When I read Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s article ( http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/08/21/lincoln-myth-ideological-cornerstone-america-empire/ ) the question that lept to mind was, “How come the South is said to have fought for slavery when the North wasn’t fighting against slavery?”
Two days before Lincoln’s inauguration as the 16th President, Congress, consisting only of the Northern states, passed overwhelmingly on March 2, 1861, the Corwin Amendment that gave constitutional protection to slavery. Lincoln endorsed the amendment in his inaugural address, saying “I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”
Quite clearly, the North was not prepared to go to war in order to end slavery when on the very eve of war the US Congress and incoming president were in the process of making it unconstitutional to abolish slavery.
Here we have absolute total proof that the North wanted the South kept in the Union far more than the North wanted to abolish slavery.
If the South’s real concern was maintaining slavery, the South would not have turned down the constitutional protection of slavery offered them on a silver platter by Congress and the President.
Clearly, for the South also the issue was not slavery.
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I've had a strong interested in the WBTS ever since I was a child, however with the rise of political correctness and easily offense taken special snowflakes I keep quiet about it. One of the absolute truths of live is that you can not reason any one out of their willful ignorance. Those on the left will always insist that slavery was THE prime and sole reason for the war. Period. Full stop. They refuse consider any other issue or cause for reason for the Southern states to leave the Union. It was all about slavery in their mind. What they also refuse to take into account is that we all have character flaws. So in their mind since a great man such as Thomas Jefferson was not a perfect man in every part of his life, then that makes him a hypocrite, a blank-ist, with all of his accomplishments to be ignored and only his faults and short comings (both real and imaginary) the sole object of attention. Mention his name to your average mal-educated collage student, and you will likely hear that he was an evil racist slave owning white man who had sex with one of his slaves. Which is enough to negate every thing else that he did. It could be that this country has gotten to the point where the average young adult is THAT stupid, where they incapable of grasping the concept of honor, or believing in a moral principle that one would defend it with their lives.
ReplyDeleteIt does cause me to want to punch my fist through a wall, when I see those evil thugs and the useful idiots tearing down the statues of Robert E. Lee. There is not a single SWJ, BLM, Antifa or leftie collage professor (but I repeat myself) alive today that is worthy enough to have the honor off brushing the dirt off of Lee's boots. I'd be willing to bet my house and retirement that it would drive even Lee to drink to see how those who are trying to erase any memory of him because he does not meet their standard of moral correctness are the exact same ones who supported/voted for Hillary the evil Clinton or were Bernie supporters.
I'd be willing to bet my house and retirement that it would drive even Lee to drink to see how those who are trying to erase any memory of him because he does not meet their standard of moral correctness are the exact same ones who supported/voted for Hillary the evil Clinton or were Bernie supporters.
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