I believe that it had something to do with people taking things that didn’t belong to them.
Like Richmond?
I assume that we all agree that, so long as our cause is just, we have a natural, God-given right and responsibility to resist tyranny. Defending slavery is not a just cause. But defending one’s home is.
Both sides were stubborn, in my humble opinion, and more should have been done to avoid armed conflict.
Slavery was wrong, and the yankee treatment of Southerners was also wrong.
Firing on Fort Sumter was wrong, and chasing the yankees back to Gettysburg was a tactical mistake.
The yankees never should have invaded a sovereign nation, even if they thought the nation illegitimate.
Both Northern Democratic and Republican Parties favored allowing the South to secede in peace. Just about every major Northern newspaper editorialized in favor of the South’s right to secede. New York Tribune (Feb. 5, 1860): “If tyranny and despotism justified the Revolution of 1776, then we do not see why it would not justify the secession of Five Millions of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861.” Detroit Free Press (Feb. 19, 1861): “An attempt to subjugate the seceded states, even if successful, could produce nothing but evil — evil unmitigated in character and appalling in content.” The New York Times (March 21, 1861): “There is growing sentiment throughout the North in favor of letting the Gulf States go.” -Walter E. Williams
H.L. Mencken: “It [Gettysburg Address] is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense.” Lincoln said the soldiers sacrificed their lives “to the cause of self-determination — that government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth.” Mencken says: “It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of people to govern themselves.”
I believe that it had something to do with people taking things that didn’t belong to them.
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Funny how we have to keep repeating the facts.