1857 the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott vs. Sandford. This ruling, referred to as the ‘Dred Scott’ ruling, made slavery legal, essentially making blacks property. On December 18, 1860, (2 days prior to South Carolina’s secession), Pro-Union Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky proposed the ‘Crittenden Compromise’, an Amendment which allowed states south of the old Missouri Compromise line to determine for themselves whether they entered the Union slave or free and would have guaranteed slavery in the South forever. July 25, 1861, (After the battle of fisrt Manassas), The Crittenden Resolution passes in Congress. Further, in February 1861 a ruling passed the House by a vote of 133 to 65, and in the Senate on March 12, 1861 by a vote of 24 to 12. It stated: No Amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institution thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of such State. This was known as the ‘Corwin Amendment’, as it was introduced by Thomas Corwin of Ohio. Since the South had already seceded, these ruling and these votes were done by Northern States only. The War of Northern Aggression was obviously not about slavery. March 4, 1861, in President Lincoln’s inaugural address, he supported efforts to ratify the ‘Corwin Amendment’: “I understand a proposed Amendment to the Constitution ... has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstructionof what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular Amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.” This would have been the 13th Amendment. Obviously, Lincoln did not attack the South due to slavery ... it was to collect the taxes that pay for the Federal government. The Constitution of the south was much like our own. It even stated and reaffirmed that NO new slaves were to be brought into America. Heres the link to read it. - google/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEoQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcivil-war.net%2Fpages%2Fconfederate_constitution.asp&ei=oFqPUq3ZL4fOkQfJwYH4Cw&usg=AFQjCNG5DvHsdk9ThkLR2D-So8RPQYSQfg google/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEoQFjAE&url=wwgoogle One of the first laws passed by President Linclon after he took office in March of 1861 was the ‘Morrill Tariff’, designed to provide additional income to the federal government. 7 of the Southern States had already seceded by this time, so this law passed with virtually no opposition. The increase on tariff raised the percentage from 15% to 37% immediately, with an increase to 47% within 3 years. Since the South seceded and Lincoln couldn’t collect the Morrill tariff from them, he instituted the nation’s first income tax.... When asked “Why not let the South go in peace?” Lincoln replied; “I can’t let them go. Who would pay for the government?”. “And, what then will become of my tariff?”AbrahamLincoln to Virginia Compromise Delegation March 1861. Tariff time-line:https://facebook/notes/scott-carlson/tariffs-time-line/10152079189609529 The Confederate States of America Constitution did make slavery legal, but so did the United States Supreme Court with the 1857 Dred Scott ruling, and then the proposed ‘Corwin Amendment which Lincoln wanted to sign as the 13th Amendment. However, the Confederate Constitution also banned the importation of slaves; gave the President line item veto to prevent against pork barrel spending; limited the term of Presidency to one 6 year term. Obviously, the South had put in its Constitution measures to end slavery, (whereas Northern ports were still involved in the slave trade after the war began); measures to prevent the C.S.A. federal government from having runaway spending and deficits, (this still remains unaccomplished in the U.S. government); and measures to prevent a president from establishing such a stronghold on the executive office that massive socialist programs would become part of the government (this was not done in the U.S. until after Franklin D. Roosevelt - 22nd Amendment, ratified February 27, 1951). One year after the 1st shots rang out at Fort Sumter, there was not a single slave ship operating in Southern waters, but there were scores sailing from New England ports carrying slaves to Cuba.*Nathaniel Gordon, a New York city slave trader, was executed by orders of Abraham Lincoln on February 21, 1862 for his participation in the illicit slave trade. He was the only man ever executed for the crime. Within weeks after the execution U.S. Marshall, Robert Murray, wrote that the effect of the execution was minimal to the trade: I am satisfied that the parties interested have removed their operations from New York to the ports of New London, New Bedford, and Portland. These ports are in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine, respectively (note that all 4 ports are Northern ports). This was almost one year after the war began, and over a year after the Southern States seceded.*The top industry in New York city was slave trading. In 1862, (1 year after the war began in 1861), it was reported that during the previous 3 years, (1859-1862), New York city conducted 170 slave expeditions, approx 70 of which sailed directly for Africa. So, the math on NYC alone is: 170/3years = 56.6 per year. An estimated 1,000 slaves were crammed onto each ship, making the total NYC slave trade 56,600 people per year, OR 4,716 slaves per week for 3 years were brought into the NYC slave trade. The next 2 top slave trading cities were Boston, Mass. & Portland, Maine ... for the record, the South had ZERO slave trading cities, they received slaves form the Northern states. Why the South Really Seceded: So what were the real reasons the South seceded? The following should be helpful to understand:•Anti-South Party. The GOP was anti-southern. For the first time in the nation’s history, a political party was based on location rather than just different views. The south was demonized. That meant that their future of political influence was questioned because they had slaves. The impacts here would be much, much more than just slavery, as explained above “vote yourself a farm, vote yourself a tariff”.•Anti-South Tariffs. In the 1830s, the US government passed tariff essentially forcing the South to buy products from the North. Meanwhile, the South had to compete against the global market. The tariff laws were written in such a way as to force the South to enrich the North. This was feared to get worse and worse, especially since Lincoln — a member of the new “anti-South” party — was elected.•No Nullification. Nullification and other “state sovereignty” rights were essentially run down, ignored, or made impossible — this means the original “government” the South was agreeing to essentially didn’t exist. The “strong central government” camp had become much more powerful than the state-sovereignty camp, at least in DC.•Capping Southern Influence. Refusing new slave states to be created was essentially a political move that destroyed Southern influence — southern influences were suddenly capped, while northern influences could continue to grow and get more and more of an influence in congress. The North was soon to completely overpower the North in the federal government, leaving the South in a position where they were essentially forced to do whatever the North wanted.•Structure of Government. The North repeatedly was trying to change the constitution to make the senate elected by popular vote rather than state legislatures. They succeeded after the war. This was a huge change in the structure of government — the state governments are now not represented by the federal government. This was an attack on states across the board. The South wanted state sovereignty, and the North wanted the federal government to more able to regulate the internal affairs of the states — and not just in slavery.•No Need for the North. The South rightly believed that there simply wasn’t a reason for the South to need the North. Since they were being politically isolated and economically exploited, they believed there was nothing keeping them to stay in the North. They also believed that leaving the Union at any time was their contractual right.Was slavery wrong? Absolutely. It was wrong. But the war wasn’t over freeing those already enslaved. Lincoln said this. If the South stayed in the Union, there’s a good chance that slavery would have existed for decades longer, because there was no constitutional way for the North to abolish slavery without the South’s consent — and they weren’t going to do that.The Civil War wasn’t over “freeing the slaves”. It was about politics and regional influence — the North and South were at odds, and the South believed it was better off alone. Were they right? There’s no telling.Slavery was a great crime against millions of people. It was wrong on a fundamental way. It was inhumane, evil, and disgusting. But “ending slavery” simply wasn’t what the war was about. History is written by the victor, and nothing could be more clear than this being exactly an example of that. Other wars and events are also “told” in a lopsided manner in the textbooks. World War I, World War II, the Great Depression — many of these stories usually ignore basic historical facts, and are told in such a way as to glorify our government. When reading about history, always remember that the real story might be very different than the story in the book. google/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fww google Redirect Noticegoogle Lincoln NEVER freed anyone. His proclamation was a war measure, and that is all - he even stated as much. What sent the Southern economy into a tail spin was Lincolns unConstitutional war and then after his war, the so-called Reconstruction. The emancipation proclamation didnt free any slaves: The only slaves it sought to free were those of the southern states that had seceded, of which, Lincoln had no control over because the South had become a separate country and were no longer under Lincoln’s mandates. Furthermore, Maryland and Rhode Island were allowed to keep slavery because they didnt join the South, so the emancipation proclamation didn’t apply to them ... thus the highly touted emancipation proclamation was a useless event that freed no one. In addtion, the slaves that could have been effected (800,000 of them living in captured territories of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and parts of Tennessee) were specifically left out of the document.... THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. The emancipation proclamation didnt free any slaves and caused draft riots in the north. Yes, draft riots. Lincoln made the path to citizenship go through the war. Lincoln ‘required’ immigrants to serve the Union in his war as a pathway to citizenship in America. Hundreds of thouands would be thrust into his war as cannon fodder. Here are the numbers (remember these are only the immigrants looking for citizenship): 216,000 Germans; 200,000 Irish; 90,000 Dutch; 20,000 Scandinavians. All told 526,000 immigrants were forced to fight in Lincoln’s war against the South to earn a pathway into America. The song “Paddy’s Lamentation” described the Irish’s anger at being forced into the war. I hope you didn’t think the North had overwhelming numbers because it was a volunteer force. Lincoln then needed officers who could communicate with the conscripted immigrants. Here is a short list of Union Generals who, all terrible in the field, got their stars:- Prussian August von Willich, a Communist and personal friend of Karl Marx*;- Prussian Alexander Schimmelfennig- Germans Louis Blenker and Franz Sigel*(Lincoln had received, on the occasion of his re-election, a congratulatory letter from Karl Marx ... fitting, a communist sending a tyrant a Happy Birthday message.)
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