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|    Bill McGarrity to Roy Witt    |
|    Re: WWIII    |
|    17 Aug 14 17:23:00    |
      -=> On 08-17-14 12:19, Roy Witt wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-                      BK>> The better question would be, should a country not kill thousand        BK>> of their own people as the price for freeing millions from        BK>> slavery?               RW>> As long as they're Yankees, no.               BM> Last I heard it was Yankees: 1 the South: 0               RW> Ask yourself, how many more Yanks died than Rebels?               RW> Dead Yanks 596,670: South 490,309               RW> Served: Yanks 1,532,278, South 591,810 i.e. a little under 3:1               RW> Eligible, but ran off to Canada: Yanks: 2,430,294, South: none              All your #'s can be compared to the game of baseball where one pitcher gives up       15 hits in a game yet still walks away with the victory. It's the final score       that counts.                       RW> Even with close to total conscription, the South could not match the        RW> North's numerical strength. Southerners also stood a significantly        RW> greater chance of being killed, wounded, or captured, especially if        RW> they were old men, women and teenage civilians.              Shit happens...                       RW>> PS - The Civil War wasn't about slavery...but it sure turned out to        RW>> be a crutch for y'all.               BM> Don't you mean "totally" about slavery?       ay withRW> Get yer historicathe l facts straight: The Northern and Southern       sections        RW> of the United States developed along different lines. The South        RW> remained a predominantly agrarian economy while the North became more        RW> and more industrialized. Different social cultures and political        RW> beliefs developed.               RW> All of this led to disagreements on issues such as taxes, tariffs and        RW> internal improvements as well as states rights versus federal rights.               RW> Slavery was an excuse to make war by the Yanks 'after the war        RW> started'...               BM> The basis behind all southern contention was how the slave trade        BM> centered around states rights, economic freedoms and slavery itself.               RW> Wrong, see above.              Did I not explain all that in my original post (the one where you edited out       the economic reasoning). You play the game like FauxEntertainment... edit the       shit out of a story to make them seem intelligent.                      BM> Slavery. Now unless you feel men can be owned by another, this is        BM> fairly self explainatory.               RW> Moron.              So you own slaves Roy?               BM> The good old boys               RW> aka Democrats, no Southerun Democrats, who are now against all that        RW> preaching they did back then.              And the baton was passed to the southern Republicans of today. Actually, ALL       republicans fit that image.                             Bill              Telnet: bbs.tequilamockingbirdonline.net       Web: bbs.tequilamockingbirdonline.net       IRC: irc.tequilamockingbirdonline.net Ports: 6661-6670 SSL: +6697       Radio: radio.tequilamockingbirdonline.net:8010/live                     ... Look Twice, Save a Life... Motorcycles are EVERYWHERE!!       --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.50       --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32        * Origin: TequilaMockingbird Online - Toms River, NJ (1:266/404)    |
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