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re: American Civil War Animated Maps
Posted on 9/22/15 at 3:45 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 9/22/15 at 3:45 pm to Ace Midnight
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the actual cause of the war was a disagreement between the federal government and the confederate states on whether or not individual states (or groups of states) had the right under the constitution to secede, period.
Yes like I stated initially, the cause of the war was succession, the cause of succession was slavery.
Hell read Mississippi's first full paragraph on their declaration of causes
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Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove.
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But slavery CANNOT be supported as the causus belli of the war itself, simply because Maryland stands in sharp rebuttal to that
This does not disprove a thing
This post was edited on 9/22/15 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 9/22/15 at 4:03 pm to NYCAuburn
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This does not disprove a thing
It disproves the causus belli was was slavery. Otherwise, the first thing done in Maryland would have been emancipation. In fact, slaves in Maryland were some of the last to be legally freed, when Maryland's constitution was amended in 1864.
There would not have been a significant movement to offer emancipation in exchange for military service to slaves by the Confederacy (although a plan was never enacted in any significant way, the fact that such discussions were underway betrays the complexity of that peculiar institution).
And, as I mentioned before, there would not have been a significant risk of mutiny of Northern regiments upon issuance of the EP, if the war was all about slavery.
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