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

To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (119811)	12/28/2000 9:12:05 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

My comparison is perfect as I used it. Jack Anderson argued that the average Confederate soldier had no slaves, by implication arguing that he could not therefore have fought for slavery. I showed that one does not have to actually have possession of a thing to fight for it. Many average southern people were arguing for war against the Union even before the war began. They did not war merely because the war was on their turf, though that is no doubt in part why some people fought. They were also hostile to the Yank position. People, including Confederates, have fought for many reasons. The Confederates did not fight purely because the war happened primarily in the south. Had Confederate leaders argued that the south should rejoin England I hardly think the average southerner would have fought for the cause.