RE: So This Fucking Moron Is On The School Board In Colorado
October 4, 2014 at 12:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2014 at 1:11 am by Anomalocaris.)
No, state's rights was just a pretext for defending slavery. The conflict was about the criminal enterprise of slavery acting out of morbidly fear that it's days would be numbered if it didn't detach itself from the federal government. States rights was just a resonant excuse to guaranty continued enslavement of the negros.
Yes, they believed state's rights was threatened. But how was the state's right threatened? There is a distant danger, not even imminent threat, that slaves might have to be freed. That's the essence. If they happened to have signed onto a constitution in 1788 which explicitly said slavery is not a state's right, so they would have forfeited the state's right justification for perpetuating slavery, would they still risk war to break up the union to prevent the slaves from being freed when the anti-slavery forces in the north were seen to gain ascendency? Absolutely. The "cause" for the south is perpetuation of slavery using any pretext that would serve. For north it was really just the preserverence of the Union at the beginning, only later did it also become to emancipate the negros.
Everything else are just smoke and mirrors to prevent observers from seeing the core of the "cause".
Yes, they believed state's rights was threatened. But how was the state's right threatened? There is a distant danger, not even imminent threat, that slaves might have to be freed. That's the essence. If they happened to have signed onto a constitution in 1788 which explicitly said slavery is not a state's right, so they would have forfeited the state's right justification for perpetuating slavery, would they still risk war to break up the union to prevent the slaves from being freed when the anti-slavery forces in the north were seen to gain ascendency? Absolutely. The "cause" for the south is perpetuation of slavery using any pretext that would serve. For north it was really just the preserverence of the Union at the beginning, only later did it also become to emancipate the negros.
Everything else are just smoke and mirrors to prevent observers from seeing the core of the "cause".
