History Recorder Wrote:
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> Checkmate, Lincolnites! Examining the Lost Cause
> views that Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant, that
> nobody in the North cared about slavery or
> abolitionism, and that the warmongering Union
> invaded the South without provocation or just
> cause during the Civil War. Featuring some special
> guest appearances from your favorite kooky
> historical characters!
>
> Checkmate, Linconites!:
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lac-8tTuyhs
It wasn't about slavery in the North until the South made it about. Slavery was loud and clear in their succession documents.
Here are a few excerpts, you really cannot read them and say the south wasn't fighting for slavery.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
Georgia: "A brief history of the rise, progress, and policy of anti-slavery and the political organization into whose hands the administration of the Federal Government has been committed will fully justify the pronounced verdict of the people of Georgia. The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party."
Mississipi:"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization."
South Carolina:"The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then withdrawing from the Federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the other slaveholding States, she forbore at that time to exercise this right. Since that time, these encroachments have continued to increase, and further forbearance ceases to be a virtue."
Virgina:"The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under the said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States, and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression; and the Federal Government, having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States."