FYI.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:46 PM John Coffey <> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:52 PM Albert Nelms <> wrote:
this dude chickened out in the end. he took up today's popular view that the civil war was about slavery. It's the easy way out, once your foolish enough to enter the bag of worms known as the American Civil War. After all, this guy had almost 500,000 views on this video. Supporting the popular view makes him more money due to more views. It also supports the leftist agenda to rewrite history to support their imagined framework of the American truth. I can hear the first two stanzas of Pink Floyd's song Money. The cash register's bell seems to get louder and louder as the views build up. Truth be damned or at least modified to please one's point of view. cha-ching, Cha-Ching, CHA-CHING!
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From: John Coffey <>
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Slavery's Scar on the United States
To: Al Nelms <>
From: John Coffey <>
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Slavery's Scar on the United States
To: Al Nelms <>
Al,
On this matter I think that you are wrong. To be clear, the North fought the war to reunite the Union, but I have seen enough quotes from people that it is clear that the South seceded over the slavery issue. People claim that Lincoln never promised to free the slaves, but Lincoln tended to treat the issue with kid gloves for political reasons. In his heart he was an abolitionist, and so was his father, and the south knew that. I have seen quotes where southerners regarded the election of Lincoln intolerable and give this as the reason for secession..
I would like to see you provide evidence to the contrary.
Granted that wasn't the only issue, but I think that the real historical revisionism has been by people from the south who tried to give the rebellion a more noble sounding cause. There is this organization called the United Daughters of the Confederacy that for over a century has been erecting civil war monuments to the south and literally rewriting school textbooks to deemphasize slavery and put slavery in a more positive light.
Personally I think that Lincoln should not have sent warships to Ft. Sumpter. Lincoln also made it clear in his inaugural speech that he would not allow the south to secede peacefully. This lead to a war that was enormously costly in terms of lives and treasure. Even if you could say that he was in the right legally, the consequences of his actions devastated the country. (We can also place blame on the south for the blockade of Ft. Sumpter.)
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