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Saturday, March 5, 2011

The minds of the south

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/the-minds-of-the-south/


As Jefferson Davis put it in his inaugural address as provisional president of the Confederacy, “Our present position … illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established.”


This contrasted with prevailing Unionist ideas, articulated by Abraham Lincoln, which held that first there had been an American people and a Union, and then this Union had sanctioned the political subdivisions that were the states.

Sounds like they thought more like Jefferson Davis! Most people think southerners of the time (and now) were stupid uneducated buffoons. And they think the Civil war was all about race. Little do they know that Lincoln said if he could have held the union together by keeping slavery, he would have done so.

More history being re-written.

This surprisingly from a NY Times writer!

6 comments:

butt shoot 'em all neckid said...

so glad you cleaned house...it was gittin' musty in here...

ol' Jeff had his mind right in the very first paragraph...

soooo...lets git rid of those scumsuckin' politicians!!! otherwise...WE'S SKREWED!!!

butt lonely neckid said...

Auntie ya gotta git bizzy and update here...and answer my emails once in awhile...I miss ya...

off the reservation said...

Auntie Em!
Auntie Em!

You got to do something to keep butt neckid busy. He has moved to Nevada and is renting rooms with blow-up dolls to drunk Injuns.

off the reservation said...

Anyone taken a look at these numbers?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&s[1][id]=BASENS&s[1][range]=1yr

That would be a little under $500Billion in new cash reserves sitting in those banks since November. So with that increase demand in food and oil that means butt neckid has to start putting more dolls in those rooms for drunk injuns.

Ugh!

Auntie Em said...

LOL nuts I tell ya, nuts!

tshirt doctor said...

Declaration by the People of the Cherokee Nation of the Causes
Which Have Impelled Them to Unite Their Fortunes With Those of the
Confederate States of America.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/cherokeecauses.htm