War Between The States - Historic Fact vs Popular Myth
I don’t know how many times over the years I’ve challenged peoples notion that the War Between the States had little to do with slavery. I know this historical misconception will never be fully washed away from our pathetic, politically correct public education system. But this short article brings the thoughts and actions of President Lincoln and the wording of the originally proposed Thirteenth Amendment into a clearer light, despite the revisionism of the last century.
Big Brother doesn’t want us to know of, or remember, the days when the States were sovereign.
January 27th, 2003 at 12:17 am
Slavery had a great deal to do with the war for the millions of slaves in the country.
January 27th, 2003 at 1:41 am
That is true, but does not change the historical reality that freeing the slaves was a political byproduct and not the original intent. It wasn’t the motivation of the War Between the States. The motivation was the same Federalist / Anti-Federalist division of the 1780’s that finally came to a head.
I have no doubts as to the importance of the war in terms of ending slavery. But freeing the slaves was still not the reason the war started. And it did not become an issue until it became important, politically, to find another reason for the war. Lincoln faced opposition even in his own ranks as the Constitution made the US a VOLUNTARY union of states with a weak Federal government to ensure common interests, defense and commercial uniformity. What Lincoln did was to remove the voluntary nature of the association by use of arms.
I have no problem in stating that freeing the slaves was of the larger positive result of the war, as that is the truth. What I have a big problem with is no one remembering that this was a result and not the purpose. That the purpose was the birth of a burgoning Federal Government (and Big Brother) by eliminating the voluntary nature of our union. But that is not taught and seldom remembered except by a few that study history.
February 2nd, 2003 at 11:58 am
Remeber, the Emancipation Proclamation ONLY released the slaves in the south from their bonds. The Slaves in the North were still held.
And, Yes, there were many indentured servent in the north. There were still many slaves there too!….many more than the Victors of War will admit! Plain and simple: Wars are about one thing, and one thing only…..POWER!
Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived!