Confederacy stood for oppression

To the editor:

I'm writing in response to reporter Caleb Bauer's recent piece, “Confederate flag is symbol of hate.”

Kudos to you sir.

I wish this piece could be published in larger papers, and possibly go national. Also, I wish you would have used the proof of The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States, as more proof. Not only was that expressed in Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech, but every state that seceded stated the same basic thing, that the negro was unintelligent, and only good for subordination to the superior race. They all justified slavery. Those states were Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

Anyone can find The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States by searching for it on the internet. A good source is the Civil War Trust. This is proof that Southern Heritage is racist, and about the suppression of the African race.

There are those that will say that the Democrats ran the south during the Civil War, and that the Republicans ran the north. This is a fact. Both Parties have made dramatic changes since the 1860s.

Yes, Southern Democrats ruled during the 1960s. But the South soon changed to the more conservative Republican Party, which has held the area ever since. A conservative party, like the present Republican Party, could not elect Ronald Reagan, let alone Abraham Lincoln, in today's America.

Read The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States, and you'll discover that the Republican Party was anti-slavery. The South was too conservative to change then, and chose to leave the Union after the election of a non-conservative, who was not pro-slavery.

States' Rights were in play. The South believed that each and every new state should be free to choose slavery, and that no limits should be placed on its growth and expansion.

That is the southern cry for States' Rights, their right to slavery, and to spread it throughout America.

Sincerely,

Daniel E. Chase