Revolution 2.0

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The First Casualty In War Is TRUTH


Issue 4 ~ Why The War Was Fought

In actuality the Southern States fought to repel aggression & invasion and also for self-government, just as the fathers of the American revolution had done.

President Abraham Lincoln himself confessed at first that he had no constitutional right to make war against a State, so he resorted to the subterfuge of calling for troops to suppress "combinations" of persons in the Southern States "too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary" processes.

Now then, with that said, here are the perspectives from which the North and South went to war in 1861.


• 1) The North. The Northern States held approximately 80-90% of the industrial capabilities of the States. But, these industrial capabilities were useless without the raw products coming from the South. Tobacco, cotton, hemp, etc were what the North used to maintain its economic stranglehold and wealth. Without the South's raw materials, it would have been economic and political disaster. And this simply would not be tolerated by the North. The statement "War is money" was as valid then as it is now.


• 2) The South. The Southern States were simple workers who provided products that were shipped overseas. The North did not care what type of labor supplied these products. Slavery, to the North, was a Division Of Labor. And after many years of abuse and oppression, the South had tired from being subjected to Northern rules of politics, trade and economy. The "fat cats" of the North were strangling the South. And the South knew this. They simply tired of this folly, and proceeded to establish a new government for themselves as did the colonists when they wanted their freedom from King George III of Britain.


So, as you can see, slavery was not the issue for the War Of 1861 - 1865. Many want you to believe that the war was totally fought over the issue of slavery, but they are not the true purveyors of history. The same holds true today as it did years ago.

During the war, Frederick Douglass petitioned and lobbied Washington to get the war recognized as being fought solely over the issue of slavery. Douglass stated "That the war now being waged in this land is a war fought for and against slavery".

The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, publicly said time and time again that quite simply "The war is being fought for Union, not slavery".

One of the most outstanding statements that was ever uttered in the war, occurred in Tennessee in 1862. A Federal squad of soldiers had captured a single, ragged and underfed Confederate soldier. It was obvious that this Confederate soldier owned no slaves and was a worker of the land himself.

The Federal soldiers asked of the Confederate "What are you fighting for anyhow?"

The Confederate soldier simply replied "I'm fighting because you are down here".

I now pose to you a question. If strangers from a different land came into your cities and your homes to take from you what is rightfully yours, would you not fight for yourself and your family as well as your Constitutional rights? Or would you cower down to the aggressors and oppressors and allow yourself to be dictated to? I think the answer is quite obvious.

All in all the South only wanted was it's God given right to govern and defend themselves as provided under the Constitution.

Article 4 - Section 4 : The United States shall guaranteee to every state in the Union a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion...against domestic violence.

The South also demonstrated what the founding fathers had stated in the Declaration Of Independence when parting from an oppressive government:

"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

So to be clear, the South did not want to be bullied around by the Northern bureaucrats, politicians and wealth mongers. In reality the Northern politicians and industrialists had no problems at all getting rich over the cotton, tobacco and textiles that were coming from the south. They shipped the goods overseas and amassed vast fortunes. These fortunes ended up financing the northern war effort. Hypocrisy, to be certain..

To lose the Southern States and allow them their independence would mean economic disaster for the North. This would never be tolerated and would be stopped by whatever means necessary..


Issue 5 - Hidden Facts & Information