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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: KonKilo who wrote (347902)1/25/2003 9:30:42 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Here you are wrong.

The South didn't secede until the anti-slavery Republicans took the Federal government. They were fine while the pro-slavery southern Democrats were in power.

For Lincoln ending slavery may have not been "paramount" but for the South its preservation was. And the abolitionist Republicans meant the end was on its way. They seceded, they fired the first shots at Fort Sumpter.

And state's rights is just spin. The South wasn't for state's rights when the Federal government was forcing free states to return escaped slaves, or when President Buchanan legitimized slavery in Kansas.

No, the South only found state's rights as an issue once they lost control of the federal government.

I pulled up the Civil War on my Mircrosoft Encarta Encyclopedia for the hell of it and to refresh my memory a little, and here are a few quotes (i was surprised how unequivocal it is):

"The chief and immediate cause of the war was slavery."

"The slavery question overshadowed all others in the presidential election year of 1860."

"During the campaign many Southerners had threatened that their states would secede from the Union if Lincoln was elected because they feared that a Lincoln administration would threaten slavery."

Steve
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