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GOP candidate: Civil war wasn’t about slavery
The Hill ^ | June 25th, 2018 | Lisa Hagen

Posted on 06/25/2018 3:28:41 PM PDT by Mariner

Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart said that he doesn’t believe that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery, arguing that it was mostly about states’ rights.

In a Monday interview with Hill.TV’s “Rising,” Stewart, who recently won the GOP nomination in the Virginia Senate race, said that not all parts of Virginia’s history are “pretty.”

But he said he doesn’t associate slavery with the war.

“I don’t at all. If you look at the history, that’s not what it meant at all, and I don’t believe that the Civil War was ultimately fought over the issue of slavery,” Stewart said.

When “Rising” co-host Krystal Ball pressed him again if the Civil War was “significantly” fought over slavery, Stewart said some of them talked about slavery, but added that most soldiers never owned slaves and “they didn’t fight to preserve the institution of slavery.”

“We have to put ourselves in the shoes of the people who were fighting at that time and from their perspective, they saw it as a federal intrusion of the state,” he said.

Stewart also said he doesn’t support a Richmond elementary school named after a Confederate general deciding to rename it after former President Obama.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; coreystewart; dixie; va2018; virginia
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I'm sure he's a good man, but where do we find such fools as these?
1 posted on 06/25/2018 3:28:41 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

He’s right. It was about the states’ rights to make laws allowing slavery.


2 posted on 06/25/2018 3:29:53 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on

exactly...


3 posted on 06/25/2018 3:30:16 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Mariner

I’ve heard a number of people in Tennessee say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.


4 posted on 06/25/2018 3:31:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Mariner
Whooo boy. Batten down the hatches, the battle is about to begin.

I really suggest Stewart read up on a subject before commenting.

5 posted on 06/25/2018 3:31:41 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Mariner

There were a lot of people in the South vehemently opposed to slavery, believe it or not.


6 posted on 06/25/2018 3:32:55 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: babble-on

No first States’ Rights was the cover the Slavers used. But the only “right” in question was a right which does not exist. Slaves were slaves not because the state said they were, they were slaves because of tyranny and injustice.

There has never been a Natural Right to enslave another man.


7 posted on 06/25/2018 3:33:16 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Mariner

Another idiot candidate. It doesn’t even matter whether he’s right (he’s not), he will be pummeled on this right up until the election. Why give your opponents such ammunition?


8 posted on 06/25/2018 3:33:23 PM PDT by Timmy
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Why can't our candidates stop falling for these entrapment questions? Why can't one of them have the common sense to just say that the civil war was in the 19th century and I'm focused on the 21st century. Next question?

-PJ

9 posted on 06/25/2018 3:33:51 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Mariner

He’s right Einstein....The civil war was about states rights and the power of the states in most cases guaranteed by the Constitution being usurped by an overzealous Federal govt.

Slavery entered the discussion because it was expedient for Lincoln to make it so but it was nothing ever other than a secondary issue.


10 posted on 06/25/2018 3:34:06 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Which “state’s right” in particular?


11 posted on 06/25/2018 3:35:58 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: WashingtonSource
There were a lot of people in the South vehemently opposed to slavery, believe it or not.

A lot more who really liked it.

12 posted on 06/25/2018 3:36:04 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: traderrob6
The civil war was about states rights and the power of the states in most cases guaranteed by the Constitution being usurped by an overzealous Federal govt.

What powers were being usurped by the overzealous Federal govt.?

13 posted on 06/25/2018 3:37:05 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DannyTN

They are wrong. It is also true that Eastern Tennessee never supported secession or slavery. Its citizens as loyal Unionists sent over a 100,000 soldiers into the Union army.

By the end of the war the Confederacy was drafting the reluctant to fight the rich man’s war and desertion was a major problem for the Southern armies. It instituted a draft before Lincoln did.


14 posted on 06/25/2018 3:37:55 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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This argument probably started in Bleeding Kansas.

He's right, of course. Unfortunately, there was only one States' right that engendered the passion to cost 650,000 lives. What was that in those days...3% of the population?

15 posted on 06/25/2018 3:39:55 PM PDT by stevem
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To: traderrob6

Why don’t you tell us of another “right” that was in danger, that should be fun. Remember or look it up the federal government was TINY in 1860 and we barely had an army.


16 posted on 06/25/2018 3:40:22 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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I'm sure he's a good man, but where do we find such fools as these?

Exactly. Shut up and get elected. Even if he was 100% correct ( and he isn't) Just shut up. Don't give the leftard media a hammer.

17 posted on 06/25/2018 3:41:15 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Mariner

This could be his mcacaca moment!

Why does anyone in a public forum running for office allow themselves to get trapped into these “no win” comment situations. If someone asks me question about the civil war, my answer is “I am running for office in 2018 not in 1860s! “ Then change the subject and refuse to be baited into such a discussion.

Even on FR Civil War discussions degenerate into “How many Billy Yanks & Johnny Rebs can dance on the head of a pin?”

Just not worth the bandwidth!


18 posted on 06/25/2018 3:41:29 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Mariner

OMG, politicians need to stop talking about the Civil War. The idea of These United States ended and the name of our country became a meaningless phrase. It was about slavery. The South owned theirs and the North rented theirs as they came off the boats from Ireland and Eastern Europe. The former is morally indefensible, but the latter can be defended with an Economics textbook. Renting slaves and working them to death in your factories and mines is every market fundamentalist’s dream.


19 posted on 06/25/2018 3:42:40 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Mariner

If you’re in doubt, read the various declarations of secession from the various Southern states. The issue was slavery and its perpetuation.


20 posted on 06/25/2018 3:42:41 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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