The confederates copies that, Wrote:
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> 13thLie Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If the war wasn't about slavery Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Here is from the document of Virginia leaving
> > the
> > > union before the civil war.
> > >
> > >
> > > It uses the phrase 'Southern Slaveholding
> > States'.
> > > I would love to hear some twisted
> machinations
> > on
> > > what was meant by that from these history
> > > revisionists.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehood/ordinan
>
> >
> > > ceofsecession.html
> > >
> > >
> > > "The people of Virginia, in their
> ratification
> > of
> > > the Constitution of the United States of
> > America,
> > > adopted by them in Convention, on the 25th
> day
> > of
> > > June, in the year of our Lord one thousand
> > seven
> > > hundred and eight-eight, having declared that
> > the
> > > powers granted them 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."
> >
> >
> > In the Confederate Constitution was a clause to
> > end the slave trade. No such mention in the
> > Union/North. Lincoln didn't write the ECP until
> > 1863.
>
> Sorry to disappoint you, but OUR constitution
> prohibited the slave trade long before the
> Southern Slaveholding States wrote theirs.
>
>
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constit
> ution/interpretation/article-i/clauses/761#:~:text
> =In%201807%2C%20the%20U.S.%20Congress,except%20as%
> 20a%20historical%20curiosity.
>
> I take it this is the clause you are talking
> about. I can see why you didn't want to cite it as
> a reference since it contradicts your agenda.
>
> Article I Section 9(1)
> The importation of negroes of the African race
> from any foreign country, other than the
> slaveholding States or Territories of the United
> States of America, is hereby forbidden; and
> Congress is required to pass such laws as shall
> effectually prevent the same.
>
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_C
> onstitution
The South just wanted their independence. Lincoln launched an Unconstitutional war against it.