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As a man whose entire family proudly served in the Southern cause, and believing that Constututionally we were on the right side, I don't think much of Mr Lincoln or literal rape he allowed to be done to the South after they were defeated
Lincoln was assasinated 5 days after Lee surrendered. Not much he could have done in those 5 days. Now, if you want to blame Grant and his bunch for the rape of the South, I would more than agree with you.
I am not a huge student of the civil war but the little bit of research I have done leads me to believe one of the primary reasons the South lost the war was due to the manufacturing capabilities of the North. Isn't it funny that as a nation we have forgotten that and shipped all of our manufacturing off shore.
READ it? Yes. HEARD it?? I'm old...but not that old....
OK. Who hired and empowered Grant?
I'm torn on the issue. I believe that the Southern States had a definite and legal right to secede from the Union. The fear that allowing this to happen would quickly result in the two new countries continuing to dissolve back into individual pre-1787 states is also valid, and I can see why the Federal Government wanted to prevent this. In the long run, maintaining the Union was probably for the best, as it allowed a united America to successfully engage the Japanese and Germans in WWII, to the betterment of the world. It also unfortunately affirmed the indomitable power of the Federal Government over all of the States.
Keith
Segues can be good..Purchasing the slaves and returning them to Africa is an interesting idea, most likely cheaper in monetary costs and definitely cheaper in human lives. Was this an idea discussed at the time? I hadn't heard of this before.
Slavery was an issue leading up to the war, but not THE issue. Slavery was on the outs in the South before the war, and would have been gone entirely by 1900 at the latest. Importation of new slaves had already been banned by Congress in 1807/1808, it was only a matter of time. The war was indeed one of our nation's darkest times.
And because I am well-known for my semi-random segues, I must add that despite the loss of the South, Robert E. Lee is still one of Americas most loved and respected Generals.
Keith
Thing is IF slavery were the issue then all the North would have had to do is buy the slaves at the going rate and repatriate them to Africa, with future slavery banned and no lives lost at a lower cost than the war. I wasn't there either, but it always boggles me how men can mass murder each other over such issues instead of finding simple solutions. Oh well I'm not that much of an idealist, anyway.. here in the real world. people do stupid and evil things, that's just the way it is