re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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And think before you say 'slavery' because 1) that wasn't the focus of the war when it started

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Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the confederacy before, during, and after the civil war, said slavery was the main and direct cause

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"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."

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this was about a month before the confederacy started the war by opening fire on Ft Sumpter.

oh, but let me guess...

"he didnt really think that."

"he didnt really mean that."

"he was only trying to make a point."

the same 5 or 6 people will say the same bullshite they always say whenever they get called out on their horrific beliefs.