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.

 

But how can you deny the words of the politicians in the Southern states who led the secession?    They all said the reason they seceded was to preserve slavery.  

I have posted direct quotes over and over from four different articles of secession, and from southern political leaders.  Were they lying?  

 

Anyone with any knowledge of history knows that the one thing that consumed the country for the decade leading up to the Civil War was slavery, slavery, slavery.  

 

I am astounded by the incredible ignorance of history displayed by some of you people.   It's amazing.   How you can twist yourself into this belief that the Civil War was fought over a tariff.  Or that the South seceded to defend states' rights.   They seceded to defend slavery.   THEY SAID SO THEMSELVES. 

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