BS! Texas didn’t even secede until after the Kansas massacre by the fomenting abolitionists. That’s why they put slavery in their document. In fact, Texans were already pissed that they’d been sending taxes to Washington DC and were receiving no help (sound familiar?) whatsoever against the border raids across the Rio Grande! The feds put one puny unit at Fort Davis! Texas seceded legally because they had no use whatsoever for Washington DC!
In fact, Lincoln in his arrogance and greed didn’t care what anyone else thought...he didn’t care that 3.5% of the population would be killed off in his Civil War...not to mention that Lincoln was a total racist who touted that slaves should be free, but should never consider themselves equal to whites,should not intermarry, NOR SHOULD THEY EVER BE ABLE TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE! His big idea was to round the Africans up and put them on ships outta here!
Lincoln was a predator, and he wanted the wealth of the tariffs from south because his industrial north could not compete with a wealthy south whose coastal border was vast and who had the corner on world trade shipping!
Not to mention that states in the NORTH were still holding freaking slaves!!!! Just like the typical hypocrite!
Wuh?
..not to mention that Lincoln was a total racist...
Well hell, then Lee and Davis and Jackson and every other Southern leader you would care to name was a total racist, too. None of them thought blacks should be anything but slaves, much less intermarry or enjoy any rights at all. Shouldn't we disparage them as well?