As for the "It was for 'State Rights' not 'Slavery' thing, I offer this, regarding the formation of the Confederate Constitution, from William C. Davis' Look Away:
"Significantly, in a movement that all declared to be predicated on the sovereignty of the states, the one area in which now and again in the future they would deny the state sovereignty would be slavery. ... Of all the many testimonials to the fact that slavery, and not states rights, really lay at the heart of the movement, this was the most eloquent of all. ... And as if further evidence were needed, after much discussion they also decided not to include any specific provision recognizing explicitly the right of a state to secede. None of their number should have the right to do them what they had just done to the Union."
Look Away: - pg. 97-98
"On this issue alone, they knowingly violated all the arguements about states rights that their section had been making for generations, for they set slavery above state sovereighty: inviolate, untouchable."
Look Away - pg. 106
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"It was a very peculiar time." - Franklin D. Cossitt
Ancestors in USA Army: 6th IA Inf, 11th IL Cav, 1st AL Cav; 122nd NY Inf; 6th MI Cav; 35th MA Inf; 100th IL Inf; 1st CO Inf/Cav; 22nd IN Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 2nd TN Inf (Walker's), 9th TN Cav (Bennett's/Ward's); 2nd TX Inf
Last edited by samgrant; 01-25-2006 at 10:40 PM.
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