Do You Relate to "Confederate Flag"?

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(07-08-2015, 07:39 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: Nah. If you wanna sum up the war in one line, it was about the federal govt flexing its might. If it were solely about slavery, Then that practice woulda been over in the North. But it wasn't. 

The South thought the election of Lincoln meant that slavery was going to end. They even say that the reason is slavery in the secession declarations. The grievances listed in the first one, from South Carolina, all mention slavery. South Carolina first states that the federal government is ignoring federal law by letting states exercise their own right to ignore the fugitive slave act and refuse to send slaves back when they escape to the North. So in a hilarious backwards argument, South Carolina says "the federal government is acting unconstitutionally and ignoring states rights by... letting states have the right to do what they want with escaped slaves".

Me saying the reason is "slavery" doesn't mean I'm saying "the North was going to end slavery". The South was worried that they would and seceded. Not to mention all but 3 states that stayed in the Union had already abolished slavery... so yea.