Civil War History - Secession and PoliticsWas it Slavery, or was it States Rights? Perhaps it was the election of Lincoln? What were the real reasons for Southern Secession and what were the political issues in this time of war? Find your answers here in the Secession and Politics Disussion.
There's plenty of books written lately which attempt to completely discredit the South and her cause of 1861-1865. The 'Southern cause' appears to be under attack more today than in 1864. This is very interesting.
Neil, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Rather a salacious title, don't you think? I don't know anything about Jane Singer, so I don't know what her qualifications are or what her background is.
This seems to be a compilation of some rather well-known incidents such as the attempted burning of New York City and the plot by Dr. Blackburn to try to spread smallpox in the North. Don't know if there's anything really new here.
If you consider the Mississippi Declaration of Causes to be a "Neo-Union history book."
Regards,
Cash
Cash,
Well, since Lincoln tricked Davis into ordering the firing on Fort Sumter, he was probably clever enough to trick the secessionists into saying that they were seceding to preserve slavery, when they really didn't mean that at all!
best,
marc
__________________ "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
Cash,
Well, since Lincoln tricked Davis into ordering the firing on Fort Sumter, he was probably clever enough to trick the secessionists into saying that they were seceding to preserve slavery, when they really didn't mean that at all!
best,
marc
Ah, I see, now, Marc. And he obviously tricked Stephen Hale and the rest of the secession commissioners into saying what they said, that secession was necessary to protect slavery, instead of what they really felt.
Are you both aware of the theory that slavery was not the point at all, that it was about tariffs but those poor average Southern citizens could not grasp that fact, so slavery was substituted for the reason for secession?
And, I have swampland available if you gentlemen are ready to swollow that one.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Are you both aware of the theory that slavery was not the point at all, that it was about tariffs but those poor average Southern citizens could not grasp that fact, so slavery was substituted for the reason for secession?
And, I have swampland available if you gentlemen are ready to swollow that one.
Unionblue
Unionblue,
If it was the tariffs, I can imagine that they would have been embarrassed to say so, since, as Cash has pointed out, Southern ports paid only 10% of the tariffs in 1860. Now, where did you say that swampland was?
best,
marc
__________________ "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
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