If the civil war was about slavery, the Corwin Amendment to the US constitution wouldn't have been introduced after the southern states left stating the US would protect and allow slavery until the dissolution of the country.
You're such a dumbass, if the war wasn't about slavery then no one would have proposed the Corwin Amendment to try to stop it from happening.
You want us to believe:
1) Just before the war, a group of legislators proposed an amendment promising they wouldn't force existing states to give up slavery in a desperate attempt to keep war from breaking out.
2) But the war wasn't about slavery, they just randomly decided on that timing.
THINK before you post, dumbass.
That amendment wouldn't have been voted on and the remaining states having enough votes to pass it if the southern states had come back and voted to it.
Completely false, only three non-slaveholding states ratified it and one of those ratifications wasn't done legitimately.
US government wasn't fighting to end slavary it was fighting to keep its power.
1. Republican party was formed on an anti-slavery agenda, and Lincoln repeatedly stated that he desired all men to be free, but suggested he wouldn't force it unilaterally.
2. Lincoln ran for president on the explicit platform of refusing to allow the expansion of slavery to new states like Kansas. Kansas was a slavery-legal territory that Republicans were trying to adopt into the union as a free state, but Southern democrats wanted it to remain a slave state. This was the biggest political issue of the day and had already led to ~200 deaths in a slow-burning battle over slavery that was being fought in Kansas and Missouri.
3. Southern States were afraid that if Lincoln became president, that would mean Kansas and all other territories would become free states, eventually leading to enough free states to pass a constitutional amendment banning slavery in the South. THAT is why they seceded, and they said so explicitly in their secession documents.
4. When the South started seceding, senators knew it would mean civil war, and passed a desperate amendment promising them that the feds would never force a state to give up slavery without their agreement. But the amendment said nothing about t making new free states, which is what they were actually fighting over, and didn't change the fact that they could still just get enough votes in the future to pass an anti-slavery amendment overturning this one and banning slavery anyway. Southern States saw right through the ploy and left anyway, and only 3 non-slave States ever ratified the amendment.
5. Once enough Southern States had left to make the vote possible, Congress immediately voted to make Kansas a state and ban slavery there - the exact move the South was afraid of, proving the agenda was real.
This is all historical record. Why were you claiming bullshyt about raised tariffs starting the way, when tariffs hasn't been raised in 25 years and they didn't have the votes to do it anyway until AFTER the southern states left?
