Quote:People have the right to protest, so I'm not sure what your problem is there.  


The rebuttal?  I made that a long time ago. 


Here.  In the words of the Confederacy's VERY OWN Vice President Alexander Stephens:


 

 

Abraham Lincoln as well as most everybody said very similar things back then.  Again, what possible theory could there be for why the South would turn down two proposals that would allow them to keep slavery?  The truth is that the tariff was the sticking point.  The North was bleeding the South dry, the South was very upset for some 40 or 50 years about this until they decided to leave the Union.  Abraham Lincoln was forced into a rallying cry to unite the northern states and pressure the South from seceding.  Why else would free black men, Indians, and the 98% of the population who never owned a slave, fight for the Confederacy?  It's not that black and white.

 

Yes, people do have the right to protest.  It doesn't mean they aren't complete and total jerks for forcing their opinions onto others by mob rule.  People protested against allowing women and blacks the right to vote and that doesn't make them any less insufferable jerks just because they had the right.  I'm just glad that Americans didn't cave so easily back then as they do today. 

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