Civil War

 

WARNING ADULT LANGUAGE

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The Civil War itself is a pretty straight forward subject.  Succession can get complicated.  State Rights [succession!], slavery [state rights!], tariffs [imposed by the federal government of The United States] to name a few.   Below is a word cloud showing the 50 words used the most in the Declarations of Causes.

 

Up to the Civil War the slavery question was a territory issue not an existing states issue.

None of the presidential candidates in the 1860 election were anti-slavery for the existing states.  Lincoln was against it in new territories.

Generally to the South if you were anti-slavery you were anti-south.

The victory of Abraham Lincoln [Republican], who did not appear on ballots in ten of the Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.  Essentially elected by just the North pissing southerners off sooooo they succeed.  The election itself should of made it pretty obvious to the South the futility of a war with the North.

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." - Abraham Lincoln : The First Inaugural Address (1861)

Lincoln carried every free state but New Jersey.  Lincoln's total majority was under 300,000 closest in history. It was his election that precipitated the events that lead to war. So lots of factors but the election of Lincoln is what really pushed the South to divorce the North.

1860 Election - 6 Nov 1960

The South reacting to fear rather than facts on December 20, 1860, called a special convention in South Carolina unanimously passed an ordinance of secession. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana followed in January, and Texas voted to secede on February 1, 1861 - more than a month before Lincoln was actually inaugurated

To the South the secession was like getting a divorce.  To Lincoln the Union was a marriage to which there was no divorce.

Slavery ended much sooner because of the Civil War = South starts a war. Lincoln finished it.  Some of the South thought they just had to wait out the North.

Ironically they would have retained slavery if they would have remained in the Union.

Secession was a foolish move on the part of the South and the attach on Fort Sumter at 4:30  a.m. on April 12, 1861 an act of folly [5 months after the election] the death knell for slavery.

Northern states had a combined population of 22 million people. The Southern states had a combined population of about 9 million. Over 2 to 1 and on top of that in 1860, 90 percent of the nation's manufacturing output came from northern states.  The madness of crowds.

Why can't the United States be the United States it would have become if Abraham Lincoln had lived!  It could but it's really up to the people of  the United States to make it a reality rather than e.g. the NEW "Civil War" being casually thrown about now by individuals doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of an American that wants to see that reality.  But all this shit doesn't matter as far as I'm concern your idiot time is running out on you and you're fuck regardless of color, wealth, beliefs or any of that shit.  Balance will be brought even if it means the destruction of billions of idiot humans.  Glad I'm old!

 

Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee have the same birthday!