but the states that didn’t secede could keep their slaves?
the emancipation proclamation only freed the slaves in occupied southern territories, or am i mistaken.
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It was being looked to, to keep the lead balloon that was the Confederacy going.
They might have had an A+ for spirit, but an F- for wisdom. It is one of the great human tragedies of our time and we are still facing the secular aftermath with embarrassment. When black people complain that their race had been done dirty, they’re right. They are less effusive about attempts to set it right with things like affirmative action, but secular efforts can only do so much. What they need is something that cleans up the spiritual dirt, and Christians know it as the blood of Christ.
There is a constructive way forward, but it is under the Spirit of God that it must be thus.
So what? Buying and selling human beings like cattle is evil. Anyone who practices, supports, benefits from, or excuses slavery is evil. The Confederacy was evil because it practiced and profited from slavery.
Anyone who excuses that is scum.
Don’t confuse revisionists with facts. I’m from the south as is my family. But facts are facts. The Vice President of the Confederacy said the civil war was about slavery. Who knows better?-the Vice President of the Confederacy or some people on a blog site 150 years later?
I agree. There was a focus on slavery by the southern states as part of secession. To say otherwise is like reading Durbin’s op-ed in the Washington Compost about why Barr should recuse himself from anything related to Muller’s investigation.
That’s right - we know that it was about slavery because the ones trying to secede TOLD us that it was about slavery.
And why would states deciding they no longer want to be a part of a system rigged against them be a cause for war?
Here's why five southern states said they were seceding.
Don't care. According to the Declaration of Independence, they had a right to independence for any reason they saw fit. They don't have to justify why they wanted to leave. The North has to justify why it needed to kill people to stop them from leaving.
Who are you going to believe? The folks who said why they left the Union, or a historian’s lecture 150+ years later?
Actually, the war was caused by the Occupation of the South Carolina fort in Charleston Harbor. Then, it escalated when Lincoln raised an army to invade the South.
You realize, of course, that stating facts is somewhat dirty pool. We’re supposed to sit at our 100+ year remove and try to ascertain what we think the motives of those people were. Actually reading their words is cheating, somehow.
Indeed so. They all said so.
Here is what the Georgia delegate said to the Virginia secession convention.
The cause of the Civil War between Republicans and Democrats does not get any clearer than this.
and further, to invite Virginia, thorough this Convention, to join Georgie and the other seceded States in the formation of a Southern Confederacy.
This, sir, is the whole extent of my mission….”
Second paragraph:
”What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession?
This reason may be summed up in one single proposition.
It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia,
that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery.
This conviction, sir, was the main cause.
It is true, sir, that the effect of this conviction was strengthened by a further conviction that such a separation would be the best remedy for the fugitive slave evil,
.... {Note: This ‘fugitive slave evil’
.... being the the refusal of some Republicans
.... in Northern States
.... to refuse to return escaped slaves}
and also the best, if not the only remedy, for the territorial evil.
.... {Note: This ‘territorial evil’
.... would be the Missouri compromise
.... from thirty or forty years prior
.... where the territories were declared free
.... and slaves were not allowed.
.... The democrats wished to take their slaves
.... with them.}
But, doubtless, if it had not been for the first conviction this step would never have been taken.
It therefore becomes important to inquire whether this conviction was well founded.”
………..Honorable Henry L. Benning, of Georgia
……………addressing the Virginia State Convention
……………on Monday, February 18, 1861
……………the Fifth day of the Convention
....