[RginTN]

Their country was invaded by Federal forces to bring them back into the mold because of monetary reasons and nothing else.
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And yet slavery was not forbidden in the Confederate Constitution. In fact it said about slavery- No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.

Never mind that. The South was only fighting for monetary reasons./s

[StoneWall Brigade]

Gee Wolly if good ole Father Abraham Lincoln was so dead against slavery why did he allow the border states to keep there slaves? Also why did he allow the Western part of Virginia to illegally leave Virginia?

[NKP_Vet]

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. “

~ Abraham Lincoln