THAT is bullshit. The civil war was all about MONEY.
The South wanted to sell their crops to Foreign Nations and use their own ports.
FEDGOV said NO. You have to ship them up North, and let our middlemen sell them to nations WE choose at prices we select.
The South was getting HOSED. One of the reasons they had slaves was due to the North imposing these rules on them. They couldn't afford to pay wages.
Now, some of them were very greedy, no doubt...and that is evidenced in the grand homes they built.
However, many southern farmers were barely breaking even and were sick and tired of it. They wanted to use the ports in SC and GA to ship their products and wanted to sell to France and others at better prices than they were getting.
FEDGOV imposed rules on them....so they seceded in order to run their own farms.
However, once fighting broke out, and a civil war was in place Lincoln decided to break the backs of the South, by freeing the slaves who he hoped would fight them in their own towns and plantations. That didn't happen.
Lincoln used Slavery as an excuse for a lot of the actions he engaged in. He was as bad as Obastard...he imprisoned the entire Maryland Assembly (Govt) including the Governor, so they could not vote to seceed. He kept them imprisoned in Fort McHenry for MONTHS. He committed a lot of atrocities. He is no hero. He was a jerk - and an abuser of our Constitution. In fact, read the words of the state song "Maryland my Maryland" - where it says "The tyrants food is on our shores/neck"...that tyrant was Lincoln.
Most blacks who were slaves were well treated, and did not want to leave their homes...and most didn't. Those who were mistreated did, and flooded the cities in the north...from which they have never recovered.
But few slaves - or freedmen - were engaged in the fighting.
Booth was a hero to the South. And still is today.
Goldi-Lox posted on 2010-04-09 18:57:04 ET Reply Trace
