Reason for fighting the War

[ramkuma]

"The people were very much divided on the order of secession... After the proclamation of President Lincoln calling out seventy five thousand militia, blockading the Southern ports, and the suspension of habeas corpus, the southern cause received near unanimous support of the people of Georgia."
-testimony of Alexander Stephens, Committee on Reconstruction, 1866

 

[RedRover]

From Virginia:

Virginia unionist David Strother mused:

 

[OpnCoronet]

"The people were very much divided on the order of secession... After the proclamation of President Lincoln calling out seventy five thousand militia, blockading the Southern ports, and the suspension of habeas corpus, the southern cause received near unanimous support of the people of Georgia."
-testimony of Alexander Stephens, Committee on Reconstruction, 1866

The people of Ga. were wrong. Their delegates to their state's secession convention should have paid closer attention to Alexander Stephens impassioned speech arguing against secession, and showing in some detail that the oft claimed reasons for secession were wrong.