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Video: Ron Paul Gives Speech on Civil War in Front of Giant Confederate Flag

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/20/2012 5:17:40 pm PST

The South was facing a crisis. As “Christianizing the heathens” no longer worked as excuse, with black slaves born into Christianity and showing great religious fervor, the arguments in support of slavery became more and more virulent, more and more related to slaves uprising, killing, taking revenge.

The South was saved from itself by the war. If the Civil War hadn’t happened, the South might have had its own Civil War, or, if not, might have engaged in greater and greater atrocities against slaves.

The likelihood that it would elegantly transform to a belief that black should be free, equal productive citizens is a nonstarter. A fantasy that only comes from ignorance or malice.