I don’t believe the South would have gone along with that... Can YOU name a country that OUTLAWED slavery BEFORE the United States?
“I don’t believe the South would have gone along with that... Can YOU name a country that OUTLAWED slavery BEFORE the United States?”
England. Start with that.
“I don’t believe the South would have gone along with that (abolishing slavery peacefully using constitutional methods)…”
Even if the South had not voted to amend the United States Constitution the way others wanted, that would not legally justify President Lincoln taking up arms, “fighting to free the slaves”, and violently overthrowing the pro-slavery U.S. Constitution.
This is still relevant today as progressives begin to talk about the need to use force to confiscate firearms because they do not have the votes to peacefully abolish the Second Amendment.