Comme on peut le voir par ailleurs et fort \u00e0 propos, dans notre F&C<\/em> de ce m\u00eame 13 avril 2010<\/a>, la \u00ab\u00a0deuxi\u00e8me guerre de s\u00e9cession\u00a0\u00bb, se frayant son passage dans les voies du syst\u00e8me de communication, est en plein d\u00e9veloppement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nous donnons ici trois extraits concernant la pol\u00e9mique sur les causes de la Guerre de S\u00e9cession, – Civil War<\/em>, selon le choix qu’on en fait. Deux extraits actuels, un plus ancien, tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant \u00e0 cause de l’auteur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n • Un extrait d’un texte de Patrick J. Buchanan, de The American Conservative<\/em> le 8 avril 2010<\/a>, aussi bien sur les causes de la guerre que sur les \u00ab\u00a0terroristes\u00a0\u00bb, – de quel c\u00f4t\u00e9 se trouvaient-ils, en v\u00e9rit\u00e9? De toutes les fa\u00e7ons, qu’importe, Buchanan est class\u00e9 sous le label \u00ab\u00a0raciste\u00a0\u00bb et tout ce qu’il \u00e9crira n’y changera rien. Raison de plus pour le lire, sans s’int\u00e9resser \u00e0 leurs empaquetages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n «In his first inaugural, Lincoln sought to appease the states that had seceded by endorsing a constitutional amendment to make slavery permanent in the 15 states where it then existed. He even offered to help the Southern states run down fugitive slaves.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »In 1862, Lincoln wrote Horace Greeley that if he could restore the Union without freeing one slave he would do it. The Emancipation Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863, freed only those slaves Lincoln had no power to free — those still under Confederate rule. As for slaves in the Union states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, they remained the property of their owners.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »As for \u00ab\u00a0terrorists,\u00a0\u00bb no army fought more honorably than Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Few deny that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »The great terrorist in that war was William Tecumseh Sherman, who violated all the known rules of war by looting, burning and pillaging on his infamous March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah. Sherman would later be given command of the war against the Plains Indians and advocate extermination of the Sioux.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »\u00ab\u00a0The only good Indian is a dead Indian\u00a0\u00bb is attributed both to Sherman and Gen. Phil Sheridan, who burned the Shenandoah and carried out Sherman’s ruthless policy against the Indians. Both have statues and circles named for them in Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »If Martin thinks Sherman a hero, he might study what happened to the slave women of Columbia, S.C., when \u00ab\u00a0Uncle Billy’s\u00a0\u00bb boys in blue arrived to burn the city…<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n