The Federal Governments only cash payments to the railroads before the Civil War was for hauling Federal freight and the United States Mail. They paid those monies to the railroads in the North and to the railroads in the South. The Federal Government did not directly subsidize any railroad construction in the United States until the Transcontinental Railroad project, which started after the Southern States seceded from the Union.
What arrogance. Killing all those young men in the prime of their lives wasn’t good enough. You have to live with the guilt of massaging the truth to justify the truth that Confederacy was created on the concept that it was justifiable to own people as one owned a dog or a horse. Creating a constitution that codified that principle to the point that it was illegal for any state of the Confederacy to outlaw the institution of slavery. To be a member of the Confederacy you had to recognize the legitimacy of the Slavery.
The Federal Governments only cash payments to the railroads before the Civil War was for hauling Federal freight and the United States Mail. They paid those monies to the railroads in the North and to the railroads in the South. The Federal Government did not directly subsidize any railroad construction in the United States until the Transcontinental Railroad project, which started after the Southern States seceded from the Union.
What arrogance. Killing all those young men in the prime of their lives wasn’t good enough. You have to live with the guilt of massaging the truth to justify the truth that Confederacy was created on the concept that it was justifiable to own people as one owned a dog or a horse. Creating a constitution that codified that principle to the point that it was illegal for any state of the Confederacy to outlaw the institution of slavery. To be a member of the Confederacy you had to recognize the legitimacy of the Slavery.
False. The Confederate Constitution allowed for states that did not have slavery. Had the Southern States been primarily concerned with preserving slavery they could have simply accepted the Corwin Amendment - the North’s “Slavery Forever” constitutional Amendment which Lincoln endorsed in his inaugural address. The Northern Dominated congress had already passed it with the required supermajority and the president had already signed it.