Ironfoot...you amaze me.
You pick only what you like out of historical documentts and tout your reasons as being the ONLY reason for the civil war while ignoring all of the other factors.
While I agree that slavery was an issue, it wasnt the only issue and it wasnt the main issue.
Using a passage from the link you provided makes me wonder if you even read the thing or you just stopped when you thought you had made you point. To argue the point of a document, you must read the whole document before you seek to establish the intent of it.
Read this...the last part of the document from the state of Georgia. I picked Georgia for the sole that reason that it is what you decided to quote to us ignorant fools that think there is more to the story than you present in your arguments...
The public law of civilized nations requires every State to restrain its citizens or subjects from committing acts injurious to the peace and security of any other State and from attempting to excite insurrection, or to lessen the security, or to disturb the tranquillity of their neighbors, and our Constitution wisely gives Congress the power to punish all offenses against the laws of nations.
These are sound and just principles which have received the approbation of just men in all countries and all centuries; but they are wholly disregarded by the people of the Northern States, and the Federal Government is impotent to maintain them. For twenty years past the abolitionists and their allies in the Northern States have been engaged in constant efforts to subvert our institutions and to excite insurrection and servile war among us. They have sent emissaries among us for the accomplishment of these purposes. Some of these efforts have received the public sanction of a majority of the leading men of the Republican party in the national councils, the same men who are now proposed as our rulers. These efforts have in one instance led to the actual invasion of one of the slave-holding States, and those of the murderers and incendiaries who escaped public justice by flight have found fraternal protection among our Northern confederates.
These are the same men who say the Union shall be preserved.
Such are the opinions and such are the practices of the Republican party, who have been called by their own votes to administer the Federal Government under the Constitution of the United States. We know their treachery; we know the shallow pretenses under which they daily disregard its plainest obligations. If we submit to them it will be our fault and not theirs. The people of Georgia have ever been willing to stand by this bargain, this contract; they have never sought to evade any of its obligations; they have never hitherto sought to establish any new government; they have struggled to maintain the ancient right of themselves and the human race through and by that Constitution. But they know the value of parchment rights in treacherous hands, and therefore they refuse to commit their own to the rulers whom the North offers us. Why? Because by their declared principles and policy they have outlawed $3,000,000,000 of our property in the common territories of the Union; put it under the ban of the Republic in the States where it exists and out of the protection of Federal law everywhere; because they give sanctuary to thieves and incendiaries who assail it to the whole extent of their power, in spite of their most solemn obligations and covenants; because their avowed purpose is to subvert our society and subject us not only to the loss of our property but the destruction of ourselves, our wives, and our children, and the desolation of our homes, our altars, and our firesides. To avoid these evils we resume the powers which our fathers delegated to the Government of the United States, and henceforth will seek new safeguards for our liberty, equality, security, and tranquillity.
[Approved, Tuesday, January 29, 1861]
The South felt that they were being abused by the Federal Government and historical documents clearly prove the feeling of the those in the South. Slavery was but one of many issues of disagreement, but it certaintly wasnt the main issue. Abuse, unfrair trade practices,and leagalized lawlessness by the Federal Government in it dealings with the South would have made even a whimp with no gumption agree that the situation was untolerable for any man of principle.
As far as they were concerned, sucession was the only recourse.
To quote that Slavery was the main issue of the Civil War while ignoring the main facts as shown by your own documents not only makes you wrong, but it establishes your intent to change history to your own liking therfore eliminating ANY iota of credibilty that you might have once enjoyed.
