Clara, I find your thought patterns equally erratic. When the Native Americans repaid the colonists with emphatic retribution for their massacres and destruction of their lands and property, it is the right of the stronger. But, when the north exacted retribution for the treason of the south, it was indefensible. There is a lack of logic in your position. The south defended their beliefs in their "right" to consider human beings as "property", to the exclusion of the beliefs of the growing majority in the nation, that you all people have human rights, including the right to gain their own freedom from servitude. Anne Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html