| Robert E. Lee There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. Col. Robert E. Lee, USA, Dec. 27, 1856 ************* All that the South has ever desired was the Union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth. Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA ************* Every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns, and battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA ************* These quotes by Robert E. Lee clearly show his feelings on the issue of slavery and why the South went to war. Before the war the Southern states accounted for approximately 70% of the taxes and tariffs paid to the U.S. Government. Very little of this money ever made it way back South. States' rights and taxes were the reason for this war. The States were independent and secession was a right guaranteed by the Constitution. |
| Robert E. Lee There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. Col. Robert E. Lee, USA, Dec. 27, 1856 ************* All that the South has ever desired was the Union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth. Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA ************* Every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns, and battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA ************* These quotes by Robert E. Lee clearly show his feelings on the issue of slavery and why the South went to war. Before the war the Southern states accounted for approximately 70% of the taxes and tariffs paid to the U.S. Government. Very little of this money ever made it way back South. States' rights and taxes were the reason for this war. The States were independent and secession was a right guaranteed by the Constitution. |
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