Posted on 12/27/2023 11:23:46 PM PST by McGruff
Democrats and supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday after she refused to name slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War.
Haley, 51, made the apparent gaffe during a town hall event in Berlin, NH, after a voter asked the former United Nations ambassador to identify the cause of the deadliest war in American history.
The White House hopeful appeared caught off guard by the question and failed to mention the antebellum South’s “peculiar institution” in her response.
“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run,” Haley said. “The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”
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I’ve posted often that she is not an American. She knows nothing about our country or Constitution.
Wants to squelch First Amendment. Removes Southern monuments and flag. Now this.
She was raised by Indian parents. She probably is up to speed on India’s history.
Yep
No conservative can support Nikki Haley
Nikki is not Ready for Prime Time.
Life is complicated, so was the civil war with many many moving parts.
Thanks. For the link.
Read actual history and learn... slavery was not the prominent factor period in the civil war.
Slavery was common all over the world in the 1800’s and since mankind started and still is today and “prominent” in the US through human trafficking especially for the elites. No one’s doing much about that.
Slavery was never abolished, it just changed over the years.
IMO, THE CIVIL WAS WAS A FIGHT FOR STATES RIGHTS-—
THE RIGHT of each individual state to allow slavery on plantations or not allow such.
The South PRODUCED the cotton.....NOT THE NORTH.
THE NORTH MADE THE RAW COTTON INTO USABLE PRODUCTS-—NOT THE SOUTH.
THEY NEEDED each other-—and it worked well.
A plantation owner had every possible reason to treat his slaves well. To house them-—feed them, etc. Without the LABOR to operate such plantations, there would be no usable, salable crop.
The seeds of civil war were apparent at the time of the founding, and the key issue surely was slavery. Without very tortured accommodations regarding slavery in the Constitution, South Carolina would not have entered the Union, and if so, the new nation would have been stillborn.
I find it shocking for a former governor of South Carolina of all places not to know her state’s history and leading role in bringing about secession crises over tariffs, the admission of new states, and ultimately the Civil War.
I recommend that you (nd Nikki Haley) read and think about this topic a whole lot more. Among other great books, William Freehling’s “Prelude to Civil War”, and his 2 volume “The Road to Disunion” are ecellent resources.
It was most about treason against the United States.
It was about treason.
I agree. Slavery was a convenient excuse to cover up the economic oppression the North was carrying out over the South.
The United States was founded on Freedoom and Liberty. The Confederacy was founded on treason agains5 the greatest country ever. Trump’s hero Andrew Jackson agrees.
It was her State South Carolina, that was the instegat9r of treason. Andrew Jackson saw it in 1832.
What tax did the Federal Government impose on cotton being shipped to New England? What Legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress, banned Southern cotton? When, before April 1861, did the U.S. Navy blockade Southern shipping ports.
I don’t call it ‘treason.’
There was no treason against the United States, because there was no law against a state from leaving the Union in 1861. That is one point that is very wrong, in my understanding.
If all powers that were not reserved for the Federal government were within the perview of the states, then the authority to leave the Union was entirely within the right of the state.
Is your wife betraying your marriage when she opts out because you abuse her? It’s the same idea for a state, when it’s being abused by the federal government.
I know the Founding Fathers did not want states to leave the Union, but their unwillingness to put that down in writing meant they recognized a state could leave if it wasn’t working out for them.
Do you think that if President Trump had been President in 1861, he would have let the Southern States leave? His hero Andrew Jackson would have crushed the rebellion in it’scrudely. MANY Southerners agreed, and fought for the Union.
The Union was created on July 4th, 1776 by agreement of ALL the Colonies, they all had to agree. The Southern States could try to leave, but as Andrew Jackaon said, “disuion by armed force is Treson.” And Jackson was a small Government Conservative.
Trump might have done what Andrew Jackson was willing to do, as unconstitutional was his actions.
That’s a slogan, not a law.
Where is the law that forbids disunion? I get your hate on the idea of a state leaving, but there’s lots of things that people are allowed to do because there is no law against it.
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