“You do realize that is the same argument used by southern states to declare slavery was a state issue and not federal?”
You do realize that the U.S. Constitution did not prohibit slavery, until AFTER the civil war, and that it was NOT on the issue of slavery that Lincoln went to war, it was seccession.
“You do realize that the U.S. Constitution did not prohibit slavery,..”
Oh, please! In 1859 it didn’t prohibit a lot of things, like monopolies and polygamy, but that doesn’t mean the nation embraced or approved those practices.
What an excuse! It isn’t expressly forbid so it is OK? You really want to stand with that statement? Because it sure reads like a typical apology for barbarism against another race.
As the young Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal,..” So for you these words must be empty and are without meaning.
Slave owners justified their economic reliance upon slavery based on African blacks NOT being human. Since blacks weren’t human they could be treated like property; bought, sold, traded and bred like any other farm animal. President Thomas Jefferson discovered late in life that slavery on his plantation was quite profitable, and withdrew from his youthful idealism.
As for Lincoln, the Republican Party platform was mainly built around Abolition of Slavery (based on moral Christian values) even though for Old Abe keeping the Union together was more important. He knew that international financiers, mainly the Bank of England, sought the breakup of the U.S. and the reacquisition of its colonies in North America.