Erasing history

[Rob Wick]

Quote:So it was a different time and I've never been convinced that slavery, per se, was the prime reason the Civil War was fought.

The problem is, without slavery nothing else makes any sense. if you look at the petitions for secession of those states which left earlier, slavery was the main reason mentioned in every one. Southern states weren't talking about tariffs, etc., in their "declarations of independence."

As for secession itself, at best the Constitution is silent, which is a weak argument in its favor. As Lincoln said, no nation would have based in its founding document the seeds of its own destruction. And, of course, other states threatened secession, but the southern states were the only ones to see it through.

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Rob