The civil war was the north and south, a large part of it was the struggle over slavery vs abolishment. The north did not have slaves. There was something called the Mason-Dixon Line. The term civil war denotes a country torn apart. Lets break down this statement: The civil war was the north and south, a large part of it was the struggle over slavery vs abolishment. This is the elementary version of American history. The war of 1861 was indeed about slavery. . . but NOT about the liberation of African slaves. While people like to point to South Carolina’s Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union” as evidence the war was to protect the institution of slavery, they fail to admit, the North, upheld slavery just as much as the South. And as I far as I know, the North, or the Congress in general, did not propose an Amendment to end slavery before 1865. Allison mentioned the “Emancipation Proclamation”, but she did not tell us, said proclamation did not apply to the slaves held in Delaware, Kentucky, New Oreleans or Tennessee. Those ignorant of history will chant Lincoln freed the slaves, but he was dead in December 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified by the several States, including the Southern States. The statement in question also ignores South Carolina’s interest in seceding from the Union in the 1830’s, some 30 years before the so-called civil war, due to the “Nullification Crisis” and tariffs. ALL of this is common knowledge to those who actually study history and have access to Google, so I will not go into the subject of chattel slavery further—But to answer Kent in the affirmative: chattel slavery was on its last legs in 1860; it could have ended without a war as it was in Europe. AND the richest slave baron in South Carolina in 1860 was a black man. The war of 1861 was one of political slavery. The north did not have slaves.” Really? The first man to die in the American revolution was a slave in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the 1800 New England census, there were some 1,400 slaves counted. For 200 years slavery existed in the north. And while I am at it, I would like to mention, not a single slave ship flew the Confederate flags. But the “American” flag, that is, the flag of the United States, DID in FACT, fly on many slave ships. The term civil war denotes a country torn apart.” The war of 1861 was NOT a “civil war”. It was an INTERNATIONAL war. Bouvier’s Law Dictionary defines the word “country” as: By country is meant the state of which one is a member. 2. Every mans country is in general the state in which he happens to have been born, though there are some exceptions.” Did South Carolina go to war with itself? No. The several states are countries. The United States of America is a UNION; a confederacy of free and independent countries (aka nations), for which “Americans” colloquially refer to as ‘states’. “The constitution, therefore, was ordained and established, not by the whole people of the United States collectively, or in mass, as a distinct community, but by the several states, the people of each acting in the name and by the authority of their state, as a distinct, independent, sovereign people. It is, therefore, incontestable, that the words of the preamble, we, the people of the United States, mean the people of the several states of the Union, NOT collectively and in mass, but as the people of distinct, independent states, acting by their respective separate state authorities, in forming a compact with each other, and establishing a federal government, or government, the parties to which were distinct communities, or independent states, as contradistinguished from the people of all the states taken collectively, or in mass. At the time of the formation of the constitution, the states were members of the CONFEDERACY united under the style of the United States of America, and upon the express condition that each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence.’ --Ohio Supreme Court 1856
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:14:10 +0000
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