Minute Particulars asks, "How can folks who admit slavery was a great evil talk about honor, nobility, and goodness in those who fought to allow it to continue?" Perhaps because we see the good even in the greatest sinner.
Posted by billw at February 24, 2003 08:07 AMDear Mr. White,
Or perhaps because the vast majority did not fight to see it continue but fought because they had been convinced that the future of democracy and of self-rule was threatened by events they saw transpire. The Civil War was triggered by a nullification crisis that had slavery at its core, and Northerners consistently see it about being about the end of slavery. But I honestly believe that the predominant southern view was not so much focused on slavery as upon the right to rule oneself and not to have a voice from elsewhere dictate how you were to live.
shalom,
Steven
Posted by: Steven Riddle at February 24, 2003 09:14 AMDear Mr. Riddle,
I quite agree. My comment was a quick improvisation against what I saw as a Puritanical condemnation of folks perceived to be guilty of some unforgivable sin. We all in practice adhere to diabolical notions, expressed in our sins, and still Christ dines with us, takes us by our unclean hands and heals us.
Some of my family were in Quantrill's guerrillas. Sigh.
Come to think of it, I'd rather say we praise the good we find even in the greatest sinners. It's a Catholic thing :-)
Posted by: Bill White at February 24, 2003 06:45 PMMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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