I have nothing to "get over."  My ancestors came here to become citizens
and volunteered to fight for American liberty the first chance they got.
 

It is the folks who cannot come to term with their own ancestors treason
and their own aggression that need to get over it.  It amazes me, almost
150 years later, that people still live in a fantasy world in which
those who started the war are the "victims" and those who reponded
defending the nation, are the "aggressors."  

I would ask any of you who use the term "war of northern aggression" --
do you really wish the Confederacy had won?  Do you really want to be a
separate nation?  And are you really sorry slavery was destroyed, even
if it took a war to do it?  Do you wish you were not American citizens?
Do you cringe when you say the pledge of allegience?  Can you say those
words "one nation, under God, indivisible" or do you choke on the
"indivisible" part and the next words "with liberty and justice for
all."  Are you still unhappy that you lost your slaves and are forced to
be part of the United States. 

Do you wish your "country garden" was in a differnt country?

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
     and Public Policy
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York   12208-3494

518-445-3386 
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Get over it, Paul.
DFM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: End of the War of Northern Aggression


> The subject line is amusing.  Is the "war of Northern aggression" the
> one that was started with treasonous former officers of the United
> States of America began firing at U.S. Army troops stationed  in a
fort
> built by the tax payers of the entire nation to protect the city of
> Charleston from foreign invaders?  That was the battle where a brave
and
> courageous southern-born commander defended his flag against an
> unwarrantend and unprovoked attack by men who had been trained at West
> Point, at tax payer expense, and then took off their uniforms, put on
> the uniforms of another army, and attacked their former comrades.  The
> would-be new nation was led by man who had also been educated at West
> Point, served in the United States Army, and turned traitor, and made
> war on his own country. 
> 
> It is worth remembering that that Davis, Lee, and the other traitors
> took the same oath when they entered West Point that American
soldiers,
> marines, sailors, and airmen/women take when they enter  military
> service today.  
> 
> Paul Finkelman
> President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
>     and Public Policy
> Albany Law School
> 80 New Scotland Avenue
> Albany, New York   12208-3494
> 
> 518-445-3386 
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> Today is April 9th. 142 years ago, today the Civil war ended at
> Appomattox,
> Virginia.
> Robert E. Lee, General CSA 
> Surrendered the Army Of Virginia and ended the Civil War
> 
> April 9, 1865: VA-K157 Surrender at Appomattox
> Description:
> At the McLean house at Appomattox, two miles north, took place the
> meeting
> between Lee and Grant to arrange terms for the surrender of the Army
of
> Northern Virginia. This was at 1:30 P.M. on Sunday, April 9, 1865.
> Conservation & Development Commission, 1929
> 
> Location:
> US 460 (eastbound), west of Appomattox
> Surrender at Appomattox
>