re: The Will of a Southerner to a roaring Confederacy victory - The Battle of Chancellorsville

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It’s amazing what can rise up when the slave-owning aristocrats convince a bunch of poor Southerners to fight to keep humans enslaved.

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Fixed. And frick your "states rights" argument. It was the right to own slaves. I'm proud to be Southern, but I'm not proud to be associated with you yokels that still celebrate some "lost cause."

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....That reason was her fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the States where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity.

Georgia Declaration of Succession

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Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world.

Mississippi Declaration of Succession

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