I think South Carolina attacked Fort Sumpter. The south succeeded. Do you wish that would have been successful? Should slavery still exist, and if not when should it have ended?
Christopher D Austin: No one was injured or died in the bombing of Ft. Sumter. The Federal troops in the fort were allowed to leave a few days later after they surrendered.
The War Between the States was not about slavery, at least not at first. It was about tariffs and taxes. Abe Lincoln did not abolish slavery in Kentucky, Maryland, or West Virginia (the border states that stayed neutral). Lincoln also did not abolish slavery in the northern states. His famous Emancipation Proclamation only abolished slavery in the Confederacy over which he had no authority.
You end slavery the same way the British Empire did. Buy the slaves from the slave owners and set them free. Lincoln could have done this but he didn't. Lincoln wanted a strong central government. Lincoln was a railroad man. He supported Wall Street and the Big Boys in NYC. They wanted to rape the South and they did.
The 13th amendment is what made all slaves free. The Lincoln proclamation was a war powers act that regarded the administration of the war. It was not intended to end slavery. The president did not have that authority.
Christopher D Austin: Lincoln attacked the Confederacy. The states had a right to secede.
I think South Carolina attacked Fort Sumpter. The south succeeded. Do you wish that would have been successful? Should slavery still exist, and if not when should it have ended?
Christopher D Austin: No one was injured or died in the bombing of Ft. Sumter. The Federal troops in the fort were allowed to leave a few days later after they surrendered.
The War Between the States was not about slavery, at least not at first. It was about tariffs and taxes. Abe Lincoln did not abolish slavery in Kentucky, Maryland, or West Virginia (the border states that stayed neutral). Lincoln also did not abolish slavery in the northern states. His famous Emancipation Proclamation only abolished slavery in the Confederacy over which he had no authority.
You end slavery the same way the British Empire did. Buy the slaves from the slave owners and set them free. Lincoln could have done this but he didn't. Lincoln wanted a strong central government. Lincoln was a railroad man. He supported Wall Street and the Big Boys in NYC. They wanted to rape the South and they did.
The 13th amendment is what made all slaves free. The Lincoln proclamation was a war powers act that regarded the administration of the war. It was not intended to end slavery. The president did not have that authority.
Christopher D Austin: You are splitting legal hair. 90% of Americans think Abe Lincoln freed the slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation.
Perception is everything. Narrative is everything. Facts don't matter to Boobus americanus.