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When Alexander Stephens' statement about the cornerstone of the Confederacy is mentioned, the silence from our pro-CSA friends is deafening. Whatever role tariffs had, and I won't deny that they were an additional cause of friction, was a mere sideshow to the cornerstone issue. Tariff contentions could be resolved through the normal Constitutional political process, but the resolution of the main issue impelled the slaveowning interest to rebellion and resolution on the battlefield.

Here's a quote by Howell Cobb about proposed use of slaves in the CS army.

"The moment you resort to negro soldiers your white soldiers will be lost to you. The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong."

If the fight was about tariffs, why would the white soldiers lose faith in the rebellion? It seems that the white soldiers of the Union didn't have such a problem with black soldiers fighting for the United States.

Excellent point! "When Alexander Stephens' statement about the cornerstone of the Confederacy is mentioned, the silence from our pro-CSA friends is deafening." and watch not one those with rabid cases of Confederatitis will dare touch Stephens bigoted attacks. Why? Because these masked fanatical cowards have the exact same sickness and will be totally exposed if they fully lay their deceptive cards on the table of truth.

"Whatever role tariffs had, and I won't deny that they were an additional cause of friction, was a mere sideshow to the cornerstone issue."

Bingo, spot on! Every leading 'normal' American historian have honestly attributed the origins of the Civil War has having its root triggering cause deeply based in the Confederates die-hard insistence on expanding their Cotton Empire, which was based on the demonic, barbaric, Nazi-like system of forced labour of over three million souls who languished in the sweltering heat & humidity - as slaves.

Notice this Howell Cobb referred to the Confederate insurrection as the revolution and he is not the only spokesman for the Rebellion Inc who utilized the term the revolution. What you stated he is totally correct as well. "If the fight was about tariffs, why would the white soldiers lose faith in the rebellion? It seems that the white soldiers of the Union didn't have such a problem with black soldiers fighting for the United States."

Notice how all the neo-confeds have a self-convicting habit of going out of their minds, viciously attack anyone & everyone who worked for abolition of slavery (abolitionists), which begs the question, if one is/was so vehemently against the abolition of slavery in 'Confederate' states, in the identical way this very same backward element is/was against abolishing Southern state mandated forced racial segregation, (Jim Crow "laws") the only logical conclusion is the "tariff" counter attack is nothing more then another smoke screen attempting to remove the main focus off their phobias & hatred.

Tariff contentions could be resolved through the normal Constitutional political process, but the resolution of the main issue impelled the slaveowning interest to rebellion and resolution on the battlefield.

This is a strange conclusion.

Through the normal Constitutional Political process, maintenance of slavery was the one thing that was undoubtedly and rigidly safe within the Union. It would appear as though the Radicals were the ones who used the war to circumvent the process.