re: Why are tariffs and illegal acts overlooked as a cause of the civil war?

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You simply cannot imply that Lincoln caused the Confederacy, which came into existence BEFORE he became President. 

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Who said he did?

Was SC asked to cede Ft. Sumter, like they had been with the other forts??

The US and Cuba have had an agreement of sorts since the early 1900s concerning Guantanamo - Castro never cashed the rent checks from the US ... and he never tried to get rid of the US presence either.

The governor of SC repeatedly asked Pres. Buchanan to give up Ft. Sumter. There was no such agreement.

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So, as you've stated, the CSA seceded, organized an army, and started a war "predominantly" over slavery despite the fact that no one had came for their slaves yet and the incoming president had made it very clear that he wouldn't get involved in Southern slavery?

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“One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.” Lincoln, March 4, 1861

Give up on the confederacy and pull for America

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GreenRockTiger
Was SC asked to cede Ft. Sumter, like they had been with the other forts??

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Early in the nineteenth century, South Carolina had owned multiple forts, namely Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, and Fort Johnson, but ceded them, along with sites for the future erection of forts, to the United States in 1805.[7] The forts were of questionable military value and costly to maintain, so when asked to cede them, the state complied.[8] This was not the last time that South Carolina would cede forts to the United States; on December 17, 1836, South Carolina officially ceded all "right, title and, claim" to the site of Fort Sumter to the United States.[9]

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They ceded the forts so the American people would pay for their upkeep and construction which we did

SJW? Lmfao yea you’re as ignorant as it gets. Only a fool or a child would believe that slave owners went to war with other slave owners over the moral issues of slavery..... Moron

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The msm/blm retards are screaming about Dixie and the Confederate Monuments because "the White Man" and "Racist Republicans" but the truth is, its their fricking legacy, make them own it

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Slavery wasn't technically a racist institution which is a better argument than muh Democrats were the party of slavery.

-I didn’t say that you just can’t read.

-if you don’t care wtf are you doing arguing about it?

-Muh Democrats neither refutes anything said here or has anything to do with the discussion. Everyone knows what they are. Lincoln was the first republican President so the slavery issue predates the modern parties.


-Yes I agree “frick Democrats”, next time know wtf you’re talking about before you start attacking someone.

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Slavery wasn't technically a racist institution

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Lol

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In what later became known as the Cornerstone Speech, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens declared that the "cornerstone" of the new government "rest[ed] upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery – subordination to the superior race – is his natural and normal condition.

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cornerstone" of the new government "rest[ed] upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man

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Are we still pretending that many of those against slavery didnt share this exact view?

And also that there weren't Southern black slave owners?

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next time know wtf you’re talking about before you start attacking someone.

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Wow, you're ignorant

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Is like where Lincoln started the civil war?

Tf?