No, I have always maintained that the Civil War was not about slavery, but about preserving the Union because the South Seceded because of State’s rights. You need to reread what I wrote and don’t try to put words into my mouth. Lincoln’s stance was clear as he stated it in the letter to the NYT editor.
Madison states that he was careful to not include the word slave and n-gro in the Declaration and Constitution that conflict was inevitable.
Because the institution of slavery was so prevalent leading up to the Civil War, people conflate that institution, economic, with the moral, slavery. However, what people give Lincoln credit for, freeing the slaves, was never his intention, even though he thought the institution to be wrong.
Lincoln has been quoted before writing the emancipation proclamation as saying the spilling of blood to keep the Union intact would be in vain if the slaves were not freed.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a Presidential Proclamation and not a Congressional one. This was only possible through Presidential War Powers and it did not free ALL slaves but only referred to the slaves in the South that were being used to fight the North. And that is the biggest myth about the Emmancipation Proclamation that it freed all slaves when it did not. It only freed those slaves that the South was using against the North. The Emancipation Proclamation was rejected in Delaware. But Lincoln was head strong and used the War Powers to enact it. This occurred in September 1862. The war was goning on for over a year at this point. In the August 1862 letter to the NYT editor, which I referenced, Lincoln was clear that if freeing the slaves was not beneficial to the preservation of the Union he would not do it. The focus was clearly on preserving the Union.
The South seceded from the Union because of laws being enacted that encroached on State’s Rights to make their own judgement on how the state were to conduct business and trade. The Federal Government was encroaching on this . One of the most common fights is the battle between the authority and power of the State versus the Federal Government. You can actually see this fight being played out today with the election laws trying to be passed in Congress and the individual states passing integrity laws. The most famous fight between states and feds in the modern era is the Roe versus Wade fight. There are other example like education etc.
So please before you begin to put words in my mouth again, you need the entire post.
Initially the North fought to preserve the Union. The Confederacy fought to preserve the institution of slavery because they irrationally feared the election of a Republican. Anything else is nonsense.
Why to you look at only one side of the issue? The North fought to preserve the Union, I will agree with that. But the South had their motivations for rebelling too, and that motivation was to protect their institution of slavery. You can call it "state's rights" if you want, but the right they were solely interested in was protecting their slaves.
The South seceded from the Union because of laws being enacted that encroached on State’s Rights to make their own judgement on how the state were to conduct business and trade.
For example?
So please before you begin to put words in my mouth again, you need the entire post.
Like it or not you were quoted accurately.