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(26,366 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)The South Carolina Secession Declaration states specifically that
This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.
On the 4th day of March next, this party will take possession of the Government. It has announced that the South shall be excluded from the common territory, that the judicial tribunals shall be made sectional, and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States.
The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy.
Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief.
The Georgia Declaration of Secession similarly makes it clear that the reason for secession is slavery.
The Mississippi Declaration says
Other Confederate states' declarations make similar statements.
Paladin
(28,281 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)Ask any bubba or his momma and they'll tell ya the civil war had nothing to do with slavery. LOL
trusty elf
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Hekate
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trusty elf
(7,403 posts)Rrrright. What was that quote about gawd hating all of the same people that I do?
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
― Anne Lamott
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brer cat
(24,635 posts)that is new to me. I love it!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)trusty elf
(7,403 posts)major fail!
brer cat
(24,635 posts)one former slave state at a time. The thing that amazes me is that I was taught the states rights nonsense but also that slavery was the issue driving secession when I was in school in GA during the 1950s. Why are they rewriting it now?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Because of its size, Texas sets the standards for the books most states buy.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)trusty elf
(7,403 posts)I lived there for years, and most of my family are still in Houston. OF course there are some great people in Texas, but sheesh, so many idiots too.
tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)If not for my son, I'd be gone.
I'd love to see Texas secede and after we've yanked every federal dollar from the state budget and all those military bases, I'll watch Mexico take it back. In HD! Good times.
trusty elf
(7,403 posts)whether those secessionists back then were "real" Christians. If the will of the almighty creator was revealed to them, does that mean gawd is a racist? If they weren't real Xians, or they misunderstood Gawd's will, how can I be sure that what my relatives say is God's will isn't also a hallucination.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)...that God's will was revealed back than and correctly understood and hasn't changed.
trusty elf
(7,403 posts)I would love to make them go through contortions trying to justify or explain away the secessionist racist crap.
tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)In 1971. They say the same thing now. You're right.
1monster
(11,012 posts)When teaching about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, etc., I always make copies of the documents and give them to the students, and discuss them with the students.
Under the circumstances of the required curriculum of Texas, I would tell the students the answers required by the state on the standardized tests, but would also make sure they knew the real answers and could find the documentation to back it up.
It does not hurt to let children know early and often that what one is told is not necessarily the truth.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Texas' new history textbooks were also written by racists.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Electric Monk
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(50,983 posts)Marthe48
(17,087 posts)How can anyone from this free country, at any time in our history, stand up for that appalling state of affairs? Use it to determine the goals of their lives, their states, their country?
And they put that word, as if it were perfectly okay, into their justification to war, to set their young men against the USA, and they thought it was worth it?
Are people living now, who still rail against freedom in America, going to start a civil war to preserve the minimum wage at the level it is now?
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The right is trying to brainwash students as they deny climate change. They are causing so much harm that likely will have long lasting implications.