slowguy wrote:
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your history is a product of your politics and biases.This quote, coming from one of the most consistently and ardently politically liberal voices in the LR addressed towards one of the least political but most decidedly moderate or middle of the road posters, is truly comical.
nevertheless, the weight of the evidence is clear. the civil war is the product of southern states seceding only to protect their "right" to own slaves, and for that "right" of ownership to be recognized and protected everywhere this specific "property" of theirs might physically be in the united states.
i linked to When the South Wasn't a Fan of States Rights,"an article you apparently didn't read by eric foner, winner of the pulitzer prize for history. i linked to 5 myths why the south seceded, an article you also didn't seem to read by James W. Loewen, historian and sociologist, educator, winner of the american book award.
i linked to What many Americans get wrong about states rights. another article i don't guess you read, published in the federalist(!) written by people who work at the cato institute, that bastion of coastal liberal elitism.
i gave you another article to read that listed the operative clauses in each southern state's secession documents. primary sources. what you fail to recognize or acknowledge is that each state liberally, exclusively, only, references slavery in these documents. yes, they're mad at the federal government. but not because the federal government is allowing each state the freedom to make its own laws, rather because the federal government isn't enforcing the fugitive slave act; nor the right of southerners to travel north with their slaves and know they can return with their slaves. in other words, they were angry that federal laws weren't being imposed on northern states. link to that article. read the primary documents from each seceding state. it's right there.
calling me names isn't going to change history.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman