CSA Partisan wrote:The Confederate States of America. A nation born out of rebellion against northern elitism and oppression. A nation of states' rights, personal liberty (however flawed) and, most importantly, TRADITION. This nation gave rise to legends of the battlefield and politics. Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, Bragg, Jefferson Davis, all names that will be never forgotten. This nation was also invaded, plundered, and burned to the ground, it's history demonized as racist and backwards.
Firstly, I'll start with the causes of the Southern war for Independence.
A major reason was slavery. While I will not defend such an institution, it was necessary, at the time, to the southern economy. The south wasn't as densely populated or industrialized as the Yankee north. The simple fact is we needed slaves to man the plantations. Without them, the south wouldn't have had any major economic staples to trade! It would simply be on big Kosovo, poor and unviable. If there is someone to blame for slavery, it is Europe and the Federal Yankee Empire. Europe started the overseas trade and the Federals failed to either stop it immediately and free the slaves before they became even more critical, or do what everyone else did: BUY THE SLAVES AND FREE THEM. To this day, the "USA" is the only country that fought over slavery.
Another is tariffs imposed by the north on the south. This is a clear sign of economic tyranny, plain and simple. Make the north richer and the southern "Rednecks" poorer.
Cultural and political differences played a lesser role, but nonetheless contributed.
Now, secession at this point wasn't illegal. It was perfectly legal. And 11 states went that route and were well within their rights, especially since they voted on the issue and the public supported their decisions. If Kosovo can democratically secede from Serbia, then it is hypocritical for the "USA" to tell us we can't leave their Empire. If Scotland can secede from the UK (which it will eventually) then it would be hypocritical for us to be forbidden from doing so over here. It was also the intention of the founding fathers to make the union a political and military ALLIANCE, not it's own nation. How it got that way is something I can't understand. Kinda like the EU, right?
The north's conduct of the war was nothing short of tyrannical. Total war. A complete lack of respect for law and order, and even proper personal conduct. A disgrace that nobody wants to confront because the north was the "good guy". Such simple labeling is far from just. William T. Sherman was the worst war criminal in North American history, burning and plundering the south like some wild animal. I wish we had won, so we could put him on trial and hang him for his offences against human conduct.
Had the secession been peaceful, emancipation would have happened anyway. External pressure (mostly from Europe) would have forced an end to slavery, much like external pressure brought an end to apartheid in South Africa. Civil rights would have also happened, due to internal and external pressure. The simple fact is that racism was institutionalized everywhere in the union, (this means the north, too) public and private. Such hate is an infectious thing, taking the souls of men and corrupting them. We are only human, after all.
Looking at the "USA" today, I find it hard to believe that the Yankee imperialists have any support anywhere. The federal government is probably the most hated entity in human history, the national debt is expanding at an accelerating and disastrous rate, the dollar is becoming worthless, illegal immigration threatens the border integrity of this nation, there's no significant military industry like what happened in WW2, civil rights are being eroded by things like the Patriot Act, and rising foreign threats and domestic unrest will eventually result in the (Justified) destruction of the Yankee Empire. Who will come to our aid in a war with Russia and China? The Europeans who rely on Russian gas imports? Who are bitterly divided over events like Kosovo? I think not. If anything, your public will demand war with the Federalist Yankee Empire, and I say this by what I see in your streets.
I would like to go on, but all this typing is tiresome, so I await your response(s)
I partly agree to your statement/port and a free "Confederacy" should be posibble to establish, IF the majority of it's population would agree to it. but truly told i don't think they would agree to such, and ai also agree that it was wrong from the Northern States to wait for a provokation and invade, the southern states had the right to cease from the union.
-The victor is the one that writes the history!
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Perhaps you should help rectify your state's problems before lambasting others.
