The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech
Seems pretty clear, I don't know why there's an argument.
I was taught this growing up. It took me a long time to get out of that “states rights” mindset and accept the fact that a bunch of rebels could be bad people. The Ordinances of Secession really helped with that.
South Carolina's Deceleration of Secession really spells it out. Check it out it's not long.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp
Ever since I read this, I don't say "Confederate", I say slave-holding. That's how they self-identified and I'll never let them forget.
Why did they spend so much time on the history lessons? Over half the document is just rehashing history. I guess to establish precedent?
Wow. That is delusional. What an underdeveloped human being he was for saying that.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
Upton Sinclair
‘One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics. Their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions would be logical and just but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails.’
No see he thinks we are the delusional ones…
Wow, that’s some real Selfawarewolves material right there.
