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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (119771)	12/27/2000 10:03:29 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes, of course. But this is the George Bush thread. We are OT with the Civil War. As much as I love history, this is not the thread for it. Anyone interested in a War thread? We could start with the Hundred Years' War.

To: SecularBull who wrote (119771)	12/28/2000 9:02:22 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well then let us see the evidence supporting this belief. Surely there was an economic component to the debate. But underlying it all was moral philosophy. When Thomas Jefferson said "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," he dealt the philosophical death blow to slavery. America could no more look in the proverbial mirror and own slaves than it could jump to the moon. The reason for this was because it knew that it had just waged war against England on the basis of the natural rights of man to have freedom, and yet it was enslaving other men. Jefferson enabled many people to take the basis of our country, and wave it in the faces of the Confederacy. The Confederacy in turn claimed God Almighty had ordained that blacks should be enslaved and that Jefferson was wrong. Alexander Stephens, the Confederate V.P. claimed the Confederacy was founded on exactly the opposite view than that serving as the basis for America. The issue at its core concerns moral philosophy. Which belief is right, the Confederate belief or the American belief? It is a no-brainer.