Confederates should be celebrated
Published: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 2, 2007 at 11:00 p.m.
Dear Editor: The governor and Board of Education have designated April as Confederate History and Heritage Month in Alabama. More than two out of three Alabamians can trace their bloodline to a Confederate veteran.
During Lincolnís Tax War (1861-1865), 122,000 Alabamians fought and 30,000 died for the sole purpose of defending Alabama from an illegal invasion by Abraham Lincoln to collect an oppressive 40 percent import tax on Southerners.
The South paid 80 percent of all the U.S. government taxes, yet represented only 33 percent of the U.S. population. Even more unjust, 80 percent of this tax revenue was then spent up North on their canals and railroads, instead of in the South.
This was the last time that Americans would fight on the battlefield for low taxes and local self-government. The first time was in 1776, when the 13 colonies seceded from England.
Never before in American history have so few (700,000 Confederates) with so little accomplished so much against so many (over 2 million Federal invaders), for so long.
Because of Lincolnís Tax War, the average American today pays 40 percent in taxes and is governed by a centralist government out of Washington.
The South was right. Remember our veterans by flying their Confederate battle flag.
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