We are all Americans here. We may not agree with each other, but we should at least try to be civil with people who are earnest in their disagreements. I used to be on that side myself.
I regard the Civil War as a terrible tragedy, and I have learned to see it as the main factor by which the Deep State crony influence cartel that runs things now came to power.
So much of our current dysfunction emanates from this period of history, but it hurts no one to remain civil in discussing it.
“Mr. Mallory went on to say on the general subject:
Jeff Davis & Co. have willfully involve themselves in war; they have deliberately brought on the war; they have no right or reason to expect that Kentucky will fight their battles. She will do nothing to avert their merited retribution. There was no adequate, just or reasonable excuse for the secession, rebellion or revolution of a single southern state. The pretext for secession were all silly, flimsy, groundless and absurd.”
Chicago Tribune June 1, 1861
“What is Coming to Already
(from the New York Times, 30th alt)
If slavery remains undisturbed, we must not forget that this is the sole cause of the rebellion, and that it may be further disturbance. Men brought up on under its influence different radically from those nurtured in freedom.”
Daily Ohio Statesman
(Columbus, Ohio)
June 5, 1861
“The Queen’s Proclamation.
(From the New York World
The men who have undertaken, by the vilest treachery that history records, to break up the most beneficial government ever forged, and who have done this for the sole avowed purpose of propagating Slavery, and who maintain their ascendancy undisputed in their own states only by fear and the violent suppression of truth, are placed upon exactly the same footing as a member of that Government under which this country has in three-quarters of a century raised to the first rank among the nations.”
(Written in opposition to a statement from the Queen of England.)
Delaware Gazette
(Delaware, Ohio)
June 7, 1861
“We take it for granted that is war, wage in behalf of slavery, will be its death-blow; and happy it will be for the south for general stampede of slave she’ll be the worst thing that she’ll be for them; but there is yet fearful danger of bloody and fearful insurrections.
From all appearances it is evident that the present or, which is commenced for the purpose as its originators intended, to sustain slavery, will be the death of it.”
The Zanesville Daily Courier
(Zanesville, Ohio)
June 4. 1861
Again I ask, what kind of cherries do you prefer, maraschino or bing?
To recap:
The reason for secession was the South’s desire to preserve slavery.
The trigger for secession was the election of Abraham Lincoln, which fed fear of the abolitionist foundation of the Republican Party.
The American Civil War began when units of the South Carolina Militia fired upon a Union fort in Charleston harbor.