Your fellow neoconfederates here have spent a good part of a thousand posts telling me it wasn't slaveowners that pushed secession and they weren't self-appointed. ROFL! I think you guys need to huddle and get your story straight.
...rather than of the government of ANY southern state. NOBODY but slaveOWNERS cared a damn about slavery, by 1861.
Slaveowners had the money and power to push secession for slavery. That's what makes that attempted secession such a crime against humanity.
slavery was DYING a un-lamented natural death!
It woul've taken many decades.
TWBTS was about just ONE MAJOR cause(depending on which side you were on): 1.FREEDOM for dixie OR 2.Preservation of the union. at best, chattal slavery was a SIDE ISSUE.
Not according to the south's own words in their Declarations.
do you care that you look like a fool to the KNOWLEDEGEABLE on FR???
free dixie,sw
Which explains why all the big slaveowners voted for John Bell and the Constitutional Union Party in 1860.
But then you knew that, right? You knew about the Southern Unionists and how they carried Texas and Virginia by wide margins, right -- and why? You wouldn't post in ignorance or anything, would you? As in, open mouth, insert foot?
And you sneer at other people.