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Originally Posted by nailer
WTF Dave, no one above came within a parsec of saying what you're claiming.
If slavery did not exist in the South there wouldn't have been a Civil War. However in 1861 the Union armies were fighting to restore the sacred Union. By the 1864 election these armies were fighting to restore the union and end slavery.
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What exactly was it that the Union was splitting over? Was it just a fucking lovers spat? No. Abolition had been brewing and gaining traction for quite some time and the polite, genteel assholes of the south knew it. Ever read the Confederate Constitution?
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp
Section 9 (4); "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law
denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."
Article IV (3); "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."
It seems protecting the "property rights" of slave owners was something of a priority. Actually, reading through this document it appears that that is one of the few distinctions between it and the U.S. Constitutions.
The proper and gentlemanly bastards wanted to preserve slavery....Going INTO the war in 1860.
Because this was the underlying reason for the split in the first place.
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Originally Posted by bobabode
Ummm, you seem to be ignoring 'Bleeding Kansas' and several factors such as the 'Missouri Compromise' leading up to the actual firing on Ft. Sumpter.
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No shit.
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Originally Posted by nailer
Well Bob, if slavery didn't exist there would've been no need for the Missouri Compromise or a reason to spill blood in Kansas.
Only dyed-in-the-wool states' rights idiots argue that the root cause of the Civil War wasn't slavery.
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That's right. Kind of like the states' rights idiots we hear bleating their bullshit today. The "freedom" they want is the
freedom to be tyrants and nothing more.
I say they shouldn't have it. But that's me, I'm crazy that way.
Dave