I posted a link to the Declaration of Causes for Secession (that is like the Declaration of Independence for Confederacy), in which South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas stated quite expliciting they were leaving the Union in order to keep the institution of slavery.
Obviously you didn't bother to even read it. You keep repeating the same junk.
Look, the entire issue was about tariffs and the 3/5ths clause that allowed the south to have representation in Congress weighted on slave ownership. I know you're think that the North was run by some human rights abolitionists who wanted to free the slaves out of pure humanity, but that's simply not the case. The South has sway in Congress because of the 3/5ths clause of the Constitution which counted the slave population in terms of voting.
The Republicans wanted to destroy this Congressional voting power by repealing slavery in order to weight Congress in the North's favor and pursue its industrialization by fleecing the south (and Europe) with wickedly high tariffs.
And Lincoln was their man. Folks, just follow the money, ok? I mean, we had New Yorkers burning down black orphanages in protest of the war. Editors of every major newspaper were either locked up or suppressed for speaking out against it.
This was a power grab at the federal level by the Republicans, nothing else. It had nothing to do with abolitionists.
had the private citizens that wrote those papers chosen instead to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb", the two works would have been exactly as important as the other to an understanding of the causes of the WBTS.
i personally know of NO scholar, other than the most extreme radical fringe of the REVISIONIST School, that would SERIOUSLY take the position that those "declarations" are EVEN important, much less proof of anything.
the ONLY main causes of the war were:
a. for the Union: PRESERVING the union &
b. for the Southerners: FREEDOM for dixie.
in 1860, i seriously doubt that 25,ooo people in ALL of the USA cared about "slavery" or the "plight of the slaves" except those FEW percent of persons who actually OWNED slaves. AFTER the war, the unionists SAID that the war was a "cruisade aginst slavery". that's called SELF-righteousness & SELF-serving BILGE!
free dixie,sw
had the private citizens that wrote those papers chosen instead to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb", the two works would have been exactly as important as the other to an understanding of the causes of the WBTS.
i personally know of NO scholar, other than the most extreme radical fringe of the REVISIONIST School, that would SERIOUSLY take the position that those "declarations" are EVEN important, much less proof of anything.
the ONLY main causes of the war were:
a. for the Union: PRESERVING the union &
b. for the Southerners: FREEDOM for dixie.
in 1860, i seriously doubt that 25,ooo people in ALL of the USA cared about "slavery" or the "plight of the slaves" except those FEW percent of persons who actually OWNED slaves. AFTER the war, the unionists SAID that the war was a "crusade against slavery". that's called SELF-righteousness & SELF-serving BILGE!
free dixie,sw