Would think that the perpetual enslavement of 3.5 million people as one of your Constitutional requirements would be considered evil by some.
>>Bull Snipe wrote: “Would think that the perpetual enslavement of 3.5 million people as one of your Constitutional requirements would be considered evil by some.”
It didn’t matter to your hero, Abraham Lincoln; why should it matter to you? You do know that in Lincoln’s so-called “Emancipation Proclamation” he made it crystal clear that it was okay for you to own slaves, as long as you were loyal to the Union. He even promoted a Constitutional Amendment to make slavery permanent in the existing slave states, just so he could “save the Union” and continue the flow of crony-capitalist revenue from protective tariffs (the Confederate Constitution’s free-trade articles would have diverted much of the New England shipping to the Southern ports.)
How do you feel about the New England states, for over a century, getting rich on the slave trade? How do you feel about many of the Northern slave-masters selling their slaves to Southern plantations, rather than emancipating them? How do you feel about New England self-proclaimed abolitionists getting rich selling pianos that contained imported piano-key ivory from brutal slave plantations in Africa? (. . . sorta reminds me of the wealthy Leftists of today getting rich on the backs of cheap foreign laborers working in slave-like conditions . . . )
How do you feel about many Northern abolitionists not wanting free blacks to migrate to their respective states, preferring they settle somewhere else? How do you feel about the Black Codes in the Northern states, some of which banned the migration of free blacks into their states by legislation, including Lincoln’s home-state, Illinois?
Talk about hypocrites! Sanctimonious anti-Southerners are all a bunch of hypocrites.
Mr. Kalamata
If it's evil, then the Union is evil in exactly the same way. It's constitution required perpetual enslavement of even more slaves than just the seceded states, and Lincoln was trying to amend it to make slavery even more secure constitutionally!
So claiming the Confederate constitution protected slavery more than the Union Constitution is just false. The CSA constitution was simply more explicit. Both constitutions protected slavery to the degree sufficient to keep it.