quote:
If equality and an end to slavery and humanitarian justice for all was the true reason for the war do you think the north would've allowed everything that happened between 1865 and 1965? They couldn't give two shits. Look at the actual history of what happened in the south following the war and what the north did about it.

I don't disagree with any of this. I've never insinuated that the Civil War was fought because the North was some altruistic power that wanted to free slaves and equality for all. My point has always been that slavery was the root cause of the South wanting to bail, and everything basically fell in line after that. They thought the Union was coming for their slaves and their way of life, and they weren't going to sit around and wait for it to happen.

We can discuss states' rights and nationalism and all kinds of other subplots, but they all revolve around the South's inability to let slavery go.

When I say the Civil War was about slavery, I don't mean that it was the pro-slavery side against the anti-slavery side, at least not to start as you pointed out. However, the South was always pro-slavery and every reason they had for secession revolved around slavery.

1 ...

Report Post

Posted by Breesus

House of the Rising Sun

Member since Jan 2010

67023 posts

Posted on 5/20/16 at 1:16 am to slackster

quote:
However, the South was always pro-slavery

As was the north, it's leaders, and the president. They didn't even end slavery when the war ended. They just ended slavery in the states which rebelled as a punishment for rebelling, a show of power, and bullshite pandering technique.

quote:
My point has always been that slavery was the root cause of the South wanting to bail

A bunch of liberal frick northern dipshits asserting their beliefs and thoughts over people and places they don't understand without thinking about the consequences in the form of gross Federal government overreach into the powers of the states is the reason the South wanted to leave.

It's a problem that persists into today.

Good talk, bub.