Re:For the love of all that's good and holy (Score 1)

Do some more research on WHAT the Stars and Bars stood for. I used to feel the same as you did.. Untill I went and read for myself what the leaders and common people at the time felt about it. Even the people from other nations understood what it REALLY stood for. One of Abraham Lincon's campaign promises was to NOT abolish slavery. The Civil War was about the fact that the Northern States were keeping the South under a tight economic fist. Ie.. The Federal Government had imposed very high tarrifs on anything industrial coming into the Southern ports but low tarrifs on those same goods coming into the Northern Ports. Basically the Northern States gave the South no way to get out of their own slavery or a way to do things differently so that they could release the slaves that they had (NOTE: I DO NOT AGREE WITH SLAVERY). The first forts that the South attacked (Ft. Sumter (sp?), etc) were TAX FORTS.. That is they were attempting to remove the place where importers were required to pay those high terrifs. The reason why the North played the "Slavery" card is that Brittin was looking at helping the South and they Brit's had already abolished slavery; and the North attempted to make it that if they entered the Civil War they would be seen as helping the side of slavery.