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.
Ohio, 13 May 1861 Maryland, January 1862 Illinois, 22 March 1862 (this was by method not specified in the Constitution- a Convention...but still indicates support of its passage)
Disapproved-
Connecticut Kentucky New York
__________________ POWER & MONEY
"Your New-York bankers and merchants are shrewd people, but I never gave them credit for so much sagacity as when they took the Government Loan. It was not merely patriotism, it was a high stroke of policy. It has saved the Government, and what they will regard as equally important, saved them from a great financial disaster."
Ohio, 13 May 1861 Maryland, January 1862 Illinois, 22 March 1862 (this was by method not specified in the Constitution- a Convention...but still indicates support of its passage)
Did the amendment pass and become part of the US Constitution?
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
Did the amendment pass and become part of the US Constitution?
Unionblue
Did Ohio ever repeal their vote?
__________________ POWER & MONEY
"Your New-York bankers and merchants are shrewd people, but I never gave them credit for so much sagacity as when they took the Government Loan. It was not merely patriotism, it was a high stroke of policy. It has saved the Government, and what they will regard as equally important, saved them from a great financial disaster."
Northern states vote to give slaveowning states what they already have--a guarantee that government will not interfere with slavery where it exists. And this bribe is used to assert that the north approved of slavery!
Unbelievable!
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
A question for a question speaks far louder than you seem to think it does.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
PS Ohio supplied the third largest amount of troops for the Union during the Civil War. I'll take that as Ohio's repeal.
__________________ "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
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