Comments - Senators who are witnesses cannot serve as jurors - Civil Discourse Now2024-03-28T11:42:54Zhttp://civildiscoursenow.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6316350%3ABlogPost%3A93096&xn_auth=no"The South seceded to preserv…tag:civildiscoursenow.com,2021-01-26:6316350:Comment:934632021-01-26T16:54:17.942Zpogden297http://civildiscoursenow.com/profile/pogden297
<p><span>"The South seceded to preserve slavery. Four of those states - Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas also issued statements why they seceded. Each stated a clear, primary reason: to preserve the institution of slavery." </span></p>
<p><span>See, you did a switch there. First you say, it was reason X. Then in the next breath quote statements from states and say that the reason for secession was "primarily X." Nonetheless, the quoted statements don't even prove it was…</span></p>
<p><span>"The South seceded to preserve slavery. Four of those states - Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas also issued statements why they seceded. Each stated a clear, primary reason: to preserve the institution of slavery." </span></p>
<p><span>See, you did a switch there. First you say, it was reason X. Then in the next breath quote statements from states and say that the reason for secession was "primarily X." Nonetheless, the quoted statements don't even prove it was "primarily" a reason for those states.</span></p>
<p><span>The causes of the Civil War are a lot more complex than just saying it was about slavery. There is proof right there in Lincoln's 1961 inauguration speech when he said he did not oppose Corwin Amendment, which had already passed Congress. The Corwin Amendment would amend the the Constitution to prohibit any future Amendment of the Constitution which would have outlawed slavery in the states that already had the institution. The fact is, at the outset of the Civil War, Lincoln was perfectly willing to accede to the South's demands about slavery in order to keep the union intact. It was a couple years into the Civil War before that war, for Lincoln, became "primarily" about slavery.</span></p>
<p>Two ironies are of note. The Corwin Amendment, if ratified, would have been the 13th Amendment. Of course, the 13th Amendment, which was ratified after the Civil War, banned slavery. The second irony is that were it not for the Civil War, the Corwin Amendment make slavery a permanent fixture in the U.S. Constitution might well have been ratified. Kentucky ratified the amendment before war broke out. Rhode Island, Maryland, Ohio and Illinois ratified it after the war started. Illinois, Lincoln's home state, was the last to ratify the amendment on June 2, 1863. Had not the Civil War been raging at the time, one could see the Amendment having gotten enough support in the South and North (among states wanting to avoid war) to be ratified.</p>
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