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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Benny B on April 14, 2011, 07:57:42 PM
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A new poll shows that 52% of Republicans do not believe slavery was the main reason for the Civil War. Cenk Uygur shares his take.
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It was about a business venture between the Colonel and a secret collection of Jewish bankers who put together a devious business plan. Free the slaves and get them addicted to Fried Chicken= Billions of dollars for the KFC franchise.
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Here read this and learn something ::)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html)
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The Civil War was about far more than slavery, my friend.
Slavery was an ancillary component, but there were many other driving factors.
I thought this was common knowledge?
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Ummmmmm. yea.....
The Civil War wasn't about slavery, just as WW2 wasn't about the jews.
Slavery would have been done within 20 years even if the CW hadn't happened.
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The Civil War was all about slavery. It was about the "state's right" to own slaves. I'm actually reading Battle Cry of Freedom (history of the civil war). There is no question that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
I also recently visited Arlington House (Robert E. Lee's home). When you read, up close and personal, what various Southern states had to say about the war, and why they were going to fight, it's pretty clear that the issue was slavery. For example, here are a couple items displayed at Arlington House:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery . . . There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
Excerpt from "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union, January 9, 1861
"We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding States.
By the secession of six of the slave-holding States, and the certainty that others will speedily do likewise, Texas has no alternative but to remain in an isolated connection with the North, or unite her destinies with the South. . . ."
DECLARATION OF CAUSES: February 2, 1861: A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union
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The reality is that it was about state's rights... However, the number one right the states that seceded wanted to have was the right to own slaves, so the number one reason at the core, was in fact, slavery.
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The reality is that it was about state's rights... However, the number one right the states that seceded wanted to have was the right to own slaves, so the number one reason at the core, was in fact, slavery.
Sums it up