[15594] in APO-L
Re: Promises
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Delman)
Thu Nov 14 03:04:46 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:32:10 -0800
Reply-To: Michael Delman <cliffhng@IX.NETCOM.COM>
From: Michael Delman <cliffhng@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Alex Kohr wrote:
>
> Note: I am Most Definitely not a racist. Although these comments may make
> me look that way.
>
> Without doing and real historical research Deb Gallagher Quoted
> >I suppose then that along the same line as what you are stating
> >above, you are opposed to what the Yankees (those residing north of the
> >Mason-Dixon line) did during the civil war??
>
> Yes i am opposed to What Us Yankees did to the southerners during the civil
> war,although not along those same lines, and after reading all of this You
> might possible be opposed to what the Yankees did to the Southerners too.
> Moral superiority was not the issue.
>
> There were more reasons than the sugar coated version of the civil
> war they teach and quote anymore. It was more than just slavery that was
> the cause of the civil war. The differences with the slavery issue and the
> north and the south was that the south was primarily big farms and thus
> they needed the cheap labor, The north was mostly industry and didn't have
> as much of a need for blacks to be second/no class citizens. IF the north
> wasn't as industrial as it was and the south had more industrial the tides
> would have been turned and the north would want slaves and the south
> wouldn't.
>
> Actually slavery was a more minor secondary reason for The civil
> war but you won't find any "good" Yankee or post Civil rights movement
> books even daring to mention that.
>
> The main issue of the civil war was the Fact that the federal
> Government was making decisions that it was not allowed to under the
> Constitution of the United States, Regardless of the Slavery issue.
> The Southern States Decided to protest the national Governments
> overstepping of it bounds. The Federal government was overstepping it's
> bounds by writing legislation that was not in the realm of powers
> specifically granted to The national Government as defined in the
> Constitution of the United State. Thus taking away power from the
> individual States as all power not specifically given to the federal
> government by the constitution are powers of the state.
>
> To this day any state in the U.S. has the right to succeed from the
> nation as a whole as we are "sovereign States" that choose to follow the
> rules and regulations IMPOSED upon us by the federal Government.
>
Hmmm... Secession due to a larger governing body overstepping its
bounds and trying to impose its will on a smaller entity within it. Is
this what we may end up facing??? I really hope not.
/\/\ike "Cliffhanger" Delman
Alpha Delta Eta - SUNY Albany alum
Section 97 staff
