Ole Abe was smoking the revenue pipe. What else is new? He was no different than any other politician.
If the South successfully seceded they would then start to export their cotton on ships from southern ports directly to Europe instead of having to ship the cotton up North and pay fees for it to be shipped out of Northern ports on Ameican owned ships. At the time cotton was not allowed to be shipped out of the couotry on any ship not American owned. All the shipbuilding industry was up in New England and that’s where the ships were. Very little was exported out of Savannah or Charleston because it would have had to go on foreign ships.
So bottom line it was all about the money as usual and slavery made a nice fall guy.
I guess I’m a little shell shocked by never hearing about CA until now.
After reading the deal offered by the gov., Corwin Amendment, I just can’t for reasons yet understood ever again think the war was ever about slavery.
This should put an end to that slavery issue just on the face value of the Corwin Amendment.
Yet here we have the United States of America offering the South slaves forever, and.....we will fix it so it will last forever...for y’all.
The reason I get all up about this is my family could still be in bondage if it had passed. We made it up to sharecroppers, then freemen, O, and I’m white.
And my GGGF and 4 of his brothers fought in the war together.
3 were shot up, 1 killed, 1 sent home to take care of their momma who was left alone on the farm when the war started.
I know exactly why they fought, we were invaded., and we still tell the stories.
It wasn’t about slavery to them at all.
Now I’m starting to get a little p o’d over this whole issue.