re: Civil War... States Rights or Slavery

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The question really is should a sovereign state that voluntarily joined a union of such states be allowed to leave said union when it no longer represented its interest .The reasons for the war are really not important, it could have been about anything. That the states were forced back at gunpoint is a travesty and goes against the intent of the very founding of the union.

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The question really is should a sovereign state that voluntarily joined a union of such states be allowed to leave said union when it no longer represented its interest .The reasons for the war are really not important, it could have been about anything. That the states were forced back at gunpoint is a travesty and goes against the intent of the very founding of the union.

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Not only that but if the Union's stance was that the southerners had no right to secede and had to be part of the USA, then they are admitting they murdered American citizens and you wont find anything in the constitution to support those actions on american soil.

Lincoln wanted to send all blacks to Liberia. This is well documented. Lincoln also had this to say in one of his debates with Douglas in 1858: During his famous debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln explained to the crowd: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

Lincoln is not one of my heroes. He was a racist and a tyrant who trampled upon the Constitution with impunity during his term. Historians tend to overlook this aspect of "Honest Abe".

An interesting footnote is that freed slaves created their own nation in Africa, and soon thereafter enslaved the local population. Mmm slavery bad white ppl.

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Bull shite. It was about slavery, and then what could be used to support that.

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You are legit retarded and have a lack of cognitive thinking skills

Wow

Thanks - added to my book list.

States rights to allow slavery.

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The war itself happened due to the disagreement over fort Sumter and whether or not it was “union” or “confederate”.

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If it were not for Sumpter, it would have happened elsewhere. Lincoln just needed a cause to get the North to rally on, because fighting to free slaves was not going to result in many joining the army.

The South wanted to be left alone; however, both the rich (protect land values and livlihood) and poor (avoid more competition for unskilled work, depressing wages more) had economic reasons to protect Slavery as an institution and that along with much better officers led to South dominating at the beginning of the war.

Neither.

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