Sorry, friend. Wrong. Dead wrong. Not even close. It was ENTIRELY about States’ rights.
>>> Sorry, friend. Wrong. Dead wrong. Not even close. It was ENTIRELY about States’ rights.
The states had overstepped their bounds on states rights by violating individual rights.
Are you suggesting that the southern states were willing to give up slave ownership?
Particularly WHICH states rights are you referring to that led them to war then?
The primary reason for the secession of the southern states, precipitating the Civil war, was slavery.
Institutional slavery was written into the Confederate Constitution.
The best selling book was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, not a treatise on State’s Rights or the evils of cotton tariffs and regulated trade.
Lincoln and Douglas met for 7 debates and the issue of slavery dominated each and every one of those debates.
In 1861, the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens said that slavery was “the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution.” He said the United States had been founded on the false belief that all men are created equal. The Confederacy, in contrast, had been “founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural moral condition.”
I am not asking you to believe me. I am asking you to question your conviction that the Civil War was only about State’s Rights and to read and study more and then come to your own conclusion.