Quote:Every state believed in white supremacy - the benevolent north included.


Funny how each leader made it clear that they seceded over slavery, yet four states didn't even join the Confederacy until after Lincoln announced he would invade the south. Those four states were overwhelmingly pro Union when put to a vote earlier. They voted to secede because they felt Lincoln had no right to invade the south. At the very least, for four of the eleven states, it was totally unrelated to slavery. And like I said previously, the original 7 states seceded for many reasons, slavery included, but that was a part of the state rights thing. The biggest issue the south had was the tariff. South Carolina almost went to war with the United States 30 years before the Civil War over the tariff. In 1861, right before the war, the House passed a huge increase in the tariff. There are literally dozens and dozens of speeches decrying the tariff from southern representatives. And, as I've said, Lincoln and his republicans offered to write into the constitution the constitutional right to own slaves if the south would return to the Union and accept the tariff.