If the Civil War wasn't about slavery, then what was the reason for the slave clauses in the Constitution (Article I Section - 3/5 clause; Article IV. Section 2. Clause 3 – fugitive slave clause’ Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 – ending the importation of slaves after 1808) the 13th and 14th Amendment, and what was Jim Crow all about, and Brown v Board of Education, the Dixie Cats forming because the federal government enacted an 'anti lynching' law, the formation of the KKK, the 1964 Voting Rites Act, desegregation, some one from South Carolina calling the President of the United States a lire in a joint session of Congress, or in the past; bloody Kansas, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, Senator John C. Calhoun stating that the idea ‘all men are created equal’ was a completely erroneous statement. 'It never did nor can exist,' he wrote, 'as it is inconsistent with the preservation and perpetuation of the race;' or John Quincy Adams statement made as early as November 29, 1820:
"If slavery be the destined sword in the hand of the destroying angel which is to sever the ties of the union, the same sword will cut in sunder the bonds of slavery itself. A dissolution of the Union for the cause of slavery would be followed by a servile war in the slave-holding States, combined with a war between the two severed portions of the Union. It seems to me that its results must be the extirpation of slavery from this whole continent; and, calamitous and desolating as this cause of events in progress must be, so glorious would be its final issue, as God shall judge me, I dare not say that it is not to be desired."
If not about slavery, then what? States rights? Which translates into: ‘The right to have peculiar institutions.’
How about a quote from someone who was there and who gave their life defending our nation form dissolution.
“…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.”
It is time to speak truth and move past this cancer. Again, I quote the same individual who spoke these words a short time before he died for our country.
“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 a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” –A Lincoln March 4, 1865
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>"We often ask why so many southern white men, who did not own slaves and whose economic picture was negatively impacted by the competition from slavery, fought in 1861 to uphold an institution that did not evidently benefit them..."Pretty obvious they fought largely because their homes were being invaded by an enemy army. Or as one Southern soldier in Virginia reportedly responded to a Northern soldier's question "Reb, why are you fighting" with "I reckon because your here."
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