Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 6, 1990 TAG: 9003062125
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A10 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The War for Southern Independence, 1861-65, was fought by the South to defend the Jeffersonian principles of state autonomy and individual personal liberty. Southwest Virginians had no interest in maintaining slavery; indeed, the entire state was a leader in manumission, having a sizeable free black population by 1860. Certainly, the Confederacy would not have stood independent for four years without the loyalty and support of its blacks, both on the farm and at the front.
Yet the victorious Federals have now erroneously rewritten America's history, miraculously transforming the Civil War into a glorious war against slavery.
These polyglot Unionists have traditioanlly held us backward Southerners in contempt - except when it's time to fight and die in their wars and pay oppressive taxes necessary for socialist free spending. They want only deplete our natural resources, then dump foreign refugees on our homeland.
One hundred and twenty-five years of oppression is enough. Let us all, black and white, work for the rebirth of secession, and with it, the restoration of our dignity, our culture and our free government.\ JAMES TUCKER Attorney at Law PULASKI
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