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WHY IS IT?

Any cause other than the issue of slavery is stricken from all government funded school books! Most will be raised never knowing the real truth! & Why is it, Northern literature on the subject of that great war is taken as gospel and that of the South called fantasy!? The Southern folk were the ones invaded!!! Which should know more!?

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Just a Bit of The Real causes "for" The War for Southern Independence

From the early through to late middle 1800's the North was in a great recession. Immigrants were flooding in at an ever increasing rate this added to the unemployment in the industrialized north. The northern states economy was based on hard money. Representation grew for the northern states "a problem we still have today", due to influx of immigrants. This in itself fueled resentment for Southerners. Then the south was told it would follow the "New" Federal rules of a central government. It other words, the states could not rule themselves. Then the garrison at Fort Sumter, this was to impede shipping in and out of Charleston. When found out Lincoln was to send troops and supplies to the fort "even after a promise he would not" it really lit the fuse. The very thing he and the northern bankers wanted.The south based it's economy in agriculture "TRADE". Most southern grew his own food, made his cloths and tools, and 95% did all this without salves. The south was doing just fine during this time period. This made the folks losing money in the north angry "most of them bankers". They knew if war started, they would get rich off loans to the "New" Federal Government. The fuel they used to lobby the Republicans was slavery. Lincoln nor any of the money in the north could care less for the blacks welfare. Lincoln despised them....PoP

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Reader, Know That:

I am against any form of subjugation, if of man, city, county, state, country or religion. Slavery was and is still "it's still being used" wrong!!! I am an avid supporter of state rights. I would also with great vigor, pursue any non forceful and legal effort to form a free South.

Truth need be known. Slavery was an issue to many during The Great War . But that issue was fueled by greedy politicians and bankers and did not become an issue of Lincoln's "to further the war" until later in that Great War...This because the north was losing interest in support of Lincoln's war.

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Union General William T. Sherman had a ruthless policy to destroy everything he could in order to eradicate the South. This included disabling the railroads, burning whole towns, killing crops, stealing livestock, even destroying items which could be used to rebuild later.

Sherman had no mercy for civilians who could not defend or provide for themselves once his troops had done their damage. The destruction was so massive that it literally brought the south to its knees, forever changing its fortunes and way of life.

From Georgia on to South Carolina, Sherman's troops marched, indiscriminately burning and pillaging. South Carolina, "the cradle of succession," was particularly hated by the Union troops and received their full wrath. By the time he marched into North Carolina, the populace was well aware of the damage that Georgia and South Carolina had suffered and awaited Sherman with trepidation. Fort Fisher had fallen and Wilmington had been occupied by Union troops since February. Now with Sherman undoubtedly at the door, North Carolina mustered her strength for the destruction that Sherman had doled out in South Carolina.

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Alice Williamson Diary

Very little is known about Alice except what we can learn of her attitudes and circumstances through her own words. A visit to the 1860 US Census for Sumner County, Tennessee gives us some basic facts about Alice and her family. Through the census record we can see that Alice would have been 16 years old at the time she wrote her diary.

Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Click HERE for excerpts from this young Southron girls diary. Read about the cruelty to blacks, C.S. Soldiers, civilians, and their use as shields by the Yankees...More HERE.

"But the mass of respectable Northerners, though they may be willing to pay, do not very naturally feel themselves called upon to give their blood in a war of aggression, ambition, and conquest; for this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South; but the more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States of the devotion of the whole population, the more I feel inclined to say with General Polk----["How can you subjugate such a people as this?"] and even supposing that their extermination were a feasible plan, as some Northerners have suggested, I never can believe that in the nineteenth century the civilized world will be condemned to witness the destruction of such a gallant race."

Arthur J. L. Fremantle (touring British officer)

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Words of The Butcher!!

"To the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or SHE is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjustified.

"Gen. Sherman in a June 21, 1864, letter to Lincoln's Sec. of War, Edwin Station wrote, "There is a class of people men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." Stanton replied, "Your letter of the 21st of June has just reached me and meets my approval."

"Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction of it's roads, houses, and PEOPLE will cripple their military resources.I can make the march, and make Georgia howl."

"There is a class of people [in the South], men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order."

"I have deemed it to the interest of the United States that the citizens now residing in Atlanta should remove, those who prefer it to go South and the

rest North."

"The Government of the United States has in North Alabama any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war--to take their lives, their homes, their lands, their everything, because they cannot deny that war does exist there, and war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact."

"Next year their lands will be taken, for in war we can take them, and rightfully too, and another year they may beg in vain for their lives. A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many many people, with less pertinacity than the South, have been wiped out of national existence. To those who submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionist, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better."

Enemies must be killed or transported to some other country.

"The United States has the right, and ... the ... power, to penetrate to every part of the national domain. We will remove and destroy every obstacle - if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper."

Writing to his wife in 1862, Sherman said, "We are in our enemy's country, and I act accordingly...the war will soon assume a turn to extermination not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people."

"The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed next year, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers." All the above!...Gen. W.T. Sherman

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