The causes of the Civil War were multiple: states rights, and slavery, as noted, but also economics and selective national tariffs which served to benefit some states sectionally and disadvantaging the rest. This led to conflict in Congress that grew more and more heated.
We almost had a split over tariffs earlier in that century which was resolved thru compromise.
Lincoln was adamant that those tariffs be enforced specifically to fund his vision of funding growth in the more populous north. Preferential impoverishment of the south to enrich the industrialization of the north and due to distaste for the agrarian-based economy of the south. It also served to financially diminish slavery and its expansion.
Thus, the unanimous opposition to him by the southern states and secession.
Lincoln had the unitary view based on population while the southern states held the states rights view where their economies were their own concern, not a matter for D.C.
So, the federal Republic essentially died with the Civil War, and the friction continues today with the reparations movement, DEI, assaults on statues of historical figures, names of forts, etc.
Slavery would have largely died out with mechanization due to the comparative advantage over the immense economic burden to support the large population of slaves (slavery is ultimately socialist labor camps). So, the cultural convulsions would have still resulted upon their release, which is why the Liberian experiment was begun, but without the wanton death and destruction of the Civil War.
As I have been told, it was "The War of Northern Aggression." The Pledge of Allegiance was constructed afterwards to reinforce the "unity" and "indivisible" nature of the United States.
I have come to an understanding of what Lincoln was trying to do when he invaded the South and it wasn’t about “all men are created equal”. Lincoln’s vision of America was a “white nationalist” one: he wanted the Indians dead and the blacks deported. Lincoln believed in the United States as a great nation and not as a confederation or a remnant of one, and he did not see a workable future for the nation as half-slave and half-free. Slavery was an historical anomaly that stood in the way of his vision of America as a great nation, a vision motivated by nationalism and not racial justice. Lincoln’s vision of America had no room for black slaves or wild Indians. He killed Indians with impunity: they stood in the way of his white utopia. Like black slaves, the Indians had to be erased. Abraham Lincoln invaded Virginia because he believed, as the Founders did, that the United States was to be a monument to the English ideas of liberty and free-enterprise. Slavery and wild Indians were simply in the way of this vision and that was just too bad for the slaveholders and the Indians.
It's certainly time for the federal government to once again be inferior to state government in all but the enumerated powers. The feds having the ability to involve themselves in areas they have no constitutional right to be in is the main cause of Deep State corruption and mismanagement. If we repealed the 17th amendment, another base cause of federal incompetence would be removed. We don't need a Senate that's nothing more than the House with a 6 year term. We need actual, powerful representatives of the states in Congress!
I find this quite interesting. I remember American History in 8th grade and saying that the Civil War was over slavery. I was told that is not correct, it was over “State’s rights.” Also, it was known as the War between the States. So there is history and meaning in your essay…
time to change it back to "are" along with the maps reflecting the Gulf of America
The causes of the Civil War were multiple: states rights, and slavery, as noted, but also economics and selective national tariffs which served to benefit some states sectionally and disadvantaging the rest. This led to conflict in Congress that grew more and more heated.
We almost had a split over tariffs earlier in that century which was resolved thru compromise.
Lincoln was adamant that those tariffs be enforced specifically to fund his vision of funding growth in the more populous north. Preferential impoverishment of the south to enrich the industrialization of the north and due to distaste for the agrarian-based economy of the south. It also served to financially diminish slavery and its expansion.
Thus, the unanimous opposition to him by the southern states and secession.
Lincoln had the unitary view based on population while the southern states held the states rights view where their economies were their own concern, not a matter for D.C.
So, the federal Republic essentially died with the Civil War, and the friction continues today with the reparations movement, DEI, assaults on statues of historical figures, names of forts, etc.
Slavery would have largely died out with mechanization due to the comparative advantage over the immense economic burden to support the large population of slaves (slavery is ultimately socialist labor camps). So, the cultural convulsions would have still resulted upon their release, which is why the Liberian experiment was begun, but without the wanton death and destruction of the Civil War.
Good piece, Michael, amateur linguists like me love this stuff.
“ Had I known the effects of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox “
Robert E. Lee
As I have been told, it was "The War of Northern Aggression." The Pledge of Allegiance was constructed afterwards to reinforce the "unity" and "indivisible" nature of the United States.
I have come to an understanding of what Lincoln was trying to do when he invaded the South and it wasn’t about “all men are created equal”. Lincoln’s vision of America was a “white nationalist” one: he wanted the Indians dead and the blacks deported. Lincoln believed in the United States as a great nation and not as a confederation or a remnant of one, and he did not see a workable future for the nation as half-slave and half-free. Slavery was an historical anomaly that stood in the way of his vision of America as a great nation, a vision motivated by nationalism and not racial justice. Lincoln’s vision of America had no room for black slaves or wild Indians. He killed Indians with impunity: they stood in the way of his white utopia. Like black slaves, the Indians had to be erased. Abraham Lincoln invaded Virginia because he believed, as the Founders did, that the United States was to be a monument to the English ideas of liberty and free-enterprise. Slavery and wild Indians were simply in the way of this vision and that was just too bad for the slaveholders and the Indians.
It's certainly time for the federal government to once again be inferior to state government in all but the enumerated powers. The feds having the ability to involve themselves in areas they have no constitutional right to be in is the main cause of Deep State corruption and mismanagement. If we repealed the 17th amendment, another base cause of federal incompetence would be removed. We don't need a Senate that's nothing more than the House with a 6 year term. We need actual, powerful representatives of the states in Congress!
I find this quite interesting. I remember American History in 8th grade and saying that the Civil War was over slavery. I was told that is not correct, it was over “State’s rights.” Also, it was known as the War between the States. So there is history and meaning in your essay…