https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcy7qV-BGF4
I don’t post this because I agree with it. I post it show that maybe, just maybe the cause of secession was bit more complicated than we think, just maybe.
I don’t think your argument really make sense.
It wasn’t may argument. I made clear I wasn’t agreeing with the video.
You keep on saying that “maybe the Civil War wasn’t about slavery,”
no that is not what I have been saying, I have being that maybe it wasn’t JUST about slavery.
OK. You caught me there.
(which sounds a hell of a lot like a conspiracy theory) but never have the courage of your convictions to follow that theory through.
I don’t have any conspiracy theory. Maybe the Civil War only about slavery. Maybe there were other reasons. I don’t know. At this point I am simply asking questions.
Here’s the answer to your questions: The Civil War was about slavery. Period.
All of the other explanations for the Civil War make no sense.
Here is one thing that doesn’t make sense to me. Everyone says the south fought the war to preserve slavery. Yet seems to clear that the push in the North to end slavery really didn’t begin until the middle of the war. I have been told in this thread that the North wasn’t fighting to free the slaves, but preserve the union. To quote Lincoln:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that
So here is the thing. If the North didn’t care all the much early in the war about freeing the slaves, and slavery is all the south was fighting for, Why couldn’t they make agreement? The south returns to the union and slavery will be preserved.
Sounds like it would have made both sides happy and prevented war, right? So why didn’t this happen?
No.
First of all, a compromise had already been reached a decade earlier. It didn’t really make anybody happy. In fact, it’s divisiveness made the country more prone to war. Not a great solution.
Second of all, I actually think that Lincoln and Co. might have been hiding their real internal opinions on slavery when talking about the possibility of war to appeal to a broader section of the population. I have no evidence on this. This is just a hypothesis that I think might be true.
States’ rights? A state’s right to what, Mr. Warbler?
I agree one of the major things they wanted was a state’s right to decide the slavery issue for themselves.
Economic differences? Economic differences because of what?
Slavery, yes I know.
Thank you.
The bell has rung. You are dismissed.