(05-10-2022, 03:02 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I disagree. That is why the war was fought. It fundamentally changed the way states and the federal government operate. These united states of America changed to The United States of America.

A war is not a determining factor of legality.

The war was fought because not one Southern state voted for that moron Lincoln - yet he was elected. It proved to the Southern states that what they thought, what they voted for didn't matter in this "union".

The South made it known that if Lincoln was elected every state would vote for secession immediately after. And they did. And won with a HUGE majority. They voted legally.

And remember, everyone, Lincoln ran a campaign based on appeasing the south - there were no calls for the emancipation proclamation until a year into the war, so don't start saying that he was a champion of the slaves or cared about slavery.. And Lincoln never freed the 50,000 federal slaves. He never cared about the black people, ever. He cared about preserving the union, which means the crops the South provided. He even said hey why don't we ship those slaves back to Africa? In fact, abolitionists HATED Lincoln.

Anywhere else in the world the North would have stomped the South within a year. - the North had ALL the production the South had literally nothing. Only because Southerners were better soldiers they dragged it out for 4 years.

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