He’s no fool, this is smart strategy on Corey Stewart’s part. I don’t think I’d do a good job of explaining it, plus “loose lips sink ships”. But it’s smart, very smart.
“Democrats call on Republicans to denounce Stewart’s racist comments about the Civil War.”
He’s a moron.
Todd Akin, Roy Moore....
I agree. Such a dumb comment. I will accept the statement that slavery wasn’t the only issue in the civilian war, but his comment can be interpreted as slavery wasn’t an issue at all.
And that’s dumb.
Slavery was a minor part of it as was tariffs.
The main thing to both North and South was whether we would be an all powerful centralized government or one of power being retained by the states as the Constitution clearly states.
The North called themselves “The Union” while the Confederates thought of themselves as fighting for their homes and states.
These threads usually degenerate into nonsense but they do accomplish one thing.
A lot of vermin come out of the wood work. Several have been outed in previous years as Obama supporters etc.
Abraham Lincoln was strongly supported by none other than Karl Marx.
He’s absolutely correct. Whether it’s a good political move to try and educate people in this time of universal deceit is another matter.
This is one argument that will probably go on forever. But for what it’s worth, Confederate general John S. Mosby said it was all about slavery.
“I’ve always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the north about. I’ve never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery.”
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_S._Mosby#Letter_(1894)
Side note: Mosby was probably right, at least for the wealthy Southern political leadership. But for the dirt-poor Reb serving as an infantry private, I don’t think so. He was fighting against the North for the same reason his great-grandfather fought against England.
How is the man a fool? Because he stated the truth? Damn.
“Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery”
Slavery was at the root of the conflict.
And after it was all over, sharecropping actually worked out better for the plantation owners.
Great. Yet another candidate who is too stupid to avoid liberal media pitfalls. Debating whether what he says is true or not completely, totally misses the point. Most voters, guided by the media, simply see another crank who seems way to interested in defending the Confederacy and discuss a long-irrelevant issue. This type of nonsense absolutely kills the GOP. Yet, every election cycle, they find a couple fools who have zero media savvy.
Stewart is right, but people in VA have already made up their minds on this race probably years earlier.
The problem is that he is right just not politically correct.
He’s absolutely correct. It wasn’t about slavery. Anybody who has read Lincoln’s Inaugural Address or who has read about the Corwin Amendment can see for himself that the Lincoln administration and the Northern dominated Congress were prepared to enshrine protections of slavery in the constitution by express constitutional amendment effectively forever.
That’s simply a fact whether anybody likes that or not. The Congress passed with the necessary 2/3rds supermajority and the president signed the Corwin Amendment and Lincoln openly endorsed it. He even got multiple states to ratify it. The Southern states could have signalled their acceptance of this amendment as satisfying their concerns had their real concerns been about slavery. They weren’t. They rejected slavery forever and pursued independence.
The most conservative men I know from the World War II generation have almost to a man told me that they believe the Civil War had little to do with slavery and everything to do with Abraham Lincoln being a lousy federalist totalitarian.
This subject has been thoroughly and academically discussed with 753 replies. Before everyone gets all knotted up, check it out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3644092/posts
That’s gonna trigger a lot of people.
If the CW was merely about slavery then why didn’t the Border States succeed?
I said when he won the primary, he’d lose. Setting out to do so early. What a friggin idiot.