“Confederate soldiers “bristled with the rhetoric of liberty and self government,” writes McPherson, and spoke of a fear of being “subjugated” and “enslaved” by a tyrannical federal government. Sound familiar?”
Yeah, from revisionists like you. The idea that the South was “subjugated” is nonsense. Posters like BroJoeK, x, rockrr, and myself have demonstrated beyond any objective standard that the usual excuses don’t wash.
The South was NOT politically subjugated.
The South was NOT economically subjugated.
The federal government was not tyrannical.
Tariffs were NOT high in 1860.
The South was NOT overly taxed or tariffed.
Federal expenditures did NOT favor the North.
The main difference between regions of the country was slavery.
Slavery had been accommodated from the founding to the Corwin Amendment.
Southern Democrats were so obsessed the the Republican Party that they refused to work with it (sound familiar?). They were ready to walk out in 1856 if they didn’t get their way (sound familiar?).
The vast majority of Southern secession rhetoric in 1860/1861 listed the preservation of slavery as the main motivation for disunion.
You have no legs to stand on.
Yeah, from revisionists like you. The idea that the South was “subjugated” is nonsense. Posters like BroJoeK, x, rockrr, and myself have demonstrated beyond any objective standard that the usual excuses don’t wash.
The South was NOT politically subjugated.
The South was NOT economically subjugated.
The federal government was not tyrannical.
Tariffs were NOT high in 1860.
The South was NOT overly taxed or tariffed.
Federal expenditures did NOT favor the North.
The main difference between regions of the country was slavery.
Slavery had been accommodated from the founding to the Corwin Amendment.
Southern Democrats were so obsessed the the Republican Party that they refused to work with it (sound familiar?). They were ready to walk out in 1856 if they didn’t get their way (sound familiar?).
The vast majority of Southern secession rhetoric in 1860/1861 listed the preservation of slavery as the main motivation for disunion.
You have no legs to stand on.
You haven’t demonstrated anything.
The Southern states WERE being economically exploited.
The South DID NOT have enough votes in Congress to stop it.
It WAS going to get worse.
Lincoln WAS a tyrant.
The Morrill Tariff DID jack rates up to crushingly high levels and leave them there for 50 years.
The South DID pay the majority of the tariffs.
Federal expenditures DID favor the North.
The regions were totally different economically with the Southern economy being geared for export.
Slavery was NOT threatened within the US.
The North DID offer slavery forever via express constitutional amendment.
The Original 7 seceding states DID reject that.
You have no leg to stand on.