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<blockquote data-quote="OPTION3" data-source="post: 1703054" data-attributes="member: 48507"><p>You said the south got off light....I responded with facts to the contrary, the discussion of what the south was thinking pre-war is a separate issue...I would be glad to debate with some more facts on that as well......to begin with....a fact you are not taught in your northern written history books is the fact that southerners were fighting not only for their homes and lives.&nbsp; but, their entire way of life( some aspects of it where abhorrent, such as slavery and bigotry....but some aspects were correct IMHO. Those would be, the right of a state to secede from the union, and the impropriety of a bloated central government to dictate what a state can and can&#039;t do( within the confines of the constitution). I digress, back to the homes lives and more importantly way of life.....1question if the south would have won, big if I know.....would they have occupied the north and &quot;reconstructed&quot;?&nbsp; I think not....they basically wanted to leave the union, and would have done so peacefully if allowed( I can bring up exhaustive speeches that prove it)....can the same be said of the north?&nbsp; History and the failed policies of reconstruction say otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="OPTION3, post: 1703054, member: 48507"] You said the south got off light....I responded with facts to the contrary, the discussion of what the south was thinking pre-war is a separate issue...I would be glad to debate with some more facts on that as well......to begin with....a fact you are not taught in your northern written history books is the fact that southerners were fighting not only for their homes and lives. but, their entire way of life( some aspects of it where abhorrent, such as slavery and bigotry....but some aspects were correct IMHO. Those would be, the right of a state to secede from the union, and the impropriety of a bloated central government to dictate what a state can and can't do( within the confines of the constitution). I digress, back to the homes lives and more importantly way of life.....1question if the south would have won, big if I know.....would they have occupied the north and "reconstructed"? I think not....they basically wanted to leave the union, and would have done so peacefully if allowed( I can bring up exhaustive speeches that prove it)....can the same be said of the north? History and the failed policies of reconstruction say otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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