Captain Jim's Green Flash Sightings

Captain Jim's note: This very interesting and  powerfully argued statement was issued as a justification for the actions of the CSA in declaring themselves in revolt, a revolution for independence, with careful credit given to the Constitution providing the means and right to their actions. Toward the end, he makes the assertion that salvery in their right and that the negro race is so inferior that it is their natural state to be slaves. Economically, the value of slaves as free labor, and skillful craftsmen, field hands, cooks and household staff, is the cornerstone of the slaveholding owners' wealth and used as collateral to obtain funds to support their lifestyle. The leadership of the CSA planned to include Caribbean slave islands, Mexico, and other slave owning countries in the hemisphere, in a natural expansion of their belief system. Savannah, Georgia, March 21, 1861 By Alexander H. Stephens In his March 21, 1861, Cornerstone Speech, Confe...

Lessons Learned from the Civil War      When drafting the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers left a major issue unresolved: Slavery. Buying and selling slaves, owning slaves, and having complete control over their lives was not consistent with the ideals of individual freedom and liberty that were the founding principles of the United States. Over the decades that followed the founding of our nation, the political leaders argued and disagreed about the institution of slavery and were able to compromise over the expansion of slavery into new states as they entered the Union. Some see the Civil War as an inevitable clash over irreconcilable issues that were created by the issue of slavery. The southern states, in particular, had developed their economy on the use of slave labor on large plantations and farms, and this way of life provided wealth and prosperity for the entire region, even though the majority of people living in the South did not own slaves. By the...