Time fer a lil History Lesson.
Thomas Jefferson in his First Inaugural Address said, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it." Fifteen years later, after the New England Federalists attempted to secede, Jefferson said, "If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation ... to a continuance in the union .... I have no hesitation in saying, 'Let us separate.'"
At the constitutions ratification convention, the delegates said, "The powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." In Federalist Paper 39, James Madison, the father of the Constitution, cleared up what "the people" meant, saying the proposed Constitution would be subject to ratification by the people, "not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong." In a word, states were sovereign; the federal government was a creation, an agent, a servant of the states.
Now, lets fast forward to Gettysburg... and carefully consider Lincolns magnificent speech. Historian H.L. Mencken:
"It is poetry not logic; beauty, not sense." Lincoln said that the soldiers sacrificed their lives "to the cause of self-determination; government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth." Mencken says:
"It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of people to govern themselves." Political Spin... Lincolns or Menckens ? It should be noted that history records WHEN the Administration freed the slaves.. and it wasn't untill AFTER the Union finally actually won a battle... and that was 2 years into the war.
As it stands now, every time I see a 'political map' I see a massive number of 'red' states, and two coastlines that are blue. Red... Blue. hmmmmmmmmmm. Massive disparity of political opinion & state will.
The one thing we can all agree that TRULY sucks about MODERN America is the sick monkey on our backs.. the FEDERAL Government.
I'm tellin yah..
The South Shall Rise AGAIN!!
