"In Time for Spring Planting"

JMJ. Well, folks, in the next four years we'll celebrate the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Agression, which the more politically-correct continue to call the American Civil War. Be on the look-out for myriads of books, magazine articles, and the musings of liberal media pundits, all of whom will help to perpetuate the myth that slavery was defeated but continues to be the root cause of all the ills of this country, including psoriasis and moral lethargy.

The following, in no particular order, are a few facts for your edification--all true (which is why they're called facts)and all quite verifiable, often from northern sources.

* Abraham Lincoln plotted and maneuvered for war even prior to his inauguration.
* "Honest" Abe didn't care two hoots and a holler for black folks. He wanted to send them all back to Africa.
* Prior to the war he begged (in writing) each state governor to support an amendment to the Constitution enshrining slavery in the US for all time.
* The North, not the South, committed the first act of war when Maj. Rob't. Anderson moved his command in Charleston harbour from Ft. Moultrie to Ft. Sumter.
* The first union officer killed in battle one week before the First Battle of Bull Run was shot by a black Confederate sniper.
* Three black soldiers were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg--all Confederate. At the time there were no black union soldiers in combat.
* At the beginning of the war, roughly 5% of white Southerners owned slaves. Roughly 5% of free Southern blacks did, too.
* The over-bearing and imperial federal government we have now is the direct result of Abraham Lincoln's primary thrust.
* The CSA was fighting, not to protect slavery but to maintain the type of government originally given to us by our Founding Fathers.
* Once the North decided to use black troops, it took almost a year and a half before they finally agreed to pay them the same wage as white soldiers. In 1861, the very beginning of the war, the Confederate government passed a law prescribing the exact same pay for black and white soldiers in its armies.
* Black veterans are buried in Southern war cemeteries and drew state veterans' pensions.
* Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave-trader before the war and one of the most feared of all Confederate commanders, publicly stated that the black cavalry troopers who rode with him were the finest fighters he had.

Ok. That's all for now and enough to get you curious. Everything else you hear to the contrary may be saved up and spread on your gardens.