To the Editor:
From history books distorting the truth, which was backed by the union government, to the spin Hollywood has put on movies and stereotyped the REBEL Soldiers, facts are finally aired on national television.
On Wednesday, April 26, 2006, The Big Story with John Gibson was airing and Judge Andrew Napolitano, the legal analyst for Fox News, was being interviewed on his latest book, The Constitution in Exile. Mr Gibson asked the judge who was the worst president America has ever had. The judge said Abe Lincoln, and he was asked to explain why. The Judge stated Lincoln jailed more than 4,000 Northerners because they agreed with the South that secession from the union was legal, and these people were never given a trial. Also that the Constitution, as it was written, allowed any state to withdraw from the union because it was a voluntary association of states. He stated that if slavery was the issue, then Lincoln could have compensated all slave owners to release them for $500,000. As it was, Lincoln's war cost more than $2 billion and killed more than 600,000 Americans. He stated that most historians believed that within a year the South would have returned to the union.
The Union government has hidden these facts from the public for more than 140 years because to admit the South was right to secede from the union would have made the government the aggressor in this unlawful war. Lies change with each version a historian writes about the War Between the States, but the truth stays the same and is finally coming out.
This right to secession, which was in the Constitution, is why the government could never try and Confederate Soldier for treason or any of the Confederate Government officials. President Jefferson Davis wanted a trial, but after two years of imprisonment by the union government, they dropped the charges and released him.
A trial would have given President Davis a chance to prove the Union was wrong to invade the Confederate States of America; thus, the government never admitted the war was wrong and the South was Right.
Thomas McClain
Colonel Olin M. Dantzler Camp 73
Cameron, SC
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 41
A war was waged between 1861-1865 between two organized governments: the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. These were the official titles of the contending parties. It was not a "Civil War" as it was not fought between two parties within the same government. It was not a War of Secession, for the Southern States seceded without a thought of war. The right of a state to secede had never been questioned. It was not a War of Rebellion, for sovereign, independent states. co-equal, cannot rebel against each other. It was the War Between the States, because 22 non seceding states made war upon 11 seceding states to force them back into the Union of States. It was not until after the surrender of 1865 that secession was decided to be unconstitutional.
