The newly formed government was clearly not dedicated to this principle.
The Declaration of Independence stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”
Now it took a while to teach certain sections of the country that all men were indeed equal and put into place laws to gve effect to that self-evident truth.
Did you go to college? Do you know what is a thesis statement?
Is "All Men are created equal" the thesis of the document called "Declaration of Independence"?
If not, what *IS* the thesis of the Declaration of Independence? For what purpose was it written? What was it intended to accomplish?
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Now it took a while to teach certain sections of the country that all men were indeed equal and put into place laws to gve effect to that self-evident truth.
That was not at all the lesson that was intending to be taught when Lincoln launched that war against the South. You can't go from offering the South perpetual protection for slavery in the form of the "Corwin Amendment" to claiming you started that war because slavery was bad.
The lesson being taught to the South was "Don't you dare threaten the economic interest of the powerful Washington DC/ New York influence cartel, or we will destroy you!"
You see, they were going to protect slavery with the Lincoln backed Corwin Amendment, but they were *NOT* going to ever allow the South to trade directly with Europe without funneling all the money through New York and Washington DC.
So get it right. Washington DC was not trying to teach the lesson that "all men are created equal." They were teaching the lesson that "We are your masters, and you will pay us, or we will destroy you!"