Lincoln was willing to leave the slavery issue just as it was if the south would just not secede. He wanted to compromise and leave the slavery issue alone in exchange for not expanding it to other states and for the south to stay in the union. But the south seceded anyway because it wasn’t about slavery, it was about states rights. If it had been about slavery, they would have taken Lincolns offer.
That's right and that's why I linked Mississippi's Declaration of Secession:
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/causes_mississippi.html
Let's let the people who were there speak for themselves about what they felt was important.
Let's workk together to bury the ignorance.
State's right to do what?
If it had been about slavery, they would have taken Lincolns offer.
You are aware that the original seven confederate states had announced their secession long before Lincoln was inaugurated, aren't you?
Don’t forget that Lincoln also wanted to use state revenues to deport slaves. The struggle was about political power and Lincoln’s fear that slavery leaning states would gain the upper hand politically.
Slavery was choking on too many slaves. Agriculture with slaves was not sustainable. The slave owners needed access to the territories, because slaves had to be kept ignorant to be slaves. Modern methods of crop rotation would would teach slaves to take care of their own land, and set the conditions for their independence. So slaves were kept ignorant, plantations were run into the ground, and crop yield dropped. A major source of income was the slave owner’s mixed race female children with black women. They were sold to brothels, for thousads of dollars.
The south had 4 Billion dollars in slave property (worth 8 trillion dollars today). Their intent was, after winning independence to capture Cuba, Mexico, and points south.
Being from AZ this really jumped out at me..
Have enjoyed your posts on this thread.
Very well said, Ma'am. Let us see if that 'Saint' can defrost Ice Pick's process of critical thinking..
In the Conkling letter before mentioned, I said: “Whenever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union, if I shall urge you to continue fighting, it will be an apt time then to declare that you will not fight to free Negroes.” I repeat this now. If Jefferson Davis wishes, for himself, or for the benefit of his friends at the North, to know what I would do if he were to offer peace and reunion, saying nothing about slavery, let him try me (…). disHonest Abe