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.
"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it...."
"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it...."
March 4, 1865. It's the third paragraph in his second inaugural address. You ought to read it.
And then the despot/tyrant had the audacity to add:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Be warned, PvtClewell, most neo-revisionists take great pride in their ignorance. Some have even boasted that not only have they Not read Lincon's First Inaugural Speech, they had No intention of doing so, either..
March 4, 1865. It's the third paragraph in his second inaugural address. You ought to read it.
And then the despot/tyrant had the audacity to add:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Be warned, PvtClewell, most neo-revisionists take great pride in their ignorance. Some have even boasted that not only have they Not read Lincon's First Inaugural Speech, they had No intention of doing so, either..
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
3 Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them;
More lies. He is a natural born recanter.
and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:"
And he didn't even follow the republican party platform of 1860. More lies.
Be warned, PvtClewell, most neo-revisionists take great pride in their ignorance. Some have even boasted that not only have they Not read Lincon's First Inaugural Speech, they had No intention of doing so, either..
Show me who hasn't done that and I'll run them out of here~! Surely you are not talking about me. Read this about the liar.
The bigget lies ever told................ ought to be the heading. Starting here.
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
3 Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them;
More lies. He is a natural born recanter.
and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:"
And he didn't even follow the republican party platform of 1860. More lies.
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