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| YES! But do you know why the South seceded in the first place? Because during the 1860 election Lincoln said he refused to allow for the expansion of slavery.
Essentially it all started because of Kansas and Nebraska being setup as territories, with the likelihood of them being new states. Kansas was supposed to be a slave free state due to it being too far North, but because of the way it was initiated as a territory there was instead a vote. This caused many anti-slavery & pro-slavery people to move to Kansas (and Nebraska, but to a lesser extent) in attempt to get their side the victory. After a few uprisings, the most popular being the Pottawatomie massacre, it was instead ruled, without a vote, that Kansas will be a slave free state.
You combine the two, and now you have the reason why the south seceded. And I don't dispute that the South had the right to secede - they did. I don't think it was a smart thing to do. To say that slavery wasn't their primary motive is ignorance. |
Lincoln never intended to stop slavery. The South seceded because they disagreed with the goverment and exercisted their right to secede. The main reason was the failure to expand slavery but it became far more than that when the Yankee government decided to not let the South secede. Then many other states seceded from the Union.
Robert E. Lee himself didn't take sides until he was ordered to raise an Army against his own state (Virginia) and he refused and instead raised an Army to fight the Northern invaders.
Lincoln knew he couldn't win the war based off of the South just seceding so that is why he made it about Slavery. As I said before, I can provide quite a few quotes from Lincoln in which he said he never intended to interfere with slavery and that the only reason he was doing it was to win the war.
So this superior attitude that the whole war was about slavery and the South was completely wrong is complete and utter bull shit.