antlers thinks gay marriage is just nature taking a normal course.....so yeah, every yankee suited up because of slavery and every reb suited up for the same reason.
For those who are AMERICAN, here's a song for YOU; I don't care where you live:
I think the factual evidence clearly presented by Birdwatcher on this issue carries much more weight than whatever may be one's wishes, or inclinations, or the dictates of one's passions on this issue.
LT, Let's see, I'm gonna guess maybe......, New York!
And Mikes a great guy! Probably knows more about Alamo and TX History, then most here on the Fire, too. And he'd be welcome at my Campfire anytime!
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Right? I don't care how much liberals try to change history, I'm not forgetting the facts laid out by the children of people who were there. Same goes for the savages.
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
No slight to Mike, who I consider a good friend, but where do you think he's from?
Where he's from doesn't alter the state of facts and evidence.
Fact and evidence dictates one who can think to begin with.
Bottom line is citizens of the era did not believe in dictating from the government on their soil (read tyranny) that both sides seemed to have a hard on for.
Its kind of like having a referendum for or against slavery and having a judge make the opposite law because the legislatures hadn't the balls to do their job....REPRESENTING.
Just a small quip not from post war history that lt. speaks of.
(General) Halleck reported to Lincoln "The operations of (Senator) Lane and Jennison had so enraged the people of Missouri that about 80.000 of them had joined the Confederate side."
These people did NOT join because they were "duped" by "fat cat" slave owners and this was just one border state although the Kansas/Missouri fighting and raiding (by Kansas abolitionists) started many many months before declared war began. The winners wrote the history books and left out the parts where peoples very right to breath air was jeopardized. I know this because my family lived through it.
