ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
Actually, it was. Read the article of secession.Agitation from Northern abolitionist's over slavery had been going on for quite some time. But slavery was protected by the 4th amendment. Once the Dred Scott decision came down from the Supreme Court, the South's slavery was protected and the Southernor could take his slaves any where he wanted.
I did not ignore your post. Your answer to my question was not correct.
Except, as I explained, the continual agitation from the North and the prevailing sense that the North was slowly working towards abolition coupled with the fact that those representing the south saw slavery not simply a their State's right but something that should be enshrined within the ethos of the entire country is what lead to the war. It wasn't just about the south wanting to keep their slaves - it was about them believing that slavery was a moral good that the North was attempting to restrict, if not abolish.The South could now go into the territories with their slaves if they wanted to. So why should they secede? Not only could they go into the territories, but they could go also into any northern state they wanted. Once they seceded, that would be lost.
Again, it's all there in the declaration and the words of Alexander H. Stevens above. This isn't historical revisionism. These are the actual stated reasons for secession by those states.
Because they didn't have the protections they wanted. They didn't just want to own slaves, they saw slave owning as the right of all Americans and slavery as the natural state of black people, and wanted that enshrined in Federal law.Slavery was definitely the issue used to fire up opposition against the South. So it is not surprising that some leaders saw it as the reason for secession. But here again, why? When they had all the protections they needed?
Irrelevant. They joined the cause of several States who initially seceded for reasons entirely relating to slavery.Understand that for several of the States which would eventually make up the Confederacy, such as Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and N. Carolina, slavery was not even a consideration in seceding.
The reason those lower states seceded being slavery.They seceded later, and only because Lincoln was going to force them to go to war against the lower states that seceded.
See above.So, the question still remains. Why did the Southern states secede when slavery was protected by the 4th amendment? It was protected by the Dred Scott decision giving the Southernor the freedom to go anywhere he wanted with his slaves. And the 13th amendment was promised to the South to protect slavery forever in the U.S. And Lincoln endorsed this amendment?
And yet you haven't responded or even acknowledged the STATED REASONS why they seceded. Why not?