Posted on 05/04/2018 6:42:25 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Leading elements of Union Major General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac cross the Rapidan River. With a few hours they would clash with General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of the Wilderness. Lieutenant General Grant's Overland Campaign had begun.
Next best thing to a cartoon I guess, so it fits your MO.
So, in what way, shape or form would confiscating property constitute freeing of slaves?
If that is true, then we can forever dismiss the notion that the North fought for some high moral cause like “freeing the slaves.”
But fight they did and for something they considered more important - their own best self-interest.
You have hit the nail with your head: slavery was foremost an economic model of production. It was used in both the North and South initially.
When the North determined it was not a good model for their best self-interest, they ended it there. The South would have ended it too if and when they determined it wasn't in their economic best self-interest.
The North, Great Britain, and other major manufacturing countries could have expedited the end of slavery in the South without war by refusing to buy slave-produced cotton. With no customers, the South would have stopped growing cotton they could not sell.
However, buying only cotton produced by free labor might have cost northern customers another two cents per garment - too high a cost.
Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. The freeing of slaves in the South helped the U.S. Governments cause and impeded the Confederate cause.
“The freeing of slaves in the South helped the U.S. Governments cause and impeded the Confederate cause.”
No one has ever said it better than the London Spectator and this, contemporaneously: “The Government liberates the enemy’s slaves as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken them in the coming conflict . . . the principle asserted is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.”
“These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code. This code was simple. Reverence for the Confederacy, honor to the veterans, loyalty to old forms, pride in poverty, open hands to friends and undying hatred to Yankees.”
Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
One of the most well known slave owners in SC history was William Elison. An ex slave who bought his freedom. There were many black men in the South who owned slaves. When the war broke out he sided with the CSA and his sons fought for the Confederacy.
https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/6699
I say sir do you not refer to “The War Of Southern Independence’?(sar.)
How do General! Were you been keepin’ yourself?
Where exactly was slavery written into The Constitution?
Ah, didn’t Missouri field an army that fought Union forces?
What a swell country this would be if the South had won,eh? (sarcasm)
Something Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah might dispute.
Missed that whole 13th Amendment thing in 1864-65 did you?
And who better to go to for an understanding of the Constitution than a British newspaper editorial?
I know you’ve been told this before on other threads, but I’ll try again.
The United States went to war because they were attacked at Fort Sumter by rebel forces who were seizing government property and attempting to create a new country to protect slavery.
During the United States efforts to suppress this rebellion the US government issued the emancipation proclamation. Within a year of passing of the emancipation proclamation republicans in congress also began working on an amendment to the constitution to abolish slavery in the US.
This then added to the US cause the ending of slavery in the US. Giving the US the moral high ground in the war.
Yeah, he also missed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862....but blunders like that are common for him, being such a cartoonish character.
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