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LastDemocratInSC

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2. The "equality and independence, under a Southern Confederacy"

Reply to Montauk6 (Original post)

Tue Apr 20, 2021, 08:42 AM

Apr 2021

The seceded states established what was effectively a police state complete with armed gangs who roamed the countryside looking for escaped slaves and their accomplices.

The real goal was a new nation named Golden Circle; the Confederacy was just an opening act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle

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SPEAKING OF newspapers.com... [View all] Montauk6 Apr 2021 OP

I know that Lincoln was a Republican, but we all know who the true ideological inheritors Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #1

The "equality and independence, under a Southern Confederacy" LastDemocratInSC Apr 2021 #2

"Destroying the institute of slavery" was tantamount no_hypocrisy Apr 2021 #3