Re: Washington's Vision of Union

2008-2-6 00:15:00

Susan writes:

"Snopes claims this is FALSE. I would read their commentary before deciding if their evidence for claiming it FALSE is accurate.

" http://www.snopes.com/language/document/vision.asp

"It does have an interesting quote from Lincoln about Union at the end you might find interesting."

JJ:

All the evidence they present is commentary on the article itself. The reader can examine the story for himself and reach his own conclusions just as well.

Whether true or false the Union of the States was an important accomplishment in history. If the states were to have stayed divided they would have probably remained divided in philosophy during World War II with one side sympathizing with Hitler who liked slave labor himself. Chances are we would have then lost the war.

The Civil War created more repercussions than we can ever know.

Now some say it laid the seeds for bigger government. Such is a natural evolution of non molecular systems and there is no preventing this. The only question is the pace with which it proceeds. The South abused government as much or more than the North and if you take slavery into consideration the abuse was many times more. They were demanding bigger government to regulate slaves and hold the practice in place just before the war. The greatest fear of big government is slavery and that's what the Confederacy sought to sustain. If the slaves were not freed it would have taken bigger and bigger government to control them.