Confederate views
I haven't posted on anything truly southern in a while. We got a newsletter from the SC division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The headline was questioning whether The State newspaper is really printed in South Carolina. It's not an article questioning the location of where the paper is printed either. These guys just don't like the views of the writers and something about them being inconsistent when writing about the past.
Whatever.
The blurb I liked best was:
Congressional Record: March 2 1928
Senate Joint Resolution No. 41
A war was waged from 1861 to 1865 between two organized governments: the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America. These were the official titles of the contending parties. It was not a "Civil War", as it was not fought between two parties within the same government. It was not a "War of Secession", for the Southern States seceded without a thought of war. The right of a state to secede had never been questioned. It was not a "War of Rebellion", for soverign, independent states, co-equal, cannot rebel against each other. It was a War Between the States because twenty-two non-seceding states made war upon eleven secdeing states to force them back into the Union of States. It was not until after the surrender of 1865 that secession was decided to be unconstitutional.
Whatever.
The blurb I liked best was:
Congressional Record: March 2 1928
Senate Joint Resolution No. 41
A war was waged from 1861 to 1865 between two organized governments: the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America. These were the official titles of the contending parties. It was not a "Civil War", as it was not fought between two parties within the same government. It was not a "War of Secession", for the Southern States seceded without a thought of war. The right of a state to secede had never been questioned. It was not a "War of Rebellion", for soverign, independent states, co-equal, cannot rebel against each other. It was a War Between the States because twenty-two non-seceding states made war upon eleven secdeing states to force them back into the Union of States. It was not until after the surrender of 1865 that secession was decided to be unconstitutional.
posted by UhLisa | 9:50 AM
4 Comments:
Wow. WOW. I will never cease to be amazed by how much this still matters to some Southerners when we in the North don't give it a second thought anymore. WOW.
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