody has thousands of ancestors in his family tree (2 to the 10th power is 1024, and that only counts grandparents, not cousins, aunts and uncles).

The odds of our little boy king sprouting from slavers are pretty good.

One might argue that living in the most free country in the world and becoming First Lady would be restitution enough, but I’m willing to bet Al Sharpton and the rest of the race-vultures would argue.

On reading this article, I was surprised (and delighted) to discover Michelle was not pure black.

Perhaps her and Barack’s hate for this country are rooted in their impurity.

And isn’t it racist for them to pick their blackness over their undeniable whiteness?

Does it give her “street cred” towards “the struggle”?

For those of us who have ceased to care about slavery in this nation’s past (that’s not the same as belittling it), such an article only serves to annoy and “stick it in our faces” when no such action is warranted. And it’s more of “all about me-”ism with this nasty, ugly, hateful woman.

The Jews were slaves to the Egyptians.

The conquered became slaves to the victors around the world, throughout history.

Show me a person alive today and I’ll show you a descendant of a slave. We are all equal in that regard, some just more equal than others.

By the way, the Wikipedia statement of three to seven years for indentured servitude is misleading and much too low. Three years would have been exceptional indeed; it might have worked for a servant who contracted at arms’ length, such as a highly skilled artisan or the school teacher on the plantation. But most servants were common laborers, and for them the minimum term was seven years or more. Many servants were children, and in the tobacco colonies the term for servants under age 14 was fourteen years. The term of service could be extended for insubordination, escape attempts, pregnancy, and other reasons.