But make no mistake, we hold no truck with the Confederacy. As for arguments about what caused the Civil War*, well, Prager U will set you right.
Civil War historian James Oakes in his excellent book, Freedom Nationale, pointed out that in 1860 the GOP promised to isolate the south and squeeze it until slavery died, and when Lincoln won the election, they seceded in order to preserve slavery. This was not an overreaction, it was the only way to preserve slavery.
I'm glad they lost.
*Or the War between the States as our Mississippi born grandmother would say.
What a lot of people misunderstand about the statutes is this was one way for the people of a town to morn there dead back then there was no shipping bodies back home it was a place in town that people who lost love ones far away could go and morn and honor there sons and fathers who fell in battle
ReplyDeleteOne thing I have never got a answer on was why didn't anti slavery groups offer to give slave owners money for there free slaves the owners were land rich but cash poor if I had staked my whole way of life on something that was legal but overnight was not without some form of payment to help me move to something different I would of fought too this seems to me one of the biggest reason for the war but never talked about
ReplyDeleteThat's a great point on the statues, I'd never thought of that.
ReplyDeleteYou could make an argument that they prevented the war from starting again by letting the South morn there dead and to say we put up a good fight but it just wasn't meant to be if the federal government had come in an stop the statutes how much resentment would that cause and the South would felt like occupied territory and just been a matter of time till some spark would start the war all over again
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