So I am constantly told by people who attempted to justify all the bloodshed and upheaval for doing what they did.
Works on silly people of mediocre intelligence, but not so much for anyone else.
Again, "Corwin Amendment". Hello? Hello?
You can't very well pass an amendment that guarantees slavery forever, then come along and pretend you needed to fight a war to get rid of slavery.
The one thing you can tell from such history is that the reason for the war was clearly not slavery, because that was attempted to be handed out on a silver platter, but was ignored.
And the Southern leaders of the time. Don't forget them.
Works on silly people of mediocre intelligence...
Not from what I can see.
Again, "Corwin Amendment". Hello? Hello?
Hello? Hello? We're talkiing about the Southern motiviation for starting the war, not the Northern motivation for pursing the war that was forced upon them.
You can't very well pass an amendment that guarantees slavery forever, then come along and pretend you needed to fight a war to get rid of slavery.
Again, slavery was the Southern motivation, not the Northern one.