Lincoln and Secession
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Our friend, the Southern Avenger, tears into DC’s hypocrisy over secession. Here’s a sample:
The very notion of democracy, of men deciding their own political fate, is so inextricably wedded to secession that one cannot imagine any fair-minded person opposing it. Yet, on our own soil, here in the United States, the man responsible for one of the most bloody and oppressive wars to suppress a secessionist uprising is considered by many to be a great leader, if not an outright saint.
So why wasn’t Saddam sanctified for his Lincolnesque actions against the Kurds? How different were they from Sherman’s March?
On The Web: http://leagueofthesouth.net/rebellion/index.php/site/lincoln_and_secession/
