Of course I'm closed minded...I'm right. You and I obviously have passed that middle age state of where the broad mind switches with the narrow hips!

I didn’t see you come up with specifics on the charges posted, like I did.

Again, I see what they, (Southerners) were saying in 1860-61. I see hardly anything about Tariffs, Taxes...but I hear a lot of complaining about equalization of the black man to whites, abolishment of slavery by the "Black Republicans"...alienation of the slave states from new territories, and the over powering vote of the non-slave states in congress, over the minority slave states.

It all revolves around the slavery issue more than anything else.

“the apprehension those poor men had of the consequences of the emancipation of four million of negro slaves in their midst, and they to be given the franchise and elevated to political and social equality with the whites, was horrifying to their proud spirits, and those who never owned a slave fought for slavery to avoid such direful consequences. Southern pride was offended and the blood made to boil at the idea of enforced equality of an inferior race. It was complimentary to them that they had the intelligence to foresee that with universal emancipation would come a rivalry with them in industries, unpleasant contact, mixed schools, negro office-holders, indignities, miscegenation, and general demoralization.”

I can take what Col Oats of the 15th Alabama said, at his word and not think kindly or ill of him…He called it like saw it.

I won’t call him an idiot like you did!

Kevin Dally