So it wasn't the draft that made them do it?

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Slavery was not illegal in 1861

Jun 23, 2015, 8:13 AM [ in reply to Re: You need to read a book.*** ]

Yet the national government was trying to tell individual states what they could and could not do. King Cotton was the biggest export at the time and people all across the country, including those in northern states, were making money off of it. You act like slavery and severe racism only happened in the Southern states and that us backwoods country rednecks were the only ones that had our hands in the slave trade.

I am a firm believer in the Constitution (which seems to put me in the minority these days) and until December of 1865, the 13th Amendment did not exist. This was one of the first times the federal government of the United States attempted to take away individual State's rights because at this time, the federal government was weak (as it should be, based on the constitution) and many states believed that the federal government lacked the control is was trying to achieve.

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Just like some probably didn't fight for the south to preserve slavery.

Attitudes and actions related to slavery at the time were a lot more complex than they are today. That's not to say that our attitude towards slavery should be anything more than a simple rejection, but to point out that the real, historical people that were involved in it can't easily be categorized as good guys or bad guys. I was just reading about John Randolph and his opposition to slavery and belief that Africans brought to the US should be free. Randolph was also active in working to find free African former slaves a country of their own in Africa. But Randolph owned over 300 African slaves and only freed them in his will after he died. So what should we think of John Randolph?

So now we need to take the flag off the state house grounds?

This is the first I'm hearing about it.

Re: So now we need to take the flag off the state house grounds?

Man, calling 289,000 people that died "losers"

Re: Man, calling 289,000 people that died "losers"

Ignorance is bliss, pal***

Re: Ignorance is bliss, pal***

What exactly am I saying that is delusional?

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So nothing to do with my argument?

Re: So nothing to do with my argument?

You need to read a book.***

Re: You need to read a book.***

Re: You need to read a book.***

Slavery was not illegal in 1861

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All of the families of German soldiers honor those that

But Bocephus told me we'd a had it made.

Northerners gave their life to fight for the black man's

In school, I was taught that

It's still basically taught that way today.***

The North fought to keep the Union together.

Some probably did

I'm with Gov Haley - take off that flag!***

At least she's a Christian***

She's a politician so she's whatever anyone wants her to be.***

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Sure but the compromise isn't for life. They passed a bill

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