Posted on 04/12/2022 2:53:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was in this month, one hundred and fifty-seven years ago, that the Civil War ended. I have seen afficionados of both sides lament what happened, while they might argue over who was right, and what was lost.
I am not an aficionado of the Lost Cause Theory. While some defenders of Dixie claim the issue was states’ rights, the chief underlying cause of the war was slavery. In his "Cornerstone Speech" of March 21, 1861, Confederate VP Alexander H. Stephens' stated bluntly that slavery was the very foundation of Southern society. Four states: Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina, even listed slavery among their reasons for leaving.
Four states went further. Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina all issued additional documents, usually referred to as the “Declarations of Causes"…
Two major themes emerge in these documents: slavery and states' rights. All four states strongly defend slavery while making varying claims related to states' rights. -- Battlefields.org
The usual reply is that the South rejected the proposed Corwin Amendment which would have protected slavery in the south, hence the issue was states’ rights.
The problem with that argument is that the South did not want slavery to be “protected.” Rather, the South wanted slavery to expand to the Pacific. They wanted New Mexico, Arizona, and even Southern California to allow slavery. In their minds, the Corwin Amendment wasn’t enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wow, that’s long, even longer than the article.
You will be welcomed! We worry about the amount of libs that move here for the jobs but we will always welcome conservative refugees.
Roflol. Really?
First, it is the Republicans - NOT the ‘North’ !
Second, they are most certainly ‘threatening slavery’.
or to be more specific,, the Republican Party was formed in 1854 IN DIRECT OPPOSITION to the democrats breaking the Missouri compromise from forty years prior with Douglas (D) Kansas Nebraska act. (To allow the territories to vote to be free or slave - which resulted in a lot of bloody conflicts in the territories as both factions fought for supremacy)
EVERYTHING you are referring to are the Republicans desperate efforts to AVERT A CIVIL WAR by reassuring the toxic, evil, villainous, dastardly fire breathing democrats that they were not in imminent danger of losing their property...
The demented democrats did not care AND INITIATED A CIVIL WAR !
Lord this will bring out the assholes
You’re very welcome. My pleasure!!!
The mountains get in your soul. I have been to the Rockies and while they are bigger and very impressive, there is nothing like the Appalachians and especially the Smokies. I live in the foothills of the Smokies.
I grew up in Pompano Beach FL because of my asthma. We moved there when I was a baby because they didn’t have meds for it in the 50’s like they do now. I loved the ocean but even back then it was a cultural melting pot. We moved back to Tennessee when I started high school. I haven’t been back to FL. I’m not leaving my mountains.
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It sure did. Post # 15 is an example from the largest A-hole of the entire internet!!!
Still waiting for you to cite the part of the Confederate Constitution that forbids secession.
I envy you bunches.
The Smokies are magical. I get there as often as I can.
“we are those who go anywhere & everywhere to defend freedom”
That’s why Tennessee’s nickname is “The Volunteer State”. The people here are most excellent.
ROFLOL Really! Firstly Republicans and North were at this time synonymous. It was a sectional party.
Second, they most certainly were not threatening slavery. Lincoln said he had no intention of threatening slavery where it existed time and again. They passed the Corwin Amendment which would have protected slavery by express constitutional amendment. The US Congress also passed a resolution even after the war started explicitly saying they were not fighting over slavery.
You say over and over again that the Republicans assured the Democrats that they were not in imminent danger of losing their slaves but that the Democrats did not care and (seceded) anyway. Has it ever dawned on you that fear of losing their slaves is not what motivated most Southerners? 94.37% of the total free population in the South did not own any slaves - yet they voted overwhelmingly for secession. Something else must have been motivating them.
My dad went back a few times but I never did. He said the same thing about it.
Yes they are. They are ancient like the Rockies but softer. Tourists underestimate them, to their peril. They remind me a lot of the pictures I have seen of the Scottish Highlands. I think that’s why so many Scottish immigrants settled there.
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