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Aug 23, 2017, 7:45 PM

History Book.....get one!

"The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small, squabbling countries." - Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson

Also see the Compromise of 1820 as well as the Missouri Compromise of 1850. The war was about the federal governments anti-slavery beliefs and it's desire to halt the spread of Slavery, a position the Southern States refused to accept it as having such power (states rights). The States rights in question was the right to hold slaves.

The Civil War was, in fact, the primary cause of the Civil war. An industrialized North vs. an agricultural South were ancillary factors (northern tariffs on southern cotton) but Slavery was the fundamental issue.

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"slavery, which the Civil War had little to do with."

As a native South Carolinian who is the great great great grandson of a confederate soldier who fought alongside his father, his father who was wounded at Gettysburg... and who lost three uncles in the war... one killed at Gettysburg, one killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, and one MIA and never accounted for.... I am constantly amazed by the continued white-washing of the causes and motivations for the Civil War. Face it, our forefathers' causes were not noble, and should be judged harshly by history. To deny that the cancer on our history that was slavery was the primary motivator for, and the driving factor behind the economic issues with the tariffs (and the South's ability to pay said tariffs post-abolition) is to deny history, and thumb one's nose at facts.

You may want to read this, it sums it up pretty well.

https://chartwellwest.com/2017/05/25/an-open-apology-to-the-confederacy/

A little known fact about Robert E. Lee

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Thanks a lot, now I won't be able to announce for ESPN.***

It's the real USC that named their horse mascot Traveller***

I thinked Lee's hoss was Traveler

Very fitting.***

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BLASPHEMER!

Lee's horse was Traveller, The real USC horse is Traveler***

Fun fact:

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Here is a pic of Lee fighting at the battle of Cheat Mt.

Actually he was adamantly against secession and only

I think you're wrong Billy, it says it right up there in my

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A different viewpoint to look at

Lincoln invaded the South for one reason (which he stated)

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I've heard this from many liberal friends

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Didn't Lee free his slaves way before US Grant did?***

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I sure hope Monte can't be traced back to him....

his name is really Mont E Lee***

Lincoln not anti slavery

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