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 Posted: Thu Apr 16th, 2009 01:04 pm
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Johan Steele
Life NRA,SUVCW # 48,Legion 352


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 "Try and hide it as much as we may, yet the question of negro slavery was the great leading cause of this war, and but for it we would have been recognized long ago by foreign powers, but in that particular the world is against us, and so we will remain until this war shall have placed it upon a basis too firm to be questioned."

(A nonslaveholder in Georgia, writing as "Sydney," Macon Telegraph and Confederate, Nov. 19, 1864.)