He’s right. It was about the states’ rights to make laws allowing slavery.
I’ve heard a number of people in Tennessee say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
I really suggest Stewart read up on a subject before commenting.
There were a lot of people in the South vehemently opposed to slavery, believe it or not.
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?
-PJ
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
If you’re in doubt, read the various declarations of secession from the various Southern states. The issue was slavery and its perpetuation.
He’s right. Historically accurate.
Ack. If ignorance were a virtue this guy would be a saint. Fools like this play right into the hands of the other side.
“In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.”
Inscription over the Lincoln Memorial.
Not a word about slavery.
You need to do your homework before you go calling Stewart a fool. He is exactly right on this and on his opposition to illegal immigration which never Trumpers like you kept quiet on for all these years.
Maybe you should stop watching MSNBC, CNN, and RIOOs like Ryanair McConnell.
It is not like the the “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union” mentions the right to own slaves a dozen times.
it only declares their right to own slaves 6 times.
Lincoln actually came out in support the original proposal of a 13th Amendment. The South rejected it, because to them, because it didn’t address the issue of taxation, tariffs on imports and exports.
Here is the text of the proposed amendment that Lincoln supported:
No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/proposed-thirteenth-amendment-prevent-secession-1861
I see we have another thread where the CW will be re-re-re-re-re-re fought.
You heard it here first.
I’ve heard a number of people in Tennessee say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
Corey would be a great senator, and he’s right. It wasn’t all about slavery.