Tema: Pope Pius IX and the Confederacy.

Iniciado por Irmão de Cá

If the preservation of slavery was the only (or even the most important) matter at stake during the American CW, then slave owners wouldn't have almost anyone to fight for their cause in the confederate army. How many of the "greys" actually kept slaves? How many of them were tenants, single farmers and artisans, denied of a scarcely remedied living by the unfair competition of slave owners? The pieces of the puzzle don't really fit in, do they?

Outside of the gentry in the south, like Robert E. Lee, slavery wasn't as common as the casual observer of U.S. history may think- and for a Christian gentleman like Lee slavery was an evil that had to be tolerated until an acceptable solution was found, such as a process of gradual emancipation:

http://www.monticello.org/slavery-at...l-emancipation

Or how many black slaves were owned by free blacks? Or how many blacks fought in the Confederate forces? Or how many men from the Union fought without a single concern about slavery but many concerns about preserving the nation? The American Civil War ishas been subjected to politically correct revision and alot of its hidden facts have been forgotten, such as this:

"U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union"

U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union

The international aspect of the American Civil War is largely overlooked and not even known, hence the willingness of tsarist Russia to go to war with Britain and France if it sided with the Confederates. Why? Now that's an interesting question!

The abolition of slavery was the perfect battle flag for the Lincoln administration to rally the yanquies to fight their fellow Americans of the southern states. Not to make of the negroes equal citizens, oh no! It would have to come the Year of Our Lord 2008 to see one of them elected president - and a damn lousy one at that! No... the real purpose was to annihilate the state's self-governance, as it was meant by the nation founders, the constitution signers, several of them from the south. No state was to leave the union even if it was massively voted for! No state was to escape the federal rule over the most unsuspected and particular matters of their citizens. No federal law was to be proposed and voted by the states (as actual union members) but by the HR and the Senate. That's what, in my view, the American CW was all about.

Lincoln is an interesting figure to me. He was ambivalent about the issue of slavery and was willing to accept its existence in the southern states to preserve the country. Lincoln was pressured from all sides to act on slavery, most notably from the radical abolitionists in the north (the future Radical Republicans) and from international critics in Britain and France. There's a belief that his assassination was orhcestrated by the Rothschild gang because he was attempting currency reform in the U.S. to free the country from international finance.

US Presidents Murdered By Rothschild Banksters***