The Civil War

[strider12]

I don't hate all of America. Just the children.

Noooooooo. Think of the children!

Wait, what?

 

[Gigabyte71]

Regardless of the background or other issues of the time, every single Confederate State noted slavery as the chief reason for seceding from the Union. Read their Declarations of Secession. Revisionist historians wish to make our cause higher and mightier but, it really came down to slavery plain and simple. They even say so, why continue to argue it?

Again, not really. For one, it was about States rights, which are mentioned, time and again in the Declarations of Secession. Part of the 'States Rights' may have to do with slavery, but ultimately, it was the States rights. And the Federal Government did not invade the South because of slavery, it is because they Seceded from the Union.

 

[hseII]

Again, not really. For one, it was about States rights, which are mentioned, time and again in the Declarations of Secession. Part of the 'States Rights' may have to do with slavery, but ultimately, it was the States rights. And the Federal Government did not invade the South because of slavery, it is because they Seceded from the Union.

 

[Hasselhoss]

Again, not really. For one, it was about States rights, which are mentioned, time and again in the Declarations of Secession. Part of the 'States Rights' may have to do with slavery, but ultimately, it was the States rights. And the Federal Government did not invade the South because of slavery, it is because they Seceded from the Union.

Surely you jest my fine Monticello neighbor. The Southern States were AGAINST States Rights and were extremely pissed off at the individual northern states that were choosing to not return run-away slaves. On Dec. 24, 1860, South Carolina’s secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” In it, they stated stated that by not returning runaways to their "owners" that the northern states were choosing not to fulfill their “constitutional obligations". They further went on to voice their concern over “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery”.

 

[Gigabyte71]

Surely you jest my fine Monticello neighbor. The Southern States were AGAINST States Rights and were extremely pissed off at the individual northern states that were choosing to not return run-away slaves. On Dec. 24, 1860, South Carolina’s secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” In it, they stated stated that by not returning runaways to their "owners" that the northern states were choosing not to fulfill their “constitutional obligations". They further went on to voice their concern over “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery”.

Dred Scott vs Sandford 1857

 

[Hasselhoss]

Dred Scott vs Sandford 1857

So.... slavery

 

[Gigabyte71]

So.... slavery

So you contend that the Yanks invaded the South to end slavery?

 

[Hasselhoss]

So you contend that the Yanks invaded the South to end slavery?

Nope. I contend that the South seceded from the Union over slavery.

 

[Gigabyte71]

Nope. I contend that the South seceded from the Union over slavery.

But slavery is NOT what the war was about, which is what I was saying.

 

[Hasselhoss]

But slavery is NOT what the war was about, which is what I was saying.

Slavery is what secession was about which is what the ensuing conflict was about.