Own another human being. Thanks Southern Democrats. Thanks a whole bunch. Thanks for the worst war in American history.
Revised figures have put the number of dead as a result of “Jeff Davis's Excellent Secession'' at 700,000 thousand Americans.
700,000 Americans dead in four years, 60,000 of them civilians.
Those are some numbers.
States right to determine their own laws.
Not a ‘right to do’ something. The right NOT TO BE told what they can or cannot do, outside of the enumerated powers listed in the Constitution.
Plus there was more to the war than “we hate slavery so we are going to war with you”. You see that don’t you?
The South was going to withdraw because the North was telling them what they had to do (yes, regarding slavery).
Preventing the South from withdrawing was the goal, in all actuality, because the North would have been bankrupted (longer story there)
Slavery was going away slowly anyway. General Lee (OF THE SOUTH) even taught his slaves to read and write, even though it was actually against the law.
Remember- the USA did not INVENT slavery. It existed for thousands of years. And still exists in some countries.
“States rights to do what? Own another human being.”
I believe both the United States Constitution and the Confederate States Constitution included slavery.
And Presidents of both countries took oaths to defend and protect their pro-slavery constitutions.
If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
If people get to object to other people exercising a right, it isn't a right.
Is there some particular right that they had to which you object?
700,000 Americans dead in four years, 60,000 of them civilians.
It's 750,000 people as a direct result of the war, but to the wealthy power brokers of New York who owned the government, it was well worth it to protect their money.
These people are evil, and they don't care about lives. This is why the North *PASSED* the permanent slavery amendment.